Students create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.

In this language arts learning exercise, learners read and analyze 20 incomplete sentences. Students complete the sentences by choosing one of 4 possible choices provided. This is from the UK.

Students brainstorm unique and unusual words associated with a given topic. They then work together in groups to check their work against lists created by the teacher. Finally, they keep score of the points they receive for matching...

Twelfth graders practice academic skills by answering multiple choice questions. They role-play as fibbers or players and respond to questions accordingly, going to the A,B,C, or D corners of the classsroom. Fibbers can go to any corner.

Learners need to be creative in developing an activity that will help other students review the information studied in the past four weeks. They will work effectively in groups to develop a culminating activity and to play other groups'...

Students utilize the IPA system to help them improve their pronunciation. They utilize a set of IPA cards that are imbedded in this plan. They circulate around the room, exchanging cards with their peers and practicing the pronunciations...

Students practice finding the least common multiple of two numbers.  In this practice finding the least common multiple of two numbers instructional activity, students play head-to-head against their classmates.  Students play...

After reading El Bronx Remembered by Nicholasa Mohr, learners complete a KWL graphic organizer based on vocabulary from the novella. A SMARTboard presentation is a good resource for reviewing the vocabulary, as well as the triple-entry...

With the swing of a paper ax, young learners demonstrate how to appropriately segment three-letter words. Consider breaking learners into small groups and having them share a paper ax to keep the peace. This plan is so creative, but be...

Learners of all ages participate in a unique review activity. They work in a small group setting on individual review questions designed by the teacher. Each individual answers a key review question on a notecard or sticky note and...

Review with your young readers the course of events in typical fairy tales with princes, princesses, and dragons. Then read either The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch or Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole to compare these two...

Students play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the...

Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words lesson, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme and brainstorm...

Students practice the vowel phonemes ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere in a game with two to four players. They extend their practice over and over to identify the phonemes in...

Students complete online exercises for synonyms. For this synonyms lesson, students work in pairs to find pictures around the room and choose one as the music plays. Students write a word to describe the picture and discuss their...

Young scholars examine the concept of cause and effect. They participate in a class discussion, play matching games, and play a memory/concentration game with cause and effect as the focus. Students complete an evaluation chart as an...

Second graders define the term culture and are exposed to a variety of cultures from around the world. They read books, play Native American games, develop a class book that examines their own culture and, after examining currencies from...

Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling activity, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.

Students participate in a variety of activities to practice words with the Bb sound. In this Bb sound lesson, students use craft rolls to create butterflies. Students create a letter book with B words

Second graders play Simon Says. The teacher uses a worksheet imbedded in this lesson which has suggestions for action commands to be used during the game. The intent is for students to focus on the action verbs which are built in to the...

Third graders stand with letter cards to spell words given by the teacher. A quick time-filler game to practice spelling words.

In this algebra worksheet, 4th graders play a game of scrabble using equations. They use the rules for scrabble when solving the equations.

Students explore recycling and how it benefits our environment. In this recycling lesson plan, students learn to determine if an item is recyclable and sort it into 7 various categories. Students discover how aluminum, glass, plastic,...

Students investigate the concepts of expressions and equations while defining the similarities and differences. They explore the operations by using a number line and record answers while working with the teacher. Students play the game...