Developing a Global Perspective for Educators
The Lorax - Language
First graders identify text features and how they communicate meaning to the reader. In this media literacy instructional activity, learners view the movie The Lorax and discuss how students from another country would respond to this...
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Mass Production Using an Assembly Line
Fifth graders examine the industrial revolution. In this industrialization instructional activity, 5th graders explore the concept of mass production via the assembly line. They then create an assembly line which demonstrates its costs...
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The Great Ocean Conveyor
Students investigate water density. In this water density lesson plan, students conduct an experiment with food coloring, water and salt to see how the salt effects bodies of water.
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Sums
In this addition word problems worksheet, students read the problems, use mental math, and find the sums. Students solve five problems.
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The Designed World
Learners study the classification system used in a library. For this sorting and classification lesson, students visit their library and define the classification system in place. Learners discuss the sorting method and then come up with...
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ESL: Present Perfect and Present Simple Tense
Your English learners, or young native speakers, can practice converting affirmative sentences into negative ones using various verb forms. Forty-five opportunities are provided. Page contains links to additional resources and audio...
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Visual Sum and Difference Word Problems - Independent Practice
The ten prompts on this worksheet are intended for independent practice with addition and subtraction of numbers up to 3000. Space is provided for pupils to illustrate their work. The confusing wording of some the problems would be a...
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String Games
Fourth graders show that they can follow directions by successfully making "The Worm" with a string. They reate a string game that they can share with students in Africa.
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Sight
Students discover how the sense of sight helps us recognize each other and explore color, motion and distance.
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Babes in Electronic Toyland
Young scholars read a New York Times article in order to explore the use of handheld electronic devices in schools. They investigate, through surveys and essay-writing, the pros and cons of this technology.
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Sink or Float?
Students make and test predictions about sinking and floating, and classify objects according to whether they sink or float.
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Money Matters
Students play a game called Money Matters using cut out representatives of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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Fair is Fair
Students participate in two unfair activities to explain the concept of fairness. Then they role-play different scenarios demonstrating the idea of fairness. They discuss reasons to make rules and complete a web chart on fairness.
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Eye Spy!
Students explore using descriptive words by playing a What Do You See? game, describing items in a Mystery Bag, and using Eye-Spy binoculars on an on-campus field trip. They read the book, I Went Walking, and write descriptions of a...
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Rural Voices Through Photography
Students research the history of the Depression particularly in the ways it was documented by photography. Then they take their own pictures in the style of one of the best documentarians, Dorothea Lange.
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Problems and Solutions in Aircraft Design
Students watch demonstrations of paper folded designs that do and do not fly and discuss their observations. They identify problems that they, the Wright Brothers, or NASA scientists face when designing an aircraft, and identify...
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Newton Rocket Car
Learners observe a demonstration of Newton's third law of motion using a small wooden car. They discuss Newton's third law of motion and what happens to motion if the mass or acceleration is increased, construct their car, and record...
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Sink or Float?
Students will determine whether various objects sink or float in water. They do not need to explain why objects sink or float. They are rather to be encouraged to observe that the same objects will sink or float every time, i.e., that...
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Chances Are-Part 1
Young scholars are introduced to the idea of probability by discussing the likelihood of events occurring. Pupils describe events that are certain, impossible, likely, and unlikely to occur. They determine the likelihood of an event...
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What's the Real Deal?
Students investigate product counterfeiting and its impact on the US economy. They research product counterfeiting on the Internet then create a "fakes" fact sheet about a specific group of products such as music cods or beanie babies.
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Beanie Baby Bonanza
Third graders add and subtract decimals. In this third grade mathematics lesson, 3rd graders are given an imaginary $100 to purchase five Beanie Babies. Students determine which five they would like to purchase and estimate...
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Force And Motion With Cars
Students discover that different things move at different speeds. They compare the distance a car travels on a ramp with and without a push. They
push the car with one finger the first time, let it move without a
push the next time (no...
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CTBS Usage Practice #1: Grammar
In this grammar usage worksheet, students review conjunctions, pronouns, subjects and predicate, topic sentences, and verbs. After reading a review on these different subjects, students answer thirty three multiple choice, fill in the...
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