Subject Lessons
Subject Arts Lesson Plans
Art Outside
In this visual and performing arts lesson, students will explore their artistic skills while becoming more connected with nature. Students will look for fallen plants outside or in the garden and they will use them in the classroom to make art.
Bugs and Design
This lesson is designed to help students use their skills to analyze art elements and various principles of design.
Camouflage and Environment
Students will make butterflies of various colors and then they will experience the advantage that butterflies that are the same color as their environment have against predators.
Chinese New Year
This highly engaging Social Studies lesson on Chinese New Year is integrated with elements of performing arts (drama). This lesson is appropriate for students in K-3, as it can be easily modified.
Chinese New Year - Fan Dance
A hands-on lesson which integrates Social Studies concepts with performing arts (dance). Students will delve into customs of Chinese New Year by exploring traditional artifacts and dance.
Chinese New Year - Lion Dance
This lesson is great for grades K-2. It integrates Social Studies with elements of visual and performing arts as the children create a Chinese lion and a dance.
Christmas Around the World Part 1
This lesson combines Visual Arts with Social Studies. Students will read about how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world and draw a scene depicting that location.
Christmas Around the World Part 2
This lesson combines Music and Social Studies. Students will listen to and learn Christmas songs from around the world and analyze.
Fairy Tale Fun
In this performing arts lesson, students will rewrite a well-known fairy tale to include a great deal of dialogue and then act out that fairy tale (creation of props is optional as is taping the performance).
Flash Mob Fun
In this performing arts lesson, students will work together with a purpose to create and choreograph a dance for a flash mob to make an announcement for the school.
Foil Printing
In this visual arts lesson, students will create a print using paint on foil then add detail to the print.
Friendship - Accepting Differences
This lesson on "Friendship" integrates Social Studies standards along with Music, Dance, and Visual Arts. The lesson focuses on "accepting differences" and is great for grades K-2.
Friendship - Conflict Resolution
This lesson on Friendship and Conflict Resolution integrates Social Studies content along with Visual and Performing Arts (Theater) content. A highly interactive lesson that is great for kindergartners as well as first graders.
Kwanzaa Art
Students will discuss the 7 principals of Kwanzaa and then draw pictures of an example of each.
Making a Menorah
Students will make a beautiful vibrant menorah using art supplies while learning about the background.
Mini Diorama
This visual arts lesson will allow students to share some personal interests in the form of a diorama. Sample rubric included.
Musical Masterpiece
In this visual arts lesson, learners will express emotion through painting, as elicited by music.
Painter's Tape Art
This lesson will allow students to practice creating art by marking off what will not be painted. This requires planning prior to mixing the first color.
Paper Mache Zoo
In this visual arts lesson, students will create zoo animals (or any animals) using paper mache. The ‘zoo’ can be displayed in the classroom or in a localized area of the school.
Perspectives
This visual arts lesson will allow students to get creative while practicing with either photography or videography. Students will also have to consider perspective from things outside themselves. Rubric included.
Shaving Syllables
In this visual arts lesson, students will use a unique medium to create letters, words, and pictures that are easily erased and altered.
Theater in Action
Students will write and perform a scene from the story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Upside Down Art
This lesson will allow students to practice creating art from a unique perspective while learning about Michelangelo.
Video Diary
In this performing arts lesson, students will work to create a short video diary to showcase the import parts of their life and edit the video into a 5 minute or less montage using EZVid or similar program.
Water Color Butterflies
In this visual arts lesson, students will create a tye-dyed or water color butterfly to show how colors mix.
Yarn Painting
This lesson will allow students to practice creating art using a unique medium, yarn.
Subject English/Language Arts Lesson Plans
Analogy Creation
Students will create analogies using randomly chosen grade-appropriate words.
Author's Purpose
Students will have the opportunity to delve into the world of "Author's Purpose" with this engaging lesson. This lesson is aligned with 2nd grade standards and expectations.
Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow students to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
Collaborative Questioning
Students will read a teacher selected, standards-based science or history text. Students will then develop questions based on Costa’s levels of questioning to encourage collaborative discussion of the reading.
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
De and Con Notations
Students work collaboratively to create the denotations and connotations of words.
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Discovering Adjectives
Students will work in groups to describe various objects based on taste, smell, look, touch, and emotional feeling.
Explain Those Idioms
Students will recognize idioms for their actual as well as realized meaning.
Extra, Extra, Read All About It
Students will read an article from a newspaper, magazine, or other similar content, identify main idea, and create a headline for the story.
Fable Lesson: What is a Fable?
In this fable lesson, students will use Internet sources, graphic organizers and group activities to analyze and discuss the characteristics and story lines of two different fables, "The Owl and The Grasshopper" and "The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse." After students read and brainstorm story elements of the folktales, they will then write a fable of their own.
Fairy Tale
This lesson is great for students who have already been introduced to the concept of "real" and "make-believe" characters. The lesson take students through the elements that make up a fairy tale.
Good Deeds
This lesson is designed to help students explore the importance of being kind and doing good deeds for others, by understanding that “A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small.”
Hiding Homophones
This lesson offers a simple introduction or refresher course in homophones, words that are pronounced the same, but spell and mean differently. Students will create a visual reminder of some of the more common homophones.
How to Take Care of Our Oceans
This lesson is designed to teach students how and why it is important to take care of our ocean environments.
Hyperbole and Paradox
Using Internet resources the students find definitions and examples of hyperboles and paradox, and then create their own to share with peers, and identify their use in a current reading selection.
Learning About Adjectives
Students will be able to name adjectives by describing their favorite characters from the teacher’s story and their own favorite stories.
Main Idea
This lesson is designed to help students' comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level Appropriate Text.
Main Idea and Details
This lesson is designed to teach students to use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Moody Reading: Reading with Expression
This lesson will be used to help students understand how to read with expression by choosing an expression to read with regardless of what is written.
Nothing but the Truth
This lesson will allow students to practice reading out loud and determining how point of view affects the action of a story.
Parts of Speech BINGO
Students will recognize and identify basic parts of speech: preposition, noun, verb, adjective through a simple game.
Present Perfect Tense
Students will be able to explain clearly the rules on the present perfect tense of verbs as differentiated from the simple present and past tenses.
Rainbow Fish
This lesson is designed to teach students understand the importance of being a good friend through literature and art activities.
Reducing Every Day Plastic Use
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
Rhyme Time
This lesson will introduce or reinforce word families and rhymes for young children and/or struggling readers.
Rhyming Words
A very fun and engaging rhyming lesson for kindergarten students on rhyming words. Students will have the opportunity to work as a class, with partners, and individually. This lesson comes with modifications and ongoing suggestions for students who might need further assistance.
Short Stories
This lesson is designed to help students ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text.
Speed Persuading
The students will use the art of communication to quickly persuade or convince their peers to change their minds on a variety of popular or unpopular opinions.
Stories Galore
Following the Common Core Standards for writing a narrative the students will collaborate and write six stories.
Story Sequencing
This lesson takes students through the process of sequencing a story using the words first, then, next, and last. The lesson provides opportunities for students to write, draw, listen, act, and speak. The lesson include individual work as well as group work.
Story Themes
This lesson is designed to help students understand “describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.” -CCSS
Tearing Into Vocabulary
This is a quick activity to allow students to work cooperatively while increasing awareness of vocabulary for a given lesson.
The Classroom Lottery
Based on the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the students will be participate in a similar mock classroom drama using a different scenario for the “choosing”, while writing answers to thought-provoking questions.
Theater in Action
Students will write and perform a scene from the story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
What Year Did That Happen?
Students will practice rewriting and summarizing paragraphs, paraphrasing the information, facts, and other details in a writing sample.
What is a Noun?
Students will be able to name nouns by telling about their favorite things, people, places or characters. The teacher can choose so many different areas of Grammar about nouns (e.g. Countable/ Uncountable; Proper/Common; Singular/Plural).
What is a Verb?
Students will be able to define and give examples of verbs by telling about how they celebrate their birthdays.
Writing Main Idea
This lesson is designed to help student’s organization and focus their grade appropriate writing.
Writing Narratives
In this lesson, students will use a graphic organizer for narrative writing.
Writing to a Photograph
Students will develop a plan for a fictional story based on a picture.
Subject Environmental Lesson Plans
Angles in Nature
Students will take a walk outside with their protractor and measure the angles in nature. They will record the angles that they find in branches, trees, bushes, flowers, etc… and then determine the supplementary angle.
Beach Day
This lesson will allow students to learn about the beach environment and experience working with sand.
Better Alternatives
The students, with a partner, will research the negative environmental impact of every day products and identify safer alternatives.
Biosphere
This lesson will allow students to create a self sustaining biosphere.
Bird Feeder Fun
Students will create an all natural bird feeder to hang near the school to feed birds during the various seasons.
Camouflage and Environment
Students will make butterflies of various colors and then they will experience the advantage that butterflies that are the same color as their environment have against predators.
Classroom Garden From Trash
Students will create several plants (a garden) from parts of a plant that are normally thrown away.
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Cost of Recycling
Each pair of students will trace 1 single recyclable product, from manufacturer to recycling center, examining costs of making the product and recycling it, answering the question: Is recycling worth it?
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Eco-Friendly Homes
The student will work in groups of three or four to design an eco-friendly home.
Environmental Impact Studies
Pairs of students will do an environmental impact study for local development near the school or another area.
Food Chain Tag
Students will learn a brief background about energy transfer between the sun, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. ½ of the students are primary consumers (plants) and ¼ of the students are primary consumers (rabbits) and ¼ of the students are secondary consumers (hawks).
Food Web Art Project
Students will discuss food webs and how animals interact together in an ocean biosphere and make a model of how animals get their energy from other animals and the sun.
Keeping Warm in Winter
Students will understand why animals store fat for the winter or colder months and how this affects how temperature is felt. How does the environment and our protection of it help this?
Ocean Pollution
Students will research ocean pollution and compare/contrast current data, hypotheses and other information and check for accuracy.
Ozone Layer
Students will think about how people affect the environment and what they can do to help it and prevent further damage.
Rainfall Gauge
This lesson will allow students to learn about the rain amounts in their area as well as offer a hands-on science experiment that could lead to discussions about the water cycle.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (In That Order)
Students will watch a video about reduce, reuse, and recycle and then complete a gallery walk to discuss ideas of other ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Save the World
This lesson is intended to motivate students to become environmental superheroes.
Two Sides of an Issue
A controversial issue, such as global warming, will be researched using the vast resources of the Internet. The students will research both sides, either supporting or disputing the facts, opinions, and other information.
Water, Water, Everywhere
The students will identify products that need water to be manufactured, and the amount needed for each product.
We Must Recycle
Students will use creativity to use something considered trash to create something new.
Window Garden
Students will plan, experiment, and observe as seeds grow in a window garden. Students will explore why this is important to the sustainability of our environment.
Words of the Environment
On day one, the students will list as many words as possible related to environmental science and on day two connect the meanings of each to real life situations based on research.
Subject Math Lesson Plans
Angles in Nature
Students will take a walk outside with their protractor and measure the angles in nature. They will record the angles that they find in branches, trees, bushes, flowers, etc… and then determine the supplementary angle.
Big and Small
A fun lesson to help students understand the concept of big and small and how to compare the two. The lesson involved hands-on activities to make the learning fun and engaging.
Box Geometry
Students will learn about using the formulas for the area of squares, rectangles, and triangles to determine how much paint and carpet to purchase for a room. In addition, they will learn about scale measurements.
Charity Begins at School
Pairs of students will design, plan, and create an imaginary fundraiser for a charitable organization.
Comparing Decimals Game
Students will play a game in which they choose cards and choose the best place to put the number they have chosen in order to get the highest answer possible. This should not be the first introduction to the topic.
Comparing Multiplication Facts (Hey Tocayo!)
Students will be assigned a number that has various factors and they will find partners with different factors that have the same product.
Counting Backwards (20-0)
Students will learn how to count backwards from 20-0 in a very fun and exciting way. The lesson includes a hands-on/interactive component where students will be asked to hop backwards while counting. This lesson is great for kindergarten through first grade.
Even or Odd Nature Walk
Students will do a nature walk to find things in nature that are grouped in pairs that are odd or even.
Exchanging Time
The lesson is used for students to practice basic time measurement, and understanding the basic units of time.
Feed the Gator
Students will compare numbers with three or more digits using visual cues.
Fractions, Decimals, Percents, & Graphs
This lesson is designed to explore fractions, decimals, percent’s, and graphs with TRIX cereal.
Fun Fraction Pizza
Students will create a “pizza” from construction paper divided into 8 slices. They will decorate each slice and then exchange slices with classmates and then evaluate the fractions of slices that they have at the end. For example, 1/8 slices of my own pizza, 4/8 or ½ of pizza that was made by a female, 2/8 or ¼ that was made by my buddy. Note: Students should have already had some lessons about simplification of fractions.
Graphing With Insects
This lesson is designed to teach students to draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Plus, solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems.
Ice Cream Cones, Baseballs, and Cans
Students will work in pairs to practice finding the volume of cones, cylinders, and spheres using everyday objects.
Interest-ing Math
Students will learn about simple interest and how to calculate the real cost of a loan, credit card, and other types of borrowing.
Measuring Length
This lesson is designed to teach students how to measure lengths indirectly and by alternating length units.
Measuring Up
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate knowledge of length as compared to other objects.
Natural Disaster Planning and Equations
For a natural disaster there are many variables to be accounted for when planning help for an area. This lesson will give students the opportunity to create a natural disaster plan for a part of their country.
Ocean Animals
This lesson is designed to help students identify and sort common words in basic categories.
Odd or Even
This engaging lesson will help students determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members.
Order of Operations
This lesson is designed to help students solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Prices and Percentages
Using a current list of prices for food and clothing, the students will practice math skills related to percentages.
Representing Addition and Subtraction
This lesson is designed to help students represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Roll the Dice - Probability & Statistics
Students will learn about probability and statistics while rolling dice and flipping a coin carefully recording their results.
Scale It Up
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate knowledge use of scale.
Shape Up
This lesson will allow students to demonstrate knowledge of various grade appropriate shapes.
Silent Geometry
The students will practice using geometry formulas measuring items in the classroom to find area and volume, radius and circumference, and identify the types of angles.
Skittles Graph
Students will learn to create a small bar graph using candy for information.
Sort It Out
Students will learn to categorize in various ways.
Symmetry Search
The students will locate manmade objects or things in nature that are symmetrical.
Take a Vacation
The students will plan a vacation for themselves, group of friends, or family, considering the costs involved.
The Ideal Town
Based on research the students will design a small town with a pre-determined population, assuring there is enough living space, parking spaces, and a sufficient water supply.
The Value of a Number
The students will work in groups of 4-6 physically learning and reviewing place value.
Subject P.E. Lesson Plans
Aces and Exercise
Using a deck of playing cards, the students will pick the number of reps for various exercises.
And Freeze!
Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class. Students will also work on balance and coordination.
Animal Laps
Combining information about the speed of animals, the students will run laps in the gym or outdoors.
Basketball Relay
Students will practice teamwork, dribbling, and shooting a basketball.
Bear Hunt Obstacle Course
This plan will combine reading with balance and coordination skills to allow students to navigate a simple obstacle course.
Boom Over Movement Game
Students will play a game in which they need to change direction quickly. Students are to pretend that they are on a sailboat that is in the middle of a storm. They will have to run and change direction based on verbal commands and duck quickly to avoid being hit by the imaginary boom.
Butterfly Stretches
This lesson is designed to help students learn the importance and reasons for exercise through multiple activities and discussions.
Coordination Course
This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical.
Food Chain Tag
Students will learn a brief background about energy transfer between the sun, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. ½ of the students are primary consumers (plants) and ¼ of the students are primary consumers (rabbits) and ¼ of the students are secondary consumers (hawks).
Multi-Ball Basketball
The student will participate in a game of basketball using various sizes of available balls.
Music Movement
The students will move to the music based on its beat, words, tune, and other variables.
On Top of Spaghetti
This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical.
PE Immigration
The students will research games and activities from other countries to share during a PE class.
Pass It Off
This lesson will allow students to practice passing, dribbling, and bouncing skills using basketballs
Plate Aerobics
Students will practice basic aerobics moves while trying to stay positioned on paper plates, this aids in coordination.
Race to the Answer
This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork, basic math skills, and get exercise through a relay race. Note: Problems/difficulty level can be altered by grade
Ride ‘Em Cowboy/girl
This lesson will allow students to practice gross motor skills.
Simon Says
Students will practice listening skills and basic physical concepts as required in physical education class.
Ski to the Finish Line
This plan will allow students to practice coordination while staying physical. Students will demonstrate moving straight, backwards, and in a zig-zag pattern.
The New PE Class
The students will create a PE activity to share and demonstrate to peers.
Trust Me
This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork and trust building, as well as working on directionality for younger students.
What Time is it FOX?
The students play a game where they practice different movements including jumping, galloping, skipping, running, jogging, leaping, and walking. Based on National Physical Education Standards, students should have been learning these skills for the last 4 years.
Subject Science Lesson Plans
All About Our Senses
Students will use their senses to try to identify common objects found in or around the classroom.
All About Pollination
This lesson is designed to help students develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
All About the Moon
This lesson is designed for help students understand the importance of the moon. Through multiple activities and demonstrations, students will learn the phases of the moon, what they look like, how it’s lit, and how long it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth.
Animal Habitats
Students will learn to create a small version of an animal habitat using object in the classroom and personal drawings.
Astronauts
This lesson is designed to help students understand the concept of outer space and astronauts. Through multiple activities and discussions, students will learn who astronauts are, where they go, and how they get there.
Better Alternatives
The students, with a partner, will research the negative environmental impact of every day products and identify safer alternatives.
Bird Feeder Fun
Students will create an all natural bird feeder to hang near the school to feed birds during the various seasons.
Camouflage and Environment
Students will make butterflies of various colors and then they will experience the advantage that butterflies that are the same color as their environment have against predators.
Chemical Eating
Using the Periodic Table of Elements the students will research ingredients listed on food product labels.
Classroom Garden From Trash
Students will create several plants (a garden) from parts of a plant that are normally thrown away.
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Cost of Recycling
Each pair of students will trace 1 single recyclable product, from manufacturer to recycling center, examining costs of making the product and recycling it, answering the question: Is recycling worth it?
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Eco-Friendly Homes
The student will work in groups of three or four to design an eco-friendly home.
Engineering Design
This lesson is designed to generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Environmental Impact Studies
Pairs of students will do an environmental impact study for local development near the school or another area.
Food Chain Tag
Students will learn a brief background about energy transfer between the sun, producers, primary consumers, and secondary consumers. ½ of the students are primary consumers (plants) and ¼ of the students are primary consumers (rabbits) and ¼ of the students are secondary consumers (hawks).
Food Web
Students will create a food web with a partner.
Food Web Art Project
Students will discuss food webs and how animals interact together in an ocean biosphere and make a model of how animals get their energy from other animals and the sun.
Keeping Warm in Winter
Students will understand why animals store fat for the winter or colder months and how this affects how temperature is felt. How does the environment and our protection of it help this?
Layers of the Earth
This lesson is designed to help students understand that the Earth has a layered structure.
Learning About Plants
This lesson is designed to teach students understand the elements of what a plant needs to grow, plus the maintenance involved for upkeep.
Learning About Sand
This lesson is designed to help student’s discover what sand look like, how it’s made, and how can we describe it.
Learning About The Sun
This lesson is designed for help students understand day and night; daily changes in the length and direction of shadows; and different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day, month, and year.
Learning About the Five Senses
This lesson is designed to help students “observe common objects by using the five senses, describe the properties of common objects, compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute, communicate observations orally and through drawings.
Mystery Boxes
Using different sized “mystery boxes” the students will attempt to guess the item inside each box.
Ocean Pollution
Students will research ocean pollution and compare/contrast current data, hypotheses and other information and check for accuracy.
Phases of the Moon
Students will create a foldable to help remember the phases of the moon.
Planets and Solar System
Students will create a mini poster with pictures and a ‘memory phrase’ to teach others the planets in order.
Reducing Every Day Plastic Use
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
Salt Water and Fresh Water
This lesson is designed to help students Communicate observations orally and through drawings.
Six Degrees of Science Separation
Using a list of terms from all fields of science, the students will connect them in six or less steps to a non-science term, explaining scientific relationships during the process.
Solar System
This lesson is designed to help students understand that “the orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles, cause observable patterns.
Thanksgiving Food Pyramid
Students will discuss the foods that are traditionally eaten at Thanksgiving in the United States and place them into food groups based on the food pyramid.
The Earth
This lesson is designed to help students understand Earth in relation to the Solar System. Through a series or activities and interactive teaching, students will learn that the orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles, cause observable patterns.
The Science of Verbs
The student will connect science to everyday, unusual, or rare actions carried out by people.
The United States of Matter
Observe various substances to recognize different characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases. The students will work in pairs.
Toothpick Structures
The students will create a structure which can hold as much as possible using only toothpicks and glue.
Two Sides of an Issue
A controversial issue, such as global warming, will be researched using the vast resources of the Internet. The students will research both sides, either supporting or disputing the facts, opinions, and other information.
Water, Water, Everywhere
The students will identify products that need water to be manufactured, and the amount needed for each product.
Weather In A Bottle
Students will discuss types of weather and create their own tornado in a bottle.
Window Garden
Students will plan, experiment, and observe as seeds grow in a window garden. Students will explore why this is important to the sustainability of our environment.
Words of the Environment
On day one, the students will list as many words as possible related to environmental science and on day two connect the meanings of each to real life situations based on research.
Subject Social Studies Lesson Plans
A City Saved by a Volcano
Students will learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy preserved two Roman towns.
A Day in the Life of a Roman Girl and Boy
Students will research the topic of daily life for children of ancient Rome.
A Return to Ancient Rome
Students will research and create a brief power point program about a landmark of Ancient Rome.
Changing History
Students will research a historical event, “change history” by asking a “What if…” question. The students will rewrite new information based on their research using the same era and people involved to realistically alter the outcome of the event(s).
Chinese New Year
This highly engaging Social Studies lesson on Chinese New Year is integrated with elements of performing arts (drama). This lesson is appropriate for students in K-3, as it can be easily modified.
Chinese New Year - Fan Dance
A hands-on lesson which integrates Social Studies concepts with performing arts (dance). Students will delve into customs of Chinese New Year by exploring traditional artifacts and dance.
Chinese New Year - Lion Dance
This lesson is great for grades K-2. It integrates Social Studies with elements of visual and performing arts as the children create a Chinese lion and a dance.
Christmas Around the World Part 1
This lesson combines Visual Arts with Social Studies. Students will read about how Christmas is celebrated in different parts of the world and draw a scene depicting that location.
Christmas Around the World Part 2
This lesson combines Music and Social Studies. Students will listen to and learn Christmas songs from around the world and analyze.
Comparing Countries
Students will research information on places in the world, outside their own country, compile the info and create a display to show the info compared to other countries.
Country to Country
Students will develop a timeline for events in their country and another country over the last 200 years and then compare/contrast the timelines to recognize possible relationships between the events in each country.
Exploring the West
The lesson will teach the students why there was an expansion to what is now the western half of the United States, as well as the displacement of Native Americans.
Friendship - Accepting Differences
This lesson on "Friendship" integrates Social Studies standards along with Music, Dance, and Visual Arts. The lesson focuses on "accepting differences" and is great for grades K-2.
Friendship - Conflict Resolution
This lesson on Friendship and Conflict Resolution integrates Social Studies content along with Visual and Performing Arts (Theater) content. A highly interactive lesson that is great for kindergartners as well as first graders.
History of Hanukkah
Students will read a passage about the history of Hanukkah and “talk to the text” to understand the story better. Students will answer questions individually and then with a partner to understand the text better.
Holiday Traditions
This lesson is designed to help students understand what holidays and festivals are important parts culture through multiple activities, discussions and research surrounding holidays.
It’s a Wonder – Filled World
Students will learn about the list of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World compiled by the ancient Greeks.
Kwanzaa Socratic Seminar
Students will discuss the cultural roots of Kwanzaa and analyze why the holiday has been brought to the United States.
Land and Water
This lesson is designed to help kindergarten students “distinguish between land and water on maps and globes”.
Mini Debates
Each student will be assigned, or may choose, an historical figure to research, selecting a speech given by the figure, and then write a rebuttal challenging some of its content backed by facts.
Music and History
Students will cooperatively research music from the past 5 or 10 decades and compare and contrast the lyrics with historical events/culture of the decade, answering the question: How does/did history affect music and lyrics?
President vs. President
Each student will research a past deceased president, review their life, speeches, quotes, term in office, etc., and use it to run for President versus another past President.
Rules and Laws
This lesson is designed to help students evaluate rules. It is important since not all rules are necessarily good or appropriate. Sometimes, school rules are arbitrarily imposed, other times they are arrived at as the result of consensus.
The Articles of Confederation
The students will research the “first rules” of the United States, the Articles of Confederation.
The History of Thanksgiving
Students will research the history of Thanksgiving based on the perspective of the Native Americans and the Pilgrims and then interview each other to learn about each story.
Truth and Consequence
This lesson is designed to help students understand the importance of telling the truth, through lessons from history.
We Must Recycle
Students will use creativity to use something considered trash to create something new.
What Year Did That Happen?
Students will research several historic events in history concentrating on the years they occurred and attempt to create pneumonic devices to help match the correct year to the event.
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