Lesson Plans

You're are the engineer and architect! Design and build a sports stadium of your dreams.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with a magnificent dragon parade! Or design this accordion-fold mythical creature to reenact

Explore the rainforest! Wildlife knowledge takes center stage when students construct this animal- and plant-decorated c

Words count! Discover the power of words in poetry such as Maya Angelou’s Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. Then create a change

Break the panic of writer’s block with this visual imaging project! Ask students to draw a detailed sketch or diagram of

Inventions shape the way we live everyday. Create a shining, new invention that will benefit our daily activities!

Anansi is the African spinner of stories for young and old. Catch one of his stories and save it in your own accordion

Did you ever want to design your own house...a dream house? Let’s be an architect!

Explore Chinese culture, language, and traditional symbols. Discover how to write numerals with Chinese characters.

Does animal brain size match body size? Affect intelligence? Sculpt the brains of three vertebrates to compare and contr

Superpowers belong to all sorts of imaginary super heroes. Why not design your own super hero in the form of the Africa

How can friends help each other? Explore opportunities to share while learning about human differences and similarities.

Bit by bit our trash pile grows; where it will end, nobody knows! Show you are smart; turn your trash into art.

After enjoying the book “Smelly Socks” by R. Munsch with the class, discuss the biographical information that can be gat

Storytelling and mathematics merge when students discover that by arranging and rearranging a set of seven geometric til

With Twistables Slick Stix Crayons and recycled materials, construct the object of your fear and inhabit it. Be it big l

Celebrate traditional African values-including family, community, and self-improvement. Display the nguzo saba, the seve

Fashion can be fabulous and informative! Discuss what different types of clothing can tell you about a person. Use your

Create a colorful mobile with your favorite flying creatures. Combine various bug body types into a delightful display.

The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen uses beautiful watercolor images that mimic the traditional Chinese Art of Jianzh

Why sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas"? Why are there 12 days, anyway? And why so many birds? Use this familiar song to

Native people living on the Great Plains depended on buffalo for survival. Discover many uses for their hides—and other

After reading and discussing the poetry book “Flamingos on the Roof” by C. Brown, students each create their own poem in

Students use their knowledge of fish to practice sorting.