Lesson Plans
Mathematics
From EDUC 5145 - Teaching Elementary School Math, here is a list of games that can be played with students that make learning more fun. I am a big believer in learning through play, so this is a great reference I can always come back to when planning lessons for elementary school students - which can be adapted for older kids as well. |
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The Touch Math program is a unique curriculum for teaching mathematics to students. It is a program that uses the actual number as a manipulative and asks students to utilize their multiple intelligence skills to understand the math. The program begins with teaching students the basic numbers and where their "touch points" are located. As students progress through the lessons, they use these touch points to count up or count down when they perform simple addition and subtraction. Touch Math can also be extended to multiplication and division, as well as multiplication and division of larger numbers for the upper grades.
To review addition facts and learn how to solve the missing blank in an equation, first graders learn this with a "What's my Rule?" activity in this lesson plan where students practice counting forwards and backwards by 1 and finding the missing output number in an equation - a way of exercising beginning algebraic thinking. The lesson plan includes other activities too, such as games.
Language Arts and Reading
Together as a class, the book Sol a Sol by Lori Carlson will be read. This book contains short poems about everyday events and happenings that all kids can relate to. It is also written in both Spanish and English. These poems are great models for kids' writing as they are short, full of action, and are accessible.
Using TIME for kids, third graders learn how to look for the who, what, when, where, and why in the news articles they read. This was also an introduction to third graders on reading news articles.
Two, too, to...what is the right spelling? Third graders learn how to differentiate the three different spellings of the word to.
Social Studies and Science
This Social Studies lesson plan uses the SIOP model, or the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, that aims to address the academic needs of English Language Learners. The United States Constitution is introduced to 4th graders in this lesson. It can also be adopted for 5th grade students. School House Rock is included, along with other activities.
The following lesson plans are from a 3rd Grade Life Science unit that I have designed. In this unit, the focus is on habitats, ecosystems and the conservation of the planet's ecosystems.
A daily log of the unit's four week plan: