Latest Thoughts
Explore My Articles
-
Fun, FREE Hands-on Holiday Lesson Plans for Kids
Aug 28, 2025 Fun, FREE Hands-on Holiday Lessons Have you been looking for fun, FREE hands-on lessons on the holidays? Each of the below lessons is filled with active projects that are both educational and fun! Click on the individual lesson plans to see the dramatizations, art projects, cooking, singing, games, and/or lapbook ideas!…
-
Fun, FREE Hands-on Science Lessons and Unit Studies for Kids
Aug 28, 2025 Fun, FREE Hands-on Science Lessons and Unit Studies Have you been looking for fun, FREE hands-on unit studies to teach science? Each of the below unit studies is filled with active projects that are both educational and fun! Learn by doing! Included are 17 unit studies comprised of more than 90…
-
Plant Roots and Stems Lesson Plan for Elementary
Aug 28, 2025 Plant Roots and Stems Lesson Plan Observe roots and stems, observe transpiration in action and dramatize it, create a plants part salad, and more in this fun, hands-on lesson on roots and stems and plant systems! This is part 3 of a 5 part hands-on unit on Plants. This lesson is…
-
Flowers Lesson Plan for Elementary
Aug 28, 2025 Observing parts of a flower Go on a flower hunt, dissect a flower, create edible flowers, paint flowers, and more in this fun lesson on flowers! This is part 2 of a 4 part unit study on Botany and Plants. This lesson is geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their…
-
Leaves and Photosynthesis Lesson Plan for Elementary
Aug 28, 2025 Play a photosynthesis relay race, create an edible leaf structure, act out the parts of a tree, examine and classify tree leaves and use them to identify trees, and more in this fun, hands-on lesson on leaves and photosynthesis! This is part 5 of a 6 part hands-on unit on Plants.…
-
Seeds and Germination Lesson Plan on Plants for Elementary
Aug 27, 2025 Making pictures using seeds Go on a seed hunt, act out germination, create seed mosaics, taste seeds, and more in this fun lesson on plants! This is part 1 of a 5 part unit study on Botany and Plants. This lesson is geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings.…
-
Lighthouse Lesson Plan for Elementary
Aug 23, 2025 Model of a lighthouse activity to learn the parts of a lighthouse Create a model lighthouse, play a lighthouse game, read books about lighthouses, “tour” lighthouses using YouTube, and even eat a lighthouse in this fun, hands-on lesson or “play date” activity! I created this “lesson” to do as a two…
-
World War I Hands-on American History Elementary Lesson Plan
Aug 22, 2025 Hands on American History Lesson on World War I This is the 32nd lesson in a series of 35 hands-on lessons covering U.S. American History. This lesson focuses on World War I. I used this plan while teaching a 45 minute history class for children in Kindergarten, 1st, & 2nd grades.…
-
Southwest Native American Tribes Lesson Plan
Aug 22, 2025 Navajo Sand Painting Craft Activity This is part 4 of a 4 part hands-on unit on Native Americans. Make Navajo Fry Bread, draw Pueblo chalk drawings, create Navajo sand paintings and concho-style belts, weave Apache baskets, and more! My lessons are geared toward 3rd-4th grade level children and their siblings. These…
-
Northeast and Southeast Native Americans Lesson Plan
Aug 22, 2025 Threading colored pasta “beads” to make Seminole-inspired necklaces This is part 1 of a 4 part hands-on unit on Native Americans. Make arrows, cook Three Sisters Stew, go on an archaeological “dig” for arrowheads, create Iroquois Bowl games, bead Seminole necklaces, and more! My lessons are geared toward 3rd-4th grade level…