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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Science (1)
Title: Exploring Owls
Description: During this lesson, students will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
Subject: English Language Arts (K - 2), or English Language Arts (K - 2), or Science (3 - 12)
Title: A Journey Through the Trees
Description: The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the students. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss significant features of each tree and pertinent ways to identify them. The collection may include: Dogwood, various Oak, Hickory, Pine, Maple, Cedar, Beech, Elm, and Birch trees. The teacher will take a nature walk with the students in order for each child to choose a tree and do a bark rub. The students will compare their art and write a journal entry in order to describe something they learned about their particular tree.
This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Science (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Butterfly Tales
Description: During this lesson, students will recall events from a story and describe the life cycle of the butterfly. Students will use their imaginations, writing, and computer skills to create a butterfly tale. They will discuss and integrate words that describe butterflies in their butterfly tale.
Subject: Arts Education (K - 2), or English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Class Portrait: An Anthology In Words and Pictures
Description: Students will use a digital camera and word processor to produce an illustrated anthology of original poetry.
Subject: Character Education (K - 12), or English Language Arts (1 - 2), or English Language Arts (1 - 2), or Social Studies (K)
Title: President's Day for Special Education/Early Elementary
Description: This lesson helps special education/early elementary students learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and discuss how each demonstrated the character trait of honesty.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Let's Build a Snowman
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Description: In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Write letters that make things happen!
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Description: In a small group or as individuals, students write letters related to a unit of study or particular topic they have studied.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Eyewitness to History
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Description: Families connect us to our own history and to the history of the world around us. In this lesson from EDSITEment, students explore this second set of connections, talking with family members about landmark events they have witnessed in their lifetimes to learn how history touches our lives.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: The Meaning Behind the Mask
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the cultural significance of masks, discuss the use of masks in stories, and then investigate the role masks play in ceremonies and on special occasions in various African cultures. After students have studied these masks, they are then given an opportunity to choose a familiar story and make simple masks to perform the story.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: On this day in 1910, animal rights activist Joy Adamson was born.
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Description: A KWL chart is used to organize information about lions. Persuasive letters are written lobbying for programs and resources to protect these animals.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Write Right Back: Recognizing Readers Needs and Expectations for E-mail Replies
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Description: Students who know how to compose and send simple e-mail messages learn to use the reply function with audience needs and expectations in mind.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Arts,Educational Technology,Social Studies,Language Arts
Title: Dr. King's Dream
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Description: In this lesson from EDSITEment, students learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students listen to a brief biography, view photographs of the March on Washington, hear a portion of King's '' I Have a Dream'' speech, and discuss what King's words mean to them. Finally, they create picture books about their own dreams of freedom for Americans today.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
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Description: Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
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Description: This unit of three lessons from EDSITEment makes poetry exciting for students as they listen to, write, and recite poems that are sure to please. By the end of the unit, students should be able to create lines of poetry in response to poems read aloud, identify musical elements of literary language, and recite short poems or excerpts.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
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Description: Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
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Description: Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Authentic Writing Experiences and Math Problem-Solving Using Shopping Lists
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Description: Students use their emerging writing skills to write shopping lists. They work within a budget, use problem-solving skills to create lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Today is Benjamin Franklin's birthday.
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Description: Students discuss Benjamin Franklin's contributions to postal history, investigate the roles of the Postmaster General, and write letters to their classmates using the Letter Generator.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Stars and Stripes Forever: Flag Facts for Flag Day
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Description: In this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn what a symbol is while developing their understanding of how one particular symbol, the American Flag, plays an important role in the everyday lives of American citizens. Learning the history of the flag helps instill in students respect for our national symbol and helps them learn appropriate etiquette regarding our flag. Students learn that other symbols of our country, such as the President and certain holidays, like Flag Day, are important to us as well. Students can also contribute symbols from their familial, ethnic and national cultures to show the diversity of American society and its links to other parts of the world.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
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Description: Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
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Description: In this Xpeditions student activity, students become reporters for the local newspaper and conduct interviews with someone who has migrated to their community. After they finish their interviews, students share what they have learned about their interviewees experiences, memories, and feelings about coming to live in their new community.
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic Education
Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
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Description: Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
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