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Print-Making Card Designs
Students explore print making. In this art and print making lesson plan, students listen to biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci, then define "mirror image" as a technique used by this artist. Students cut out magazine...
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Meet Matisse!
Second graders discover the life and works of French artist Henri Matisse in this one day, introductory lesson plan for the 2nd grade classroom. This first lesson plan can be used by itself or as the first day activity to a three to...
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Immigration: Our Changing Voices
Students identify how immigration affects the family and or community. In this Immigration instructional activity, students examine traditional migration and how immigration has changed over time. Students will consider their own...
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Ahimsa in the Real World: Truth, Love, and Nonviolence
Second graders create an abstract painting that conveys feelings of nonviolence. In this visual arts lesson, 2nd graders read "The First Step of Jainism" and discuss honesty, watch a digital story, discuss feelings after watching the...
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The Thanksgiving Meal
Students make a Thanksgiving meal based on the nutrition of the colony they were assigned. In this nutrition lesson plan, students' parents come in to taste the food after the students explain their colony to them.
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Thinking About Money
Students evaluate various approaches to spending money.For this spending money literacy lesson, students broaden their financial goals by reading "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "A Chair for My Mother."Students use a Venn...
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Home at Last
Learners read about an immigrant family and participate in reading activities related to the book. In this immigration book lesson, students answer question related to immigration and the book.
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Pre-Colonial Native American Groups
Students investigate U.S. history by researching the Internet and taking a test. In this American Indian group lesson, students identify the many specific Native American tribes and their geographic locations. Students research the web...
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The Story of Art
Students canvass the important elements of art in the seven lessons of this unit. Story structure and in particular, color is perceived as essential to the development of the idea of a picture.
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Mohandas Gandhi: Changing the World One Step at a Time
Young scholars illustrate pages of a book. In this famous historical icon lesson, students are read a story about Mohandas Gandhi, illustrate the pages in small groups, assemble a class book to read to younger young scholars, and act...
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Identifying Bullies
Students investigate human behavior by defining bullies. For this psychology lesson, students read the book Just One Flick of a Finger, and discuss why bullies act out in front of other children. Students investigate actions that can...
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The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
Students examine theme in the photography of Dorothea Lange. For this photography lesson, students analyze photography taken by Dorothea Lange and identify themes that run through each. They design an exhibition that shows how the theme...
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The constitution and Our Republic
Students record and interpret data. In this constitution lesson, students discuss voting and making bar graphs. Students practice voting and do a bar graph activity. Students make visual representations of votes on the board.
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From the Post Office to the Oval Office
This Presidents' Day, have your pupils write letters to the presidential family. They will read an article about writing letters to President Obama, identify topics they feel are important, and finally discuss if those topics would...
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Creating Coasters
Students discuss ways to care for the environment by creating a product from recyclable materials. In this arts and crafts project, students utilize yarn scarps and plastic lids from a drink to create a coaster for drinks. Students...
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WWI and Twenties & Thirties
Students study economics and timelines of events to understand changes in America. In this Twenties and Thirties lesson, students navigate Internet sites to research famous reformers. Students recognize the economic changes through...
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The Environment and You
First graders examine the human environmental impact and discover ways to lessen effects. They create a pollution damage flow chart and write down what they think Mother Earth might say. They create inventions from recyclable materials.
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Probability in Daily Life
Sixth graders examine the use of probability in daily life. For this probability lesson, 6th graders listen to scenarios from Louis Sachar's, Holes, after discussing probability in everyday life. They pretend they are detectives who are...
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Plot Development
Students identify the elements of plot and write a script with a strong plot. In this plot lesson plan, students identify elements of plot in examples by completing a chart and a graphic organizer. Students then create plots from given...
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It Started as an Egg
Learners investigate animals that hatch from eggs. In this hatching animals lesson plan, students investigate which animals are born alive and which hatch from eggs. Learners read It Started As An Egg and practice reading comprehension...
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Cut-Glass Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones
Students design and create a mosaic glass collage. In this mosaic art lesson, students complete lessons to learn about mosaic art and design. Students watch their teacher demonstrate the project and then create their own mosaic glass art.
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Bat Activities and games
First graders read the book Stelluna by Janell Cannon. In this bat lesson plan, 1st graders use their sense of smell to identify objects, learn and recite a rhyme, and differentiate between the words night and day.
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Pop Up Card
Students design and create pop-up greeting cards for a special occasion in this art lesson for Kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms. The lesson includes resource links for pop-up "arm" ideas and can be accomplished in one day.
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. In this news-writing instructional activity, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and...