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Fourth Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt
Fourth graders produce narrative about a personal experience, with a focus on the trait of organization.
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Goldfish Subtraction
Learners manipulate Goldfish crackers to explore subtraction and number sentences.
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Proofreading: Lesson 1
Fourth graders examine instructions for proofreading activities and develop strategies to use in proofreading. They find and correct errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics in different writing samples.
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Proofreading
Fourth graders explore the proofreading process. They practice proofreading for errors in sentence structure, usage, and mechanics. Students develop strategies for proofreading and differentiate between commonly confused words.
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Using Information Resources
Eighth graders engage in a instructional activity that is intended to develop the skills of research to find the proper resources needed to find information. The instructional activity includes dialogue boxes that is intended for the...
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How Can We Care?
Students explore the concept of caring. In this character education lesson, students consider how to show others they care about them as they brainstorm and discuss acts of caring.
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Creatures From the Past
Students demonstrate their knowledge of these creatures from the past by creating them in their drawings. They use their imagination and draw these creatures from the past. They make a variety of designs for the background display for...
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LESSON 4: This is Rosa Parks
Students learn about Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Life of a Logger
Students are introduced to the work and lives of 19th century lumberjacks through a living history slide show presentation. They compare and contrast life 150 years ago with the present. Students describe the history of logging in...
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The Importance of Punctuation
In this writing worksheet, students participate in a variety of punctuation activities. For example, rewrite a text using correct punctuation and unscramble words to create sentences.
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Punctuation Lesson Plan
Students discover how to punctuate a sentence properly. In this punctuation lesson, students participate in an interactive whiteboard lesson to demonstrate how to punctuate a sentence. Students demonstrate how to use periods, questions...
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This is Rosa Parks
Students observe the difference that one person can make. In this Civil Rights Movement lesson plan, students discuss the concepts of segregation and boycotting. They compare and contrast two African American women who were pivotal to...
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UK Current Account Record
In this vocabulary learning exercise on the UK deficit, students complete a passage by choosing the correct form of given vocabulary words to insert in blanks.
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Ready, Set, Action
Students identify propaganda techniques used in commercials created by their classmates. In this active listening lesson, students use the provided scoring guide to evaluate commercials that their classmates made that feature propaganda...
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Show The Movie!
Fifth graders deliver story presentations that establish a setting with descriptive words, contain a plot and show, rather than tell, what happens. In this language arts lesson plan, 5th graders utilize sentences from the book, "Tuck...
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MYSTERY PICTURES (Following Oral Directions)
Students draw pictures while following simple instructions. They discuss the importance of following directions explicitly. They discuss the differences between each child's work. They follow a second set of directions.
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Drawing Straws
Fourth graders examine the Triangle Inequality Theorem by investigating possible lengths of the sides of a triangle.
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Neat Feet
Students view a video and discuss different kinds of feet found in the animal kingdom. They make prints using paint, rubber stamps and their own feet and then measure and compare the tracks.
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Sounds Good To Me
Students view and discuss a video about sounds. They complete a worksheet that sorts sounds according to two columns - sounds students might hear in their neighborhoods and sounds they would not.
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What Would You Do With $5.00?
Students watch the video Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.
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Listen and Do Art
Learners listen to directions and complete an art project. They distinguish among kinds of information and purposes and complete multi-step tasks. The teacher gives directions while the student learns, and subsequently the student has to...
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Newton's Laws and Seat Belts
Students study Newton's Laws of Motion. They review an assessment task and rubric and discuss Newton's Laws of Motion. They discuss how to test the relationships of mass and acceleration in personal situations. They write a one-page...
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People Colors
Students are introduced to the concept of multiculturalism. They explore "colors" of people in a book The Colors of Us by Karen Katz. Students experience the ingredients and materials for Rainbow Stew.
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Safety: Fire Drill Escape Plan
Students review fire safety procedures by identifying items that are hot and by discussing what to do with matches and lighters. they sing a fire safety song and individually choose questions from the fire safety box to answer. As a...