10 Ideas to Create an Awesome Thematic Unit!

When teaching a thematic using, students show an increased level of engagement, concepts are taught within a context, and information is applied and retained. Check out these 10 ideas to build an awesome thematic unit with LessonPix.

All About Bees

This bee thematic unit will get students buzzing with cool bee facts and their benefit to the environment. Check out fun activities and materials ready-to-print!

All About Me

"All About Me" is a popular beginning of the year thematic unit for students and teachers to get to know each other and themselves. This fun theme includes concepts such as the body, feelings, family, and culture.

Apple Themed Activities

Enjoy these delicious apple activities with LessonPix.

Community Helpers Thematic Unit

Community helpers is a common theme for early childhood classrooms. As students share and learn about themselves and their classmates, they expand to look at their school neighborhood and the helpers who work nearby. LessonPix provides a wealth of resources in our Sharing Center for this fun unit.

Discover Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs Unit is a high-interest engaging topic for children of all ages. Embedding other curriculum content within this motivating theme makes learning even more fun!

Families

Here are materials and activities to use with a thematic unit on families.

Farm Unit

The farm unit engages young children with bright, familiar themes and sounds, making it an enjoyable way to introduce early learning concepts. It fosters a connection to nature and enhances vocabulary, math, and science skills through hands-on, sensory-rich activities.

Feelings and Emotions

Numerous Lesson activities and visuals for all areas of curriculum to use with a unit about feelings and emotions.

Insects Thematic Unit

Insects is an interesting and versatile thematic unit for many age groups. Use this fun theme to teach biodiversity, life cycles, change, sorting, comparatives, adaptations, and much more.

Ocean Thematic Unit

Create activities and visuals to teach concepts about the ocean.

Plants Unit

Lesson activities and visuals for teaching about plants for ages 4 to 8.

Reduce Reuse Recycle- Caring for our Planet

Learning how to care for Planet Earth is something in which we all benefit. Use these resources to support your Reduce, Reuse, Recycle unit- perfect for learners of varied needs at all grade levels!

Rubber Ducky Thematic Unit

LessonPix has rubber ducky pictures and templates for fun learning activities. Perfect for National Rubber Ducky Day on January 13!

Snowman Theme Ideas

Learning About Winter- Check out some Snowman Theme Ideas.

Springtime

It's springtime! What does spring mean? This article looks at lesson activities and visuals to teach various concepts about spring.

Trains - All Aboard for Learning Fun!

Trains are a high interest theme, great for embedded learning objectives. And, LessonPix offers many train-themed templates for learning fun!

Turtle-ly Awesome!

Kids love turtles! One of the best Turtle resources is Tucker Turtle. Tucker is a Turtle who teaches ways to calm and social skills instruction. Check out some turtle ideas for you!