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Upper and Lower Case Nn- Printing Practice and Initial Sound Recognition
In this upper and lower case Nn printing practice and initial sound worksheet, learners print 1 row of each letter. They follow the directional arrows and dotted lines as they form the letters. They write an n next to 7 pictures that...
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Upper and Lower Case Zz- Printing Practice and Initial Sound Recognition
In this upper and lower case Zz printing practice and initial sound recognition activity, students write 1 row of each letter. They follow the directional arrows and dotted lines to form the letters. They print a z next to 7 pictures...
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Lines, Segments, and Rays
Fifth graders use their arm, toothpicks, and marshmallows to create lines, segments, and rays. In this lines, segments, and rays lesson plan, 5th graders learn how these appear on a plane.
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Out and About: The History of Medicine
Learners investigate the history of medicine. In this medicine lesson, students may visit the Thackray Medical Museum, the Old Operating Theatre, or the Edward Jenner Museum in Britain online or in-person to discover details about...
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Rounding and Estimating
Fourth graders complete math problems through rounding and estimating. They visit a given website where students select answers to increasingly harder problems. Students complete quizzes to estimation problems. Afterwards, they...
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Upper and Lower Case Qq- Printing Practice and Initial Sound Recognition
For this Qq printing practice and initial sound recognition worksheet, students practice printing 1 row each of Q and q. They follow the directional arrows and dotted lines to form the letters. They write the letter q next to 7 pictures...
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Tension and Compression
High schoolers experience the forces of tension and compression by manipulating objects that are strong in each but not in both. Students construct a simple model of a beam bridge.
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Tension and Compression
Students explore the forces of tension and compression by manipulating a variety of objects, and apply what they learned in the construction of a model bridge.
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"The Block": Romare Bearden's and Mine
Students study Bearden's style of collage and create their own collage that reflects their neighborhood. They are read "The Block" and poems about neighborhoods and write one about theirs.
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Over and Under
Students play a game of passing the ball over their heads, between their legs and shout out letters of the alphabet each time the ball reaches the end of the line.
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Odds and Evens
First graders play a game to practice identifying odd and even numbers. They are divided into two teams. If the number chosen out of a bag is odd, the odd team runs back to their goal line while being chased by the even team and vice versa.
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People of the Plains: Roles of Men And Women
Fourth graders study the geography of North America and the indigenous people who lived there. They read about rules, games, toys and dolls, and education. They fill out Venn Diagrams comparing the roles of men and women during the videos.
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People of the Plains:Music and Dance
Fourth graders are given a worksheet stating the goal of the day, different sections to visit, and time spent on each section. They are given the CDs, 4th graders are told to insert the CDs into the computer. Students go to The Plains...
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The Great Depression and Now: The Migrant Worker Experience
Students identify the concerns of people caught in desperate times during the Great Depression. They make connections between The Grapes of Wrath and historical images from the Great Depression. Students make connections between the...
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Probes, Exploration and Application
Students examine the benefits of the space program to our life on earth. In this space exploration lesson students participate in a lab, answer questions and study radar mapping.
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China: Culture and Young Adult literature
Eighth graders are introduced to Chinese language and culture to make Asian reading selections in literature circles more meaningful. They write about Chinese characters, work on oral speaking, and read Asian books and then have...
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Science: Daily and Seasonal Cycles
First graders use their observations to describe daily and seasonal cycles. through a demonstration using a suspended ball and flashlight, they determine the time of day in various locations. Next, 1st graders participate in a...
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Trading Pennies and Dimes
Second graders, while in the computer lab, explore the strategy of making and grouping to ten. They assess how to trade pennies for dimes and create original word problems along with corresponding number sentences to illustrate grouping...
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Rhyming
Students read Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Rhyming Text, discuss rhyming words, and make peanut butter and jelly cake/sandwiches.
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Sizing Up Sound
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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Between the Lions: Exploring Short-Vowel Sounds
Students review the short sounds of a, e, i, o, and u previously discussed in class. They read and be able to identify words that have short-vowel sounds and become familiar with the basic navigational features of a website.
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Words With Short Vowel Sound of Letter A
For this language arts worksheet, students learn 6 words with the sound of short vowel A. Students write these words on the lines and then draw a van and an apple.
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Reinforcing Alphabet Names/Sounds
Learners reinforce knowledge of the alphabet essential to beginning reading by pulling random letters out of a hat and identifying the letter's sound.
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Select a Sound: RCX Programming
Young scholars program an RCX to play one sound if a touch sensor is pressed down and another if it is not pressed. They write the program to repeat twenty times and incorporate the use of both a fork and a loop.