End of Year Lessons
Fun Activities to Keep Your Students Focused Through the End of the Year!
Can be done the way it is described, or you can use Google Earth on the Computers.
Thinking Ahead to Next Year
Invite your students to leave behind advice for those who will follow in their footsteps or to write informative letters to the teachers who will teach them next year.
Create a Class Yearbook
Create keepsake yearbooks of memories about the school year that's ending.
An Autograph Book from Yesteryear
Explore a school autograph book from the 1880s, and invite students to create contemporary versions
Math Bingo
Adapt the game Bingo to provide math-facts practice for K-12 students.
Design a Poet-T
Turn plain white T-shirts into fabulous poet-T's.
A Month With No Holidays? Make Up Your Own!
Ten Games For Classroom Fun
Tabloid Tales
Tabloid news stories -- modern-day tall tales -- make good fodder for a fun writing activity with students in grades 3 and up. Included: Thirty-five actual tabloid headlines to motivate writing! (Grades 3-12)
Persuade the Aliens!
Students write a persuasive essay to persuade superiors on their faraway planet to adopt a custom, a behavior, or an item (for example, baseball, shopping, or a vacuum cleaner) they observed on a visit to Earth. (Grades K-12)
Write a Round-Robin Story
Students learn about the elements of a story (introduction, plot, climax, resolution, denouement). In groups of five, one student writes an introduction and passes it to the next person, who writes the plot and passes it to the next person, who writes the climax ... and so it goes! (Grades 3-12)
Story Starters for Beginning Readers and Writers
Develop language skills in young readers/writers with 15 illustrated story starters. (Grades Pre-K-2)
"Photograph Math" Word Problems
Word problems come to life when kids write their own problems and stage photos that illustrate them. (Grades 2-12)
Fact-O!
The Fact-O game combines math fact practice with a game of chance and skill. Game sheet included. (Grades K-12)
Create a Graph Online
A kid-friendly online graph-making tool allows students to create colorful bar, line, or pie graphs. This lesson can be easily adapted for use with any teaching unit. (Grades PreK-12)
Attack poetry from a new angle! After students have tried their hands at writing traditional poetry, invite them to invent their own poetry forms.
Summer Safety Safari
Students will demonstrate their understanding of summer safety by creating guidelines for Summer Safety posters.