Teach about Rocks & Minerals with These Activities for Elementary Students
What does an avocado and a chocolate chip cookie have in common? They are ideal to teach students about rocks, minerals, and the layers of the earth …
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Teaching Children Table Manners
Table manners are best taught early and often. The rules should be explained clearly and reinforced daily. Nothing is more repulsive than a dinner …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan for Grades 3-5: How do People With Disabilities Function on a Daily Basis?
This lesson will further help students empathize with disabled people by helping them understand how it is they complete everyday actions.
Continue ReadingChinese Zodiac & Phases of the Moon: A Chinese New Year Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5
This lesson plan teaches students about the Chinese New Year and how moon phases dictate the first day of celebrations. The phases of the moon are …
Continue ReadingTraditions & Customs of the Chinese New Year Celebration: Upper Elementary Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will guide students in exploring the most celebrated Chinese holiday, the Chinese New Year. Students will learn about customs, …
Continue ReadingHelp With Teaching Guided Reading and Finding Leveled Books: A Review of Reading A to Z
Reading A to Z, a website for classroom teachers, remedial reading teachers, and tutors, provides leveled books and cheap resources for teaching …
Continue ReadingLiteracy Centers: Use a Flash Card Game as Sentence Builders in Your Literacy Center
Teaching students to read and write in literacy centers can be fun with picture flash cards of First Words. Use this literacy center to reinforce the …
Continue ReadingAcrostic Poem Lesson Plan for Younger Students
Have fun. Be creative. Write a poem. It’s all right here. Come take a look.
Continue ReadingGrade School Lesson Plan on Hibernation, Migration & Dormancy: Animals and Winter Plus Class Bird Feeder Project
What happens to animals in the winter? We all live inside with warm clothes, heat and food. What happens to the animals when it gets cold? Discuss …
Continue ReadingHoliday Traditions for Elementary School: 3 Lesson Plans That Explore Various Celebrations
In this holiday celebration series, students will explore their own family’s traditional holiday (winter) celebration. They will learn how the …
Continue ReadingTeaching Biology by Baking with Yeast Breads
Is it alive? Determining whether or not an object is alive is a basic concept in biology. Through a simple demonstration that involves proofing yeast, …
Continue ReadingAn Arts & Crafts Lesson on the Beatitudes for Children
Living your life in a way that leads to true happiness is a lesson that the Beatitudes gives us. Teaching this concept and its meaning to children …
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