Poetry4kids
How to Write a Funny Epitaph Poem
What can happen if you eat too much cafeteria food? Or wear dirty clothes every day? Or talk back to your mother? Use a lesson on humorous poems as a way for students to practice silly rhymes as fictional epitaphs.
Virginia Department of Education
Identifying Audience and Purpose
Use a fun and creative activity to introduce junior high learners to how writing changes for different audiences and purposes. The activity begins with a reading by the instructor where teens visualize a food fight in the cafeteria. In...
Curated OER
Fastest Way to a Full Belly
Students create a scale model of a cafeteria. In this scale lesson, groups improve their actual school cafeteria layout by taking measurements of the structure and redesigning furniture and food serving lines. They create a scale drawing...
North American Montessori Center
Sun and Moon Autumnal Equinox Activities
Two hands-on activities celebrate the sun and moon autumnal equinox. First, scholars create a cairn using a shoebox, flashlight, and drawing tools to view the sun's progression. Second, learners take to the kitchen to bake mooncakes and...
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Holiday Cookie Exchange
Students build community with cookies. In this service learning lesson, students make holiday cookies to share with the custodial maintenance staff and cafeteria staff in their school.
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Real World Problems
Eighth graders solve real world problems. In this solving real world problems lesson, 8th graders decorate a school cafeteria for a dance. Students determine the number of balloons needed to put a balloon every foot for the 40 by 60...
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Fraction Sugar Cookies
Fifth graders practice addition, subtraction,and conversion of fractions by making cookies from a recipe. Students convert mixed number into compound fractions and combine fractions using addition in order to make a certain amount of...
Bully Free Systems
Bully Free Lesson Plans—Eighth Grade
Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...
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Math Hunt
Go on a scavenger hunt around your school to find evidence of math. Investigate different areas of your school for patterns, fractions, and different geometric shapes. Finally, create a spreadsheet and plot the data you've collected.
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Capitalization
As an easy way to review capitalization rules, an upper elementary or middle school teacher could use this activity. Learners answer 10 questions by identifying whether or not the nouns in the the sentence should be capitalized.
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A Visit from Spanish Speakers
Give your class this hypothetical letter telling them that some Spanish speakers from Mexico are coming to your school. These kids don't know English, so small groups will have to brainstorm ways to provide support. What kinds of...
DK Publishing
Real-Life Problems: Distance, Length, and More
Math just got real! Scholars solve seven word problems dealing with life applications for multiplication, division, and subtraction. They show their work in a designated space, and must include units in their answers. Learners will work...
Nemours KidsHealth
Food Safety: Grades 6-8
The flu or food poisoning? Middle schoolers learn how to safely prepare, cook, clean up, and store food with a lesson that has them first read articles about food safety. Partners create a video that shows them modeling these steps and...
Nemours KidsHealth
Food and Cooking Safety: Grades 3-5
In lesson one, scholars read articles, brainstorm a list of tips, then vote on the most important ones. Using those tips, the class creates a mural detailing them with magazine cutouts. Lesson two challenges pupils to cook a dish at home...
Nemours KidsHealth
Food and Cooking Safety: Grades K-2
A cut and paste activity emphasizes the importance of safety precautions while cooking and baking. After reading several kid-friendly articles, class members cut 10 safety ingredients to paste on the pot's corresponding shape.
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Create A Map!
Students examine two- and three-dimensional shapes, and discuss map skills and attributes. They plan and create their own school campus maps using pre-cut building site shapes.
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Past Continuous Activity
In this past continuous learning exercise, students write verbs to label pictures, choose the correct words for sentences describing after school and in school. Students complete 3 activities.
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Combating Viruses at Lisbon Central School
Learners discuss the spread of viruses. For this service learning lesson, students educate others about the importance of hand washing to stop the spread of germs. They plan a service learning project to prevent virus related diseases.
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"You Can't Catch Me!"-Introducing Young Children to the School Setting
Students use photography to create art projects.
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Walk Across the School
Students explore the concept of location. They discuss the terms right, left, near, far, under, and over, participate in a walk around the school, and display the correct direction for various locations around the school.
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Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cafeteria Caper
In these math word problem worksheets, students help solve the mystery about the cafeteria caper. Students determine what each students' favorite food is by making a chart to organize information from the story. Students then find the...
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Foods and Languages of the World
Students learn about the foods of Italy. In this Italy lesson, students learn about the different types of food from Italy, create their own pizzas using paper and markers, share their pizzas with the class, and go to the cafeteria and...
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Help! I'm Trapped in the Principal's Body
In this reading worksheet, pupils answer 10 multiple-choice questions about the book. For example, "Who was the principal of Burt Itchupt Middle School?"
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The Great Water Hunt
Students examine a globe to locate the bodies of water present and create a representation of those bodies of water for further exploration of the concept. Extensions of their observations are made at school, home, and the community.