Beacon Lesson Plan Library

   Lesson Plans - Learner Level 1

• 1, 2, 3 Hooray for Number Equivalency! (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use concrete materials, number symbols, and number words to represent equivalent amounts.

• 100s of Ants! (Authored by Desiree Senter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What does 100 look like? What is the best way for 100 Ants to move on? Students will have fun counting to 100 orally as they use grids to display the 100 raisins they counted.

• 12 Days of Christmas (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)

Subject(s): Music, Theater (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It’s also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become” the 12 Days of Christmas. Composition with instruments is also involved.

• A Closer Look (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using literature to stimulate recall, students and Curious George learn that objects are composed of many parts. Students group objects by their physical characteristics and various compositions. Magnifying glasses will be used.

• A Couch or a Potato (Authored by Kelley Harvey.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students classify objects/organisms seen on the Wakulla Springs icam website as living or nonliving.

• A Day for Our Presidents (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: No school on Monday! It is a national holiday. Do students understand the meaning and history of our national holidays? Students are invited to listen to, view, and discuss Presidents' Day, the national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February.

• A Hungry Cat Searches (Authored by Carole Gooden.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to the story [Panther: Shadow of the Swamp] to learn about the variety of plant and animal life in the Everglades and how loss of habitat impacts panthers. Students will alphabetize the names of the plants and animals by initial and second letter.

• A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My! (Authored by Michele Ludick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify parts of a plant using a graphic organizer.

• A Message From Your Heart (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn about the importance of the heart and show what they know about positive health behaviors that enhance wellness by completing a KWL chart. This is the first lesson, first day in the Happy, Healthy Me unit.

• A Penny for Abe (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln? Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tribute to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a penny.

• A Penny for Your Thoughts (Elementary) (Authored by Barbara Brown.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Math (mentalor written, addition and division) and letter writing (narrativeor expository) are utilized in a real-world problem to assist other children.

• A Picture is Worth a Fantastic Story (Authored by Elaine Padgett.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students select one of the photographs they have taken of friends, pets, parents or objects and write a story. The photos provide visual prompts and a supportive framework for their writing.

• A Tacky Cheer (Authored by Donna Rugg.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Would you make a good cheerleader? In this lesson, students make predictions, copy cheers, and make inferences as they read a story about an odd bird and his awkward attempts to help his fellow penguins win a cheering contest.

• A Trip to the Toy Store (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Common Cents. This is a fun, entertaining lesson where students are given the opportunity to practice skills they have learned during the week about money and spend money saved on a toy of their choice.

• A Visit to the Rain Forest (Authored by Carole Gooden.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to [The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest] to learn the names of animals and people found in the Amazon Rain Forest. They play a card game to arrange the animals in the sequence that they appeared in the story.

• A World of Cooperation and Exchange (Authored by Renee Flowers.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Description Using a student-made advertisement, students play an exchange game to reinforce the understanding that people in different places around the world depend on each other for the exchange of goods and services.

• A-maizing Facts (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit [Native Americans]. It focuses on using informational text to locate the Northeast Woodlands region and understanding how the climate, location, and physical surroundings of the region affected the way of life.

• ABAB Patterns PLEASE (Authored by Jamie Baeten.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity introduces the concept of ABAB patterns in a variety of fun ways. Using illustrations, unifix cubes, construction paper and even humans, students have opportunities to practice and demonstrate their understanding of patterns.

• ABC Beat the Clock Adventures (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an interesting lesson on putting letters and words in alphabetical order that involves games and cooperative learning to solve problems.

• ABC Bingo (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson reinforces the alphabet through a homemade ABC bingo game.

• ABC Detectives (Authored by Heidi Tilton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will alphabetize words according to the first letter while pretending to be detectives with magnifying glasses. Your students will also be working on their social skills and character development when working with their teams and partners.

• ABC Rhyme Time (Authored by Christine Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After producing a word family list, students will put the list in ABC order.

• ABC’s of Ramona (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students list words in alphabetical order according to initial and second letter. Various lists of words may be used for practice; however, initiate using proper nouns for assessment in capitalization.

• Abraham Lincoln (Authored by Ann Lyons.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to [Young Abraham Lincoln, Log-Cabin President] to learn the facts and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln. The students will work cooperatively to decide whether the index card that contains the pre-written fact or accomplishment is correct or incorrect. The index cards were created in a Word Document file.

• Action Counting to Ten (Authored by Patricia Hope.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children kinesthetically learn numbers by using interactive verses that describe how to write numbers from 1 – 10.

• Adding Jumping Lima Beans (Authored by Cynthia Santana.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is for a first grade class. It allows the students to relate to a real world experience, as they count off with real lima beans at the beginning of the lesson. This lesson is completely hands on, as students use their own plastic lima beans to count and add. How do we add numbers? How do we know when we’re supposed to add? Students will be able to add and to recognize the symbol of operation. Note: This activity consists of using manipulatives for addition only.

• Adopt a Manatee (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this writing activity, students will learn about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues.

• All Mixed Up (Authored by Colleen Habhab-Strickland.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Oh no! I dropped the color and number word cards! How will I ever get them sorted? This activity actively engages students in identifying and sorting words into the basic categories of color and number.

• Allowance Time (Authored by Janet Harrigan.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to show different ways to reach the same three digit total. Students use coin values to record data and to apply knowledge.

• Aloha Symmetry (Authored by Tara Ply.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Inspired by the story "Luka's Quilt," second graders use scissors and contrasting paper to create a handcrafted paper Hawaiian quilt square demonstrating their understanding of the concept of symmetry across two lines of reflection. Students will use their quilt square as the means of communicating what they have learned through a graphic display.

• Alphabet Animals (Authored by Elisabeth Coogle.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create an encyclopedia of unusual animals, using a variety of resources to collect their information. Each student illustrates an animal and provides a brief description for each letter of the alphabet.

• Altogether Now, The Five Senses (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Popping popcorn is a fun way to summarize the end of the five senses unit. It is easy to involve all the senses.

• Amazing Americans (Authored by Larissa Hardesty.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Who were the most Amazing Americans during the first 100 years of U.S. History? Discover the answer to that question in this research-based lesson. The students research an American with a partner(s) and present the information to the class.

• Ample Apples (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students make observations about the growing process of an apple tree. They complete expository writing and draw illustrations in a student writing book. This lesson includes a cooking activity.

• An Emerald Place (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is designed to invite first graders to discover the four layers of the rain forest and to help them identify the life of animals at each level.

• An Odd Pair of Eyes (Authored by Dena Reid.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson creates an enthusiastic environment for learning about odd and even numbers through chants, actions, manipulatives, and drawings. Students are guaranteed to be all smiles by the end of the lesson.

• And the Number Is (Kindergarten) (Authored by Nancy Bernath.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through the use of music and the manipulation of numeral cards and counting objects, the children learn to read numerals 1-10.

• Animal Homes Near and Far (Authored by Renee Benefield.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to list animal habitats. They conclude the lesson by selecting one of the habitats and writing about some of its characteristics and listing a few animals that live in that environment.

• Animals and Their Biomes (Authored by Mary Lirette.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using biome and animal flashcards, the learner will categorize the animals according to the biome in which they naturally live in with 100% accuracy.

• Animals Galore (Authored by Kay Davis.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students classify and sort animals into groups according to the structural characteristics.

• Ants in Your Pants (Authored by Diana Dome.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students investigate different ways numbers can be expressed as a sum and use a chart to record and analyze their findings. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet are incorporated.

• Apple Eaters (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an entertaining, cooperative learning lesson where students have the opportunity to taste a variety of apples and to graph which apple is the most favorite. Students practice their speaking skills by explaining the results of the group graph.

• Applemania (Authored by Debra Barbosa.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Lesson Description- Children will practice using the mathematical concepts of sorting, patterns, classifying, counting, and recording by participating in an authentic classroom survey and experiment.

• Are We There Yet? (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the review lesson for the unit, Going to Grandma’s. Using the Formative Assessment Checklist and all completed summative assessments, the teacher reinforces skills and concepts using the activities from this lesson.

• Are You Coordinated? (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn how to locate coordinate points on a grid. They create a graph during the lesson and identify the coordinate points.

• Are You Listening to Me? (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify differences between listening and not listening skills. Students learn how to use good listening skills when trying to solve a conflict. Students role-play using listening skills to resolve conflicts.

• Are You My Mother? (Authored by Lee Strain.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will discover baby animals look similar to their parents.

• Are You Sure They Lived Happily Ever After? (Authored by Diane Goodson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Have you ever wondered whether some of the fairy tales would have truly ended “happily ever after” if the story had continued? Predict what will happen after the frog prince marries the princess in the [The Frog Prince Continued].

• Arranging Numbers from 1 to 5 (Authored by Tammy Hales.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students are expected to explore arrangements of numbers up to 5 and explore conservation of numbers.

• Art in the Sky (Authored by Linda Pentiuk.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students become familiar with four types of clouds by experimenting with cameras and exploring the web. Students observe illustrator’s renderings of clouds and draw their own representation of clouds.

• Artfully Speaking (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 12 of the unit [Native Americans]. It is to be done after [The Seminoles] lesson plan on the same day. Students will complete a My Favorite Artwork form and use it to practice speaking to small groups.

• As the Earth Turns (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Why do the sun and moon seem to disappear and reappear making day and night? This lesson demonstrates the rotation of the earth.

• At the Corral (Authored by Sandra Rosengren.)

Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: "Down at the ranch" students learn dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythm pattern using percussion instruments and alternating from "corral to corral" in groups of 4-6. They play the pattern while listening to selected American western theme songs.

• Bags of Numbers (Authored by Todd Hauser.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a hands on activity designed to allow the child to use manipulatives to count orally with a one to one correspondence.

• Be An Expert (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Days 5-7 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will read informational texts to become “experts” on a Native American culture group. They will record notes and make a project to inform the class about their culture group.

• Bearly There (Authored by Judith McCormick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce measurement. After reading How Long Is A Foot? the students use nonstandard measuring devises to measure different items and place them in order from longest to shortest.

• Bears in a Box (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students enjoy using counting bears to predict the missing addends. Using these concrete materials they are able to see and understand the concept of missing addends. An added plus is the students cannot wait to see how many bears are really hiding in the box.

• Bears Odd Bears Even (Authored by Karen Beck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use counters and cubes to classify and model numbers as even or odd.

• Beary Good Problem Solvers (Authored by Dena Reid.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a “beary” fun way to practice adding and subtracting operations. Students act out problems using teddy bears, write and solve number sentences.

• Bicycle Safety (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn how to operate and practice safe behavior on bicycles.

• Big, Bigger, Biggest (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate keyboarding skills to illustrate big, bigger, biggest and small, smaller, smallest in a transportation picture. (NETS for Students: 1.1 and 3.1)

• Bird's Eye View (Authored by Linda Pentiuk.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students become familiar with different types of maps by exploring books. Students create their own representation of a map.

• Bits and Pieces! (Authored by Priscilla Boan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to the story [Winter Fun] written by Rita Schlachter. They listen for information throughout the story that relates to the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

• Blooming with Self-Confidence (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Many children worry about not being able to do what other children can do. This lesson will help them understand and respect differences in readiness and abilities, as they read the book [Leo the Late Bloomer] and make flowers of their own.

• Bodaciously Beautiful Butterflies Take Flight (Authored by Heather Watson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for K-1 students. The students complete a study on butterflies using real caterpillars. Each student keeps a personal daily journal of observations and completes a timeline for their caterpillar/butterfly.

• Body Buddies (Authored by Jennifer Ryan.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is an interactive way to introduce body parts to first graders. After students are introduced to new vocabulary, they work in pairs to construct and label twenty body parts on a life-size outline of their bodies.

• Bouncing Balloon Volley (Authored by Rhonda Gibbons.)

Subject(s): Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to volley, consistently striking a balloon with their hands using a two-handed underhand pattern, proper stance and an appropriate amount of force in order to keep the balloon in their self-space.

• Bountiful Butterflies (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After creating a symmetrical design resembling a butterfly, the students describe symmetry. Using their pictures students then write a story about the butterfly while focusing on creative ideas.

• Bright Sky, Night Sky (Authored by cheryl martinez.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through this activity students will apply information known about the differences found in the sky.

• Buggy Beats (Authored by Deborah Supe.)

Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students have an opportunity to use both creative and logical sides of the brain by developing an understanding that ALL words have a logical, patterned rhythm of their own, and by being able to create and perform their own unique musical compositions.

• Buggy Patterns (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This literature-based lesson is the second lesson from the unit plan Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Students learn to identify, create, predict, extend, and use patterns.

• Building Blueprints (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate the use of mouse skills to design and print a created blueprint of a building. (NETS for Students: 3.2)

• Building With Blends (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students learn how to blend sound components into words by completing a whole group activity with the teacher. They then use this knowledge in a station activity game where they match word parts with blends to form complete words.

• Butterflies and Frogs (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit plan, Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Included in this lesson are activities for days 6 and 7. Students identify patterns found in nature.

• Butterfly Bonanza (Authored by Becky Peltonen.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: How do butterflies change and grow over time? After looking at butterflies, reading about butterflies and singing about butterflies, students will be able to describe the life cycle of the butterfly.

• Button Bonanza (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group activity in which students sort, classify, and write about how they sort buttons.

• Buttons R Us (Authored by Randy Bowne.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students compare buttons by attributes. Using their data, the students create different types of graphs demonstrating what they have learned.

• C.M. Beg (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an interesting lesson about the concept of living things. Students will be introduced to a pretend boy named C.M. Beg. The initials of the boy will be a mnemonic device to help students understand the basic characteristics of living things. C stands for change. M stands for move. Be stands for breath. E stands for eat. G stands for grow.

• Calculating Cats (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Come along with the “Calculating Cats” and learn all about calculators and how to add and subtract whole numbers less than 1,000.

• Can I Be Your Friend? (Authored by Ann Lyons.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading, [Charlie, the Caterpillar] to the class, students write one paragraph about how they can be a good friend.

• Can I Put You in Your Place? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students play a game that allows them to place number cards in an order to make the least three digit number possible using place value. Students compare these numbers with a partner to see who has the least three digit number.

• Can You See it, Touch it, Hear it? (Authored by summer zephyr.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through this lab activity, students are helped with development of their observational skills. (This lesson may be used with students at any grade level.)

• Can You Sense Scents? (Authored by Becky Peltonen.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: During this hands-on lesson, students will use their sense of smell to identify familiar scents.

• Cars, Trucks and Things That Go Sorting Fun! (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group activity in which students have fun sorting, classifying and writing about how they sort transportation vehicles.

• Cat's Meow One Through Ten (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through the use of classroom activities, role-play and cooperative learning, students practice counting and reading numerals 1-10.

• Catch Me! (Authored by Jeanette Robaldo.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This read-aloud activity gives students basic ideas and vocabulary to speak about a leprechaun trap.

• Catching a Balanced Diet (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn the importance of balanced meals and select foods that make up a balanced meal by playing a fishing game.

• Celebrate You (Authored by Beverly Stanley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity reinforces the uniqueness of each student on his/her birthday. The students learn through a pictorial graphing activity about the months of the year. Students write about their special birthday traditions.

• Celsius Tells Temperature, Too (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the sixth lesson in the Unit Weather Watchers. Students become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them. Concept of telling the temperature on a Celsius thermometer is introduced as students identify and record temperatures on Celsius thermometers through hands-on activities and games.

• Chairs That Speak Rhythm (Authored by Marguerite Schmitzer.)

Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using chairs to visualize beats, this lesson introduces the concepts of whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes to second graders.

• Chasing Peter's Wolf (Authored by Sharon Hardy.)

Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to Prokoviev's Peter and the Wolf, relate the story to the music and identify instruments and their representative characters. Students learn that music communicates events and images that help the listener to better understand a story.

• Chip Off the Old Block (Authored by J Drag.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use cards showing pictures of adult and baby animals to identify similar characteristics shared by parents and their offspring.

• Christmas Counting 1 - 25 (Authored by Karen Minks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students count 25 M&M's in correct order.

• Christmas Shoppers (Authored by anne brandon.)

Subject(s): Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children use a parachute and shopping bags to play a Christmas shopping game.

• Cinderella Stories (Authored by Judy Albero.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: While doing this lesson, students will be able to remember, compare, and contrast two different Cinderella stories of their choice.

• Class Quilt (Authored by Joy Whithaus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity will promote acceptance of diversity within the classroom through the creation of a class quilt. Students will evaluate the final product to find commonalities with other students.

• Classroom Behavior Role Play (Authored by Jennifer Marshall.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students analyze appropriate and inappropriate classroom behavior after listening to and discussing MISS NELSON IS MISSING by Harry Allard and James Marshall.

• Clips, Cards, Rocks and Rulers (Authored by Lara Weeks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students work in pairs to use standard and non-standard tools to measure classroom objects. Partners compare data and respond to a journal prompt that provides application to real-world situations.

• Cloud Watcher (Authored by Pamela Hoover.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Who wants to be a cloud watcher? Students will learn the names of clouds and the patterns of weather they may bring. Students will spend 2 adventurous weeks predicting the weather by watching the clouds.

• Cloud Watchers (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the third lesson in the second grade unit on weather called Weather Trackers. Students identify the main types of clouds and the type of weather they typically bring as far as rain is concerned. The concept of matter as a gas and liquid will be observed by a classroom experiment where “clouds” are produced using hot water and ice. Students do a group activity where they draw their special cloud formations and make a class graph.

• Clouds of Spelling Words (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students receive a folded piece of paper and copy the spelling words onto the paper with a word in each block. They then trace the spelling words four times with four different colored crayons. This is a kinesthetic way to practice writing the spelling words.

• Color Me Green if I Am a Five (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by fives? Here is a quick, sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by fives, the students will color the number and only the number with a green crayon.

• Color Me Red if I Am a Ten (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by tens? Here is a quick sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by tens, the students will color the number and only the number with red.

• Colors that Melt in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand (Authored by Lindsay Bryan.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will sort balls according to their color, and then record their answers on an activity sheet. Students will also sort colored candies into different color groups.

• Common Sense Cookie Shop (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children count and add money to “shop” for cookies. The lesson involves role-play, graphing results and cooperative learning.

• Community Helpers Wheel (Authored by Beth McArthur.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using a hand-made spinner, students play a game to reinforce the understanding that some community helpers are producers of goods and some provide a service.

• Community Quilt (Authored by Manuel Bustamante.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson helps build communication between students, teachers, administrators, and parents. This is a wonderful lesson to promote English language learning in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner.

• Copy Me If You Can (Authored by Carolyn Rosier.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Learning to recognize symmetry in the environment is fun as children try to copy each other as they take turns creating a butterfly symmetrically decorated with colors and shapes.

• Count by Fives (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Counting by fives can be a challenge. This lesson gives students an opportunity to explore counting by fives in a variety of activities including using a hundreds chart and manipulatives.

• Counting by Fives for an Hour (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn that counting by fives will help them to tell time.

• Counting Down to Christmas Vacation (Authored by Jane Seevers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students write numerals on a snowman and count off the days until Christmas vacation, using cotton balls to mark the days.

• Counting to One Hundred (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Counting to one hundred is a major achievement for kindergarteners. In this lesson, students refine their oral counting skills using a hundreds chart and pennies as manipluatives.

• Crabby Mystery (Authored by Barbara Bloodworth.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce nonstandard measuring to students. Students will measure the length of a molting hard shell crab and estimate if the new shell will be longer or shorter after molting.

• Create A Map! (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are independently and actively involved in creating their own school campus maps and they also review two- and three- dimensional shapes.

• Creative Cats (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use cat counters, pictures and numbers to solve joining problems.

• Creature Features (Early Grades) (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students select an animal and simple reference books to choose and share pictures and facts about their selected animals through the construction of story boards. As a culminating activity, students make a video of animal facts to share with the class.

• Cruising Through Clouds (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will be able to name the three major types of clouds and describe the characteristics of each cloud.

• Cubes, Sums and a Little Fun (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson,students work with partners to make and solve additon problems using number cubes and unifix cubes.

• De Colores (Authored by Maria Gyory.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will be able to understand how some Spanish color words change their endings and how other color words remain the same, according to the nouns that they modify.

• Dead or Alive (Authored by Michelle Passeretti.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The lesson is designed to allow students to analyze non-living and living objects by forming a T chart. Students make a collage to demonstrate what they have learned.

• Dead Words Come Alive! (Authored by Shannon Anderson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an exciting way for second graders to learn about synonyms and increase their vocabulary at a rapid pace. It is designed to be used all year on a daily basis.

• Dear Teacher (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading [Dear Mr. Blueberry], a book by Simon James that models letter writing, students write their own letters to their teacher.

• Deep Blue Sea (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Would you like to live under the sea or on land? Come and explore with us as we take a look at some of our animal friends and the plants that they live with.

• Dia de San Valentin (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen and repeat common phrases associated with Valentine's Day and create a Valentine for someone, using the Spanish phrases they learned.

• Different Tribes, Different Times (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson plan is for Day 10 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will be actively involved in center activities utilizing informational texts to focus more in depth on Native American culture groups from different regions and times.

• Dino’s Diner (Authored by Susan Mercer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create a modern day dinosaur menu to generate creative ideas regarding what dinosaurs would eat at an imaginary restaurant.

• Dinosaur Patterns (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will use dinosaur counters to identify, copy, create and extend a pattern that is repeated at least three times.

• Dinosaurs Dancing Counting (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The student counts objects in a group to find out how many.

• Direct Express (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 3 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will explore speaking for different purposes (i.e., to inform, to express ideas, and to entertain).

• Do You Have the Time? (Authored by Reshecia McNeil.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Do You Have the Time? enables students to learn how to tell time using digital and analog clocks to the hour and half-hour.

• Don't Open That Door! (Authored by Tammy Hales.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students act out the story THE DOORBELL RANG by Pat Hutchins in a small group setting to learn about parts of a whole.

• Doodle Bug Family Web (Authored by Nancy Strong.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students doodle to create a web about their family to prepare for writing. All bugs are worked out prior to the final draft.

• Dot Two Dot (Authored by Linda Joyner.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students compare two numbers at a given time. The students then make an educated decision as to which number is larger, which number is smaller, or if the numbers are equal by putting the correct number of dots by each number.

• Down by the Bay (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will engage in a predicting and counting activity through simulated fishing as a way to identify the bluefish of St. Andrew Bay.

• Down to the Root of the Plant (Authored by 2301.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through discussion and activity about roots of plants, students will identify types of roots and their purposes and will observe and document root growth.

• Drawing with Scissors like Matisse (Authored by Belinda Brown.)

Subject(s): Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Snip colorful pieces of paper into a cut-work creation that expresses something you love or makes your heart happy. Use the style of drawing with scissors like Matisse to design a colorful cut-work masterpiece that reflects your personality.

• Dynamite Dimes (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a fun and entertaining lesson on dimes called Dynamite Dimes. Students have the opportunity to explore dimes in a game format. Students learn through teacher instruction, hands-on experiences, group activities and games. (This is the second lesson in the unit, Common Cents).

• E.T. Write Home (Authored by Susan Mercer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading [The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System,] the students will pretend they're E.T. writing letters home describing his adventures through the solar system in a journal format.

• Earth Bags (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will write and illustrate ideas for helping our environment on paper grocery bags that will be distributed at the local grocery store.

• Easy Estimating (Authored by Debbie Funkhouser.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: -Easy Estimating- introduces children to the fun of estimating and graphing while incorporating the concepts of less, more and equal.

• Eco the Gecko and the Story of Economics (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Eco the Gecko, a puppet, leads students on a journey to discover basic concepts of economics.

• Egg Carton Math (Authored by Gina Widener.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are asked to recognize numbers 1-10 from a flash card held by the teacher and put the amount of beans in an egg cartoon that corresponds to the number the teacher holds up.

• Eight Stars in the Night Sky (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Can you count eight stars in the night sky? This eighth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting continues students’ exploration of the day and night skies. A page for the number 8 is added to students’ counting books.

• El Joki Poki (The Hokey Pokey) (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn the Spanish words for prepositions and act them out as they sing and act out the motions to the song, “El Joki Poki” (The Hokey Pokey).

• El Menu (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students make a menu (in Spanish) and present it to the class.

• Estimation in a Jar (Authored by Amanda Ellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Fill a jar with goodies and guess what happens! Use some of your favorite teacher “stuff” for students to use to estimate, group, count, and journal.

• Even and Odd Numbers (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: First graders use patterns in order to identify and recognize even and odd numbers.

• Exercise - The Right Stuff (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn regular exercise keeps the body strong and healthy. They make an exercise chain and practice the activities written on the links.

• Expert Review (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Day 13 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will review both social studies and language arts unit concepts.

• Explore Three-Dimensional Shapes (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are “Shapes” for the day, They are assigned to a shape group and will be exploring three-dimensional shapes. They are continuing to review map skills and two-dimensional shapes while being involved in fun and enriching activities.

• Express Yourself (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Days 9-10 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will practice speaking to a small group about their favorite part of a Native American tale. Peer partners will assess each other’s performances.

• Express Yourself! (Authored by Alicia Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist.

• Eye No the Write Won! (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students practice with synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.

• Eye Spy! (Authored by Polly Beebe.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using a Mystery Bag, the What Do You See? game, and an on-campus field trip with Eye-Spy binoculars, students have the opportunity to use descriptive words in many fun ways.

• Face the Facts to Remember (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use manipulatives, drawings, and story problems to learn the two's multiplication tables. After learning how to find answers,they participate in a memory game to match facts and answers.

• Fact or Fantasy Writing (Authored by Renee Benefield.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This simple lesson introduces fiction and non-fiction writing. Students see that some written text is for pleasure and enjoyment while some is for relaying information. They get to experience both types during the lesson.

• Facts of Matter (Authored by Priscilla Boan.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will be involved in making group decisions about matter. They will explore and interpret many types of matter as well as grouping matter.

• Fahrenheit Follies (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Weather Trackers. This is a fun and entertaining lesson on temperature. Students learn about temperature using hands-on activities and games.

• Fair is Fair (Authored by Teri Grunden.)

Subject(s): Health, Social Studies, Theater (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn more about the concept of -fairness- by being involved in two unfair activities, role-playing three scenarios, and filling in a web about fairness.

• Fancy Names (Authored by Christine Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After learning about closed and open figures, students will explore their own names to see if they contain closed figures.

• Fantastic Fractions (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Do you have only a fraction of time to teach fractions? Well, here is the lesson for you! Fantastic Fractions teaches students the difference between 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. Students will use their imagination and pictures from magazines.

• Feels Like Christmas, Exploring Touch (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The sense of touch helps us learn about our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture, and shape of things. In this activity, students will classify four different sandpaper shapes by using only their sense of touch.

• First Day at School (Authored by Aida Losada.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What happens the first day at school? Let's read a story. Students will then role play and retell the story.

• Fish Count (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students participate in hands-on activities in which they count and match objects to 10 or more using one-to-one correspondence and make a record of objects counted, which will be kept in a math portfolio.

• Fish Eyes Sort (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group instructional lesson in which students sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.

• Fishing for Fun (Authored by Juanita Looper.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students categorize fish crackers into groups by color then compare the 2 groups using the symbols <, =, and >.

• Fishing for Success (Authored by Shelia Ray.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through a literature-based lesson students identify strategies to assist those in need. Problem-solving is discussed. Oral language as well as written will be emphasized.

• Fishing for Tens (Authored by Beth Malone.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students discover how to make ten while engaged in a card game that encourages mathematical thinking.

• Five Fingers for Eating Lunch (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Where in the sky is the sun while you are eating lunch? This fifth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 5.

• Five Little Monkeys (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students act out subtraction situations.

• Five Little Pumpkins (Authored by Jill Taylor.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to play rhythm instruments as part of a rhythm band to accompany the well-known poem, "Five Little Pumpkins." They learn instrument names, playing techniques, and playing at the appropriate time. Students learn how to perform a vocal solo.

• Fleece, Feathers, and Fur (Authored by Ann Espersen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The slide-show presentation and colorful website pictures in this lesson will captivate students’ attention. This is a great way to expand interests and vocabulary while teaching prediction and categorizing using the book [Is Your Mama a LLama]?

• Flowers Growing Through Music, Rhymes & Movement (Authored by Beth Delmar.)

Subject(s): Music, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Begin with a traditional singing rhyme, which leads us to "plant" seeds in the ground. From there, we experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and "tickling" bees.

• Folded Fractions (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use various geometric shapes to represent fractional parts.

• Four Animal Legs at Sunset (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Did you know that the sun is a star? This fourth lesson of the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in counting and literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 4.

• Fraction Feast! (Authored by Anne Roundtree.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson introduces the concept of fractions to kindergarten students.

• Fraction Fun (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson students learn to identify common fractions. Students should already be familiar with the terms numerator and denominator.

• Fractions in Clay (Authored by Rose Keasey.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Engage students in clay-play with a purpose. Students use modeling clay to represent fractions. They create sets of objects as directed by task cards.

• Frank Oo Berry Mush (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: -Frank Oo Berry Mush- provides students practice in writing, incorporating reasons to support ideas and responding constructively to other’s comments.

• Franklin Roosevelt and the Dime (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: How many terms can a president serve? Franklin Delano Roosevelt served four terms. Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tributes to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a dime.

• Frantically Fragmented (Authored by summer zephyr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After instruction on recognizing sentence fragments, students practice changing the fragments into complete sentences. This is an excellent exercise for ESOL students.

• Freeze Pops (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students experience problem-based learning as they use prior knowledge of the states of matter to keep a frozen juice bar from melting. This science lesson is literature based.

• From Peanuts to Peanut Butter (Authored by Erika Hall.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is a creative way to introduce young learners to the accomplishments of scientist and inventor George Washington Carver. The students get to experience a variety of products created from peanuts.

• Gator Pie, Anyone? (Authored by Mary Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity introduces children to fractions in an active manner. The students listen to a story, manipulate flannel board figures, and cut soft cookies and paper plates into equal parts.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 1: Gee Quiz! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Geo George, the geometric puppet, introduces the unit to students. The children are drawn into a conversation with George to check for prior knowledge about shapes. Once relaxed and warmed-up, the class participates in taking the diagnostic assessment.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 2: Math Mouth! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Ready for the challenge, Geo George has a wonderful game for teaching children the difficult and unusual mathematically correct vocabulary words encountered on the diagnostic assessment. The game develops student understanding of these difficult terms.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 3: Math Moments on My Mind (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students begin a Math Moments journal in which they freely write about the day’s math immersion, recording personal thoughts about what they learned, something they are wondering about, a response to a lead question, and/or a letter to Geo George.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 4: Sing a Song of Shapes (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn five songs to define and develop understanding of the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures and the meaning of mathematical terms. Through use of the attribute songs, students classify objects as either two- or three-dimensional.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Working in groups of four, students utilize song lyrics, past knowledge, correct mathematical language, and speaking skills, to name, categorize, and describe various two- and three-dimensional shapes and objects.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Practicing purposeful listening during this Shared Reading component, students experience mathematical language as it is enjoyed in the rhyme and reason of poetry.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Entry in the Math Moments journal begins with student reflections on the day, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about. Response to a higher-order thinking question rounds out the writing experience.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 10: Patterned Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through comparing and contrasting related two- and three-dimensional shapes, students complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an attribute poem.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. Oral presentation of design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting lesson that stretches student thinking.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 8: Copy Cat (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are taught the technology skills of copy and paste as geometric language is introduced. Skills are developed and used to create a computer-generated page defining attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes using the new vocabulary.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This Shared Reading lesson has students participating in vocabulary building through the reading of and interaction with poetry. Each poem presents the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 12: Geo Gee-Hawin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In order to review unit content, with specific focus on geometric vocabulary students are expected to understand and use effectively, Geo George plays a Math Mouth word game with the class giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge with geoboards.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Listening for geometric shapes occurring in the natural environment as presented in a student-generated story, students identify each natural object and correctly label it as the geometric shape that it is according to its attributes.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 14: Give It a Whirl (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Exploration of rotating 3-D shapes at varied speeds has students discovering, discussing, and questioning. Personal reflections move students to a hands-on activity that has them transition a two-dimensional square into a three-dimensional pinwheel.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this writing lesson, students investigate musical instruments of varying geometric shapes that correspond with the three-dimensional shapes studied, and write shape pattern tunes, which will be read and played by students on the geometric instruments.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 16: Capturing "Lions" of Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students take to the Author's Chair and share poems written at home for the Capturing “Lions” of Poetry Literacy Link parent page. The class listens with purpose for the correct attributes of the shape for which each poem was written, as well as for quality speaking traits.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 17: Geo Sakes Alive! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Pleased with students’ knowledge of two- and three-dimensional attributes, Geo George gives students the opportunity to utilize mathematical language. The challenge is to create a geo puppet by following directions given geometrically.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 18: By George! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Taking on the identity of their geometric puppet, students write a script. The script describes the attributes the puppet had as a two-dimensional square and the attributes it has now as a three-dimensional character.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 19: Hey, Hey, Whaddaya Say! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses. Individual student tapes will be sent home to afford further opportunity for recorded practice and parental assistance.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 6, Lesson 20: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Geo George leads students and friends through a review of all targeted standards. Children don their puppets and join their character in chorus, conversation, and choral correspondence.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 7, Lesson 21: Dear George (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In their journals, students write a letter to Geo George reflecting on the unit, activities, and things they learned. Included will be their favorite part of the unit, the hardest part for them, what they learned, and their thoughts on their performance.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 1: Math in Motion (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Swirling, rotating, changing, sliding. . . stimulate interest with shapes in motion to prepare students for entry into the world of geometric design. Analysis and synthesis questions are served as the appetizer before the diagnostic assessment is given.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Teacher and students are a dynamic duo who search a geometry Website to identify geometric vocabulary words, record them on a Quilt Word Wall, and dance them out together. Words are displayed to take on characteristics of different design patterns.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 3: Moo-vin (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Put the meaning of newly introduced vocabulary to the tune of “Hokey Pokey” and children develop an understanding through music and dance. Lyrics are read as a whole group and become a Guided Reading experience where more geometric vocabulary is discovered within.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students predict the outcome of the slide, flip, and turn of a triangle by transforming their thoughts and ideas into informational text. The recorded text is tested for accuracy and through peer feedback is written to perfection.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 5: Do You Hear What I Hear? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Following directions given in poetry fashion, students apply newly learned geometric vocabulary to successfully create an animal. Reading informational text for key words and specific purpose and comprehension of geometric terms is the focus.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 6: Quilt Story (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through literature, discussion, and response to critical thinking questions, students recognize the use of geometric components in quilts, and that quilts are an artistic form that reflect the cultural heritage of the people who design them.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 10: Wanna Trade? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through critical thinking questions, students develop an understanding of the way trade helps meet the basic needs of people, ways people can conserve and replenish their resources, and that quilts are an art form that reflect our cultural heritage.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 11: A Stitch in Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through reading personal size booklets, class discussion, and viewing of historical quilts, students are enlightened to the culturally artistic value of quilts, the importance of trade in meeting basic needs, and the conservation of natural resources.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 7: Start At Square One (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using manipulatives, students explore new shape possibilities by combining two and four triangles. A critical thinking approach is used to guide students’ predictions and discoveries with design.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 8: Can You Please Give Me Directions? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Guided reading strategies are utilized to teach students how to effectively read informational text. Challenged to cut a tangram, students read how-to directions and demonstrate their understanding of geometric terms to complete the task successfully.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 9: Bringing It To A Fine Gloss-ary (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate their understanding of geometric vocabulary and informational text by working independently to create their own glossary of terms. Investigative exploration with tangrams creates an arena for critical thinking and problem solving.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 12: Jammin (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Utilizing learning aides, students are guided through a fast-paced review of vocabulary, language arts, geometry, and social studies concepts. Participation in choral reading, performance, and sharing of ideas are the means of concept clarification.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 13: Reflections (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students write predictions for new word meanings. Through small group and classroom discussions, students forge their way to developing an understanding of the line of symmetry, and gear up for an exploration of symmetry.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 14: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Led in exploration by accepting statements and probing questions, students work in small groups with mirrors to discover and identify the characteristics of symmetry, with the intent to write a description of symmetry and to locate the line of symmetry.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 15: The Quiltmaker's Gift (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using observation skills, students develop an eye for symmetry through literature. Class discussion is the arena whereby students hone in on the correct use of content language to enhance understanding and conceptualization of targeted concepts.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 16: The ABC of Symmetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Steps for an art project are used for guided reading. The activity develops a deeper understanding of how to read informational text, symmetry as it pertains to all elements of design, and art as part of history that reflects aspects of daily life.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 17: Granny's Attic (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Take a computer trip through Granny’s attic to see what old quilts can be found. Examine original quilt designs as displayed on large screen monitor. Then use children’s literature and class discussion to develop the social studies connection.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 18: Coordinated! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: A sequence of drawings performed by the teacher, leads students to make associations with the object being drawn and geometry content learned in prior lessons. Through questioning students unlock Quadrant 1 of a coordinate plane and new vocabulary words.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 19: Geo Junction (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using a geoboard as a coordinate grid and pieces of drinking straws as markers, students locate and mark coordinate points on the geoboard. Located points are transferred to geo dot paper where students identify the point by writing the coordinates.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 20: Listening for Patterns (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Knowledge and understanding of patterns are extended through the use of literature as students make enriched connections to patterns in the real-world and transferring ideas.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 21: The Important Thing (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Criteria are presented for designing a quilt block design. Students demonstrate their depth of understanding of math content by using their knowledge of the concepts and transferring it into a literary pattern to write a class big book.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 22: Authentic Design (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Handmade quilts presented by the local Quilters Guild give students the opportunity to view, first-hand, a menagerie of quilt types, patterns, and themed designs. Students experience the actual size and complexity of handmade quilts and their designs.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 23: Colors To Dye For (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Experiencing samples and reading about colors in fabric deepen understandings that works of art reflect cultural heritage, that trade helps families meet their basic needs, and that people can use and conserve their natural resources.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The most important thing about this lesson is the class wrote the book themselves. It reviews symmetry, line of symmetry, congruent, slide, flip, turn, shapes within a shape, and patterns. But the important thing is that the class wrote the book themselves.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 25: Geo Jungle (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Knowledge of geometry is taken to the woods as students walk the school grounds in search of symmetry in nature. Their finds are brought back to the classroom, preserved by pressing, and then used as the focus of a student generated narrative.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 26: Tangram Tantrums (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Virtual manipulatives and tangrams give students a lesson in geometric terms they won’t forget. Challenged with odd shaped puzzles, students must effectively see shapes within a shape, and correctly direct piece movement with the terms slide, flip, turn.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 27: DeSigning Coordinates (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Geo dot paper is used as a grid for coordinate geometry, making a familiar arena for performing a most unusual task. Letters are assigned to each dot. The challenge is to decode each word using given coordinates and then to illustrate each with tangrams.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 28: The Mo-tea-if (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Preparing a fabric swatch for appliquéing begins with reading informational text and directions for tea dying cloth. The task comes full circle as students are given a piece of fabric, and use tea leaves to dye it to the shade of their choosing.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 29: Geo Jabber (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Given a vocabulary word by the teacher, students show what they know by jabbering on their geoboard. Students silently present created illustrations or demonstrations for each word by holding up individual geoboards.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 30: Manipulative Mania (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Explore and experiment with creating designs with specific components is one individual activity that students engage in. As students transfer designs and use a checklist to check for inclusiveness, each is summatively assessed on selected standards.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 31: Ge-0h Boy, Oh Boy (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through literature, students see an authentic use for stitching that goes beyond the coverlet and quilting as a feminine pastime. The concepts of quilting come full circle and students learn that it is useful for boys, as well as girls.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 32: Applique-tion of Learning (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Appreciation for quilts as an art form, trade item, and as a way to conserve resources is developed by students reading and applying how-to text to actually hand appliqué a motif design to background fabric using three different styles of stitches.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 33, Unpack My Mind to Make a Design (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Design pumps are primed and creative juices start to flow as students view various quilt pattern designs to identify and label components of each. Students then work independently on creating a quilt block design. (Summative Assessment A)

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 34: Flying Geese (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The Flying Geese quilt pattern is used as a graphic organizer for classifying learned concepts. Using student-generated ideas, the teacher models use of the design for organizing knowledge and writing recorded ideas into paragraphs for a report.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 35: Scatter Brain (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The word is out! Challenge students to decode the message by locating the given coordinate points of letters scattered on a coordinate grid. Then, using letter coordinates from the grid, students write a coded message to parents.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 36: DeSign Sampler (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using pictures of quilts, student groups follow presented criteria and utilize the role of each student to write quilt reports. This exercise affords students another opportunity to prepare for the summative assessment given the following day.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 37: Summarizing for the Summative (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Purposeful listening and discretionary ears are a must as peers listen to group reports and offer positive and corrective feedback with regards to content criteria. This summarizing activity prepares students for the summative assessment of like design.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 38: Kool Cups (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Caution, fun ahead! Students read informational text and use mathematical language for the specific purpose of making geometric cups! Students proceed through the lesson to make cups per direction specifications. To test for accuracy, fill with Kool-Aid.

• Geo-Town (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use a checklist to construct a Geo-Town map including a compass rose, a map key, and a paragraph about a walk around Geo-Town, using appropriate geometric and directional vocabulary to identify the two-dimensional figures encountered on the walk.

• GeoDraw (Authored by Ruth Meinke.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: GeoDraw is a two-part activity to reinforce the student’s ability to recognize and identify three-dimensional figures in a fun way. It includes an art activity and a card game.

• Get Hooked on Conflict Resolution Skills (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After being taught the Peaceworks curriculum for managing conflict, students will participate in a fishing game that encourages the appropriate response when asked questions on conflict resolution skills.

• Get Hungry for Cooperation (Authored by Shelia Ray.)

Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students, through music, movement, and literature, are taught the meaning and value of cooperation.

• Getting to Know My Apple (Authored by Louise Glover.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: By applying each of the 5 senses, students will compare an apple to unlike things in a similie poem. ie: The apple tastes sour like a lemon.

• Getting to Know Our School (Authored by Akishna Glasper.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Who works at our school and what do they do? This is a great lesson for the first few weeks of school. In this lesson students explore their school and the various types of people who work there (school nurse, custodian, and principal). The students interview these people and complete an activity based on the information they have obtained.

• Gingerbread Genius (Authored by Tammy Hanlon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will sort by different attributes and name the sorting rule they used to sort their gingerbread men.

• Give Me Five at Christmas Time (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students become aware of their senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song. This is the first lesson in A “Sense”sational Christmas unit that also includes a diagnostic assessment.

• Give Me Five! (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children hear a story about cooperation and identify different ways in which they can use their hands for helping.

• Give Me Five, Cents That Is (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Give Me Five is the third lesson in the unit, Common Cents. It is an interesting lesson on nickels. Students learn money concepts through entertaining games, teacher instruction, hands-on activities, role play and partner work.

• Go Far in a Car (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Traveling in a car can take you near or far. Through this literature-based lesson, students learn about rhyming words, that different things move at different speeds, and vocabulary as they explore transportation.

• Go-o-o Tooth! (Authored by Pamela Williams.)

Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify healthy and unhealthy choices which will help them take proper care of their teeth for a lifetime.

• Going Batty (Authored by Donna Nelson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: We are going batty! In this lesson students begin with the word "at" then learn about bats and other things ending with "at."

• Going My Way? (Authored by Maria Gyory.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create and utilize a picture graph of the various means of transportation that they use to return home at the end of the school day.

• Going to Grandma's (Authored by Jennifer Marshall.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After listening to and reading [The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's] by Shirley Neitzel, students pack their bags for such a trip.

• Goldilocks and the Bears Make Their Pitch (Authored by Elizabeth Roederer.)

Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to the story of [Goldilocks and the Three Bears] and identify the pitch of the bears' voices as high, medium, and low. Students improvise on xylophones a melody to accompany the bears in the telling of the story.

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Authored by Terri Burns.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is designed to enhance students’ ability to comprehend written text by teaching them how to think about the events in a story as they read.

• Grab a Handful and Count (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students practice counting one-to-one correspondence using Fruit Loops with a partner and then compare them to see who has more or less.

• Grandparents' Day Celebration (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Before Grandparents' Day Celebration, students make a family tree that dates back to their grandparents. They identify names, places, and particular customs and traditions of their family as well.

• Greedy Gator (Authored by Lory Vanpool.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Greedy Gator always wants the pile with more! Fortunately, his mouth looks just like a greater than-less than sign. After practicing with his toothy mouth and little cookies, students can easily begin using the sign like real mathematicians.

• Green Eggs and Purple Bacon (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. The class cooks and eats green eggs and ham. Students imagine a dish and write a recipe using a logical sequence. Students type, illustrate, and compile recipes into a class cookbook.

• Green, Green, Green (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)

Subject(s): Dance, Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson travels around the world celebrating St. Patty’s Day and all things green! First, we start of in Ireland and travel our way down to Mexico for some green guacamole. Students will learn dances from the two places.

• Grow a Creature Lab (Authored by Roberta Klawinski.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an interactive, hands-on lesson to estimate and measure the length of the creatures as they grow when placed in water. Students check the creature assigned to their group and observe, estimate, measure, record, and compare data daily for one week.

• Growing Patience (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is a wonderful way to incorporate learning the virtue of patience while developing the knowledge of how things grow. Be prepared to spark your students’ interest as they view the growth of a plant.

• Guess Who? (Authored by Angela Raybon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Guess Who? Students write riddles about each other using descriptive words.

• Gummy Bear Sorting (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate knowledge of sorting and classifying by color as they sort gummy bear candies.

• Gummy Candy Count (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students count up to 10 objects in a group to find out how many.

• Habitats and All That (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson plan explores climate characteristics of different environments, adaptations of living things to environments, and adaptations of living things for survival. It is the second lesson of the Unit Plan: Living Things.

• Hands vs. Feet (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use unconventional units of measurement to discover the importance and need for a uniform unit of measurement.

• Hanging Out with Stories (Authored by Elisabeth Coogle.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students respond to a fictional story by creating a story structure mobile illustrating the main characters, setting, plot, problem, story events, and solution.

• Happy Birthday Class (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Birthdays are important events in children’s lives. This lesson integrates graphing and the use of calendars with their special days.

• Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn why we celebrate Martin Luther King Day by making a Friendship Circle and a Peace Tree for a multicultural bulletin board and by illustrating a timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's life.

• Harriet's Halloween Sort (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group instructional activity in which students sort, classify and tell about what characteristics they sort individually wrapped candy.

• Have a Ball with Poetry (Authored by Lisa Rowe.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will brainstorm words pertaining to the senses (smell, sight, touch, taste, and sound) about the beach by passing a beach ball marked with the categories. Students will write a free verse poem, using these words and adding a line about their feelings.

• Have You Heard It Through the Grapevine? (Authored by Sheila McKenzie.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students predict which boxes of name brand raisins will have more. Students count, organize,