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- Creating a book review using a multimedia stack
- In this lesson, students will identify title, characters, setting, plot of a story that they have read. They will also be able to state their opinion of the story read and provide information about themselves as a reviewer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Crystal Johnston.
- The Greedy Triangle
- Students review geometric terms by making predictions about what the Greedy Triangle will become as the teacher reads the book, The Greedy Triangle. Students will create geometric creatures after the review.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Renee Allen.
- "Luscious lollipops" and other adjectives
- The students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives. They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- By Pat DeMello.
- Name that tune!
- This is a student/parent assignment. The students will perform selected lines from their band method books, and their parents (or responsible adults) will listen and try to name the tune.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education)
- By Mary Beth Smith.
- Navigating Nonfiction
- In order to engage in research processes, students must be able to access informational (nonfiction) books independently. In this lesson they will learn how nonfiction books are arranged. They will then practice putting nonfiction books in order by call number, and will practice locating nonfiction books on the shelf.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills)
- By Kay Sanderson.
- Walk Two Moons: An integrated unit
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a bittersweet story of a teenager who desperately wants to be reunited with her mother. This unit is an integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Janet Fore.
- Splitting bears
- Students will learn sequencing (beginning, middle, end) by using a bear pattern.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Kendra Sisk.
- The life cycle of a seed
- This lesson integrates science into the language arts block. Students will read about plant life cycle events and then write their own books about the life cycle of a plant.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Joni Kight.
- Let's hunt for vivid vocabulary!
- This activity will be used to encourage students to focus on using an enriched vocabulary. During an oral reading of the book A Bad Case of Stripes, the students will search and identify various nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, dialogue tags, and transition words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Susan Byrd.
- Writing a fish book: Number and color details
- Students will learn and write color words and number words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Stephanie Phelps.
- Sensing the world around us
- Students will review the five senses and listen to an Ezra Jack Keats' story in which a blind man uses his senses of hearing and smelling to learn about his neighbors. Students will then experience the difficulty of using only one sense to identify different sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Libby Oxenfeld.
- Features of print
- In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of gathering information from chapter headings, bold type and other organizational features of print (such as tables of contents) in non-fiction texts in print and online.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Gail Goodling, Susan Lovett, and Sue Versenyi.
- Jackie Robinson taught us more than baseball
- After determining student knowledge about Jackie Robinson, the teacher/counselor reads "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock to fifth graders. The teacher/counselor then divides students into four groups to work cooperatively on questions. Groups select leaders and recorders and each group leader presents answers to the whole class. The teacher/counselor ends the activity with a question that individual students will respond to in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Jan Huggins.
- Molly's Pilgrim Activity
- Using the book by Barbara Cohen, students will respond to the social and historical significance of this portrayal of the Thanksgiving holiday. Students will also participate in constructing a Venn diagram and completing a cloze activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Susan Milholland, Kathy Vaden, and Rita Wilson.
- To eat or not to eat
- After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Karlyn Sugg.
- Bugs, bugs, bugs
- This lesson integrates writing and the study of insects by creating an innovation to the text of the book How Many Bugs in a Box? by David A. Carter
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Vicki Rivenbark.
- Angry words: What goes around comes around
- This is a simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. Strategies for coping with angry feelings are shared.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Judy Lavore.
- Building friendships
- The class will listen to the counselor/teacher read the book: "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson and a discussion will follow. This lesson will be summarized by listening to the students share their Friendship Recipes created from the new ideas learned from "Enemy Pie." An example of "Friendship Pie" is on an attachment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Julia Efland.
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- Subject search in card catalog
- This lesson encourages students to engage in independent research through providing them with experience in accessing the variety of library materials available to them. This lesson is good for those schools who do not have online catalogs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills)
- By Jennisen Lucas.
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