Student will research an animal they are assigned from Australia using an informational rubric. The students will research their animal using the guide given by teachers. They will investigate the information and take notes regarding their animal. They will use the computer to research and learn about their animal in its habitat and ecosystem. Students will identify environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. They will communicate their ideas in writing using a rubric before they construct a Google Slideshow representing their findings. This lesson was developed by Victoria James as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will learn about helping and main verbs through videos and a website. They will memorize the 23 helping verbs through the "Jingle Bells" tune. To practice identifying helping verbs, they have the opportunity to play games. They will end the lesson by writing a story as a group that contains helping and main verbs.

This resource contains three different choices for interactive games: nouns, verbs, or nouns and verbs. Students will help a monkey collect 10 scoops of ice cream by finding nouns and verbs in the sentences provided.

Students will read sentences and write the correct homophone to complete each sentence. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a description and examples of coordinating adjectives. Students will then read sentences to determine if they include coordinating adjectives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and choose between similar words to complete each sentence correctly. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read sentences and rewrite them in order to correct the use of homophones. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read and correct a passage for homophone use. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This article explains the proper usage of present progressive tense in English. The article explains the sentence structure for using present progressive tense along with examples. Students will read in this article.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. These activities teach students to use the present progressive tense in English. Students complete a fill in the blank worksheet, carry out a dialogue with a partner, and write their own dialogues using present progresive tense. Student read, write, speak, and listen in these activities.

This resource is a lesson plan that teaches can use to help teach prepositional phrases.

Students will build speaking and listening skills through discussion, develop fluency and literary understanding, and will build skills in written expression.This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. This is a full lesson plan focusing on the poem "I'm Nobody." The plan includes activities in all language domains with multiple opportunities for student interaction.

Students will define allegory and explain the difference between allegory and alligator. Students will then read sentences, draw a circle around the word is used incorrectly, and then rewrite the sentence using the correct word.

In this lesson, students are introduced to quantitative synonym adjectives. Then they will create a visual display to demonstrate their understanding.

This resource shows students the most common types of descriptive adjectives as well as the correct order they belong in when writing sentences.

This is an interactive game where students will identify both the preposition and the object of the preposition in sentences.

For this interactive, students are given a set of words to rewrite using correct adjecive order. The activity tracks students' time and progress.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade English Language Arts.