Lesson Plans

Character Traits

What makes a character special? Their traits, of course. With help from The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg, students will enjoy completing character maps and learning about different character traits.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Food Fractions: <a href=What are the Odds?" />

Food Fractions: What are the Odds? Lesson Plan Food Fractions: What are the Odds? Students are sure to love this sweet lesson that teaches them fractions and probability with candy! Lesson Plan

Potential And Kinetic Energy

Potential And Kinetic Energy Lesson Plan Potential And Kinetic Energy

Walk, sleep, run, eat! We're constantly using energy, whether we're moving or not. In this lesson, students learn how their bodies are constantly converting potential energy into kinetic energy and kinetic energy back to potential energy.

Lesson Plan

What is Recycling?

What is Recycling? Lesson Plan What is Recycling?

What is recycling all about? What can and can't be recycled? What can I do to help others understand the importance of recycling? This activity helps students answer all of these questions as they learn about saving planet Earth.

Lesson Plan

All About the Digestive System

All About the Digestive System Lesson Plan All About the Digestive System

Use this lesson to show your students how food travels from the mouth to the stomach. Additionally, show them how the digestive system delivers important nutrients to other parts of the body and also excretes wastes from the body.

Lesson Plan

Animal Life Cycles, All Around

Animal Life Cycles, All Around Lesson Plan Animal Life Cycles, All Around

Life cycles go around and around! In this technology-integrated lesson, students will research various animal life cycles and write about them.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Elements of Poetry

Elements of Poetry Lesson Plan Elements of Poetry

Introduce your students to some of the major structural elements of poetry in this comprehensive lesson.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Character Traits in Fairy Tales

Character Traits in Fairy Tales Lesson Plan Character Traits in Fairy Tales

As your learners identify physical and internal character traits, make sure they provide evidence. Use this as a stand alone lesson, or as a pre-lesson for the Fairy Tales: Character Traits lesson.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Wacky Windmill Challenge

Wacky Windmill Challenge Lesson Plan Wacky Windmill Challenge

Windmills have been around for generations to grind food and create energy. During this challenge, students will use various materials and put their engineering skills to work by creating their own windmills.

Lesson Plan

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect Lesson Plan Fiction Comprehension: Cause and Effect

Improve reading comprehension with a lesson on cause and effect! In this lesson, students will use a T-chart to identify examples of cause and effect in and by the end, you’ll all be singing along to the cause and effect song!

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Elements of a Story

Elements of a Story Lesson Plan Elements of a Story

In this interactive lesson, your students will learn to identify four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Elements of Fairy Tales

Elements of Fairy Tales Lesson Plan Elements of Fairy Tales

Use this lesson to help students identify the elements of a fictional text while gaining more knowledge about parts of speech. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Choosing Character Traits

Choosing Character Traits Lesson Plan Choosing Character Traits

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn character traits and find them in a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Identifying Character Traits lesson.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Adding with M&M's

Adding with M&M's Lesson Plan Adding with M&M's

Use a sweet treat to help students do hands-on math! Students will practice their addition skills in this yummy activity.

Lesson Plan

The Language of Landforms

The Language of Landforms Lesson Plan The Language of Landforms

Kinesthetic and visual learners will greatly enjoy this playful lesson. Using symbols and gestures, students explore the characteristics of various United States landforms.

Social studies Lesson Plan

Wonderful World of Worms

Wonderful World of Worms Lesson Plan Wonderful World of Worms

Squirm with worms! In this interactive lesson, students will work with live worms to learn about measurement and living things.

Lesson Plan

Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math

Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math Lesson Plan Comparing Numbers: Marshmallow Math

Comparing numbers is sweet with this yummy lesson. Students use cereal as a hands on manipulative to compare numbers 0–10. A sweet treat remains for a job well done!

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Scavenger Hunt Addition

Scavenger Hunt Addition Lesson Plan Scavenger Hunt Addition

Get your students moving with this activity that helps them practice their addition skills while having fun hunting for their next problem.

Lesson Plan

How Big Is It?

How Big Is It? Lesson Plan How Big Is It?

Your young scientists will have tons of fun visiting measurement stations and using tools to measure various objects. They'll even be able to create posters at the end of the activity.

Lesson Plan

Matching Numbers

Matching Numbers Lesson Plan Matching Numbers

Teach your class about the relationship between numbers and quantities with this lesson that has students use their counting skills to match a number of objects with their written value.

Lesson Plan

Estimating Length

Estimating Length Lesson Plan Estimating Length

Advance your students from relative measurements to learning about standardized units with this lesson that teaches them about inches and feet by using common classroom objects.

Lesson Plan

Sight Word Salad

Sight Word Salad Lesson Plan Sight Word Salad

Your students will “eat up” this salad of sight words! In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing words that are tricky to spell.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Read with Beads

Read with Beads Lesson Plan Read with Beads

Build words with this fun lesson for emergent readers. Using beads and pipe cleaners, your students will enjoy working with manipulatives to create three- and four-letter words!

Kindergarten Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Know Your Shapes!

Know Your Shapes! Lesson Plan Know Your Shapes!

In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!

Lesson Plan

Number Jump!

Number Jump! Lesson Plan Number Jump!

Help your class “jump” into number recognition with confidence! In this lesson, students will write numbers on sticky notes, place them in sequential order, and “jump” on the numbers while counting.

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Catch Those Fish!

Catch Those Fish! Lesson Plan Catch Those Fish!

Catch those fish before they get away! In this lesson, students will be challenged to order and count the total number of fish. This lesson focuses on the crucial skills of ordering numbers and recognizing one-to-one correspondence.

Kindergarten Lesson Plan

Categorize It!

Categorize It! Lesson Plan Categorize It!

By sorting and categorizing different objects, young learners will build important foundational skills. Your students will enjoy playing with different toys and competing some fun worksheets.

Lesson Plan

Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures

Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures Lesson Plan Jack and Jill: Letters and Pictures

Who where those two kids who went up that hill again? This lesson plan includes role playing with a familiar nursery rhyme.

Reading & Writing Lesson Plan

Counting Hours: <a href=What Time Is It?" />

Counting Hours: What Time Is It? Lesson Plan Counting Hours: What Time Is It?

Give first graders a sense of time by introducing them to telling time by the hour. Students who have mastered the numbers 1 to 12 will be eager to keep the class on a time schedule.

Lesson Plan

Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice

Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice Lesson Plan Double Trouble: Subtraction Practice

Double-digit trouble? No problem! Your students will practice their decomposing and regrouping skills in this lesson.

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plans

Looking to engage students by increasing their focus and creativity? Or foster positive teacher-student relationships? Below is Education.com's pre K through 8th comprehensive lesson plan library, created by educators. From our free math, reading & writing, and science lesson plans, learning will be enjoyable and meaningful for every student.

Educational Tools

Support

Connect

About

IXL

Comprehensive K-12 personalized learning

Rosetta Stone

Immersive learning for 25 languages

Wyzant

Trusted tutors for 300 subjects

Vocabulary.com

Adaptive learning for English vocabulary

ABCya

Fun educational games for kids

SpanishDictionary.com

Spanish-English dictionary, translator, and learning

Emmersion

Fast and accurate language certification

TPT

Marketplace for millions of educator-created resources

Education.com is certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program.

Copyright © 2024 Education.com, Inc, a division of IXL Learning • All Rights Reserved.