Have your students been begging for a class pet? Combine opinion letter writing with science as your students try to convince you to get the PERFECT class pet.

It’s time to get measuring! In this lesson students determine the lengths of different towers and then put them in order from shortest to longest.

Get students out of their seats with this lesson that teaches them about PIE in regards to author's purpose. Students will learn the importance of an author's purpose with this lesson that takes them on a gallery walk.

Students will have a blast deepening their understanding of the order of operations, with this lesson which incorporates an interactive team game.

Fully adaptable, this lesson can be used to to highlight African American leaders, famous women, veterans, or any other group of individuals who have acted heroically and have positively influenced our nation!

Use this fun kinesthetic awareness and spelling lesson to help your ELs practice identifying and blending together the sounds in common CVC words. It can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for Letter Roll Reading.

Help your students develop their creative writing skills with this lesson, which features the Adjective-Adjective-Noun strategy. Young writers will be inspired to show, not tell.

Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to help your students identify key characters and events in fiction stories. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Play it Again lesson plan.

Kindergarten students will become text feature detectives as they hunt for the different text features found in nonfiction books in this fun reading lesson.

Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.

By combining world and personal events, students will understand how their lives fir together with major events. Your kids will love learning all kinds of new facts about themselves and seeing their history on display.

Embark on a classroom safari! In this hands-on lesson, students will create a scrapbook using their own observations of animal behavior during a field trip to the zoo.

Your students will feel confident in their rounding abilities after this lesson that has them learn how to round numbers to the nearest ten both individually and with a group.

Use Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" to inspire a fun watercolor resist painting with your students!

Students will love learning about a tiny (yet very interesting!) animal in this rainforest-inspired lesson plan focusing on ants.

This reading and writing lesson also helps students develop empathy. After paying attention to the main character's responses in Victoria and Elizabeth Kann's Purplelicious, students will relate her experiences to their own.

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

Come on in, the water’s fun! In this activity, students see the water cycle in action with ordinary objects and learn the water the dinosaurs tasted is still around.

Your students will go bonkers for bingo as they play this baffling multiplication game! Who will get five in a row first?

Help build your students subtraction skills by finding the unknown! This lesson will help your students understand the relationship between addition and subtraction, as students build towers to find unknown addends.

In this lesson, your students will practice writing about places important to them through poetry. By the time they are done, students will have become better writers and taken a walk down memory lane!

Your ELs will love this fun lesson that combines the letter H with the classic nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty! This can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a support lesson plan for the Jack and Jill lesson plan.

Teaching your students about root words is a great way to strengthen their vocabulary and comprehension. Use this lesson to introduce the root words tele and sign.

Introduce your students to divisibility rules with a lesson that encourages deep thinking and meaningful math talk between peers.

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.

Connect addition with real-world problem solving as students analyze and solve story problems.

In this lesson, you will read the heartwarming story of Bun Bun Button by Patricia Polacco to your class. Students will then use their own reading skills to describe the two main characters in the story.

In this lesson, students will learn how to be a good friend. The class will generate guidelines on friendship and create a friendship collage.

Notetaking doesn’t just have to fit in a square! In this lesson, students will use different shapes to help them take notes and remember what they should be paying attention for as they read.

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.