Students will explore literature about Africa and exhibit an interest in learning more about it. This unit will introduce them to the seven continents of the world.
This lesson is to help students create their own digital story.
Students will create a personal narraitve by generating ideas for writing from their personal experiences, write details of their experience in an organized manner, and revise their draft to add details.
This is a getting to know you activity to use at the beginning of the year.
Students will explore the difference between wants and needs as they decide what they will be taking to Grandma's house.
In this lesson, students will research the physical characteristics, adaptations, and habitat of an animal and share their findings through a question-and-answer (interview) session with the animal that will be presented using a PowerPoint presentation. Following their research, students will write a script they will use to narrate their presentation. Images, text, animation/transition of slides will be evaluated along with the content and the writing mechanics. This is a face-to-face format but could be virtual/distance learning.
In this American Symbols unit, students will learn information about American symbols. Students will learn about various American Symbols such as the American Flag, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Bald Eagle, and the White House. Students should then be able to draw a picture and write one fact about an American symbol. American Flag © 2024 by LeAnn Schmidt is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Students will watch animal movies and research information to write an informational essay explaining how animals use their bodies to survive in their envirnoment.
This project is designed to help students create a short documentary film using the information they gathered to create an animal report. It can be used after writing an animal report or can be adapted to be used as the actual animal report. It can be designed to appear as a documentary series with all students having the same title opening, or be completely standalone. Students will be learning to find creative commons photos and videos to use in their film. They will create their film using iMovie on their iPads. Brown-Throated three-toed sloth female face.jpg- Wikimedia Commons
This is a lesson plan to introduce research and writing informational text based on this research.Example of openly licensed Citation: "Animals - Cute Zoo" by Lesya Skripack from Russia is licensed under FreePik. Image Created by: Lesya Skripack
This is a lesson plan designed to meet habitat standards and informative writing standards for 2nd grade.
Second grade students will be able to write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.*All photos are my original photos.
Students will conduct a research project on an animal of choice. Students will present the information they found in the storytelling format.
This Lesson Plan uses a Readers Theatre "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Lois Walker to learn about protagonists and antagonists. Students compare similarities and differences between the two using a Venn diagram and describe the similarities and differences.
A lesson on Anotyonyms.
This video contains 30 sets of antonyms.
Students will read and observer ants to discover how ants are the same and different than people.
This is a lesson plan created for Earth Day using an Applied Digital Skills lesson. After providing students with background on Earth Day, students will take charge of their learning by following the lesson to explore a topic centered around Earth Day. Students will be creating a presentation using a Google Application and will share the presentation with the class.
Students will learn how colors can show emotions.
Grades 2 & 3Discuss different types of mediums used for illustrations.Each student will create a sample paper using the mediums available.Students will create an artifact using a holiday or historical event as a theme and/or students will match illustrations with the type of medium used.