Spring
Gentle rain, flowers, and eggs
For spring activities, see below.
Virtual Field Trips: Spring
Celebrate spring and Mother Earth with these virtual field trips (start on slide 4).
Click on the embedded slide deck to scroll through and see the virtual field trips offered within each category. To explore further, click the linked resource title to open the preview. To get your own copy to use with students, click Use Template in the upper right of the preview window.
All links should be reviewed by the teacher before sharing with students. Due to terms of service and privacy policy, field trips marked with a red icon must be teacher led for elementary and middle school students.
General Spring
Students work on grammar rules while learning about seasonal topics.
March
Students learn about women who made an impact with this choice board.
Celebrating Women's History Month
Students learn about influential women in various categories of culture.
Use this lesson to help educate and inspire students about the role of women in society.
Students explore the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women using this International Women's Day activity for middle and high school students.
Students use Adobe Express to creat posters celebrating women in their community whose small actions have a big impact.
Students will listen to "Courageous First Ladies Who Changed the World" and complete a series of activities based on the story.
Students research, celebrate, and bring visibility to a suffragette who fought for women's voting rights in the U.S.
Celebrate Pi Day with these math, music, art, language arts, and history!
Students graph the digits of pi in a Google Sheet to create a cityscape. From Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve
Students measure a variety of circular objects and make calculations to discover and understand what pi means. From Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve
St. Patrick's Day Background Builder
Students will be able to describe and explain the impact of St. Patrick's Day.
St. Patrick's Day
Students will learn about the origins and symbols of the holiday and how it is celebrated in the United States.
Students have fun counting gold, making words, writing, and creating a St. Patrick's Day Treasure Map.
Introduce the history of St. Patrick's Day in America using this fun escape room style activity.
Students outline 4 steps to catching a leprechaun.
Students simplify the fractions and complete the color by number to reveal a St. Patrick's Day inspired image.
Celebrate National Crayon Day on March 31 with this choice board from Wixie.
LeVar Burton takes students on a tour of how Crayola crayons are made.
April
Earth Day Choice Boards
Students choose the topic or topics that interest them to explore more deeply in these choice boards from Discovery Education.
A list of ideas and templates for using Wixie to celebrate Earth Day.
Multiple Earth Day choice boards for school and home, along with games and reflections.
Variety of Earth Day activities and organizers from Lumio.
Students brainstorm actions they can take to reduce their impact on nature.
Students sort the baseball-related pictures into boxes after counting the number of objects.
Students explore how science, technology, engineering, art and math all play a role in baseball.
Students can use this digital Scrabble board in Google Drawings to celebrate April 13th, National Scrabble Day.
In this series from Outrageous Acts of Science, it's up to you to decide if the activity in the video is fact or fake. Students need to use evidence and reasoning to support their claim.
In this action research challenge project, students learn about how the Washington Nationals are putting a focus on composting in their stadium, and show the practicalities and potential of composting.
Fun and engaging Lumio choice board with suggested activities to try during spring break.
This Lumio lesson helps build students' test taking confidence and preparedness.
Students write a 5- line poem about spring using adjectives, nouns, and verbs.
Spring is the perfect time to get youngs minds interested in science. Use this lesson to explore how seasons affect plants.
May
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
Introduce students to the rich culture and heritage of Asian American and Pacific Islanders with these activities from Discovery Education.
Introduce students to the history of culture of Hawaii, Japan, and India in this Lumio activity.
Students choose one of four ways to show their teacher how much they appreciate them!
Choose from six different activities for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Have your students become photographers! Use Wixie to take photos and complete artists statements, add photobooth elements, and more!
A variety of activities that have students reflect on their growth during the school year.
Cinco de Mayo
Instructional hooks to interest students in Cinco de Mayo.
What are the best conditions for growing fresh vegetables? Practice designing and conducting an investigation using differences in soil, water, and light for two different plant types.
Students watch a video clip of the Derby from 1944 and compare what they used to think, with what they think now. Focus on point of view.
Students complete a variety of activities around Memorial Day.
Memorial Day
Students learn about Memorial Day in these activities.
These Adobe templates are available for social studies, science, language arts, writing, and math. They will allow students to reflect on the top three takeaways of the school year.