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Spark Line Dance - 5-6-7-8
Pupils learn a line dance. In this line dance lesson plan, students practice the indicated steps to perform a line dance to the SPARK CD. (not linked) They use the add on format while performing the dance.
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Humanities in Colonial and Revolutionary America
Students demonstrate dances of colonial America. In this colonial American lesson, students learn forms of colonial social dancing including the Juba and Virginia Reel. Students examine the history of the 2 dances as well.
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Hip-Hop Warm Up Dance
Students in a middle elementary physical education class participate in a warm-up activity in which they perform several hip-hop dance moves. They do the mountain climber, the coffee grinder, the seat spin, and others. They even come...
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Jingle Bells Streamer Routine
Students perform movements with streamers as part of a P.E. activity. They dance to the song Jingle Bells, following explicit directions. They practice a dance routine, and can create their own dance.
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Easy Easter Crafts
Students make different crafts to represent spring and Easter. In this crafts lesson plan, students make cookies, nests, and bunnies out of their hands.
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Pitch Drills
Stduents reinforce pitch recognition. Changing passing tones to hums and later to just thinking them in the mind s ear, the pitch phrase is reduced to the skip or interval desir
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What is Physical Activity?
Students describe how the heart needs to work and rest. In this lesson on the heart, students feel their heart working, play a game of "Wise Owl Says" about physical activity and complete worksheets about physical activities.
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Students create a poem on the subject of war. In this All Quiet on the Western Front instructional activity, students create poetry using phrases or lines that they brainstorm during a pre-writing session. Students enhance their poetry...
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Friendship
Students investigate the concept of friendship with the help of two different quotations. The quotations are used to compare and contrast two facets of friendship and what is needed to encourage fruitful relationships. They read "The...
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Why Is Evolution Controversial?
Learners explore why evolution has always been a controversial topic. They use scientific process to determine patterns and to critically analyze alternative explanations for natural phenomena.
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"EA" Beach
Young scholars are introduced to their new spelling words for the week which have the sound "ea". In groups, they brainstorm a list of other words with the same sound, draw them and write them on a worksheet. They share their new words...
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Compound Word Games
Students build compound words out of two separate words using a variety of activities. In this compound word lesson plan, students practice building compound words using word cards. These word cards can be used in a variety of ways to...
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Healthy Happy heart Booklet
Students complete activity pages in a book to demonstrate their understanding of a healthy heart.
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Men in Black Line Dance
Students practice and perform a line dance to Smith's song Men in Black.
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Reading and Using a Recipe
Students explore how to follow a simple recipe and explain directions to another person.
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Hidden Hibernators
Young scholars review the concept of hibernation and the animals that sleep during all or part of the winter. They complete the Hibernation Word Search Puzzle to name 16 animals that hibernate during the winter months.
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Minding Your Body
Students explore the benefits of yoga and meditation by studying baseball players who incorporate them into their pre-season training. They investigate a variety of mind-body techniques and create a presentation for the class.
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Scaffolding a Reading/Writing Lesson
Young scholars explore pre-reading activities. Through looking at titles, and observing pictures, students predict what will happen in a story. They listen to a part of the story and then write their own conclusion. Young scholars...
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Animal Idioms
In this ESL animal idioms learning exercise, students read 12 idioms that contain an animal name. Students draw a line to the meaning that will match each idiom its definition.
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Keeping Healthy Lesson Plan
Students explore how muscles work. For this health lesson, students identify how the blood supplies muscles with oxygen. Students participate in an online activity to reinforce the concepts.
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Blackberries
Students read and answer questions about other animals that like blackberries besides humans. In this blackberries lesson plan, students read about what animals like to eat blackberries and what they do for them.
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Journalism with Natalie Moore
Students analyze journalism in the 21st century. In this journalism lesson, students read about Natalie Moore and the changing field of journalism by completing the activities in the packet.
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Division
Young scholars use their knowledge of multiplication to learn problem solving strategies to solve division problems. In this division lesson plan, students play a circle game, work in small groups to review times tables, and solve...
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Making Words
Third graders spell words and define homophone. In this making words lesson, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words.