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Rules For the Home Game
Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.
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Intro. To Native American Unit
Students, to help themselves better explain the idea of Native Americans and their oral traditions, play the whisper down the line game and analyze the outcomes.
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All About Me Poem
Eighth graders write a poem that introduces them to their class. In this poetry writing instructional activity, 8th graders use the format for the 'All About Me Poem" to write a poem about themselves and use it as get-to-know-you activity.
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The BIG One
Students observe an earthquake demonstration. They research an earthquake and use color dots to plot the location of each of their earthquakes on the large map.
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Who Works for the Common Good in Our Community?
Students examine the role of community service organizations. As a class, they listen as members from local organizations speak to them and answer any questions they have. They respond in their journals to different prompts to end the...
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Using the Engineering Design Process to Dress for the Weather
Students study weather and define the appropriate dress for various weather patterns. In this weather and clothing instructional activity, students discuss wearing appropriate clothes for specific weather. Students use the weather board...
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Ready, Set, Go!!
Learners work to improve reading fluency by practicing oral reading skills. They read and reread sentences, noticing the effect repeated reading have on speed and accuracy. In groups, they complete timed readings and work to improve...
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Paper Mache Globes
Third graders create a paper mache model of the earth. At the conclusion of a discussion about the earth, they are given paper mache materials, they create their globe and appropriately draw and label landforms, bodies of water and the...
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Lightning Speed Reading
Students focus on improving their reading fluency. They discuss what it means to be a fluent reader and practice repeated readings with a short story. They work in partners and take turns timing one another for one minute reads.
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President's Place
Third graders read and research the features of the White House.In this President's Place lesson, 3rd graders read an article determine the main idea. Students understand how to footnote an article.
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Glossary, Index, and Table of Contents
Fourth graders use two separate sources to learn about index, glossary, and table of contents usage. For this library lesson, 4th graders use two books, Learning About Weather with Graphic Organizers, and The World Almanac for Kids, to...
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Physical Body Limits
Eighth graders examine how the Nazis overworked the Jewish people and see how there are physical limits tot he body. For this physical limits lesson students complete several activities.
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Sense of Touch
Students explore the sense of touch. They listen to and discuss the book, I Can Tell By Touching, observe a demonstration of cold, and create a touch book using candy buttons, pine needles, cotton, burlap, and wax paper.
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Where is Grand Dewey Daddy?
Third graders find books. In this library instructional activity, 3rd graders use the Dewey Decimal System to find books and determine the shelves they are located on.
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A Sense Of Water
Students examine several writings from both locals and Peace Corps volunteers from several African countries. Students reflect on how the writer's interactions with water are presented through the material. Students write their own pieces.
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What Do Monarch Caterpillars Eat?
Students use the scientific method to discover what monarch caterpillars eat. They observe the caterpillars for 2 minutes at a time and make observations.
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Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
Learners consider Race and Ethnicity in baseball. In this American history instructional activity, students examine primary source images of American baseball. They then develop an original argument, pose historical questions and conduct...
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New Threats from Overseas
Eighth graders explore the trade of goods overseas. In this history instructional activity, 8th graders establish the principles behind overseas trading by listening to lecture from the teacher.
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My Caring and Sharing Book
First graders read the book Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. They consider when they have shared with someone or expressed caring. They write, illustrate and compile a fish book that tells of their caring and sharing experiences.
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Life Cycle of a Frog
Students work together to explain and illustrate the life cycle of a frog.
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Blind Walk
Students experience what it would be like to live without the sense of sight, identify three things on a blind walk by using senses other than sight, and discuss what they learned from the experience with the whole class.
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Baggie Science
Students observe and describe a chemical reaction. In this chemistry lesson, students record observations of the materials they will be using, then follow a written procedure to perform the experiment in a baggie and record their...
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Team Marathon
Students develop cardiovascular fitness. They discover a safe level of pacing while running and add up their laps with the members of their team to get a "team total." That total is marked on the chart each day that they have P.E. class.
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I've Got Your Number
Students assess the journalistic value of numbers used in newspaper articles while learning about the significance of the Hubble telescope's new data on the age of the universe.