LESSON PLANS
Students create a beautiful display with cutouts of their hands. This is a fun arts & crafts activity for Christmas.…
An easy system for taking attendance and organizing lunch at the beginning of the day.
Use numbers to ensure students have personal space and help them keep track of their things.
Students create placemats that show pictures of things for which they are thankful. This is an excellent Thanksgiving…
Make plaster molds out of sand, with this activity. Then, your students can paint the molds to make a beautiful piece…
Students make candle decorations out of paper tubes and colored paper. This arts & crafts activity is especially nice to…
Build community with younger students while playing the "snail" game.
Students watch the changes of the seasons from winter to spring with a seasonal terrarium.
Explore European Alpine culture through folk music and the yodel.
This arts & crafts lesson plan outlines how to make potato stamps for decorating gift wrap. This is a fun and creative…
ACTIVITIES
Students make a great new piece of art using crayons.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organizer for recording what students Know, Want to know, and…
Have students interview a senior citizen to learn what schools, jobs, and community activities were like when they were…
Create a class book of homes around the world.
Using their own shadows and the shadow of a paper child on a globe, students learn through a simulation how the sun's…
The teacher mixes the ingredients of a comet to simulate the real thing for students.
After reading a poem and a non-fiction book, students will identify whether a series of statements are true or false.
Use this poem to help students distinguish the cause effect relationships developed in the poem, and predict what…
WORKSHEETS
Teach students about cooperation by making a sandwich together.
Use this activity to teach students about the life of clouds.
In this simulation, students will track a hurricane in the manner of a meteorologist.
Pretend you are a butterfly talking to a butterfly larva. Tell the larva how it will change as it grows up. Make…
In this activity, students will learn how to identify seeds.
Demonstrate how plants receive water from their roots with this colorful activity.