LESSON PLANS
This comprehensive lesson uses Billy Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" as a discussion point for the history of lynching in…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Poetry lesson planning for grades 9-12. The study of poetry can lead your students to new levels of creativity and…
By making their own miniature garden, students can observe first hand how plants grow.
After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…
After reading a realistic fiction story, the student will write a letter to the author. Use this activity to celebrate…
Make a book of self-portraits that you can then use to compare with end of the year portraits.
Teach students to understand relationships between music and other art forms.
Use a lesson that explores the dangers of smoking, related vocabulary, and attitudes about smoking.
Students will research an historically important site and make a project explaining its historical importance.
Use a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to draw conclusions using one of Aesop's enjoyable fables.…
ACTIVITIES
Students will create and color a one-patch quilt design based upon the regular hexagon. This is a great arts & crafts…
Students learn how to cite sources from the Internet for their essays and papers.
Students will count the number of syllables in words with this hands-on activity.
Teach your students how to create their own Mad Libs© selections by using a family story, fairy tale, script, dialog,…
Pupils will learn about the similarities between human sweating and plant transpiration. In this hands-on science…
Students use personal experience to write creatively in this poetry lesson plan. They'll think back and choose a dozen…
GAMES AND APPS
Students recreate Olympic events by calculating distances and participating in the event.
Students learn about a sunflower and other plants through observation, estimation, and counting.
Students will practice their predicting and measuring skills by comparing the size of a blue whale to various objects.
Students will create wave bottles and observe the motion and patterns of waves. This lesson is a great supplement to…
MAPS
Use this chart to plan the Pilgrim Study Unit (objectives and materials) of six lessons. Students will learn all about…
Students examine measurements in arts and crafts recipes, make capacity conversions, and create their own crazy recipes.
Students examine the reasons why, throughout history, people have ventured into unexplored places to discover new lands.
Introduce students to a call-and-response form of Native American song and dance.
