If you would like to send me an idea, please do so using my e-mail account. Lesson Plans and Activities 1. Offer up the suggestions of cocoon or shells. Students draw their house exactly as it looks from the outside. Teacher should model this by drawing his or her own for the students.
Students look through magazines, newspaper, and catalogs for picture of different kinds of houses.
Either the teacher or students can glue the pictures onto construction paper and then cut them out. Students use these pictures to sort between animal or human homes, or to compare and contrast two houses. This can be done as a speaking or writing activity. Velcro tape is a good way to keep everything together and yet flexible. Color code the pairs to help with this self correcting game.