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Money Management
Students role play buying and selling items. In this economics lesson, students are given play money with which to purchase items, as well as value their own items for others to buy. Each student in the group works together to decide...
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Read On
Students consider the question "Why do we read?" through creating and sharing individual timelines of their own histories as readers. They then choose a book on which to write a personal essay.
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Clifford Learns About the Circus and So Do We!
Students investigate the characteristics of different circus jobs and the animals commonly seen at the circus. They read a book about clowns and construct and perform a trick hot dog. Students also create a clown accordion book.
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Talking Duck
Students visit a local wetland or WWT centre and record their observations by writing or drawing on the downloadable pupil activity sheet.
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King." They identify Martin Luther King's goals, discuss and write about things they hope will happen in the world for a class book, explore...
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Parallel Structure
In this parallel structure worksheet, students determine correctly and incorrectly written sentences and make all correct. Students write twenty answers.
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The Magic Apple
First graders read The Magic Apple and complete interdisciplinary activities related to the book. In this folktale lesson, 1st graders answer comprehension questions, recognize and record short /i/ sound words and...
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Fossils Lesson 4 - Who Are Some Famous Fossil Hunters and What Are Their Finds?
Learners research and develop a presentation about a famous fossil hunter/archaeologist. In this fossil hunter/archaeologist lesson plan, students listen to a reading of Don Brown's, Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable...
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Sense of Sight
Students examine the sense of sight. In this human biology lesson, students read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and discuss all of the animals seen in the story. Students use binoculars and take several digital photos...
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Price
First graders complete worksheets on producers and consumers and the total price of a group of items. In this price lesson plan, 1st graders read the book A Dollar for Penny in order to understand price, producers, and consumers, and...
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Drawing Bugs Game
Second graders explore probability by playing a drawing game with dice. After they roll a die, they draw a tree diagram to illustrate each of the possible outcomes.
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Variations of Pain
Students listen to the song :King of Pain" by the Police. They identify different instrumentation and different rhythmic accompaniments to the opening vocal phrase and explore the text in-depth, discussing the various poetic images of...
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Can We Be Both Conservationists and Consumers?
High schoolers explore their role as consumers and conservationists and what roles they play in today's economic climate. They explore resource allocation issues. Students analyze data and draw comparisons between historical and...
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"Five Little Seeds"
Fourth graders complete various activities related to the plant life cycle. They read the book "The Tiny Seed," read and discuss the poem "Five Little Seeds," complete a "Plantenstein Mystery" and other online activities, write and...
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How Does a Butterfly Grow?
Students explore the stages of a butterfly. They read and discuss the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. They draw a picture of their favorite part and create a graph. They write a letter to Eric Carle and observe a...
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Have Block Party!
Young scholars discover that the possibilities are limitless in this block-building activity. In this early childhood, problem solving lesson plan, students develop social, problem-solving, math, and language skills using a specific...
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The Ancient Maya
Students explore the culture of the Mayans through a variety of activities. In this lesson about Maya, students analyze pictures in books and on websites, produce scale models of Maya architecture, and create Maya mosaics. Students study...
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Module 14 Keeping In Touch
In this ESL worksheet, student match 8 names with the events/facts that they are associated with. They write 8 sentences about the facts or events using the present simple verb tense. They put given words in the correct order to make 7...
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Pronouns
Students play a game. In this pronouns lesson plan, students watch a video and read a book about pronouns. Students review types of pronouns, fill in missing pronouns in sentences, read a newspaper article and find as many pronouns as...
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Your Story
Students discover ways to learn about the past. In this writing lesson students use a writing web to organize their ideas about how we learn about the past. The students then start a time capsule about their lives....
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Anansi Goes To Lunch
Students read and explore a folktale from West Africa. In this folktale lesson, students read the book Anansi Goes to Lunch and discuss facts about spiders. Students sing the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and complete several included...
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The Well of Truth
Second graders explore the Egyptian folktale, The Well of Truth. For this folktale lesson, 2nd graders read the tale and discuss the events from the text. Students write a diary entry from the point of view of a character in the text....
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Smart- Counting Coins
Students discover the name and value of coins. For this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Students visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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We The People: A History
Students play a game about taxation where they have tax collectors that simulate the feelings and reasons that led to the American Revolution. In this taxation lesson plan, students learn about why the people in the colonies were so...