1st and 2nd Grade Lesson Plans : Page 6

Students will learn their place in our solar system with this lesson that teaches them about different celestial bodies and their movement within the solar system.

Stories can change a lot depending on the point of view they are told from. In this lesson, students explore point of view by comparing and contrasting two versions of "The Three Little Pigs."

Students will learn out how to partition a rectangle using by partitioning shapes with rows and columns.

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

This lesson allows students to nourish their inner writers and artists by creating catchy sentences and decorating alphabet letters.

Your students will love using real life experiences while developing their writing skills in this fun lesson.

What exactly does the number 97 mean? How about 454? In this lesson, students explore how two-digit numbers are made up of tens and ones. Then they use this understanding to subtract numbers within 1000.

What happens when you make the plural form of nouns that end with “y?” It depends. Help students learn the two rules for these plural nouns in this engaging lesson.

Explore a day in the life of a pencil! Your students will practice different points of view by thinking outside the box and writing as though they are something else.

Help, help! Some sentences are missing an end mark! Throughout this lesson, your students will solve the "mystery" of missing punctuation marks and learn the difference between a period, question mark, and exclamation point.

A fun spin on a classic game! This sight word game will help your students with their reading fluency and reinforce foundational reading skills. Students should be fairly fluent in reading Pre-Primer Dolch sight words prior to the lesson.

Teach about odd and even numbers through this fun card game. After reading a book about even numbers, students get engaged in spotting even and odd numbers by sight.

Story elements help to bring beloved fairy tales to life in this literacy lesson. Your students will learn to identify the title, author, setting, characters, problem, and solution in a fiction text.

It's never to early to start dreaming about the future! In this lesson, engage your students in thinking about how their lives will be, all while practicing persuasive writing and using future tense verbs!

The best way to learn about shapes? Make them! This lesson gets students using clay to make and learn about 3-D shapes.

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.

Help your students' understand the English language with this lesson that teaches them that there are word "twins" that look and sound the same but have different meanings.

Give your students a conceptual understanding of three-digit addition with this lesson focused on base-ten blocks and drawings.

It’s time to head out onto the playground! Help Parker City design the best playground possible by having students solve real-world measurement problems.

Show your students how long one minute is. Use a story and activities to help them gain a better understanding of time.

What first grader wouldn't want ten dollars? This lesson uses one and ten dollar bills to teach students place value concepts as they develop fluency adding multiples of 10. Use alone or with the lesson plan Ten Time.

It's springtime! What better way to celebrate than by interviewing your classmate with a range of spring-related questions? Students will practice interviewing one another and recording answers using complete sentences.

Help your students make the connection between what they're learning in the classroom and why they need it in the real world with this lesson on word problems.

Your class will need to put their creativity caps on for this lesson where they will create their own creature and write a story about its life.

Let’s start building numbers! Just as building skyscrapers is a visual representation of mathematics, students will use the visual representation of base-ten blocks to add—or build—onto a two-digit number.

Students put their understanding of one and 10 more to work as they write word problems for classmates to solve. This lesson plan can be used alone or with Picture Addition.

Geometry meets data in this fun lesson! Students will build a design using pattern blocks and then graph the number of each shape used. This scaffolded EL lesson can be used alone or alongside Graphing Colored Counters.

Everyone has experienced special occasions in their lives! Get your students excited to write about a special occasion they have experienced in this fun lesson plan.

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