Fishing For Facts
Try fishing with vocabulary words or dates in history. Add the ideas below for incorporating bulletin boards, and you may be ready to go with an ocean theme for your whole room.
Lesson Plans
In Your Face Math Facts
Change a student’s “name” for the day, by making it the answer to a secret question… the question is displayed on an index card that is safety pinned to the student’s chest.
Capacity Song
Music makes everything better – and easier to learn and remember. Students will be able to identify all equivalent measurements of capacity by singing this song each day!
Playing Card Facts
Students will increase their basic math fact knowledge and response time by playing a card game similar to “War.”
Cartoons and Classical Music
An exercise in recognizing popular classical melodies in cartoons from the 20th century.
Bach and Books
Reading by Bach, and the other classical masters.
Set The Mood For Creative Writing With Music
Use music to create a mood for creative writing. Use a CD or tape player and bring your own music or ask for suggestions from your music teacher.
Classical Music in the Classroom
While there are many studies that debate whether or not listening to classical music improves test scores or helps students learn, one undisputed fact remains: classical music is here to stay! We find classical music in movies, on television, and it even lends itself to today’s popular music. It has a variety of classroom applications from art to math.
Family of Instruments
Objective: To inform students of the different families of instruments.
Slur, Ties and Phrases for lower brass instruments
Objective: Students will be able to slur at least two notes on either the trombone or the euphonium. Trombone slurs will be articulated with a “thoo.”
Lesson Ideas for Rainforest Unit
Contributor, Becky Settlemoir RAIN FOREST BOOKS BIG BOOKS 1. Rain Forest – Helen Cowcher 2. The Rain Forest – Scholastic Big Book Magazine 3. Life >>>
What’s Outside?
A study in what goes on at all of those businesses out in the real world.
Every Day Can Be Show-and-Tell
Even the most mundane objects to adults can be very interesting to elementary age children.
Travel to Another Planet
Let your kids decide where they want to go in the solar system, and then create an advertising campaign for it.
Staff As Teachers
The administrators and staff in your building are resources that are easily overlooked. Invite them over for a lesson.