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Lesson Plans - 3rd Grade

Paper Plate Flower Craft

This simple-to-make flower is made from a paper plate and a child’s handprint cutouts

Teach Your Students to Be “Sun Savvy!”

The summer sun offers teachers an important opportunity to talk about sun safety. Many Internet sites carry strong sun safety messages or offer teachers valuable lesson plans for teaching about the science of the sun.

Wacky Olympics

To have students enjoy a fun field day near the end of the school year.

Summer Travel: Education on the Road

This month EDSITEment spotlights an activity that many students take part in every summer: vacationing. Students are encouraged to use their summer travel experiences to learn about new places and document their understanding of what they encounter. Whether their destination is Colonial Williamsburg, or Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, students can approach their new surroundings as

Summertime-Camping Memory Game

Talk about outdoor camping with the children. Ask if any of the children have geen on a camping trip and encourage them to tell the group what it was like. Explain that when we go camping out innature, we are away from such things as electricity, our own beds, etc. We want to take along