Lesson Plans

Explore the sights of New York City by creating a storyboard and characters from a favorite book.

What if dinosaurs came back? Use your imagination to paint a futuristic habitat for dinosaurs!

Count, subtract and add—in English and Arabic! Children create furry stick-puppets to keep track of how many donkeys are

Save the Earth’s limited resources by planning. Combine trips to go places. This early mapping experience helps pave the

Where can your family recycle cans, bottles, and newspapers? Create a colorful 3-D reminder to reduce landfill space!

Brighten any environment with three-dimensional critters made from recycled materials inspired by the whimsical woodcarv

Ever go kayaking? It’s a thrilling water sport. Create a river course and imagine navigating white-water rapids!

Find out how a 14-year-old in Malawi figured out how to generate electricity. Celebrate his creativity with cut-paper co

Nocturnal animals are fascinating! Find out Who’s Hooting in a nearby field or forest. Creatures of the night call out f

How do students use water, every day or for fun? Create a book about why water is important.

Investigate the birth of human communities in locations where land and water meet.

Challenge students to learn their spelling words in a slippery way. Use Crayola® Gel Markers to make a wiggly worm!

Use Crayola® Oil Pastels to make stenciled skies with stellar effects.

Caring communities include space for nature! Create a convincing ad for a home for a native plant or animal.

Create a multi-media weaving that pops with texture and is crowned with a majestic bird drawing.

Bugs are flyers and crawlers, diggers and wigglers! Discover the biology of arthropods and then show insects at their be

Create a torn and cut paper collage of a Brown Bear in Winter, using printmaking to create falling snow.

Celebrate winter with sled dog races, ice carving, curling-and polar bear swims! Capture fun at frosty festivities in Ca

Create a mixed media winter cityscape street scene focused on the idea of top/bottom, above/below as snow is painted on

Look at the photography of Eadweard Muybridge and create an original painting of a body in motion in the cold, wintry ou

Use Crayola® Model Magic to create a miniature winter scene inside a plastic cup.

In temperate climates, winter brings rain, sleet, freezing rain, hail, and snow. How is water changed into so many diffe

Students send postcards from space to show their knowledge of other planets.

The First Discovery Series of informational books by Scholastic, specifically "Whales" for this lesson, is loved by teac