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- ABCs by the week
- This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.
- Blast off the wet way
- This lesson takes 6–10 days and includes math classes in which students will serve as observers and will calculate the height that the rocket reached and time elapsed. In the science class the students will design, build, launch, and do a detailed analysis of the acceleration, speed, and force produced by water-filled two-liter rockets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Jack Curtis.
- Classroom food web
- This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Kurt Oswald.
- Exploring patterns you can feel and hear
- The following lesson will enable students to develop tactile and auditory patterns. As students observe, analyze, and make predictions about patterns they will enhance their problem-solving and reasoning skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Mathematics)
- By Carlene M. White.
- Habitat — what's that?
- This lesson helps students define the word habitat and understand the basic elements that make up an animal's habitat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Science)
- By Kelly Stewart.
- Jellybean equations
- Students will build chemical compounds using jelly beans and toothpicks to visually balance chemical equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Nancy H. Sanders.
- Job twister: A lesson in career competency
- Twister provides an excellent opportunity to discuss shared responsibilities at home/school as well as to demonstrate working together in a "movement" situation. Young children will enjoy the movement involved while learning directional words, such as right, left, etc. This lesson incorporates literature, technology, and motor skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Social Studies)
- By Ann Sumners.
- Looking at things from different angles
- This lesson will introduce students to angles using a resource of Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. Permission has been granted for the use of the materials as part of the workshop "Interactivate Your Bored Math Students."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Beth Jorgensen.
- Meter madness
- The students will identify 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time signatures. They will also identify the down-beat and begin to understand conducting patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Alice Barlowe.
- Notating a rainy day
- Using manipulatives, students will notate a familiar song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Open the gate, close the gate
- Open the Gate, Close the Gate is a variety of activities to provide practice identifying and discriminating between open and closed figures. The activities are designed to meet varying learning styles, and to move students from the concrete level to the abstract level of learning.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Mary Deans.
- Place value power
- This lesson plan incorporates 3 modalities, which will hopefully help students use the ones/units period, the thousands period, and the millions period to compare numbers in a variety of forms.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Becky Boney.
- Smart money
- Students will practice making money trades to equal $.25 kinesthetically and with manipulatives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Sherry Griffith.
- Stay still
- In this lesson students will learn about stability. They will design and build an earthquake-proof house that takes into account the forces acting upon it and the materials with which it will be built. The house will be tested in a “shake table.” Students will be assessed by the product itself as well as their analysis of the results of the test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- Studying simple machines with Rube Goldberg
- Using a copy of a Rube Goldberg cartoon, show how the famous cartoonist drew weird and wacky machines to complete a simple task. Students will develop their own Rube Goldberg-type cartoon, using five types of simple machines, to accomplish their selected feat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Cynthia Corley.
- Supermarket sweep: Day 2
- Students will participate in a supermarket game and follow a shopping list. Students will compare the quantity of items “purchased” and graph results. Students will also learn a song about shopping in a supermarket.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Development and Mathematics)
- By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes.
- What do you see?
- This lesson is designed to teach color vocabulary and some basic animal names to novice level ESL students in grades 1-2 using Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Young.
