1st and 2nd Grade Lesson Plans : Page 6

Learning from others is a huge part of getting better at something, including writing! In this lesson, students will study works by nonfiction authors to enhance their own nonfiction writing.

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

In this engaging, hands-on lesson, students solidify their understanding of place value by adding and regrouping two-digit numbers using M&Ms.

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

Get your students excited about money! Have them make connections between their prior knowledge of base-ten numerals and one, ten, and hundred dollar bills.

Use a short story that can be told entirely in idioms and students will get the picture! Students match story strip text to idioms in this interactive exercise that includes a matching worksheet assessment.

It’s time to make sentences! At the Sentence Cafe, words come together to build stories. Get ready to learn about different parts of speech such as conjunctions, possessive pronouns, articles, and more in this hands-on lesson.

Your students will use a well-loved story to learn how to create their own detailed characters. This lesson focuses on understanding the pre-writing and planning phase of storytelling.

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.

Introduce your students to the scientific concept of sink or float. This hands-on experiment allows them to see which objects sink and which float. The concepts taught will be solidified with the completion of worksheets.

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.

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!

Extend your students' understanding of data by asking them to consider real-world problems about data collection and graphs.

Every season comes with different celebrations! In this lesson, your students will learn about the seasons while exploring different ways that people celebrate events in each season.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Teach your students the secrets behind reading an analog clock with this lesson that has students make their own practice clock and complete a worksheet to put their new skills to the test.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Teach your class about the genre of traditional literature, made up of stories from around the world that have been told for generations. In this lesson, students will read fairy tales and compare story elements in each piece of literature.

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information.