Figurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and...

Cultivate young performers while teaching them about helping one another with this interactive storytelling activity. Elementary schoolers read or listen to the story The Little Red Hen by Mike Lockett and then act out the story while...

Seventh graders assume the role of stockholders in a fictitious biotech company. After investigating the cloning of pets, the effects of cloning on the health and well being of the cloned animal, and the ethical issues involved, groups...

Students define common English idioms which they find in books and book excerpts. They use an idiom dictionary and constuct a database of five idioms along with meanings and sentences. They beam this information to classmates.

Students get to be creative in learning about baby animals. For this early childhood lesson plan, students develop fine motor, math, and science skills as they sing, read, and share about baby animals.

Students investigate animal behavior, examining the nervous system and the physiology of the brain and the fight or flight response. They simulate animal behaviors and discuss the difference between an instinct and a behavior.

Students practice identifying and writing the letter "a." They say a tongue twister and identify the words with short letter "a" sounds. They then listen to the teacher read "A Cat Nap" and identify the words that have the "a" sound. ...

Students research the idea of basic needs, study philanthropists in their community, and think about ways to help others receive basic needs. For this needs and philanthropy lesson, students brainstorm about basic needs. Students use...

Students practice sounding out and writing the letter a. They listen for the /a/ sound when reciting a tongue twister. They also listen to the teacher read Zac the Rat and raise an "apple" when they hear a word with an /a/ sound. They...

Sixth graders role play predators, prey and other parts of the aquatic ecosystem. They show inter and intra-specific competition as well as the link between abiotic and biotic components in an ecosystem. Students play games about the...

Seventh graders engage in a simulation that explains the feeding behavior of the piping plover and the things that disturb the feeding and nesting of this species.

Students master the formation and phonetic sound of the letter "d" in this lesson. They are introduced to the sound of the letter "d" and practice writing it to place in their individual alphabet books. The students listen to the book...