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What time is it?

Students will learn to recognize analog and digital clocks. They will also gain skills to tell time to the hour on both clocks.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Alysia Baysden.

Popcorn math

In this lesson students will use a consumable manipulative to understand percent, fraction and decimal conversions. They will also collect data on a teacher produced spreadsheet while using a computer generated spreadsheet to make conversions.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

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 1 Mathematics)

By Mary Deans.

Rolling a ball

More than a Physical Education lesson plan! The main focus of this manipulative activities lesson is rolling a ball. Students will roll other objects and practice rolling themselves. Additionally, you will find many ideas for structuring and managing a PE class.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 )

By Bozena Mielczak.

Friendship addition

This lesson introduces students to the concept of basic single digit addition.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Jennifer Barbee.

Food choice in our everyday lives

Focuses on everyday foods and how these foods relate to the food pyramid. Students will recognize food vocabulary in the target language (Spanish) and will make healthy food choices by creating thinking maps, a school menu in the target language, and exploring food choices from around the world.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Healthful Living and Second Languages)

By Gina Benson and Laura Epting.

Underhand throwing

The students will perform the skills of throwing underhand. This is the second lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on rolling a ball.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 Healthful Living)

By Bozena Mielczak.

Color-coded time

This lesson introduces telling time to the minute using the analog and digital clocks. The hands are color-coded to assist with hour and minute hand discrimination. The student will use the time on the digital clock, which can then be transferred to the more difficult analog clock.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

By Anne Clodfelter.

Magnetic magic

Students will explore and experiment with a magnet's mysterious invisible strength by rotating through five hands-on centers.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)

By Thelma Pike.

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.

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system developed in 1956 by education psychologist Benjamin Bloom to categorize intellectual skills and behavior important to learning. Bloom identified six cognitive levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,...

Format: article

By Heather Coffey.

A Christmas Carol chronology

Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)

By Judy Gibbs.

Using the mouse

For young children, the mouse will be the primary interface they use with the computer. Although most do not have any difficulty correlating the movement of the mouse with the movement of the cursor on the monitor, they do often get confused with clicking, double clicking, and click and drag. This is the introductory lesson in mouse use for a Kindergarten class. It is spread over three days to accommodate short attention spans.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills)

By Ralph Wagner.

Overhand throwing

The students will perform the skills of throwing overhand. This is the third lesson in Manipulative Activities Unit in 2nd quarter that follows lesson on throwing a ball underhand.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 )

By Bozena Mielczak.

Dribbling a ball with a hand

After this lesson, student should be aware of 4 critical components of dribbling a ball (on the side, no higher than waist, pushing the ball down, and looking up) and be able to dribble a ball applying at least 3 of them.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Healthful Living)

By Bozena Mielczak.

Nothing exceptional

For teachers, the task is to determine which strategies will help students with learning disabilities succeed, both in our classrooms and beyond.

By Janet Ploghoft.

Operation beach teach

This lesson is the introduction to an integrated marine science unit which culminates in an early fall trip to Hammocks Beach State Park. (See attachment: Pre-Activity). The unit is designed to hook students into science and provide joyful learning experiences across the curriculum.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)

By Melissa Tukey.

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Rhythm and art: Rhythm collage

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students produce collages, consisting of paper cut-outs, reflecting elements of rhythm in music. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Visual Arts Education and Music Education)

Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts