Tiger Lesson Plans

Tigers are beautiful, dangerous, and readily capture the imagination. Enjoy a study of tigers with an easy room set up and plenty of cross-curricular connections.

Get your room ready with tiger print letters:


Go with orange or black background paper and a suitable motto:
"Our Class is GRRRREAT!"
"We're Tigers for Math!"

Add some leafy plants, real or paper, to simulate a jungle for your tigers.

Read about some literary tigers:

• William Blake's "The Tyger" and beautifully read on YouTube.
• "Tiger! Tiger!" by Rudyard Kipling
• "The Lady and the Tiger" by Frank Stockton
  
• And of course the limerick:
  There once was a lady from Niger
  Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
  They came back from the ride
  With the lady inside
  And the smile on the face of the tiger

There are lots and lots of tiger mascots and tiger images for companies, from "Put a Tiger in Your Tank" to "Tony the Tiger." Choose a tiger to research.

Online lesson plans:

• Tiger Timeline of Indian History shows how tigers are interwoven into the history of India, while giving kids opportunities to practice skills with chronological thinking.
• Crayola's tiger mask art lesson uses Model Magic to make a realistic tiger mask. Use the masks to retell folk tales about tigers.
• Lesson plans for "The Lambikin" include tigers, and links to tiger lessons.
• A PBS lesson plan on tigers for middle school.
• The Washington Post offers a reading comprehension lesson on the Sumatran tiger.
• National Geographic's PDF lesson includes tiger fact bingo.
  
• "Taming the Paper Tiger: a Unit on Paper and the Environment"  uses the folktale "The Tiger's Whisker" and includes a printable coloring sheet.