Christmas Movie Lesson Plan Mega Pack — 27 Classics for All Grades!
Provide 27 ready-to-teach, 2-hour movie-based ELA lesson plans covering popular Christmas films for elementary through high school classes.
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Holiday and Seasonal Lesson Plans
Integrate holidays into your teaching. Engage students with themed lessons.
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Clothes ESL Lesson Plan For Kids and Early Learners
ESL lesson plan teaching clothing vocabulary and the target language 'What is [he/she] wearing? [He/She]'s wearing...' to young/beginner English learners.
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Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template
Give preschool/kindergarten educators a pre-planned, week-long, winter-themed lesson plan covering multiple learning centers (circle time, movement, art, science, language/literacy, dramatic play, math, construction, enrichment) for Monday through Friday.
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Santas vs Grinches PE Game
PE game/lesson plan that teaches soccer dribbling and passing skills through a Christmas-themed generosity game.
Puffin Unit Study (Arctic Animals Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
Deliver a 5-day, multidisciplinary unit study on puffins (an arctic animal) combining videos, readings, worksheets/discussion, and daily activities.
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol – Elementary English Lesson Plan
2-hour elementary ESL/English lesson plan built around 'The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol' (2011 short film), teaching Christmas vocabulary, emotion words/opposites, past-tense grammar, and story retelling with themes of kindness and sharing.
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Free download FREE: Our 5 Senses Lesson Plan & Conversation For Kindergarten & 1st
Teach young students to identify the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) and the body parts associated with each.
Back-to-School Icebreakers After Winter Break (for Elementary School)
A complete 90-minute SEL (social-emotional learning) lesson plan to help elementary students reconnect after winter break, covering learning objectives, CASEL-framework standards alignment, materials list, preparation steps, and a full lesson procedure including a Winter Break BINGO icebreaker activity, differentiation notes, teacher reflection prompts,…
Santa Claus ESL Reading Comprehension - Christmas reading worksheet
An ESL reading comprehension lesson about the origins of Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas history), building vocabulary, reading comprehension, discussion, and creative writing skills.
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PE Christmas Game
A Christmas-themed PE lesson plan teaching team-building and strategy skills through a relay game where students role-play Santa and his reindeer delivering presents.
Arctic Fox Unit Study (Arctic Animals Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
A 5-day NO PREP arctic (polar) animal unit study of the arctic fox. This comprehensive resource includes a lesson plan, videos, daily worksheets and activities, interactive notebook pieces, and more.
An Elementary School Play: The Summer I Would Never Forget
A scripted elementary school play/readers' theater and companion teaching guide about a summer camper wrongly blamed for pranks actually committed by her younger sisters, for drama and reading practice.
Arctic Animals Writing Project
A 10+ day lesson-plan unit (Siri Latina) guiding students through writing a 5-paragraph informative/explanatory research paper about an Arctic animal, aligned to CCSS W.2.2/W.3.2/W.4.2.
Narwhal Unit Study (Arctic Animals Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
A 5-day cross-curricular unit study on narwhals and Arctic animals for homeschool/co-op families, incorporating videos.
Winter Writing Prompts: Sno-Wonderful
Teach the four major writing genres (Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, Expository) to upper elementary/middle school and special education students through winter-themed writing tasks, posters, and task cards, including the full writing process from pre-writing through final draft.
Claus-fit Christmas PE Activity
A Christmas-themed team fitness circuit for PE class combining strength, cardio, and teamwork skills.
Mittens Week-Long Lesson Plan Template
Week-long editable lesson plan template organizing a mitten-themed preschool unit across daily activity centers.
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"The Biggest Valentine Ever" | Picture Book Study
A picture-book companion set for the story "The Biggest Valentine Ever" (by Steven Kroll), giving teachers discussion questions, project ideas, and printable activities for a Valentine's Day themed classroom study.
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Snowflake Unit Study - Wilson Bentley PowerPoint BUNDLE
A multi-lesson PowerPoint/PDF unit study bundle on snowflakes and pioneering snowflake photographer Wilson Bentley, covering meteorology/snow-crystal science, biography, and geometry (snowflake symmetry), for a holiday/winter-season cross-curricular study.
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STEM Challenges and STEM Activities for Winter
A STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) design-process resource for early-years/young students, providing lesson plans, design-process posters, planning sheets and challenge cards organized around a January/winter theme.
"The Snowy Day" | Picture Book Study
A picture book study companion to Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day, providing discussion questions, comprehension and vocabulary printables, crafts/activities, a nonfiction snowflake mini-passage, and hands-on cut-and-glue projects tied to the story's winter theme.
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Animals in Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template
A week-long (Monday-Friday) pre-K/kindergarten lesson plan template/grid organizing daily circle time, movement, art, science, language/literacy, dramatic play, math, construction, and enrichment activities around the theme of animals in winter.
"Apples" | Differentiated Fall Nonfiction Book and Comprehension
Teach nonfiction reading skills using a fall/apple-themed early-reader nonfiction book ('Apples'), including nonfiction text-feature instruction (table of contents, headings, illustrations, glossary, index) and a differentiated, two-level reading format with teacher guides.
All About Me Bio Poem Simile Writing Getting to Know You Activity
Teaches students to write an 'About Me' simile poem using a scaffolded reflection-and-drafting process, culminating in a published poem for a class anthology.