This is a hand striking activity. In addition to students enhancing their striking skills, students also will be improving their eye-hand coordination skills. An option is also given for students to work cooperatively to improve their teamwork and cooperation skills.
Conflict resolution is an important skill that students need to learn – beneficial to them within the classroom as well as in everyday life. Not only will kids use conflict resolution in the classroom, they will also continue to use these skills as they grow. The conflict resolution skills they learn in elementary school will help them solve problems as adults. So how do we teach conflict resolution in the classroom?
There are many steps to teaching conflict resolution. To truly teach conflict resolution, you’ll need to teach your students how to analyze the conflict. They’ll need to be able to identify the problem and try to understand what’s causing it.
Students will analyze the painting, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, by Mary Cassatt. They will paint a special place where they like to spend quiet time.
This novice low to novice high Spanish activity requires students to create written/digital presentations as well as prepare oral presentations about their families. Students who do not want to describe their own family are encouraged to select a celebrity family to focus on. This presentation is a chance for students to show off their mastery of the verbs ser and estar, simple sentences, and adjective agreement. Printable instructions and a rubric is provided. This activity could be easily adapted to any language.
In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students explore the benefits of sorting waste in order to help the environment. Students learn about how recycling and composting work. When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then talk and write as they create their own Earth Pledge about how they will help protect the earth. To familiarize yourself with the program, begin by reading the Martha's True Stories Buddies Program: Overview.
Children explore reusing and recycling materials, and wind power, in this lesson plan featuring hands-on activities and a video excerpt from Curious George. They begin by watching a video in which Curious George gathers trash to help clean up the city streets and discovers that he can create something special with his found treasures. Children then use recycled materials to build toy boats that can sail. They discuss ways to make objects move with wind, then use child-generated wind power to move their boats in water. They conclude by sharing their boats with each other and brainstorming other ways in which they could recycle materials in the classroom.
This lesson is part of the Curious George STEM Collection.
This classroom resource is a book from Epic! This book introduces early readers to goods and services, what makes them different, and examples of each. The age range is 5-7 years old and AR reading level is 2.7. The book includes a glossary and two learning activities.
Stations are a great way for students to have independent practice. These station task cards can be placed at each station so students understand the given task. Simply print, and they are ready to use.
This video teaches exercise and healthy habits as a young girl takes a yoga class for children. The class demonstrates a few yoga moves and talks about why hydration is important during exercise. This video can be played during a lesson on personal health.
The purpose of this activity is to slowly allow students to develop the skills and confidence they will need to jump rope successfully.
Elementary-aged students learn to take responsibility for their own hygiene and self-care behaviors. Images of astronauts and space travel are ideal to engage the young learner in personal health content. This teaching technique is compatible with the National Health Education Standards One and Three. There are three lesson objectives. Students will: 1) Understand that germs spread infections, illness, and disease; 2) Identify practices that promote health and prevent disease; 3) Demonstrate good personal health habits including hand washing before eating and brushing teeth.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Through multimodal activities, students will explore key elements of design such as color, shape, size, texture, density, and layout to understand and appreciate how these elements combine to convey meaning in Little Blue and Little Yellow, by Leo Lionni. Using art and digital media, they will then create their own designs to express meaning for setting, character relationships, and plot. Students will realize how to use design elements to read images and how meaning in picture books is equally conveyed in both words and images.
This activity revisits concepts from Happy Maps (CSF Unit 2 Lesson 5). This time, students will be solving bigger, longer puzzles with their code, leading them to see the utility in structures that let them write longer code in an easier way.
This lesson serves as an introduction to loops. Loops allow for students to simplify their code by grouping commands that need to be repeated. Students will develop critical thinking skills by noticing repetition in movements of their classmates and determining how many times to repeat commands. By seeing "Happy Maps" again, students will get the chance to relate old concepts such as sequencing to the new concept of repeat loops.
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This video explores 3-D shapes with Lily Fincher and Omar Etman.
Monster Mansion Match - Alphabet Match is a fun educational activity where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds, for example, "A" = "Apple". Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the letters to the appropriate words. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game.
This novice low French activity provides a fun way to practice pronunciation of French sounds. As a warm up, teachers use a series of pre-printed cards as they model the pronunciation of each word and sound. Students are to repeat the words. Then, teachers lead students through reciting a variety of tongue twisters, focusing on specific pronunciation sounds. Six different tongue twister cards are provided. The teacher can lead the class through each one or have students work in pairs to practice the phrases, paying special attention to the phonetic sounds made by the French alphabet.
Students will listen to the music and story of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. They will identify the instruments of the orchestra that are presented in the music. They will use finger puppets to demonstrate the story while it is narrated.
Most kids should get between 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night. Why so much? Sleep gives the body a chance to rest, repair itself, and prepare for the next day. The following activities will help your students learn why sleep is important for a healthy body and mind.
This article explores the use of transitions in music lessons. A transition creates a lesson that is streamlined and flows from one activity to the next. It explains four types of transitions - thematic verbal transitions, directive verbal transitions, non-verbal transitions, and literacy transitions. Students will perform songs and transitions during the lesson.
In this reading passage, students will learn about making a schedule. Making a schedule can be very helpful. A schedule is a list of times when certain things will happen. A schedule can help you do things on time.
A vocabulary activity is included with the reading passage.
This informational material allows the class to read about flamenco dancing and identify the three parts of modern flamenco dancing: guitar, song, and dance. Students can dance along with a video of flamenco dancing and make their own castanets.
This printable Spanish poster is a unique way to reinforce emotions and feelings in novice low to novice mid-Spanish language classrooms. Teachers can choose to print a copy for each student or print a large copy and display it as a poster in the classroom. This poster allows students to reinforce vocabulary while seeing how the verbs ser and estar work in context, comparing these to the way the verb 'to be' is used in English. Students can use this resource to vary their responses when asked 'How are you?'
Students will read Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney. They will define rhythm and beat. They will identify quarter note, quarter rest, and eighth notes. They will clap rhythm patterns.
This activity can be used as a warm-up activity or it can be used to practice locomotor skills and space awareness. This is also a great activity to use at the beginning of the school year because it helps students understand class rules and expectations. A video is included in this resource.
Students will analyze a variety of artwork. They will make a list of problems and solutions to creating artwork. Working in pairs, students will collaborate to create a piece of art.
Students will analyze the painting, No. 9, Nature Morte Espagnole, by Diego Rivera. They will draw still life images of three objects. Then, they will create a still life collage.
Emotions are natural and temporary, just like passing clouds, rain, or the shining sun. In this lesson, students learn how to be mindful of their emotions and discuss how emotions change, just like the weather
This printable features a blank calavera / sugar skull for students to decorate. It offers an easy addition to any díá de los muertos (Day of the Dead) culture lesson and connects students with an important product found within traditional Mexican culture.
Anytime there is a change in motion, force is the responsible party. It has to overcome inertia to act on an object. Inertia keeps an object either sitting still or moving at a constant speed.
The classroom resource provides a video that will introduce the concepts of force, motion, and inertia. This resource can provide background information for students before they conduct their own investigations. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.
In this lesson, students explore what lions, tigers, and leopards look like and analyze how the animals' coats help them survive in their different habitats. The students will discuss different big cats and their physical features, discuss the habitats of big cats, and how they survive in their habitat.
Use this Peg + Cat video with children to count to 20. When the pirates can't get back to sleep, Peg shows them how to count and write numbers to twenty.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey introduces kids to the five food groups. Eating a balanced diet makes us feel good about ourselves so we can spread kindness to others. This video can be played during a lesson on healthy food choices.
A simple activity that allows students to reinforce previously learned skills. This learning activity can be used as a warm-up or cool down before or after another activity.
Messy pirates dropped their treasure, and it’s time for the class to go on a treasure hunt. The goal is to collect as many pieces of pirate treasure as possible. In this activity, the students will use the appropriate amount of force when tapping the soccer ball with their foot in order to maintain control during the treasure hunt activity.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource is a poster outlining benefits of sleep and drawbacks of lack of sleep for children. This poster is outlined in a "do" and "don't" format.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
