Help your students see how much happens in a year with this lesson that has them place all of the holidays on a calendar.

Provide your ELs with extra practice using transition words to create a story. This activity can be used as a stand alone or a support lesson.

Mindful movement can support calm and can also be fun! In this lesson, students will create their own animal pose to teach the class, then journal and draw a picture of themselves in their mindful movement animal pose.

Share the pen in this lesson on text features as you work together as a class to create a nonfiction big book. This lesson can be used alone or with the Studying Authors: Nonfiction Writing lesson plan.

In this lesson, students will explore how art can be a tool to express or reflect on emotions.

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Your students will hone their creative writing skills as they design their own fictional characters. Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details and descriptive language during the prewriting phase of storytelling.

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

In this lesson, students collaborate to create a class-wide behavior contract. With your guidance, your class will develop and implement their own set of classroom rules.

Help your class understand the concept of graphs and charts by holding a scavenger hunt inside your classroom. During this lesson, students gather and create real-world data and graph it.

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

Students will use paper to create eye-popping texture and form with these self-portraits.

Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.

In this lesson, students use descriptive adjectives to write interesting sentences and create pictures.

Help your first graders learn word formation with this lesson that has them create a new word and write a story about it.

In this lesson, students will learn how to be a good friend. The class will generate guidelines on friendship and create a friendship collage.

In this lesson, students will learn all about Maria Montessori, a pioneering researcher and teacher, and create their own biographical books about this inspiring woman.

High order thinking skills are critical skills for students of all ages. In this lesson, your students will create word problems about money.

Poetry and dance come together in this fun lesson! After reading a book of poems about dance moves, students create their own poem and dance performances.

It all starts with gratitude. In this lesson, students will reflect on what they are grateful for and create a gratitude card and web of gratitude.

Students conduct a short research project on a chosen topic, combine their knowledge of their subject in an acrostic poem, then create a craft to illustrate their topic.

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.

Have you ever had to explain to someone where something is? Learning to create a map is a fun way to show where objects and places are.

Students build vocabulary and spelling skills through this engaging lesson. After brainstorming words that start with the letter A, students use words and pictures to create their own "A" dictionaries.

In this fun and silly lesson, students use their imaginations to create mixed-up animals. After making their funny creations, students will write narratives about their fictional animals.

What do you use to make what you need? Resources! Students will explore the three kinds of resources producers use to create the products the use and sell.

In this lesson, students will discuss what it means to care for others, practice heartfulness and create a kindness bear puppet.

Students will love working together to create a display that demonstrates understanding of relative length. Use alone or with the lesson Order Up Measurement.

Slice those pieces and mix it up! In this lesson that follows “Slice It Up! Part One,” students will begin recognizing different ways to create equal shares in whole shapes, creating a fraction poster by the end of the lesson.

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.