Beacon Lesson Plan Library

   Lesson Plans - Learner Level 2

• ¿Que'Ttiempo Hace Allí? (Authored by Rosalind Mathews.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students complete a chart by using Spanish to obtain weather information on cities around the world and report their findings to the class using Spanish phrases. Students may convert temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit and locate cities on wall map if available.

• 10 by 10 Tessellations (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will work cooperatively to create tessellation patterns by playing 10" by 10" Tessellations. They need to use critical thinking skills to decide if pattern block plane figures will tessellate and how each block will best fit into the pattern.

• 3-2-1 Blast Off! (Authored by Denise Russell.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson in motion offers students the opportunity to work cooperatively in groups to assemble and launch a rocket.

• 30 Days Hath September (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn the poem -Thirty Days Hath September- in preparing for learning about the number of days in the months and year. Once memorized, they practice using the calendar to count the number of days in different problems.

• A Bar of Many Colors (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use colored candies to collect data, construct double bar graphs, and find averages.

• A Busy Pump (Authored by Diane Schmidt.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students demonstrate how the human heart works with a written summary and labeled illustrations.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 1: Hull of a Ship (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the introductory lesson to the Unit Plan: A Colony Is Born. In this lesson, a bulletin board for the unit will be started, Colonial Notebooks will be presented to each student, and a pre-test on colonization will be administered.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 11: Group Presentations and Summatives (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Group presentations will be for the next three days. Classroom students take notes on the presentations and play a card game for content review. On day four, the short answer summative assessment is given, and notebooks are turned in.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 2: Sez Who? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the second lesson in a unit on colonization. It establishes baseline knowledge of students' understanding of primary and secondary sources and the likenesses and differences of them with regard to a selected historical event.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 3: Marking Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson swiftly travels through time from 1492 to 1607. Significant events are marked on a timeline, note taking is modeled, and a focus on reasons for leaving England for the New World is clarified with the use of a graphic organizer.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 4: What Went Wrong? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Lesson 4 focus is on Roanoke and Jamestown. Students examine what worked well, what did not, and significant events of the two colonies. Students emulate modeled note taking, use a T-chart for organizing the information, and make additions to timelines.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 5: Dear Mem (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The primary informational source of journal writing is the focus. Journal entry traits and rubric expectations are established. Identified and charted by students, they'll be used to assess examples and be a guide for students' required journal writing.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 6: To Leave or Not to Leave (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: A pivotal point of the unit. Students, assigned a reason for coming to the New World, will utilize the resources in their notebook to establish an identity. Three regions settled will be identified, and students will associate with a particular region.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 7 - 10: What's My Line? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: These four lessons represent the guided resource time that groups need to research their assigned regions, complete the regional guide, and prepare their group presentations.

• A Dog Eat Dog World (Authored by Rhonda Traweek.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students label animals as producers, consumers and/or decomposers and explain the basis of that designation. They distinguish between aquatic and terrestrial organisms.

• A Growing Vocabulary (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Watch your intermediate students’ vocabulary and critical thinking skills grow with this reading activity that also provides many opportunities for extensions.

• A Hymn for the Classroom (Authored by Tisa Craig.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson introduces students to hymn singing and allows them to participate as singers in the choir and as accompanists in the bell choir.

• A Look Through Time, Final Project (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the final lesson in a three-part series seeking to answer the question, -How do we know about history?- Students will use previously gathered research to produce tourist pamphlets that highlight historical county events.

• A Model Project (Authored by Cynthia Spear.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a concrete way to introduce students to equivalent forms of fractions and decimals. The student constructs models to represent a fraction or a decimal.

• A Place for Me in the Field of Music (Authored by Tisa Craig.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students listen to interviews with career musicians. Students work in groups to present to classmates the life, music, inspiration, and goals of a favorite composer, performer, or group.

• A Play on Words (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students make predictions about the story Verdi, based on the cover. After hearing the story they will make a new list of descriptions, personality traits, etc. Students will select an animal and write a narrative story about the animal.

• A Press Conference With Abraham Lincoln (Authored by Francis Sicius.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Abraham Lincoln (teacher) will deliver his First Inaugural Adress and then accept questions from the Press. (Students) This lesson should be used after a study of the Civil War, including the leaders.

• A Rocky Situation (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Days 4 and 5 of the unit Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials to explore how rocks can be broken down to form soil, the processes of weathering and erosion, and how landforms change over time.

• A Sneaky Poem (Authored by Julia Balukin.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using poetry to share their ideas, students incorporate a subject and its synonym, and the parts of speech to create a Sneaky Poem.

• A Sweet Twist on Mean, Mode, and Range (Authored by M Dennis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson helps the student collect, organize, and analyze data to model concepts of mode, median, and range.

• A Taste of Blackberries (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: [A Taste of Blackberries] provides a wonderful shared reading experience for fourth graders. The main character in the story helps the reader understand ways to manage grief in the loss of a best friend and identify skills of a responsible family member.

• A Wall of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore line(s) of symmetry in polygons during a hands-on activity and a Student Web Lesson. Information learned is used to build a wall of symmetrical shapes designed and drawn by students.

• A Whale of a Tale (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will research and gather facts about whales and use this information to create a narrative (story) with interesting and realistic elaborations.

• Adding and Subtracting Fractions (Authored by Yunling Zhang.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn addition and subtraction of common fractions by incorporating the use of hands-on manipulatives and diagrams.

• Addition Relay (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will add two digit numbers by renaming ones.

• Age Is Relative (Authored by Lynda Penry.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students calculate how old they are in three units: months, weeks, and days. Then, they write about how they solved the problems.

• Algebra Wizards (Authored by Jesica Goodman.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Hey! Are you an Algebra wizard? It is as easy as one, two, three to be the greatest wizard in all the land. So take out your magic wand and put on your magical thinking hats to see if you too know the magic equation to be an Algebra Wizard.

• Alien Behaviors (Authored by Lisa Capon.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to list and classify which human characteristics are learned and which are inherited. Each student then writes a letter identifying and explaining learned and inherited human characteristics.

• Alien Pen Pals (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a friendly letter to an alien informing it about the planet Earth. Students use editing skills and brainstorming skills to produce a final product.

• All Aboard the Peace Train (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)

Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Through a literature-based lesson, students identify perserverance and problem-solving strategies. This could also be utilized as a behavior management technique.

• All Aboard! All Aboard! The Essay Train (Authored by Brenda Lewis-Williams.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: All aboard! All aboard! Ride the English Trax! Come and enjoy a train ride with [The Little Engline That Could] and learn how to create a five-paragraph essay train.

• All About Me (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to learn about each other and their cultural backgrounds and provides an opportunity for students to have a long-distance relationship with students in another state/country .

• All About Me - A Poem (Authored by Beth Hilton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create a free verse poem about themselves. This lesson can be used to introduce students to one another at the beginning of the school year, or during the school year when studying famous Americans.

• All About Me-I'm My Own Research Project (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is an introduction to teaching students how to do a research project. Students learn how to categorize information about themselves and relate to categorizing information on sea animals for a future research project.

• All Fractions Are Created Equal (Authored by Dawn Dantowitz.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is introducing students to equivalent fractions using concrete materials.

• All I Want for Christmas (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in pairs to use real life interests to create a wish list from catalogues and sale ads based on a given budget. This lesson gives the students math practice in the areas of addition, subtraction, and estimation with money.

• Almond Magi (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Almond Magi involves students in calculating the ingredients needed in a multiple recipe and testing their calculations prior to the cooking adventure.

• Amazing Adjectives (Authored by Andrea Austing.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson students will compose sentences that use descriptive adjectives to describe a specific food and day that they both like and dislike.

• Amazing Animals (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Amazing Animals gives students an opportunity to use their estimation skills as they compare amazing animal facts to their human world.

• America Doubled (Authored by Andrea Raley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What could you do with 15 million dollars? The US doubled in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Students learn about Lewis and Clark and experience traveling through the land like them rationing out what items they would need and their importance.

• America's First Pictures (Authored by Francis Sicius.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will search on-line early photo archives from the Smithsonian located at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem in order to draw conclusions about life in the mid-nineteenth century.

• American History Research with Visual Timeline (Authored by Carter Hannah.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a three page research paper choosing their topics from a Washington, D. C. landmark and create a project depicting their topics to go on a time-line.

• An Atlas of Health Care (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Partner teams utilize programs such as Street Atlas USA and Student Writing Center software packages to research and publicize an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community’s health care facilities.

• An Invitation to Simple Machines (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The principal with a hurt foot needs our help! Students are challenged to devise ways to move the principal around the school by exploring simple machines. They then write an invitation for parents to come view the simple machines and web page reports that students create.

• An Overview of the Civil War (Authored by Diane Krapf.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Examine the history of slavery in the U.S. and how it contributed to the Civil War. Students will use available technology to research and present information in response to a series of student-generated questions.

• An UnCOMFORTable Situation (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore the relationship between the area of square units and their perimeters in a hands-on activity. Observations are recorded, and students begin to recognize that shapes with the same area can sometimes have different perimeters.

• Analogies in Foreign Language Classes (Authored by Joanna Lowe.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students decipher and create analogies in the target language.

• Ancient Egypt (Authored by Lois Christensen.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students present a report about ancient Egypt through group work devoted to structured research. Comprehension is assessed through a Jeopardy game format.

• And the Number Is (2nd Grade) (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create their own Mystery Numbers by giving clues about the name, value, and multiples of the digits which comprise the number.

• Angels of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson uses ANGEL CHILD, DRAGON CHILD by Surat to identify generous actions. Students will keep a generosity journal reflecting acts of kindness they performed each week.

• Animalopedia Poetry (Authored by Prudence Mason.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in groups to research animals and write poems for an Animalopedia classroom book.

• Anyone for Lunch? (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will use statistical methods to record and make inferences about real-world situations using graphs.

• Architecture Makes an Imprint (Authored by Kim Salesses.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will explore architecture of the world, uses of buildings and discuss architecture as a career. Students will work in cooperative groups and present their findings to the class.

• Are U.S. Presidents Leaders or Figureheads? (Authored by Irving Kohn.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students analyze three presidents. They create a graphic organizer explaining how three influences for each president affected the development of the New Nation.

• Are We the Same? (Authored by Mary Ann Taylor.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students identify and make symmetrical figures.

• Are You a Peacemaker or a Man-Eating Shark? (Authored by Teri Grunden.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work on the concept of "fairness" through a group activity, discussion, and written responses with conflicts/resolutions from a short story, and then produce a page on the computer (or on paper) for a class book.

• Are You for Real? (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review newspaper articles, magazine articles and advertisements to determine if they are informative or persuasive. They identify the methods that the writers use to persuade or inform the audience.

• Area Adventure (Authored by Teri Grunden.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use manipulatives (paper squares, geoboards) to figure out the area and learn that area = length x width. Students learn how to solve real-world problems involving area.

• Arithmetic Artistry (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will create a classroom quilt that illustrates the many unique ways that children use math skills.

• Around the World in 5 Days (Authored by Georgia Roberts.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is an introductory lesson on the seven continents. Students learn the continents, draw a map, discuss cultures, use research to learn geography, and investigate cultures. The purpose is to help students understand that we live in a global world.

• Around the World with Multiplication (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is a fun and exciting game that reviews the multiplication facts.

• At the Governor's Mansion (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: -At the Governor's Mansion- is a mock visit to -talk with- our state governor and his family while -touring- the lovely mansion facility. Students report interesting facts that they learn about the governor in the class-made book.

• At War With Multiplication (Authored by Shannon Safriet.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Many children may have played War with cards before, but this lesson adds a little twist. The children will be practicing their recall of the multiplication facts while playing cards!

• Aviator Timeline (Authored by Stuart Brannon.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students choose five famous aviators to research and present the information in a timeline format. The students use a variety of sources for their information.

• Awesome Alliterations (Authored by Regina Letizia.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The learner will build an interest and appreciate poetry through writing alliterative poems.

• Back Up (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 10 of the unit [Inventions and Inventors]. Students have fun participating in a review game by identifying significant people who have made contributions in the fields of communication, technology, and science.

• Bah Humbug (Authored by Nicole Briggle.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After listening to Charles Dickens’ [A Christmas Carol] and Dr. Seuss’ [How the Grinch stole Christmas], students create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two main characters.

• Balanced Equations (Authored by Judy Fox.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: If your students have a hard time understanding variables, this lesson is for you. It is wonderful for the visual student. In the lesson students will use weights and a balance scale to show how the sides of an equation are equal.

• Balloon Bustin' Biographies (Authored by Idella Kruger.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using balloons as inspiration, students choose a famous person to research. Students view videos, read electronic encyclopedia summaries, and/or biographies of a famous person from the past, then create a one to three page report.

• Bargain Hunter (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will engage in a classroom shopping adventure to search for the best bargains.

• Barge Building…What Floats Your Boat? (Authored by Glenn Rutland.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using aluminum foil, pennies, and water, students build a barge that will float while holding the largest number of pennies. Students will learn problem solving, estimation, weight and balance, and the causes and effects of water displacement.

• Bark/Meow, Purr/Snort - Oh, What a Voice! (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will do teacher directed experiences to understand voice in writing. Students will complete a narrative writing depicting two animals/things that are opposite by focusing on different voices.

• Be a Responsible Citizen: Vote! (Authored by Lisa Whildin.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Explore American citizens' rights and responsibilities through group research on the Internet and presentation of content to the class.

• Beams and Bones (Authored by Joyce Dowlatram.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The human body is like a house. Students use this analogy to learn how some parts in the human body interact.

• Beat the Wheel (Authored by Kaye Maddox.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to practice multiplication facts in a large group setting.

• Because I’m Big and Bad! (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use -The Three Little Pigs- and -The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig- to identify cause-effect relationships.

• Benjamin Franklin and Electricity (Authored by Paul Baldauf PhD.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is an interdisciplinary lesson combining exercises in Language Arts and Science, and includes discussions and written assignments on one of the seminal figures in science, Benjamin Franklin, and continues with simple experiments in electricity.

• Better than Average (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use baseball cards to understand averages, decimals to thousandths, and the real-world use of math.

• Big Brain Central (Authored by Shelley Mann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students set up Editing Centers and become trained specialists in certain components of editing. Peers come to specialists for editing needs.

• Big Dog and String-bean (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students read a story and identify the pronouns. They determine what noun from the story these pronouns stand for. They then enhance their knowledge of pronouns by completing an assignment that practices this language skill.

• Birthday Blast (Authored by Amy Brown.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: -Birthday Blast- will allow students to become familiar with their classmates birthdays as they gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a pictograph and a bar graph.

• Block Heads (Authored by Carolyn Francis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Block Heads gives students the opportunity to work hands-on, using base ten blocks to model whole numbers through one thousand.

• Blowing Kisses (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Fifth Grade students thank their mothers (grandmothers, aunts, god-mothers, etc.) for their first breath of life. Activities are pre-writing, designing a poem form, and making a card.

• Boarding of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students use geoboards to model polygons and to practice finding lines of symmetry.

• Body Systems in Action (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the last lesson, days 13-16, of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am? Students research the body systems. Cooperative groups create and present a short skit demonstrating how systems work together.

• Body Systems, Part I (Authored by Candace Parker.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with the systems of the body through research.

• Body Systems, Part II (Authored by Candace Parker.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the second of a two-part lesson. Students create a multimedia presentation to reinforce the knowledge they gained from the lesson, -Body Systems, Part I-.

• Boo-ographies (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the month of October, students are encouraged to read biographies of famous individuals from the past. Students pretend to be the character and give a short video-taped presentation.

• Boston Spies' Report on the Redcoats (Authored by Francis Sicius.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students collect information about British actions in Boston and send it by secret message to leaders in Philadelphia.

• Bounce & Sing Introduction (Authored by Tisa Craig.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is performed at the beginning of the school to introduce students to classmates and the teacher.

• Bountiful Biomes (Authored by Linda Webb.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in groups to research five different biomes (arctic tundra, tropical rain forest, North American desert, African grasslands, deciduous forest) and complete a graphic organizer.

• Bowling Over the Order of Operations (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After learning how to solve equations using the order of operations, students will use their skills to create equations that will -knock down bowling pins-.

• Branches of Government (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Are the different parts of government confusing to you? Students will use graphic organizers to assist them in learning about the three branches of government.

• Branching Out (Authored by Carolyn Calloway.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students work in pairs to research the structure, function and primary responsibilities of each office of the Executive branch. After researching, students come together in pairs and create a chart displaying their research.

• Buddy Stories (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will write and illustrate short stories to share with a younger class of -Buddy Readers-.

• But That's Not FAIR! (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students solve problems using fractions through hands-on activities and appropriate literature.

• Buying and Budgets (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: How do you decide if you can afford to buy something new? Using a budget lets you know where your money is being spent as well as how much money you have left to spend. In this lesson, students use tables to solve budget problems. Addition and subtraction of decimals are used in the problem-solving process.

• By Dawn's Early Light (Authored by Edward Blackwell, Jr..)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students have the opportunity to explore the history of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” In the process, they explore how the lyrics of a song can be a form of poetry and the principles of cause and effect.

• Calculate the Answer (Authored by Katherine Sparks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: "Calculate the Answer" allows students to practice independently multiplication and/or addition skills. (This activity is appropriate for a learning center/station).

• Candy Fractions (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Candy Fractions is quite the treat for Fraction Fridays. Families donate bags of seasonal treats that the class estimates, counts, sorts on tree diagrams, names, and then graphs. Oh yeah, then they get to eat the treats!

• Capitalization and Washington, D.C. (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this unit, students learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C.

• Cars on the Curve (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students predict which car will -win- and then play a car-race game to test their predictions. Their results are analyzed to recognize patterns of central tendency.

• Cause or Effect (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students develop relationships among ideas by recognizing cause and effect in sentences. They complete a whole-group activity then play a station activity game where they determine if part of a sentence is the cause or effect.

• Cause-and-Effect Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students go on a scavenger hunt to locate and identify cause-and-effect relationships in a reading selection.

• Cell Cookies (Authored by Dawn Pack.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create a plant or animal cell they can eat! A cookie, frosting, and candy pieces serve as the cell's parts. Class discussion will lead to the understanding of the cell's parts and the role the cell plays in tissues, organs, and body systems.

• Cell-a-bration (Authored by Kelly Toomey.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students compare and contrast the structures of a plant cell and an animal cell by creating a graphic organizer and a food model in preparation for writing an essay comparing and contrasting the two kinds of cells.

• Cells in the Making (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: How do cells keep us alive? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about parts of a cell, and their functions in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

• Cells, Building Blocks of Life (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What is the basic unit of all living things? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about cells, and their function in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

• Centimeter Slinkies (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun way to investigate measuring in centimeters. The student estimates & measures the length of a whole color-segmented, candy gummy worm. Then, as students bite off each segment, they estimate, measure and record findings in an activity log.

• Change Agents (Authored by Karen Marler.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students conduct experiments and complete observation logs about three erosive change agents and their effects on a variety of surfaces. They present their log information to others through a song, poem or skit.

• Changing Ways (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 8 of the unit Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials, sketches, diagrams, and models to understand scientific ideas about ways landforms change over time.

• Character Comparison (Authored by Terri Griffin.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to practice comparing characters from two stories, focusing on actions, motives, emotions, and traits. The Venn diagram is used to display the similarities and differences.

• Character, You Say? Prove It! (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students complete a Character Map and a Venn diagram for selected characters in any text.

• Characters in the Chocolate Factory (Authored by Beth Brewington.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Books are more interesting when the characters come to life! Students will make creative guesses and compare information about selected characters from the book [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory].

• Charting the Discovery of the Americas (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Charting the Discovery of the Americas teaches students how to use Microsoft Word to create a chart depicting how trade led to the exploration of different regions of the world.

• Cheerios Number Patterns (Authored by Jean Mozell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity provides an opportunity for students to use Cheerios to describe, extend and create numerical patterns.

• Cheerios- Not Just for Breakfast Anymore (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students practice measurement of surface area and perimeter with estimation by completing activities using Cheerios breakfast cereal.

• Cheesy Math (Authored by Peggy Christian.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Entice students to investigate perimeter with one of their favorite foods. Students use a variety of methods to measure the perimeter of a piece of cheese, infer the change in perimeter before slicing it and recalculate the perimeter.

• Chessboard Challenge (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson has been created for use with the book [The Kings's Chessboard] by David Birch. The students predict and extend the numerical pattern of twice the day before's total (multiplying by 2 or doubling). They search for other patterns within their calculations and state rules for the relationships. They also check for measurement accuracy in the book by weighing grains of rice.

• Choose a Book You’ll Like (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After a class discussion of how to choose a book, students complete class and personal charts which will be used to help select books to read.

• Christmas Shopping (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will pretend to buy age/gender appropriate Christmas presents using a given budget for a specified number of people.

• Circle Up Your M & Ms (Authored by Rhonda Bajalia.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you ever noticed that the colors of M & M's aren’t evenly distributed in each package? This is a fun way to show your students how to construct a circle graph using percentages based on the colors of 100 M & M's.

• Cite Your Sites (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students get exposure to a variety of resources by working in a cooperative group to complete a literary scavenger hunt.

• Citizenship (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What is citizenship? Using the preambles from the US Constitution and the Florida State Constitution as references, students determine rights and responsibilities of citizenship. This introductory lesson for the unit, We the People, introduces students to the concept of citizenship that will be the common thread throughout the entire unit.

• Citizenship for All (Authored by Tashika Hiers.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Do you know your rights? This lesson will help students demonstrate their knowledge of the rights, responsibilities, and privileges as United States citizens. Students will show examples by completing a graphic organizer and writing persuasive essays.

• Class President (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you wondered what kind of person makes a good president? Students learn strategies to develop reading vocabulary and learn to identify comparison and contrast as an aid to comprehension as they follow Julio and his secret desire to become class president. The novel, [Class President], is used for this ten-day lesson.

• Classifying and Constructing Corners (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore, classify, and define the various types of angles (acute, right, obtuse, and straight) that occur in the world around them. This lesson plan is the second lesson in a series on geometry.

• Closing the Case (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review the steps for data collection and how to prepare data displays using statistical information from a survey.

• Cognate Detectives (Authored by Marta Encarnacion.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will learn that there are words in English and Spanish that share the same root. These words are visibly and audibly very similar and have the same meaning. Students will become detectives exploring the many cognates in Spanish and English.

• Coin Probability (Authored by Cary Cooley.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students develop an understanding of probablility by tallying the coins they choose from different bags with different amounts of coins within them. They then predict the amount of coins within each bag according to their tallied results.

• Cold Sea Waters (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Cold sea waters affected the local and state area during the summer of 1998. Studying a detailed web-site map helps students gain an understanding of sea temperatures.

• Colonial American Villages (Authored by Patti Corley.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students construct a model of a colonial village. An understanding of why the New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies were settled in regions, will be shown through the students' visual and oral presentations.

• Colonization Specialization (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson demonstrates how various people in the southern colonies had specialized societal roles. It also provides a simulation of plantation owners' attittudes.

• Color My World (Authored by Donna Woods.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write poems using color to describe their feelings and environment.

• Colored Clouds (Authored by Melissa Lee Herring.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson learners will observe particles that make up warm water move around faster than particles that make up cold water. This will be demonstrated by observing clouds made of food coloring mixed with different temperatures of water.

• Community Brochures (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure.

• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 1) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Advertisements promoting the campaign are created with Student Writing Center.

• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 2) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Students become involved in a graph-keeping adventure as they encourage the school to collect many canned foods.

• Comparatively Speaking (Authored by Sharon West.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn to identify and use the literary terms simile and metaphor. Their knowledge will be reinforced as they are engaged in creating and illustrating two examples of each.

• Comparing and Ordering Fractions (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students are introduced to the comparison of fractions and the ordering of fractions.

• Complaint Department (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write business letters describing a problem with a purchased product and offering a possible solution to the problem.

• Composer of the Month (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In order to keep music alive in the schools, we need to validate our class. What better way to do that than to intergrate social studies and writing into the Music Class?

• Congruent and Similar Figures (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This learning activity introduces students to the concept of congruent and similar figures. The class will identify, classify, and describe the similarities and differences among these figures.

• Conservation Station (Authored by Jennifer Carter.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Don't let your eyes mislead you. Size does not always matter. Students will be amazed once they've measured the volume of four containers that vary in size and shape.

• Consider This! (Authored by Julie Thompson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students draft a simulated email to the governor of Florida that includes their recommendation for the -heart of Florida- capital and provides support based upon research and established criteria.

• Constitutional Amendments Survey (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students conduct a Constitutional Amendments Survey to create an opinion poll forum for the upcoming Florida vote.

• Constructing Contractions (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This game was developed to reinforce the skill of making contractions and the use of the apostrophe in contractions.

• Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students learn about the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class. Then students publish a class cookbook with their recipes.

• Cool School Poetry (Authored by Barbara Hirst.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students draw ideas from words supplied by the entire class on fifteen subjects of school life, and compose a four line poem using AABB, ABAB or AAAA rhyme, in the same manner as Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky

• Cool Words to Share (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use teacher-selected vocabulary (can be from reading textbook) to present a written story to a first grade student. The book will include a glossary of terms and illustrations of the terms.

• Coordinate Crunch (Authored by Lee Strain.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will play a game using their knowledge of how to identify plots on a graph.

• Could You Elaborate on That? (Authored by Donna Woods.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson teaches the parts of an expository essay and how to organize and write an expository piece from a given topic.

• Counting Creatures (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Counting Creatures gives students an opportunity to use the base three number system as they learn more about place value.

• Counting Money (Authored by Denise Simonson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.

• Crazy Putty Ratio (Authored by Georgia White.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students mix various ratios of liquid starch and glue to make craxy Putty (their variation of Silly Putty) using knowledge of measurements and ratios. They chart their ratios, make observations, and write summary of activity.

• Create A Park Map (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students design the ultimate park experience for Florida families as they demonstrate their knowledge of map legend skills.

• Create Your Save And Rave Box (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Create Your Save And Rave Box engages students in creating a design from pattern block shapes that incorporates the principles of symmetry, congruency, and similarity, as well as flips, slides, and turns of some of the shapes used.

• Creating Circle Graphs using Excel (Authored by Mary Kay Bacallao.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students evaluate data from a circle graph that compares time spent on various activities. They use the computer to manipulate their own data as they compare, examine, create and evaluate data using circle graphs.

• Creating Food for Thought (Authored by Cindy Listowski.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After listening to a selection of poems from William Cole's [Poem Stew], the students practice poem writing and later develop a poem on the topic of food. The poems are then compiled into a class book.

• Creature Features (Intermediate Grades) (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Paired children are to complete their own “creature and habitat” designs on construction paper. Writing a four paragraph narrative is the final step. Benchmarks include the writing process. Previous studies of animals and their habitats are needed.

• Creatures that Are Just So (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students listen to Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories read aloud. After observing an animal, students create their own "Just So" stories and publish them on Beacon's SiteMaker.

• Critter Counting (Authored by Anne Hargrove.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In Critter Counting, students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze data using a graphical presentation.

• Cube Combinations (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Cube Combinations gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of place value as they create 5 digit numbers from the roll of five number cubes.

• Cubed Containers (Authored by Renee Black.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows for cooperative groups to explore volume in relation to centimeter cubes and other nonstandard units of measurement using small containers.

• Cuisenaire Chefs (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students become Cuisenaire Chefs as they mix and toss Cuisenaire rods to recreate recipes. This hands-on acivity gives students a chance to identify the value of fractions at an introductory level.

• Cultural Exposure (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson explains why and how colonist attitudes towards the Native Americans and African Americans changed over time.

• Current Events - Attack on America (Authored by Amy Osborne.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Explore and discuss the significance of what happened to the world on 9-11-01.

• Dance with Me (Authored by Diane Weiner.)

Subject(s): Dance, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create a simple dance that illustrates the changes in rhythm in a song.

• Dangerous Storms (Authored by Debra Giambo PhD.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The lesson promotes awareness of media language for dangerous storms. It stresses preparation, evacuation, and emergency assistance, and problem-solving techniques for emergency situations. Use in a second or third grade classroom with ESOL.

• Dealing with Bouts of Depression (Authored by Melissa Westerly.)

Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to bring out causes and symptoms of depression. Depression causes a tremendous amount of hurt to ourselves and others. This lesson offers an opportunity for hope to those who suffer from this illness.

• Dear FCAT Checker (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After several months of preparation for the FCAT test, students review how to write business letters, and write one to the person who will check their FCAT test.

• Dear Santa Claus (Authored by Carol Swanick.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Santa answers letters. Students write letters to Santa Claus to find answers to their questions. Students then become Santa Claus answering the questions in a response letter.

• Decidedly Different (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this first lesson of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am, students study why scientists need to use observable characteristics, how they sort the characteristics, and why they do so. Journal entries allow students to reflect and make inferences.

• Delicious Words (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work together to make simple menus more interesting by adding descriptive words. This plan works well with the Six Traits of Writing as it covers the trait of word choice.

• Descriptive Writing (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate.

• Destination Outer Space (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to use effective writing skills, their imagination, and their knowledge of the nine planets. Students use these three items as they create travel pamphlets to the planets in our solar system.

• Different Dimensions (Authored by Kim Adair.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will utilize graph paper or dot paper to draw all views of a 3 dimensional object in 2 dimensional form. Then partners will work from the 2d drawing to create the actual 3d structure.

• Different Strokes for Different Folks (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students are taken to the media center to review various genre of literature, apply information and concepts to evaluate examples and locate specific genre, and search for materials for reading enjoyment.

• Digital Plants...Alike and Different! (Authored by Shannon Flynn.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Use digital cameras and games to motivate students to learn about plants! Students get to take their own pictures of plants and compose them into a learning game about the similarities and differences of plants.

• Digital Waterworks (Authored by Sharon Schubert.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students add digitally-produced, water sound effects to a song, using electronic keyboards.

• Disasters - Where, When, Why (Authored by Irving Kohn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student uses electronic technology to create and develop a database for U.S. disasters in the 20th Century and writes a paragraph.

• Discovering Our Planets (Authored by Elizabeth Elliott.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, the children explore through research and activities our solar system of planets. Using cooperative grouping and interactions, the students will gain an understanding of how the characteristics of the planets differ from one another.

• Distance over Time (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What is velocity and how is it determined? In this lesson plan, students are actively involved in experiments to measure and calculate the magnitude of speed, known as velocity using algebraic terms.

• Divisions of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson uses THE DOORBELL RANG, by Pat Hutchins to teach the concepts of generosity and fairness. Students apply the concept of generosity and fairness to a lesson on division.

• Do Be Square (Authored by Sharon Hardy.)

Subject(s): Dance (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student performs a square dance using proper movements keeping the beat and the rhythm of the song.

• Do They Agree? (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review and practice subject-verb agreement by cutting and pasting (using a computer spreadsheet or a print out), and by writing a simple paragraph in which the subjects and verbs agree. (This lesson only addresses subject-verb agreement) Students need prior knowledge of basic paragraph structure and knowledge of technology such as how to cut and paste text in a document.

• Do You Haiku? We Do! (Authored by Judith Rose.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you ever used Math to write poetry? Try your hand at it, writing Haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. Haiku is usually 17 syllables in three-line form, with a first line of five syllables, the second of seven syllables, and the third of five syllables. It is most often about nature, but can be expanded to include other subjects, which allows integration with almost any content area. This simple way of combining creative, yet informative, phrases, results is a fun way to teach this simple poetry form. Encased in tattered backpacks sit many sleeping pencils tools of creation. --adapted from Howard Yosha, Iam72hrstv@aol.com

• Do You Have the Money? (Authored by Maria Ramdas.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using a combination of coins and currency, the students will work in groups and use a menu to estimate if they have enough money to purchase a meal.

• Do You See What I See? (Authored by Shelia Scofield.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students develop an awareness that a person's perspective affects what they think they see and what they really see.

• Does It Match? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to identify lines of symmetry of given figures such as shapes, letters, and objects.

• Does One Tree a Forest Make? (Authored by Linda Kitner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the schoolground.

• Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor? (Authored by Karen Hamilton.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students predict, infer, investigate, compare, and evaluate five different brands of gum of the same flavor to discover how long it takes for the flavor to disappear. The chewing time for each brand of gum is timed and results are recorded in a journal. Final results are graphed and presented to the class. Students develop inquiry questions and make applications to real world situations.

• Doing Dewey (Authored by Alice Clark.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Doing Dewey reinforces the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students will apply their basic understanding of Dewey decimal classification to the process of book organization.

• Don't Eat the Crayons: Real-Life Multiplication (Authored by Susan Vinson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use items which come in sets to look for real-life multiples and write multiplication problems. For example: a box of 24 crayons has 3 rows of 8 crayons, so the problem written would be 3 x 8 = 24. A candy bar: 2 rows of 4 segments (2 x 4 =8).

• Don't Let Computers Bug You (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use the computer, an Internet encyclopedia, and word processing program to write a paragraph about a bug.

• Down the Knoll Without the Water (Authored by Lee Strain.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students revise fairy tales or nursery rhymes using a thesaurus. They give synonyms for a selected word.

• Dragon Math (Authored by Carol Weyrich.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity allows students to master multiplication facts in a fun and competitive manner.

• Draw to Scale the E-Z Way (Authored by Stuart Brannon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students draw a rough floor plan of a house to scale without using a ruler to determine measurements.

• Drawing Bugs Game (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore probability by predicting the likelihood of rolling any one number on a fair die, graphing data, and analyzing the results of playing a drawing game.

• Dream Castles (Authored by Susan Johnson.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students construct a medieval castle after studying related vocabulary, listening to a book, and completing a worksheet concerning the parts of a castle.

• Dreaming to Come to America (Authored by Diane Krapf.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students examine reasons for immigration to America, including economic, political, and religious considerations and conduct research to determine immigration history of students' families and compare reasons other groups have come to America.

• Dressing the Blues (Authored by Dorothy Sheldon.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Dressed for Blues Day, fifth grade students improvise a Blues melody choosing from these notes, G,Bb,B,D,or E, using xylophones and/or block flutes.

• Dynamite Data (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will collect and organize data for tally charts, tables, and pie graphs.

• Earth Matters (Authored by Laura Brown.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will understand and be able to identify the Earth's equator, prime meridian, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, parallels, and meridians.

• Edible Rock (Authored by Angie Worcester.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students experiment with gelatin Rock Strata to possibly discover fossils and identify the effects of erosion and weathering on the sedimentary rock. They illustrate and summarize their findings.

• Egg It (Authored by Pamela Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students show understanding of the relationship of multiplication and addition by writing multiplication number sentences.

• Egyptian Numeration Pyramid (Authored by Frieda Bates.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students construct a 3-D pyramid and decorate it with Egyptian numbers and their equivalent in our numerical system.

• Eight Eighths Make a Roll (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using a bag of individual rolls of Sprees, the students learn about fractions making up a whole. They also make a bar and a circle graph using the results of their Spree rolls.

• Elaborate Cupcakes (Authored by Judy Fox.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is a delicious fun way for your students to gain a better understanding of how to use elaboration in their writing. Students use several of their senses in this lesson.

• Elaborate It (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students add personal anecdotes to expository responses in order to elaborate on a central idea.

• Enforcers of the Law, The Executive Branch (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you ever wondered just what a governor does at work? Students learn about the executive branch of government, its structure, function, and basic responsibility, as well as whom their elected officials are for this branch. This lesson focuses on Florida’s executive branch of government.

• Environmenal Detectives at Work (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Environmental Detectives at Work engages students in an investigation of the influence of one human on our natural world.

• Estimate a Dinner Plate (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. Estimation strategies are reviewed and practiced to help students determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Symmetry (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson introduces and reinforces the concept of symmetry.

• Examining Estimation (Authored by Denise Simonson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students participate in various activities which help them understand and explain the difference between an estimate and an exact amount.

• Explorers of the New World (Authored by Pam Kennon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students researchan explorer and learn how his exploration affected the Western Hemisphere. They demonstrate competency in using Encarta, information software and present a Power Point presentation to classmates with two scanned drawings.

• Exploring Area/Perimeter Through Coordinate Geometry (Authored by Joseph Furner PhD.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn about area and perimeter through coordinate geometry. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet will be incorporated.

• Fabulous Alliteration (Authored by Madonna Scime.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students explore an alliterative tale called [Four Fanished Foxes and Fosdyke]. They listen to the story, then brainstorm their own lists of alliterative words and make their own alliterative tales.

• Fact and Opinion Detectives (Authored by Sarah Hebert.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students learn to distinguish facts from opinions in a child’s news magazine.

• Fact Family Connection (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore the relationship of multiplication and division using arrays.

• Family at Home (Authored by Frieda Bates.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a family of multiplication and division facts on a piece of paper cut in the shape of a house.

• Family Cookbook (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Family Cookbook is a published collection of recipes emphasizing number names and ingredients in a picture book format.

• Far Out Fact Families (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student explores related multiplication and division facts.

• Farmer 's Barnyard Animals Hungry for Greater Than (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will compare numbers to the thousands place using < and >. Teacher can dress the part of a farmer for a motivational way to teach this concept. Less than and greater than signs will be turned into hungry barnyard animals.

• Favorite Survey (Authored by Jennifer Sansone-Berbert.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun and interactive way for students to collect and organize data for charts and bar graphs by questioning their classmates.

• Feed Your Cells (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What happens to the food we eat? How does it help our bodies? In this lesson, students learn about the human digestive system through reading and activities. Study skills are taught and modeled.

• Fiddlin' Around (Authored by Sandra Rosengren.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson students learn to play open strings on the violin, viola, cello, and bass using proper bow technique while playing "Twelve Bar Blues" in the key of D.

• Figuratively Speaking (Authored by Faith Daigle.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students construct and use vocabulary flipbooks to draw and describe three-dimensional figures.

• Figure This (Authored by Alice Bobe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students identify congruent figures and match shapes using transformation.

• Film at 11 (Authored by Abby Hill.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students, in a two-person team, research, create, and present a TV news report simulation about a hurricane disaster in their hometown.

• Finding Nice Things to Say (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)

Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students have the opportunity to praise all class members in a written form.

• First Things First (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After reviewing the trait of voice through teacher directed experiences, students complete a narrative writing (focusing on voice) and an illustration about their earliest memory.

• Flavorful Graphing (Authored by Jennifer Gompers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun extension to collecting, graphing, and analyzing data. Students work for a fictional advertising company and are looking to find what customers will like in new products.

• Flight Fair (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The teacher seizes the teachable moment to announce The Flight Fair, an opportunity for the students to conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight.

• Flips, Slides, and Turns (Authored by Renee Duncan.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a hands-on way for students to practice manipulating and drawing shapes to demonstrate the concept of flips, slides and turns. This lesson is especially beneficial to tactile and visual learners.

• Float My Boat (Authored by Gail Stukey.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Why will a small piece of wood sink, but a huge boat will float? Is it magic or is it density? In this lesson students will start with the same raw materials and come up with a wide variety of results in the use of density and the displacement of water.

• Florida Water Cycle (Authored by Carlos Lopez.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Discover the water cycle process that affects Florida. Students observe the water cycle in both a graphic presentation and a demonstration to learn about the stages and sequencing of the water cycle.

• Follow the Clues (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students read a story and predict words that make sense in replacing the nonsense words based on context clues. They choose appropriate words to match the meaning of nonsense words in sentences based on the context clues of the sentences.

• Food for Thought (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 6 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students play a fact and opinion game concerning foods.

• Food Pyramid (Authored by Pam Kennon.)

Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students understand the food pyramid, nutrients provided by each food group,and determine whether they are healthy eaters.

• Food Pyramid Picnic (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Teacher and students discuss the food pyramid and appropriate choices for each food group. Students then plan a nutritional meal for a picnic lunch and make a class book. As a culminating event, the class plans and enjoys a picnic.

• Forces of Change (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Days 9 and 10 of the unit [Bedlam in Bedrock]. Students create a class reference book about ways landforms change over time and share their Earth Explorer projects.

• Foul or Fair Ball? (Authored by Judy Smith.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This culminating activity to the novel , [The Pinballs], by Betsy Byars, reviews common fouls and possible alternative, positive behaviors.

• Four Corners Mystery: Where In The World Are We? (Authored by Gretchen Witherspoon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use the five fundamental themes of geography to research and describe various locations around the world in order to pose and answer the four corners mystery, -Where in the World Are We?-

• Fraction Action (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create fractions using strips of paper and then compare the fractions.

• Fraction and Decimal Garden (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write fractions and decimals using unifix cube models and grid paper. They draw a garden using grid paper and label each section with the correct fraction and decimal to the tenths.

• Fraction and Decimal Ordering (Authored by Lois Christensen.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn to order numbers in fraction and decimal form, in a critical thinking and kinesthetic fashion.

• Fraction Card Shark (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will understand the relative size of fractions using symbolic and concrete representations.

• Fraction Frenzy (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will identify fractions as part of a set.

• Fraction Pictures (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use pictures in their math lesson. They become numerical problem solvers as they create fractions from pictures, then write them into sentences.

• Fraction Popsicle Pop-ups (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students decorate and use popsicle sticks to use as manipulatives to assist with their learning of fractions.

• Fractions and Equivalents (Authored by Jeannel Lopez.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students uses Lego blocks, drawing paper, and visual aids to understand the meaning of fractions and the concept of equivalent proportions.

• Framed (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to experiment with and calculate perimeter and area of given shapes.

• Frictionally Speaking (Authored by Dawn Pack.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: All you need to teach your students about the effects of friction on a moving object is a handful of marbles, a paper cup, and string.

• Friends Helping Friends (Authored by Judith Bachay.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Emotional health is a component to the overall health of students. Students are presented with an opportunity to learn problem-solving skills through the lens of helping a friend. They practice effective communication skills by giving a speech.

• Fun Photosynthesis (Authored by Stephanie Callaway.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Give your students a chance to be the sun! Creative dramatics are used to internalize knowledge of the process of photosynthesis. Students analyze and predict the relevance of photosynthesis as it relates to the food chain and survival of all organisms. Students construct meaning and assimilate new learning through sentence mapping, drawing, writing activities, and acting-out opportunities. This mini-unit addresses the Marion County objective as follows: The student will describe the process of photosynthesis.

• Fun with Form (Authored by Debbie Reynolds.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Your students will successfully identify basic ABA form in a song after this fast-paced lesson, which uses simple activities and appeals to their various learning styles.

• Fun with Fractions (Authored by Michelle Nivison.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Do you have Fractionitis? This lesson plan will help you overcome this condition! Using fraction bars, you will learn to add fractions. You will soon be a Fraction Expert!

• Fun With Symmetry (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will have fun munipulating shapes to discover their multiple lines of symmetry. This activity helps students to see the lines of symmetry through colors. It gives students the ability to manipulate shapes to make their own lines of symmetry.

• Galaxy Adventure (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in groups to create a mnemonic device, give an oral presentation, and create a pictorial representation of the correct sequence of the planets and asteroid belt from the sun.

• Game Creator Extraordinaire (Authored by Michele Rivera.)

Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a way to have students work together in groups to invent new and creative games. Students also get the opportunity to teach others the games they created.

• Game Day Graphing (Authored by Kevin Hall.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students produce data tables and bar graphs from given sets of information and then analyze and explain the data displays.

• Gee O Me Tree (Authored by Gail Ladd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Gee O Me Tree is a unique way to get acquainted and create a welcoming bulletin board for your classroom as the students follow multiple-step oral directions and review geometric shapes.

• Geo-Folder (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create a Geo-Folder based on geometric terms and concepts.

• Geometric Glances (Authored by anne brandon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students capture pictures of geometric shapes with cameras and use geometric vocabulary to describe the pictures.

• Geometric Twins (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson explores the concept of congruency using dot paper so that a student can visualize, draw, and replicate different congruent shapes.

• Geometry Library (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write and illustrate books to make a class library of math term books. This is an excellent review for the FCAT math test.

• Geometry: Tessellations (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students apply knowledge of reflections, rotations, and translations in creating a tessellation.

• George Gorilla and Gallon Gorp (Authored by Sara Hubbard.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: George Gorilla and Gallon Gorp is an exciting hands-on lesson that enables elementary children to construct a gallon gorilla puzzle. In the process students learn measuring skills, make Gorilla Gorp, and enjoy their edible creation.

• Get in Order (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students practice putting events from a written passage in chronological order, both in groups and individually.

• Get In Shape: Exercise Daily (Authored by Stafford Nairn Jr..)

Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students begin the lesson with four exercises. Next, the students rest for a few minutes and then run one lap around the physical education field. After resting, students will complete the lesson with a four minute aerobic dance.

• Get into the Groove with Style (Authored by Roberto Gonzalez-Trigo.)

Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Style! Style! Style! Your students will identify four styles of music that are exciting and fun to learn. They will learn Classical, Rock, Jazz, and Caribbean music.

• Get Off the Couch and Get Busy (Authored by Robert Blair.)

Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will perform at 5 fitness stations a day for a week. Each fitness station will be based on a benefit of vigorous physical activity.

• Get Out of the Box (Authored by Nancy Slack.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Are your students stuck in a rut when it comes to writing? Get them to think outside the box with this lesson in organization through webbing.

• Get Ready for FCAT with Music in Our Schools Month! (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson encourages the integration of writing skills with music during Music in Our Schools Month, which is in March. Afterwards, the smiles on the students' faces when they see their essays displayed around school is reward enough.

• Get the Point! (Authored by Stephanie Hans.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use a variety of resources to gather information on the Civil War and then create PowerPoint presentations.

• Getting to Know Our Elected Officials (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Who is your favorite elected official? Students choose an elected official to research, and share their information in a report. The report must be focused, contain supporting details from various sources, and use correct conventions including indentation.

• Give a Mouse a Cookie (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students listen to story and record progression of ideas onto a chart.

• Gobble Up a Good Story (Authored by Lois Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a yummy way to create a simple story line for an original fairy tale. The students use an edible setting and a planning sheet to help them put all of the story details in the correct order.

• Goldfish Subtraction (Authored by Sheila Spiddle.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore subtraction and number sentences using Goldfish crackers.

• Gone to the Dogs (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students learn how to decode words by breaking multi-syllable words into basic syllables and counting those syllables. The children then play a station activity game that builds vocabulary and practices decoding multi-syllable words.

• Good Health Care (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn about safety, nutrition, personal hygiene, dental health, and the effects of rest and physical exercise on the human body. Students become aware of the jobs related to each of these health areas.

• Good Snack,Smart Snack (Authored by Carolyn Mannis.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After completing a unit of study on nutrition, students work as company managers to design and advertise healthy snacks to sell. A list of ingredients will be listed for each snack and an advertisement will be designed to promote their product.

• Governor's Garden (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The governor is planning to hire a landscape artist to design six polygonal gardens for the estate. Students create sketches of their plans and write an expository paragraph detailing their designs as part of the interview process for the job.

• Graph It (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use real life experiences (school Open House) to learn graphing skills and use technology for creating tables and graphs.

• Graph Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This learning activity is one of six in a station rotation where students go on a scavenger hunt to analyze how graphs are organized and used to solve problems. Students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze their own data using a graph.

• Graphing Valentine Candies (Authored by Mirtha Pineda.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will learn to organize and display information in bar graph form using appropiate labels.

• Graphing With Candy (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.

• Gripping Details (Authored by Shelley Mann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students examine literature for examples of paragraphs that are developed with gripping details.

• Growing a Literature Tree (Authored by Nancy Adams.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is one in a series of lessons on distinguishing features of literature. The students use prior knowledge of fairy tales and fables to create a literature tree map. They categorize literature as fiction or nonfiction and use bubble maps to show features.

• Guess What It Is? (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write and present a descriptive 'powergraph' that describes a secret object using prior knowledge of adjectives, clustering graphic organizers, and presentation skills. Authors read powergraphs and classmates 'Guess What It Is.'