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Day 3: Jackson Pollack - Lines Convey Emotion - Character Education - Two GREAT Questions
- Hurricanes
- Dear ME
- Empowered Decision Making
- Empowered Decision Making
- Houses vs. Homes
- The Olympics
- Wants and Needs
- The Importance of Symbols
- Family Changes
- Wall St. Rookies
- College Campus Tour and Museum Trip
- Follow the Drinking Gourd
- Autograph Book
- Helping Others - Giving Tree
- Drama Class {Halloween night}
- The Most Dangerous Murder Trial
- Phenomenal Lesson for the Phenomenal Woman
- Folktales Around the World
- Creative Drama and Improvisation
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- Summer Safety Safari
- Learning how to cut out heart shapes
- Valentine's Day, lesson ideas
- "We're Just Like Crayons" by Stephen Fite is the centerpiece for this diversity lesson
- This is an idea to celebrate the end of the school year with a Juneteenth Presentation Celebration
- This "Ten Important Words" vocabulary building study strategy about Chinese Dynasties and achievements can be used in all subjects
- This gender issues unit and its topics of sexism, gender roles, rape, prostitution, sexual objectification in the media, and the effects of sexism on men was designed for a "Femininity & Masculinity -
- Use this suncatcher idea to add sparkle to your classroom or as a crafty fundraising idea on Parent Teacher Night
- This inspirational craft activity is part of a "Day Camp in Hawaii Unit" suitable for after-school, summer school, scouts or other youth groups
- Here students visually depict the duties of their career of choice using copyright safe images and Photo Story 3 software
- Students process "teen stress" here through blogging and by comparing their stressors to those of a literary character
- Making murals on bulletin board paper is a creative end-of-year filler idea
- Students use the Internet here to research the history of the Thanksgiving holiday
- "How to Get a First Job" is the topic of this mind-map poster creating lesson
- "The Cheap Crazy Doctor" is an acting dialog for ESL/EFL students to practice and act out
- This is an idea for an Easter science sensory table
- This is an end-of-year class Memory Book and poster contest idea
- Here's a lesson plan on Lightning Safety
- Lesson four is on Writing Memos
- Here's another version of the "Me Bags" idea for the First Day of School
- Students create PowerPoint Presentations on their Future Careers in this lesson
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- This Father's Day card idea begins with an origami shirt with an attached paper tie
- Here is an Itsy-Bitsy Spider approved lesson about diligence
- This lesson integrates Phonics with body language, spoken language, and written language
- Here's a Back To School activity to learn each others' Names to Music
- Called Curriculum Night, this idea gets parents into the schools
- This Welcome Sack idea warmly presents back-to-school expectations to your students
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Day 5: The Power of Language - Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- This lesson idea is on Feelings and Solving Problems without Fighting
- Students develop a story using Photo Story 3 here to demonstrate the application of multimedia in the classroom
- The last instructional lesson is on Persuasive Writing
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- This lesson is about E-Pal communication and the other Cultures that may be encountered through it
- This easy to implement character building program centers on two questions posed by Ben Franklin
- In this feelings demonstration, each student "hits" an apple; it still looks normal, but it is bruised inside
- Conjugate French ER verbs here with the help of Frere Jacques
- Here's an idea on Expression Through Art
- Conflict Resolution: Mediate, Don't Instigate
- An Environmentally-Practical Science Experiment that looks at Garbage and its speed of Breakdown
- In this lesson, students Compare & Contrast "The Mouse Before Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"
- Here is a well-developed lesson plan on Current Events and Diversity
- This is an introductory lesson on the New England States
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
- Students use the power of voice here to write an unsent letter about an injustice
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- An interesting lesson on Mexican Food
- A Christmas lesson on the Advent Calendar (also a Religion lesson)
- Simply called "Emoticons", this lesson addresses the smiley faces in email such as :)
- This is a clever Thanksgiving idea gets high schoolers to make an "I am Thankful" chart
- Students learn about different types of vitamins and how they function in the body
- Another lesson for teachers, this one is an Interactive Lesson on Listening
- Fabulously Faux: The Rockford Frescoes
- Put your students in the driver's seat with this 'Bus Driver' flashcard idea
- Here is an excellent classroom mapping lesson that is tailored for students with different abilities
- Here middle school special education students write a color metaphor poem using adjectives
- A Social Studies lesson involving Zoo Animals and some Math concepts
- This "Spaghetti Noodle" drawing exercise is a simple, but creative time filler
- This is a personal finance lesson on buying your first car
- This lesson on colonial times helps students find the "most important ideas" in a piece of expository text, not just the main one
- Students get totally involved in the moral lessons of Shelley's Frankenstein novel in this activity
- A lesson on Maps and Globes
- An Art lesson for making Playdough Christmas Ornaments
- Unit Intro: The documentary film "Ballou" follows a struggling inner city school band as it overcomes obstacles and uplifts its community on the way to a national competition
- This reading lesson uses the phonogram method
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- Day 1: Introduction to global warming, energy conservation and how rising temperatures affect us locally
- This is a lesson on "The 10 Things Anger Steals from YOU"
- An Experiment involving Melting Chocolate at different Temperatures
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- This one tries to help with Adult Reading Buddies
- Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks
- "Getting to Know You with Toilet Paper" is a really cute get-acquainted idea
- Students (Special Ed) write a creative non-fiction story about animals here while presenting facts and new materials
- This portion involves Making a Magnet
- Students learn how holding a political office effects change
- This idea for teaching Measurement involves students reading a recipe for "Zoo Food"
- A fun lesson plan on Classification using the Lost Button from "Frog and Toad Are Friends"
- This lesson is to teach students to Use a Map
- Here's an idea for making Father's Day T-Shirts
- A fun Graphing lesson to track the home runs of Big Mac and Slammin' Sammy
- This lesson plan focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
- Students Interview each other in this First Day of School idea
- This soft and hard vowels EFL lesson employs the yin/yang symbol
- This lesson deals exclusively with Martin Luther King
- Here's a good idea to get students to "Sing themselves into Group Time"
- Students plant a garden and/or fix up a community space for physical activity
- "Santa's Workshop" is a strategy game with red and green cones
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- This plan is for acquiring Study Skills and using Internet Resources
- A lesson on presidential campaigns
- Unit Materials and Resources
- A fun lesson on Web Page Design using the free Netscape Composer tool
- This part of the Magnetism Unit is on What Attracts
- "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
- Here we play a Rights vs. Responsibility game and make appropriate bookmarks
- TOPIC:Similiarities and Differences of Children's Lives in Japa
- A Reading lesson using The Cat in the Hat and the Phonogram method
- A lesson using the "Frog And Toad" series that helps with Emotions
- Welcome new students to your class with this take-home classmate book idea
- Here is a music lesson on feelings and mood
- This lesson gets into Graphics Elements
- This empowering lesson plan utilizes an economically-centered African American board game
- In this lesson, students develop a Family Budget using a Spreadsheet
- Asking and answering questions in Spanish is the focus of this foreign language lesson
- This is an idea to send Pocket Poems to our troops in times of war
- This idea called "What Is This?" is for developing class Bulletin Boards
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This lesson on English as a Second Language for ADULTS, involves shopping
- This is a graphic organizer that students use to research corporate companies and benefits
- The third lesson is on Elements of Sculpture and involves Designing a Glyph of a Jaguar
- This multi-sensory approach to spelling words is effective for ADHD and dyslexic students
- After reviewingYou are Special, students create and write about a "just like me" marionette
- This group poem building activity is designed for ESL/EFL students
- Empowered Decision Making
- This lesson will help your students appreciate diversity
- A lesson plan on Helping
- This one is on Letter Formats and Proofreading
- This human face drawing lesson provides generic drawing skills useful for learning in a variety of subjects
- This learning to whistle idea teaches the value of fortitude
- An activity which focuses on differences in Housing
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- This EFL lesson encourages children to critique cultural holidays and festivals
- A Place Value lesson in a Game format
- Students learn the benefits of green vegetables and the number of recommended servings
- Here is a simple idea to teach the proper spelling of the word R-H-Y-T-H-M
- To Smoke Or Not To Smoke
- This is one more reading lesson using a story map (circular story)
- This Psychology / Art lesson is on Rorschach Spots (Inkblots)
- Students will learn about gangs and the theory of groupthink
- This is a psychology lesson on levels and characteristics of mental retardation
- This St. Patrick's Day "Hunt for the Green" reinforces visual discrimination and concrete/abstract language reception
- This clever first day of school idea makes it easy to send student birthday cards
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- This first plan asks the question "What is a Community?"
- Here's a good filler idea called "Today in History"
- Here are some miscellaneous ideas for Family Involvement
- This first day of school "quiz" is a fun "getting to know you" and your expectations activity.
- Here's another large, well-developed unit; this one is on Erosion
- This lesson focuses on building hazardous waste awareness
- Here is a creating fun Holiday ideas for children lesson for students in child development/care classes
- This portion is called Science Discovery Days
- "The Great Melt Race," a well-developed 5E Science Teaching Model about melting ice, contains special directions for students with cochlear implants
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- This is an ESL agreeing and disagreeing game
- This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
- Venn diagrams are completed here comparing a Hispanic quinceañera with other rites of passage
- This family portrait time filler requires only yarn and stickers
- How can you make Soap Bubbles last longer? Find out with this Experiment
- Here children create a Kidspiration picture web about internet safety (Special Ed - K-5)
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Students learn about Memorial Day here while using crumpling skills to create an appropriate flag decoration
- A lesson plan for mapping out communities
- Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
- People-Search Bingo is a well-developed getting-acquainted idea
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- A brief idea on Sight for 12-18 month old toddlers
- Another Soap Experiment - this one on what makes Soap Slide
- Students play "Hot Potato" with a tempo and beat in this filler activity idea
- A Good Back-to-School Idea: Me Bags (An Alternate Version)
- This Harry PotterCatch the Snitchguessing game is a cute filler idea
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- This critical thinking lesson teaches readers to "question the author" for deeper understanding
- A brief idea on Smell for 12-18 month old toddlers
- A lesson on the Ville Diagram neural activity
- Here is a review day or substitute teacher activity idea
- Students of all ages can kinesthetically demonstrate their understanding of themes here
- This is a global warming lesson disguised as a measurement conversion worksheet
- This thematic unit for Kindergarten is on Transportation
- Puppets for parent night
- Here is a filler from a music teacher
- Here's an idea for making Christmas ornaments from dough
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- A fun first-day journal activity
- This Typing lesson makes use of the Tab key to create a Bingo board
- Your students can find out the most common month for birthdays in this experiment
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- Here is another arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
- Here's a game to Build Community and Enhance Self-Esteem
- "The Big 4 Clusters of Commonly Confused Words" makes a great first lesson for a Developmental English classes
- A lesson on Landforms and the Weathering of them
- Students will talk about safety in their own schools
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- This Personality Crown idea helps children get to know you and each other
- This idea solves the "who is the line leader" problem
- This Friday Shop-a-Thon idea rewards appropriate behavior while providing real-life applied math practice
- Do Plants Lose Water through their Leaves? Find out in this Experiment!
- Here is an idea for making Olympic torches with traced hand flames
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- A Cross-Curricular lesson plan for Reviewing material, based on the game Jeopardy
- This lesson is on AP Spanish Literature
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- Here are some songs appropriate for Back To School time
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- This is a Writing Lesson Plan called Memory Books
- This exercise teaches the anatomy of the eye, the usefulness of models in science, and critical thinking
- Students will discuss the role of citizens in a democracy
- This is a Cherokee Tale of Good and Evil - Which one will win?
- Here are "Ten Rules for Back-to-School Success"
- In this college readiness lesson, students investigate characteristics universities, internships and scholarship organizations seek in an applicant; create a short photo story illustrating their quali
- This German "Schultuete" idea gives a cultural upgrade to the first day of school "Me Bag"
- Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
- This Native American lesson uses "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"
- This jigsaw puzzle game helps students memorize "The Star-Spangled Banner" and other songs
- Day 6: Students compare U.S. energy use to that of other count
- This is a career guidance lesson on how to interpret EXPLORE test results
- A lesson on addition and subtraction using calculators
- Here's a detailed Christmas mural idea the entire class will enjoy making
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- In this multi-grade Photo Story 3 lesson, students storyboard and present a report on their hero
- This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
- Students learn about the system of representation in a democracy
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- This Experiment looks at Cars, Ramps, and the Ramp's affect on the Car's Energy
- Here students create a web of compliments
- This is a brief idea on Crime and Punishment and why Laws are necessary
- This is a music rhythm filler activity
- Here's an idea that includes steps to get Kids Solving their own Problems
- Valentine Poem Cards are created here from candy conversation heart sayings
- After watching the State of the Union address, seniors write a "State of My Union" speech here
- A brief idea on Hearing for 12-18 month old toddlers
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- SMART Goals, Resumes and Cover Letters
- Your students will find out what happens when Seeds Sprout with this Experiment
- Day 4: Students examine their own energy consumption and conservation
- A lesson on Decision Making
- This idea is to help students learn their way around the School on their First Day
- "Summer in a Can" is a vacation show-and-tell activity
- This teacher welcomes students with a Jeopardy game with categories like staff, subjects, supplies, etc.
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- This reading homework bookmark idea encourages parental involvement
- Students will Map a trip to a National Park in this lesson
- This is the introduction to the Technical Writing Unit
- Students gain practical experience using Photo Story 3 here by creating a digital campus tour for visitors
- This lesson is on concrete (for an Architecture theme) and involves making a Footprint Stepping Stone
- A Lesson on Rainbows, their History, and their history
- Here are ten facts everyone should know about the exciting "Instant Everything" generation
- This is a Mardi Gras/Pancake Day celebration idea
- "Quilt 4 America" is the title of this idea for Coping with Terrorism
- Part two is on Writing Structure
- An Art lesson plan on Impressionism and Claude Monet
- The last section Makes and Uses a Compass
- This First Day of School lesson focuses on Boosting Self-Esteem
- In this lesson students learn where their name comes from
- The concepts of general vs. specific are taught in this listening skills game
- This lesson looks at what makes us Special
- Ballou High School Movie Unit - Lesson Plan II
- ESL student's write a letter to a book character in this lesson
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Here children make a shopping list, fill a crockpot, and learn to pour "Stone Soup"
- Students create a 30-second photo story commercial for their personal hero in this hero vs. hero worship lesson
- Here is a science and math lesson on volume (uses pumpkins)
- This is a reading comprehension lesson for Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- "Better Paragraphs Using Math Formulas" is an 8-day paragraph teaching plan for students of all ability levels.
- In this idea students write letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end
- Here are a couple of ideas for Green Foods to use on St. Patrick's Day
- Acting Out
- Lesson 1 involves looking at and talking about Mesoamerica and their Glyphs
- Spanish Language Songs to Improve Listening Comprehension in Spanish
- Students will learn about the principal of diffusion of responsibility and techniques that can help them if they are ever a victim of violence
- Here are more clusters of commonly confused words
- In this Experiment students make a Model of an Atom with a Walnut Shell
- Pumpkin Math Riddle
- This is an advanced lesson plan on undertanding SQL Databases
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
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School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 7: Conversations and Arguments with Lines - This classroom behavior modification idea was inpired by the movie "Groundhog's Day"
- This lesson is on instruments, sounds, and compositions and uses the Internet
- Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
- This is a cooperative learning language arts lesson plan on poetry
- Lesson 2 focuses on the Symbolic Meaning of Glyphs
- This sentence building lesson uses who, what, where, and when
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- A good idea looking at Jobs in a Community with real situations in class
- Mardi Gras is celebrated here with masks, a parade, and King Cake
- Your students will love these great online research filler projects at the especially at the end of the school year
- This great International Pen Pal idea helps students combat terrorism in a significant way
- A lesson on Native American Pottery and Culture
- Although not a lesson plan, this collection of Halloween Songs are great for teaching Halloween Safety
- Improve Listening Comprehension with Music
- Categorizing Elements and Reading the Periodic Table are the topics of this lesson
- In this middle school special education lesson, students combine sentences without using conjunctions
- A lesson plan on Transportation
- "Talking Behind Your Back" is a positive and fun end-of-year activity idea
- This one focuses on Saving a National Park
- Puzzle pieces are utilized in this idea for picking partners
- This is a lesson on careers involving the respiratory system
- This book and game teaches the difference between "tattling" and "reporting"
- The last lesson addresses the Interviewing of Elders to learn about their life in the community
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
- This fundraising idea involves publishing student poetry on a calendar
- This lesson idea focuses on what it means to be an American (or Canadian, etc.)
- Here students collaboratively write a "Creative Book" in this filler idea
- Olympic Opening Ceremonies
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- Students write their names with their feet in this name-learning activity
- Students draft a classroom Bill of Rights in this lesson
- This is an idea for all subjects and grades called "Bellwork"
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- Here is a review idea involving bean bags and a felt board
- This lesson involves using phone calls to learn musical notes
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- This kinesthetic method for teaching novels uses Shelley's "Frankenstein" as a model
- This is a lesson to teach students how to use the Microsoft PowerPoint program
- This lesson is called "Adjective and Adverb Taboo"
- A Science Experiment on making a Roller Coaster
- A Social Studies lesson on geography involving Mexico
- "Chessays" are a collection of chess-related essay ideas especially useful when teaching creative writing, British literature or medieval history units
- Creating a family or personal crest is a good way to discuss family values or to learn about classmates
- "El Supermercado" is a Spanish lesson plan that also teaches about Spanish foods and shopping
- Here is a very interesting creating art on computers lesson
- This idea is for creating a Snowman Picture Christmas Ornament
- In this St. Patrick's Day Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey type game, students count and learn directional words while "Filling Our Pot of Gold"
- Here's an overview of the activities for Family Involvement
- This lesson on Oil Spills focuses on Writing a Letter to a Senator
- Do Something about... Teen Voting/Civic Engagement
- Students learn about social capital and how to use networking for civic action
- This part is for developing a "Family Command Post"
- A lesson plan on Immigration and tracing one's Lineage
- Make a class puzzle
- Parents and high school students learn their rights and responsibilities during a police "Stop and Frisk" encounter
- "Vocabulary Puzzle" is the title of this lesson on prefixes
- Here's an idea on using Strategies to Solve Problems
- This Self Esteem Discussion idea uses the book "I Like Me"
- This idea connects you with your students before school even starts
- In this Hanukkah idea, children count and identify the color of menorah candles
- This end-of-year activity produces next year's bulletin board
- This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
- A lesson idea called "Lovely Rivers" which uses songs about with Rivers
- This is an article about the amount of physical activity in today's PE Classes
- The "Freeze, Pair and Share" strategy is practiced here for note value, addition, etc.
- Lesson seven is on Report Writing
- Lesson One
- An idea for a lesson on Spatial Reasoning and Directions using human "mazes"
- Pre-K and Special Ed students learn to count from 1 to 10 here with the help of a Gummi Bear book and other manipulatives
- This inspirational lesson about student activism in WWII can serve as a catalyst for student activism today
- This is a Science Experiment - How many pennies can be added to a full glass of water?
- Here's an idea for creating a Bill of Rights Mural
- This "Getting To Know You" activity idea is good for the First Day of School
- Students write a research paper here supporting their solution to an unsolved "48 Hours" TV show crime
- Find out here how healthy fast food really is
- A similar lesson on decision making with Opportunity Cost
- These context clues paragraphs show students the cause and effect of good or poor grades
- This lesson is on Theater and Set Design
- This Pen Pal letter lesson is on Paragraphs and Grammar
- Here is a little musical introduction song game idea
- "Thrown a Curve" is a reading comprehension lesson on a book about girls' sports and pre-teen relationships
- This one involves Acting out Historical Events
- The "beings" created here remind students how they want to feel in the classroom
- Here's a brief lesson to help students learn to write their names, using yarn
- "I'm a Little Cupid" is the centerpiece of this Valentine's Day musical activity
- This lesson is about Generation Y and revolutionary change
- Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
- In this idea, students collectively write Edgar Allen Poe inspired scary stories
- This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins Go To School"
- A nice Thanksgiving lesson plan encouraging us to be thankful for what we have
- Here's a collection of the letters to send to parents regarding the family involvement activities
- This reading comprehension story lesson tackles the topic of teen sexual harassment and sexual assault
- A lesson on Survival when Stranded
- Lesson Three
- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- "Friendship Flowers" teaches about friendship!
- Here students use Excel worksheets to create a personal budget
- This is an activity to build self-esteem in teens
- This is a "Best Part of the Year Was..." charades idea
- A Geography lesson for learning about the continents
- Do Something about... Eating Healthy - Day 3: Nutritious Choices
- Information about The International Acts of Kindness Day (IAKD)
- This Science Experiment looks at what conditions cause Mold to Grow fastest on Bread
- Here is a version of the classic Follow Directions Quiz. Apply it to any subject, especially math
- Right and Left Memory Skills are the topic on this plan
- An Experiment that looks at the Density of Hot Air versus Cold Air
- An Experiment involving Cartesian Divers
- This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
- This is an idea for a class "Acts of Kindness" show-and-tell collage
- This game idea is for Building up Vocabulary
- This is a suffix/prefix dice spelling aid idea
- Narrative Rationale
- This idea uses a video to introduce the rules and the teacher on the first day of school
- This is an ELL appropriate SMARTboard lesson on using comparatives to describe weather from day to day
- This is an idea for growing shamrocks
- This "All About ME" box idea comes with a secret note inside
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Keith Haring Figures Part III
- The book "Awakenings" is used in this lesson on vocabulary, critical thinking, predicting, and writing
- In this idea, students are motivated to write accurate directions using landmarks and distances
- Here students are taught to use symbols when taking Social Studies notes
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- This plan is on tornadoes and makes use of the Internet
- This helpful "Note to Art Teaching Assistants" contains a great clean-up song
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- Although not a lesson plan, this High Frequency Word List can be helpful in First grade
- Students create artwork based on their knowledge of line, shape, color, words and emotion
- The book "Rosie's Walk" is used here to teach basic spatial awareness vocabulary to speech and language impaired children
- Here's a good back-to-school lesson involving the evaluation of poems
- Youth and the Civil Rights Movement
- In Lesson 4, students Carve a Glyph on Sandstone
- This one is for creating a Personal Timeline
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here is a dramatic play plan for law enforcement activity centers
- Attitudes-Based Learning is a program that fosters positive attitude and character
- This is a fun idea for introducing school staff to students
- This is a Valentine's game idea called "Hide The Heart"
- This presentation on recognizing and responding to bullying involves skits and role-playing
- Do Something about... School Violence Art Curricula Unit Day 4: Shapes and Composition with Goya & Picasso
- Making a Birthday Bar Graph is an engaging beginning-of-the-year math idea
- This brief lesson idea covers Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Checks and Balances
- Although not a lesson plan, this "Eternal Flame" song may be helpful in dealing with terrorism
- Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer
- This lesson is on Understanding the concept of Empathy and may be helpful in Handling Terrorism
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- - Do Something about... School Violence Unit
Day 1: Bullying - Here students write personal mission statements
- This lesson plan focuses on Women in American History
- This Foreign Language lesson plan involves students looking forward to the future and writing about their past in an "Internet Encyclopedia" entry
- Here is a music lesson plan using games
- Day 3: Students learn about the potential consequences of global warming
- This "All About Me" homework results in a parental picture display
- This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- In this classroom mapping activity, students match classroom photos to a classroom map
- This lesson is on Computer Diagnosis and aids in learning computer basics
- ReadingWhen I was young in the Mountainsinspires this Mother's Day Card idea
- This end-of-school classroom scrapbook idea uses digital photos, poems, and quotes
- This fun scavenger hunt idea takes place on a computer with any good reference CD-ROM
- Titled "Personal Text," students write their own Social Studies Textbooks as they learn in this lesson
- This classroom management game encourages kids to have a "monopoly" on great behavior
- This one deals with Communities of the Past
- Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the paper mache maracas crafted in this art and music project
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
- Two recipes that are useful in Science for exploring substances like Flubber
- A Coping with Terrorism lesson idea on Bravery and Dealing with Fear
- This idea rewards students with a Read-In Day or Game Day
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- Business Letters are the subject of lesson five
- This is an in-depth lesson on the Five Senses
- This is a lesson on surviving a job interview
- This is an outline for an integrated Medical Careers Unit
- A beginning of school musical name plate activity can help students learn each others' names
- This is a fun getting acquainted activity using straws
- Here's a generic Pre-K lesson plan template
- Students will learn about diffusion of responsibility and discuss how they should play a role in protecting others
- Here is a "Mighty Mike - Brilliant Brianna - Talented Tamika" name learning game with adjectives idea
- This idea involves Learning to Dress with Song
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- This five-day unit helps teens find, get and keep a job
- Here's another article, this one on "Improving Physical Education"
- This lesson is for visualization of rhythm
- This idea is called Pepsi Bear and builds Confidence, Speaking, and Listening Skills
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Students create long-term "Goal Clocks" in this lesson
- This is an excellent webquest on preventing and dealing with street teen gangs
- Here's an idea for Researching the Human Body
- This one involves celebrating different cultures' holidays
- This day care activity is called "A Camping We Will Go"
- Here is an activity lesson on the various ways people communicate
- A lesson plan that looks at how Sound Travels Through Objects
- This idea suggests Mother's Day interviews
- This is an excellent 5-day literary analysis of Shakespeare'sKing Learfor AP classes
- Can a Plant grow from nothing but the top of a Carrot? Find out with this Experiment
- Guess the Shamrock is a spelling game idea
- This well-developed vocabulary memory game is useful in any subject
- These are the basic skills of ice skating
- This idea is on "Radio Stars" and involves the students Acting as Radio Personalities
- Card Yahtzee is a team building probability game with human cards
- A Geometry lesson called Building a Model of a Dream Home
- Here is another lesson on volume
- Here's an idea for a Holiday Calendar to countdown to Christmas (or other events)
- This bulletin board idea results in a cornucopia of produce related similes and metaphors
- Does Sound Travel through Walls? Find out with this Experiment
- This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
- This is a short instruction on Debriefing students on a Crisis
- An idea for posting a Daily Graph on the board
- This is a brief idea for creating an Olympic Windsock
- Collection of activities to teach about Native Americans
- A Language Arts lesson on Research
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- "One Million Bones" is a collaborative art project to call attention to the atrocities of genocide and mass violence
- This "Get to know ME" test introduces you to your class in a clever way
- We finish the unit with this Assessment Plan
- This is a quick lining up song idea
- Do Something about... Teen Voting/Civic Engagement
- Here ESL students learn to form questions while learning information about their teacher
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and Presentations in this lesson
- This first day of school idea usesMiss Nelson is Missingto teach classroom rules and well as language arts.
- This experiment attempts to discover what time people are most alert
- A Mayflower Compact PowerPoint is used here to explain freedom and the necessity of laws and law enforcement in a community
- "Please Don't!" is the name of the teen suicide prevention photo stories resulting from this valuable lesson
- Here students introduce themselves via a 9-square construction paper ME Quilt
- Using Photo Story 3 software, students create a family tree presentation here
- This lesson plan is called "Looking For Newton" and integrates the Internet
- This lesson is on germs and cleanliness
- Creating a class birthday quilt from old cards brings the class together, teaches patterns, and how to tie
- Students share family traditions and culture with their class in this activity
- This 5 Step Writing Program is aimed at Building Confidence
- This "Personality Sack" idea presents the student to his classmates
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- Day 8: Students discuss pros/cons of renewable energy
- A lesson plan on the World Continents
- A brief idea on Touch for 12-18 month old toddlers
- This lesson on adjectives can be adapted to all ages
- In this lesson, "Little No Speak" helps young students cope with anxiety
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- Here's a Class Management idea for Calming students with ADHD
- "Oy! Hanukkah!" is a great collection of Chanukah resources and ideas
- This is a fun true/false introduction activity for the first day of school
- A classroom map hunt is a great way to acquaint students with the classroom and its procedures
- Here's an interesting idea for making a class valentine wreath
- Here's an idea for Quilting "Squares of Hope" to help Cope with Terrorism Acts
- Here are administrative, motion, and emotional rules for physical education classes K-12
- This marching in time lesson also teaches left-right, left-right...
- In this well-developed Pre-K/Special Ed fish pond lesson four and one-half fish are counted
- Here is an Evaluation section for the unit
- Students will learn about how to find inner strength and cope with bullying
- Here's a brief Thanksgiving Poem good for ending a Thanksgiving Presentation
- This idea uses a calming and personal approach to teach parts of the body, colors, shapes, and listening
- "Lessons from the Street" is an introduction to drug education activity
- This Consumer Education lesson is on buying a car
- This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul
- Four great Social Studies lessons for teaching about Costa Rica
- This lesson on violence involves creating memorials for September 11th through poems & painting
- This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh's Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)
- Here is a lesson on how to use PowerPoint
- This idea is to be used as an Introduction to Animals and involves Role Playing
- Here is an art lesson on aboriginal art in Australia
- Students make a bulletin board picture quilt of "thankful for" things here after creating a graphic organizer and hearing Thanksgiving poems
- Day 9: Students debate the pros/cons of government involvement in energy conservation
- This is a dialing 911 lesson
- Day 2: Students learn about greenhouse gases and the power of language
- Students demonstrate the importance of ergonomics in the workplace by creating a digital photo story here
- This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
- "How to make Fake Warts" might make a great Halloween lesson
- Preparing and Paying for Higher Education and the College Lifestyle
- Here's one on Spider Webs
- Can a paper clip float in air? That's answered by this Science Experiment
- This lesson on anger uses the book "When Sophia Gets Angry
- A Language Arts lesson on creating a Rain Forest
- Here's an idea to make collage snow people as seen in Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs"
- A great idea for back to school: Back to School Puzzles
- Table of Contents
- A Class Management technique for getting students to Line Up appropriately and also teach the Staff
- This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the significance of Martin Luther King Day and the civil rights movement
- Here's a Halloween lesson on Mapping called "Halloween Hunt"
- This Thanksgiving Bulletin Board idea uses "Turkey Handprints"
- "Name Game with a Beat" is a musical version of a previous name learning activity
- This mystery box activity gets kids excited about learning new things
- Students Predict the number of Sections in Citrus Fruit in this Experiment
- A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
- Ceiling tile masterpieces are created in this lesson
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- This "Meet the Teacher Day" scavenger hunt and self-portrait activity results in a class quilt.
- In this lesson, students use verbal cues to visualize and record a picture in their mind
- A lesson on the advantages and disadvantages of the Civil War
- This is a brief "Welcome To School" activity idea
- Here is a math problem solving lesson involving shopping
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- In this multidisciplinary lesson, students use K'NEX to Design and Build a Bridge
- Here's a filler idea for Music called "Freeze Dance"
- This is a lesson on Punctuation, Conclusions, and Inferences
- In this unique lesson students compare Online Reading with Traditional Books
- "Electronic Pizza" is a computer and art program that uses MS Paint
- One more Social Studies lesson on Costa Rica
- And then we have "10 Educational Ownership Discussion Topics" to insure a student's new school year success
- An interesting idea for a Web Wall Bulletin Board where students interactively share website ideas
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- This coping with terrorism idea involves making song "puzzles" out of the words from patriotic songs
- This Experiment determines how Detergent Changes how Water Acts
- This is a conversation heart ratio graphing activity
- A lesson plan for comparing communities
- Here a tower of blocks game creatively facilitates a variety of language arts applications
- This is a health lesson on Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- This one focuses on Obtaining Information through an Interview
- Do Something about... Teen Voting/Civic Engagement
- Here are some Reading and Writing ideas collectively called "The Hat Connection"
- Tobacco/Smoking
- Students evaluate their own activity levels and plan ways to add more movement into their lives
- Your students can find out Why Hot Air Balloons Float with this Experiment
- Students learn the differences in people's diets from around the world
- Here is a great painting with sand art lesson for all ages
- This is a very interesting multidisciplinary lesson on changes in matter with chocolate
- Another Language Arts lesson on rain forests
- In this hi-tech lesson, ESL learners create a video in English about Chinese culture
- Beautiful Beautiful Deeds
- 2 well-developed lessons on Animals in Asia and Africa
- After readingThe Borrowed Hanukkah Latkesby Linda Glaser, why not make some?
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- A Geography lesson on current events
- Here's a lesson idea for building Last Name Recognition in young students
- Here's a fun game idea called "Pin the Explorer on the Continent"
- A Music lesson to help teach memorization
- This football flashcard scoring game can be used by any subject
- Stellaluna teaches school citizenship in this lesson
- Here lucky students find four-leaf clovers amid the 3-leaf shamrocks
- Here's a great, in-depth lesson plan on the Civil War
- Here is a having fun with dance pictures art idea
- Here's an idea to make Valentine Kisses from krispy cereal and tin foil
- This is a brief Reading and Writing idea on Commercials
- Here's an in-depth lesson on the pH Scale!
- Day 7: Students explore different types of renewable energy sources
- Teachers create personal Photo Story 3 narratives here to use as an icebreaker or model
- This one involves Computer Spreadsheets and Probability
- Day 5: Students learn how schools can participate in energy conservation
- Here's a similar lesson plan on Tornadoes that also uses computers
- In this unique idea, students describe their classmates in positive math or scientific terms
- This team-building game may be applied to English as well as other classes
- "We're Going Collecting" is an ESL vocabulary collecting game
- Michelangelo and his painting of the Sistine Chapel are the subject of this lesson
- Here is an experiment on "Expanding Ice"
- Do Something about...
School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 13: Safe Carriers Part II - Here students assess their school in comparison to Ballou High school and then send letters proposing improvements
- This "Guess What I did on my Summer Vacation" drawing idea is a great first-day icebreaker
- Here are some tips for improving Classroom Behavior
- Students learn about the New Food Pyramid and how to evaluate their Body Mass Index
- "Christmas Shopping at Harrods" is a problem-solving lesson involving monetary conversions
- A good first day of school idea for gathering Students' Birthdays and teaching Bar Graphs too
- IMAGINATION COUNTRY: Creating a map
- Safe Carriers Part I - Students use modern packaging materials to create a safe place
- This Music lesson is on proper Posture
- "Silent ball" is a fun physical and educational game for math or any subject
- This is a resume writing for teens lesson
- This song idea helps with taking roll and learning classmate's names
- This lesson teaches students to follow the directions of a dichotomous key while naming "Wacky People"
- This first lesson discusses how to do an Interview
- This lesson idea is on Notices and Signs
- A great interior-design project for high-school classes
- After this activity, students will be able to recite the names of their classmates in rhythm
- This lesson is called Our Town and involves Imaginary Maps
- This Experiment looks at the affect of Temperature and Gravity on Seed Germination
- In this lesson on "Flowers For Algernon" students learn to Identify with a Character - Charlie
- A well-developed lesson on Convex and Concave lenses
- Here's a brief idea to teach about the People Next Door
- This is an original poem to teach children to safely cross a street
- This is an empowering Self Control Quiz for teens
- Students create their own Cupcake Easter baskets here
- In this lesson, students can Build a Car (an Index Card Car)
- Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
- The Keeping Quilt story is used in this idea called Quilts of Many Colors
- Students become familiar with the special characteristics of their classmates with this beginning-of-school idea
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- References and Additional Resources
- Children (Special Ed) learn rain concepts here by making a rain cloud out of construction paper and yarn
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- Start the first week of school off right with this fun idea
- "Always Leave on a Good Note" is a confidence building idea for children
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- A Game on States and Regions
- The last lesson involves completing the Glyph Carving
- This multiple intelligence scavenger hunt can help you form cooperative groups
- This end of the year idea involves creating a "Words of Wisdom" poster for next year's students
- "24 Gold Coins in a Day" is a time management message
- Student art illustrates a patriotic song in this holiday slide show idea
- This is the rubric for the preceding formula paragraph lesson plan
- Students will explore the differences and similarities of female and male violence
- This speech therapy lesson works on phonemic awareness, vocabulary and articulation skills
- This idea will have your students listening carefully to the musical "words" of Miles Davis
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson - using a Time Capsule to demonstrate students' learning
- This life skills lesson teaches basic auto maintenance
- "The Living Rope" is a powerful idea for visually showing kids the impact of their current choices on the rest of their life
- Here's a Science Experiment that asks "Can Water Travel Through Plant Stems?"
- A Memory Skills lesson to teach Right vs Left
- Squishy Ball Numeration incorporates counting, number identification and number writing
- This listening skills idea could be beneficial for blind children
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- In this lesson, special needs students practice counting by jumping squares
- Want to make a Rainbow? This Experiment tells you how.
- Here is a Social Studies lesson on campaigns in the classroom
- This Yummy Back-To-School Ice Breaker Involves M&Ms
- This activity idea is called "Let's Make a Farm" and students do just that
- This is a fun song or rap written for an 8th Grade graduation banquet
- This is good tutorial on using Photo Story 3 to create a memorable multimedia college entrance or scholarship presentation
- This Experiment looks at the affect of Temperature on the Speed of Molecules in Water
- This lesson answers the question "What are we going to be studying?" with props and a guessing game
- A collection of Geography activities for learning about the Mississippi River
- This is a unit on safe food preparation methods and procedures
- Students research how technological changes impact employment opportunities in the computer field in this Photo Story 3 lesson
- This lesson on grief counseling helps students who have experienced a loss understand feelings, anticipate emotional stages and seek support
- This lesson on Mountains involves Weather, Mountains, and their Animals
- Students present college and career exploration information here using Movie Maker software
- This is simply a song to use in your class for Flag Day, 4th of July, or other Patriotic times
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- This is an idea for a first day of middle school art class questionnaire
- Another lesson on Maps, this one using Grids
- This lesson idea is on Advertising and involves students Writing their own Ads
- This good behavior "money" idea solves the "I lost my pencil" problem
- Students develop their own Spelling and Grammar game boards in this lesson idea
- This game on various equations is called "Celebrity Heads"
- A detailed lesson plan on Government, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights
- "Role Playing for Empathy" teaches about other cultures and writing plays as well
- Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
- This lessons teaches how to use the Phone in an Emergency
- These acrostic classroom M-U-S-I-C-I-A-N rules, clap-pat-snap to a rap beat
- A Science lesson on Seeds
- Halloween invitations, envelopes, badges & stickers are created here with MS Word
- A Reading lesson focusing on sight words
- Great Idea! - turn a preposition lesson into an ESL service project
- Students write appreciation cards to their past and present teachers here and learn the importance of being thankful
- A brief idea on Taste for 12-18 month old toddlers
- Aerobics For Kids
- These songs are good to use at the end of the school year
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- Students use "Peace Poles" in this idea for Coping with Terrorism
- Be sure to tell your kids these "Ten Benefits of Homework
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- Here career exploration results in a PowerPoint including educational and job requirements, a mentor interview and possibly a job site tour
- Fire Safety is the subject of this lesson teaching Stop, Drop, and Roll
- This health lesson informs students about careers related to the respiratory, cardiovascular, and skeletal systems
- This end-of-year idea has students presenting their own awards to classmates
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- Safe Carriers Part III
- "Our Veterans Wall" is an idea that originated with "Dear Abbey"
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- This Computer lesson plan is for creating and using computer guides
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- This one is on Math and Mapping Skills, particularly for Florida (adaptable for other states)
- This language arts game is good for reviewing spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.
- Create a simple shoebox lid shadow box here with potpourri and craft stick flowers
- This lesson explores "The Color of We" with puppetry, poetry and paint-mixing
- Another Social Studies lesson plan for comparing communities using Venn Diagrams
- Singing this song turns lining-up into a joyful activity
- Students develop a basic understanding of Buddhism and its traditions in this lesson by compiling online research into a narrated photo story
- This blood bank research investigation idea lets science/health students apply classroom knowledge in a real world context
- Here students draw a picture of a world with trust and a world without it
- This is a scanned picture of what the 4" x 3" squares and grid should look like
- Students will launch an anti-bullying campaign in their school
- A brief idea for a Talk Show Skit on Alcohol and Tobacco
- Create artful fireworks with a little paint, glitter, and a plastic hammer
- This lesson is on asking higher level questions to improve reading comprehension
- A Social Studies game called Who Are They
- A Social Studies lesson on counting in Spanish
- WordArt and ClipArt are used in this get-acquainted filler activity idea
- An activity that focuses on Issues in the Newspapers
- This lesson idea is on the history of Santa Claus
- This lesson is on Building A Classroom Community
- Something different - a fun lesson idea on feet
- Day 10: Students present their energy conservation projects
- Students evaluate how they spend their time and how to include physical activity into their day
- This lesson idea organizes first day of school activities around the rules "be kind, be safe, and be your best"
- Puppet Role Playing/Substance Use and Abuse
- This Experiment determines whether Heavy or Light Objects Fall Faster
- "The Skin You're In" educates girls about eating disorders and how to have a positive body image
- This end-of-year beachball signing activity reminds students that "School was a BALL!"
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- Students earn about the strategies of unionizing and boycotting
- Learners use self-describing words as a structure in this "Art about Me" drawing idea
- Here are some ideas for Teachers and Students to Get To Know Each Other
- This lesson idea is on Ben Franklin's Virtues, and coming up with Virtues for the 21st Century
- Here's an outline of grading yips for teachers of all grade levels
- Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
- This is a good idea for writing poetry using the first lines of existing poems
- In this Secret Santa idea, acts of kindness are given instead of presents
- This lesson on Teeth focuses on the Care of, Growth, and Names of Teeth
- "Three Truths and a Fib" is a funny get-acquainted activity
- An Experiment that looks at how the Amount of Water in a Bottle affects Sound
- A great activity for first-of-year introductions
- This idea is called "Veterans In My Family" and is great for Veteran's Day or Memorial Day
- A Science lesson on Weather on the Internet
- Here's an idea for a first day of school "Class Puzzle" that shows each student's importance
- This Science Experiment looks at whether Fish can be Raised in a Bottle
- A brief lesson idea on Art using pastels for Weather
- This lesson plan is on the Members of a Community
- This is a good idea for a beginning of the school year review in any subject
- This lesson plan is on Cave Paintings and Historical Stereotypes
- Here is a nice idea for celebrating love for Valentine's Day
- Toddlers and preschoolers press their hands and feet into service for this patriotic flag activity
- The last plan involves Interviews of Members of a Community
- This is a model for a college persuasive essay based on a press conference question asked of President Obama
- This graphing lesson uses actual graphs found in newspapers and magazines
- This lesson idea is on Journeys and preparation for them
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- This Social Studies/Language Arts lesson plan is on the news and its themes
- This Experiment looks at the effects of a Dense Plant Population
- This is another version of the M&Ms; getting-acquainted activity
- This lesson is on Ancient Egypt and involves students creating a Slide Show Presentation
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
- This is a clothing vocabulary activity for ESL and Pre-K student
- Here are "10 Steps to Better Grades"
- The first lesson involves creating a National Park Brochure
- This novel lesson cleverly combines literary and personal character development concepts
- A good Writing lesson on Persuasive Arguments to deal with issues
- Here is a great election idea from a combined pre-school/after school care facility
- This George "W" Bush movie writing assignment taps issues of the presidency, invasion of privacy, international relations, etc.
- Cause and Effect are the topic of this lesson that uses "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
- This "Shape Ship" geometric art project also teaches the concepts of slide, turn, and flip
- This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology and is appropriate for special education students
- Do Something about...
School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 6: Tree of Decisions - This is a great no-nonsense presentation of "Art Classroom Rules"
- This is an idea for creating a funny "Classroom Do's and Don'ts" book
- Another Science Experiment - this one deals with the Density of Water with Salt or Sugar
- In this idea for Coping with Terrorism, students make a Flag from Sept. 11th Newspaper Clippings
- This is a well-developed "Deal or No Deal" unit review game idea
- This is another name learning activity
- Is it possible to force an opponent to Win Tic-Tac-Toe? Find out with this Experiment
- This lesson plan involves Resource Management on a Float Trip
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Here's a new ice breaker idea - have groups perform a commercial for a new use for an old object
- This lesson focuses on building Self-Esteem and exposure to other cultures
- Here students make and decorate holiday bells
- This All-About-Me Scrapbook contains pictures, symbols, journal entrys, interests, and expectations
- A Social Studies Activity on Bartering and Trade
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- "Don't Let Others Steal Your Day" is the message imparted here
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- This Experiment involves determining Hot or Cold by Touch
- A fun game idea called My Word! - helps to teach Vocabulary
- This is lesson idea is for teaching the names of the Fingers using "Where Is Thumbkin?"
- This great beginning-of-school idea lets students introduce themselves with a "Box of Me"
- This Experiment focuses on the Center of Gravity of objects
- This is a top-down approach for teaching irregular plural nouns to EFL students
- A Math lesson that takes advantage of the War Card Game
- This idea for Coping with Terrorism is called Peace Pledge and is also helpful for Flag Day
- A lesson plan on the Civil War, Slavery, and constructing a Freedom Quilt
- Parents will absolutely love this clever open house idea
- This classmate interview template is an interactive language arts activity and an ice-breaker
- Here is an idea for an open-house display
- Here is a good method for teaching comprehension skills
- This part continues with Report Writing
- In this lesson on Sharing, students will create a journal
- This is an Earth Day poem or song appropriate for parochial or Sunday schools
- This is just a fun game idea that can go along with Math or Spelling
- Students take on the roles of Loyalists and Patriots in this good lesson idea
- This is a transportation themed dramatic play activity centers plan
- Another French lesson idea, this one involving a French Weather Report and Dates
- This is a Christmas idea for Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men
- This lesson is called "Who's Who in Florida?" and involves Historical Figures from Florida
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- This is a lesson plan for teachers on Positive Discipline in the Classroom
- Here's a Project idea for making a Book into a Movie
- Kids love this end-of-year autographed pillowcase/t-shirt idea
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- A lesson on the Causes of Pollution
- "Scribble Music" is a great early year, break time or substitute plan
- Another Social Studies lesson on translating from Spanish to English
- This is a lesson to be taught to parents about the importance of childcare
- "Do You Hear What I Say?" is an exercise that builds listening and communication skills
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- This Experiment looks at whether Electricity can be made to do Work
- Here's a good lesson on self-esteem
- This lesson plan is on Society and Social Groups
- This is a spatial concepts, inferencing and retelling a story lesson for speech/language impaired students
- If your school hasn't made a flag on the fence with paper cups yet, you really should try this idea!
- Here is an end-of-year idea for returning students' work: Pringles Time Capsules
- Intervals, scales, and triads are the subjects of this lesson
- What do you get when you mix Borax with Glue? Find out in this Science Experiment
- Another Geography Lesson I wrote to teach latitude and longitude
- This lesson focuses on the Considerations of Planning a Trip
- This is a great card game for teaching vocabulary words to English, ESL, and foreign language students
- This idea involves taking "then and now" student pictures for a name learning aid and end-of-year gift
- Here is a holiday idea for all ages involving symbols, terminology, composition, and the pentatonic scale
- Here's a good Attention Getting idea called "Give Me Five!" (all Five Senses that is)
- A Community-Improving lesson which stresses that Hands Are For Helping
- This idea is to be used around Holidays for teaching ABCs and 123s
- This lesson on Calligraphy is called "Write Me A Picture!"
- Another Geography lesson on ideas and culture
- Here are "10 Ways to Prepare for YOUR success"
- This is a Process Analysis Pre-Writing Activity involving a Recipe for a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
- This lesson on prepositional phrases is called "Preposition Boogie"
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- A Social Studies game on continents
- Students research, create, and present a PowerPoint of the dance of a country and how it relates to its culture
- Here toddlers make an Easter basket from a juice bottle
- This lesson introduces students to the class recycling bin and its importance to their environment
- This book chapter teaches you how to measure your progress as you reach for your goals
- Here's an idea for keeping your Music students occupied while waiting in line - "Rhythm Telephone"
- A Social Studies lesson plan on using the compass
- This is a Valentine "Heart" and Seek game idea
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- Do Something about... School Violence Unit
Day 8: Zero Tolerance - In this math lesson, students learn how to save money at the grocery store with sales ads and coupons
- Another Social Studies lesson, this one on Egyptian Irrigation
- Here's a great idea for dealing with terrorism called "Links of Compassion"
- This is a successful and appreciated Adopt-A-Vet idea
- This Driver's Education lesson brainstorms causes for the breakdown of the highway system
- This classroom map lesson provides following directions practice
- Sociology and Social Change are the subject of this great lesson plan
- Here's a fun Jeopardy-style game idea for learning computer terms
- Ballou High School Movie Unit - Lesson Plan I
- Here "Sensitive Plants" are grown
- This is an "All About the Teacher" bilingual poster idea
- "Cowboys at Christmas" is a unique multi-activity lesson teaching us appreciation for the "big gifts" we often take for granted
- This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
- These PK-12 lesson plan ideas on emotions, expressions, and reactions yield altruistic activity in various subject areas and grades
- Here's a collection of 22 math lesson plans covering a wide variety of topics and grade levels
- Here's a Graphing idea for St. Patrick's Day using Lucky Charms Cereal
- A lesson plan on Observational Skills (when Travelling)
- This is another lesson plan on English as a Second Language for adults, that involves customs
- This lesson is on the need for Standards of Measure, Indirect Measurement, and More
- An excellent Art lesson for the first day of school called "My Favorite Things"
- This is an Overview of the unit with links to the other components
- Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
- This 5-day friendship lesson integrates character education, language arts, math, music and a craft activity
- This ELL article promotes proficient, independent and imaginative English writers by explicit teaching methods and four research based strategies
- Do Something about... Eating Healthy - Day 5: Super-size Me
- This is an idea for a shoebox fundraising parade to benefit hurricane victims
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- This lesson is on planning ahead and is called "What Do I Need?"
- This lesson focuses on the conservation of energy
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- A fun idea for an online lesson on Leap Year
- This Holiday lesson idea looks at the Origin of the Candy Cane
- Another lesson on Opportunity Costs
- This Science Experiment looks at what happens when Food Coloring is mixed with Oil and Water
- This one is on Native American Legends
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- This is a collection of Individual and Group Discipline Strategies
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- This language arts lesson involves multicultural fairy tales
- This PowerPoint assignment to digitally document the assistive technology available in school engages students with classmates with disabilities
- Here is an easy King Cake idea
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Keith Haring Figures Part I - students work together to create a mural modeling cooperation and conflict resolution
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Another good lesson on Magnets - Poles, Strength, and Attracted Objects
- This lesson looks at Eye Safety in Labs
- Students learn how cartoons and satire raise concerns about an issue
- Students learn about why people get involved in their communities
- Interviewing Skills Training
- A great Social Studies lesson plan on Newspaper structure
- This lesson to teach Family Concepts develops a "Family Resume"
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- Here's a brief idea for writing Dates in French and back (the different date formats)
- In this end-of-year idea, chewing gum games chill chatty children
- "Whose Sentence Is It Anyway?" - a lesson on sentence structure
- Use this flag cake idea to celebrate patriotic holidays (and science)
- Here is a little information about the Pennsylvania Dutch Shrove Tuesday celebration of Fastnacht
- Here is an elaborate idea for creating an interactive media community service project involving the creation of a logo, letterhead, brochure, newspaper ad, and PowerPoint presentation about a local ca
- Here jujubes are the get-acquainted incentive
- This is a Photo Story 3 tutorial for any grade level
- This All-About-Me homework project is due on the first day of school
- Here is a collection of about 10 brief music lesson plans
- A lesson for the new Millenium! This one involves making Millneium Mobiles for people (or events) of the 20th century
- Lesson Two
- An idea for keeping your classroom up-to-date with the Daily News
- This St. Patrick's Day lesson is an amalgam of other lesson ideas found on this site
- Better yet, here are "10 Ways to Help your Teacher"
- A Science and Art lesson on creating a Rain Stick (Music and Social Studies too)
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- A Social Studies lesson for creating community brochures
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- Here's an idea for creating a Class Wreath using your incomplete puzzle pieces
- This is a community problem solving lesson using the POOCH method and a multimedia presentation
- In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special
- A Math lesson on attributes and logic
- Do Something about... School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 1: Shape and Feeling - A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
- This is a good lesson on Gravity, Erosion, and Mass Wasting
- Another collection of activities to teach about Native Americans
- An idea for Interviewing the "Mystery Visitor"
- Here's a clever idea for seating children by matching playing cards
- This art lesson deals with Vincent van Gogh
- This lesson uses dance as a way of speaking without words
- Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- Parents should write and leave positive notes about their teen is this message given here
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- Here's a good activity to teach kindness and build social skills (Sensitivity Training)
- "Me Bags" is the name of this first day of school idea for Getting to Know Each Other
- This "Getting to Know You" guessing game will leave you humming the song by the same name
- This is a notebook idea for improving student organizational skills
- A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
- Spider webs are captured here with this idea involving hairspray and lamination film
- Title - Do Something about...
School Violence Art Curricula Unit
Day 2: The Emotional Aspects Of Color - This French lesson idea is on Dates and Weather Expressions in French
- An Experiment that asks if Plants need Sunlight to be Green
- The Tooth Fairy joins Math and Dental Health in this lesson idea
- This Spanish I unit will be popular with your clothes-crazy teens
- Students will learn about bullying in the news and take on the perspective of someone being bullied
- This "Little Mouse on the Prairie" story drama teaches compromise and cooperation
- The first lesson plan is on Correspondence
- Keith Haring Figures Part IV
- Here's a fun collection of Mother's Day activity ideas (which may be adapted for Father's Day)
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- Students learn ways foods are marketed towards youth in order to start their own green campaign
- Students must consider budget, area, and money in this lesson on designing a house
- This lesson uses Owl Pellets to aid in studying the Skeletal System
- An idea for teaching Calendar Skills
- Here you can create a Home Book Bag for taking projects home to be done with the family
- A "Special Me" class book is created here with Kid Pix self-portraits and written personal summaries
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This foreign language class Verbal Participation Rubric works for other subjects as well
- This heart-warming first day of school idea builds classroom community
- In this lesson idea, Special Ed students demonstrate creativity by making edible pictures on their pizza
- Positive & Negative Effects of Peer Pressure
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- The Question in this Experiment is whether Green is the only Color in a Leaf
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- Here's an idea on Conflict Resolution
- Community - Service Project Rubric
- Community - Service Project - Part 2
- Community - Service Project - Part 3
- Community - Service Project - Part 1
- Community - Community-Building Activities/Energizers
- Community - Teamwork Lesson
- Community - Multiple Intelligence Inventory
- Community - Exploring the Intelligences
- Community - Community in Literature
- Community - Goal Setting
- Community - Celebrating Diversity and Heritage
- Community - Following Directions
- Community - What is Community?
- Community Unit - What Makes a Good Community?
- Community - Following Directions Worksheet
- Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
- Saint Patrick's Day
- Places in My Community
