1-Day Lesson Plans • Grades 3rd–6th

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Complete cross-curricular lesson plans combining science, informational reading, data analysis, writing, SEL reflection, STEM, and independent practice for flexible classroom use.

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Hot Air Balloon

Grades 3rd–6th Reading • STEM • SEL • Writing 1-Day Lesson Plan

Bring hot air balloons into your classroom with a complete cross-curricular unit combining science, informational reading, data analysis, writing, SEL reflection, and independent practice.

Students explore hot air balloon history and science through the Montgolfier brothers, first human flight, density, lift, gravity, and weight.
Hot Air Balloon STEM Design Challenge with prediction data and line graph activity, plus SEL reflection focused on courage, curiosity, responsibility, and responsible risk-taking.
Hot air balloon design-writing task, early-finisher wordsearch, and 1-Day Lesson Plan with standards alignment, differentiation, assessments, and extensions.

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African Elephant

Take a full day of planning off your plate with a connected African Elephant sequence combining nonfiction reading, writing, critical thinking, multistep STEM math, graphing, SEL reflection, and accountability.

ELA • STEM • Math • SELFull-Day / Substitute PlanGraphing • Critical Thinking

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Wild Weather

Turn extreme-weather survival into a connected day of reading, storm-shelter data analysis, bar graphing, SEL reflection, narrative writing, vocabulary, and assessment.

STEM • SEL • ELAExtreme Weather • GraphingEmergency Sub / Flexible Use

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Time Travelers

Use a lost-in-time theme to connect reading, species-survival data, bar graphing, adaptation reasoning, SEL reflection, narrative writing, vocabulary, and assessment.

STEM • SEL • ELADinosaurs • Ice Age • Future EarthSpecies Data • Graphing

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