LESSON PLANS
Go beyond the blackboard and give your students an activity they can really sink
their fingers into. Our lesson plans are created by actual teachers, making them
both educational and tons of fun. Each lesson includes clear objectives, step-by-
step instructions and complementary reading and activities.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Science , Language Arts , Visual Arts
Themes:
Plants , Habitats , Adaptations
Purpose: Students will recognize that letters have specific sounds that go along with them.
Grade level: Kindergarten to 3rd Grade
Content areas:
Science , Math , Language Arts
Themes:
Animals , Shapes
Purpose: Students will discover that different animals leave different prints.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Math
Themes:
Addition/Subtraction
Purpose: To acquire basic addition facts using +1
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Social Studies , Math , Visual Arts
Themes:
Geography
Purpose: Students are introduced to the term continent. Students learn the names and locations of the seven continents.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Social Studies , Visual Arts
Themes:
Geography
Purpose: Students learn about islands and peninsulas
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 3rd Grade
Content areas:
Science , Language Arts
Themes:
Animals , Plants , Habitats
Purpose: This lesson is best suited to focusing on one type of habitat each day. Habitats to consider teaching are: forest, ocean, underground, mountain, grasslands and desert.
Grade level: Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Language Arts
Themes:
Shapes , Phonics , Vowels
Purpose: To reinforce the CVC rule and to help students with letter recognition and the short vowel sound.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Math , Visual Arts
Themes:
Measurement
Purpose: An introduction to comparing sizes.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Language Arts , Visual Arts
Themes:
Comprehension , Role-Playing
Purpose: Listening comprehension
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Language Arts
Themes:
Shapes , Phonics , Vowels
Purpose: Students will be able to recognize letter shapes and sounds. Along with letter recognition students will learn word a specific word family and build words off of it.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Science , Language Arts , Visual Arts
Themes:
Human Body
Purpose: Students identify main parts of the human body
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Science , Visual Arts
Themes:
Colors
Purpose: Students identify and order the colors of a rainbow.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Science , Language Arts , Visual Arts
Themes:
Plants
Purpose: Students will be able to recognize and label parts of a plant (sung to Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes).
Grade level: Kindergarten to 3rd Grade
Content areas:
Language Arts , Visual Arts
Themes:
Art/Famous Artists
Purpose: Introduce students to works of art and encourage them to be artists for a day.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Science , Math , Visual Arts
Themes:
Colors
Purpose: Students will be able to identify the primary colors and create secondary colors, with guidance, from PLAY-DOH compound samples.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Math , Language Arts
Themes:
Shapes
Purpose: Introduction to basic shapes
Grade level: 1st Grade to 2nd Grade
Content areas:
Math
Themes:
Shapes , Measurement
Purpose: Reinforce how to use a ruler and measuring to the nearest inch. The concept of measurement should have been previously introduced and practiced.
Grade level: Kindergarten to 3rd Grade
Content areas:
Science , Language Arts
Themes:
Solar System
Purpose: Students are introduced to our solar system.
Grade level: Kindergarten to 1st Grade
Content areas:
Fine Arts
Themes:
Music
Purpose: Students will become familiar with written music.
Grade level: Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Content areas:
Science , Math
Themes:
Human Body , Food Pyramid , Nutrition , Colors
Purpose: To introduce students to the food pyramid and healthy food choices.
