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.

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

This colorful lesson plan will get your students excited about mixing colors! They will learn how to create the secondary colors while practicing their artistic skills.

Students will practice calculating volume as an additive property by making mock hamster mansions from boxes. Groups will calculate the volume of living space that they designed for their hamster in cm³ and document their work.

Graphs bring data to life and help us draw conclusions about the information presented. In this lesson, your students will learn how to create bar graphs and double bar graphs and practice interpreting them.

Motivate your students to learn about significant figures in US history by giving them the opportunity to create a fake social media page based on facts.

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.

Students will love practicing their early reading skills as they create their very own classroom book using common sight words! This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the My First Book lesson plan.

The Peace Corner is a space where students may practice cool-down methods such as mindful walking, deep breathing, and mindful listening. Students will work together in groups to create activities for their classroom peace corner.

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.

Line plots are a great way to introduce your students to graphing data. In this lesson, your students will learn how to create a line plot and also practice interpreting line plots.

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.

In this lesson, students will learn to create an animated character using the education coding app ScratchJr.

Students will have oceans of fun as they use manipulatives to create math stories about subtraction.

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem as they create a marble maze out of LEGO bricks.

Through play and a project, students will learn how to create and extend patterns by using various objects.

In this lesson, students will learn the word 'animation' and create an animated figure in a flip book.

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.

Use this lesson to teach your students about the major bodies of water by letting them create miniature versions of their own!

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin. Your students will enjoy writing a story about a character that they have created!

Students will create angles by folding construction paper, creating angle addition sentences, and then adding the sum of angles on their models.

Students will continue their informational writing project by creating an essay outline prior to drafting.