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Lesson Plans - 3rd Grade

Getting Out the Vote: An Election Day Classroom Experiment

An experiment drives home to students the importance of voting!

Special Interests: How Would A Legislator Vote?

In these role-plays, students act as elected officials who must vote on five bills that relate to special interests of groups that financed their campaigns. How will they vote?

Take a Stand!

Students take a unique approach to a classroom discussion/debate of the election process!

Who Lives Here?

The students will be able to identify camouflage as an example of adaptation and describe the importance of adaptations.

“What Insect Am I”

Familiarize the students with the different parts of an insect. In this one hour game, kindergarteners will use information given to them as clues from index cards to identify different types of insects placed in front of them.