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Keyboarding: Formatting A Report Using MLA Style

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Introduce your class to the MLA style of formatting. In addition to studying the formatting, learners improve language skills and review word processor features. They use the Interwrite SchoolPad for the first time to assist in proofing...
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Uniform Design

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the military by examining their uniforms.  In this design lesson, students analyze the military uniforms from different locations and time periods.  Learners create new ideas for current military uniforms.
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Keyboarding: Formatting a Report Using MLA Style

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Keyboarding is one of the most basic skills needed to master modern technology, and it's also one of the most important. The class uses Century 21 Keyboarding and Information Processing to guide their hands in typing a report in the...
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Biography: Telling Someone's Life Story

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
There are many different ways to help your students get excited about writing biographies.
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I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners locate the literary devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. In this figurative language lesson plan, students first distinguish between similes, metaphors, analogies, personification, etc. Learners...
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Sim's Cities

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate city management and government by creating a fictional city in groups.  In this civics activity, students create rules and a mascot for their fictitious city which they create from poster board cubes.  Students...
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Ancient Greece Podcast

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this writing a podcast lesson plan, 7th graders create a podcast involving Ancient Greece. Students follow a rubric and outline to create their podcast. Students present their podcast to their fellow students.
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Letters from the Heart: Designing for the Other 90% of the World's Population

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore varied aspects of the design process and learn that most products are designed to reach the worlds wealthiest 10%. In this lesson, students work in groups to learn ways in which designers are attempting to rectify...
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Plant Identification: New Jersey vs. Ecuador

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover the different plants that grow in different climates through specimen collections.  In this botany lesson, 6th graders examine plants from both New Jersey and Ecuador and discuss what conditions could create such...
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Interviewing for Information

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct interviews of Utah drivers representing different age groups. They transcribe this information for other members of their group to use it as a reference.
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Monster and Myths: Scripts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore characteristics of the myth genre.  In this myth lesson, students become familiar with various myths and the cultures they were derived from. Middle schoolers compare in a graphic organizer. Students write...
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Designing the Experiment and Answering the Question

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students investigate scientific methods by analyzing an article from the Natural Inquirer.  In this data analysis lesson, students read an article from the magazine and discuss at least 2 scientific methods that could be used to solve...
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Talking about Advertising

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine tools and techniques of advertising. In this advertising lesson, students view ads, disvuss common terms used, and analyze techniques. Students are presented with situations and must design and advertisement for the...
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When You Were My Age, What Was This Place Like?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover how land use in their community has changed. In this community and ecology lesson, students scan old newspapers to find articles about the development of community land. Students discuss and predict how land use has...
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40th Anniversary of Woodstock

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Lessons can help students understand the significance of Woodstock, the 1960's, and the history of the times.
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Virtual Field Trip: Lesson Ten - Publishing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Class members publish a letter describing their Virtual Field Trip incorporating data from previously developed charts, graphs, and data tables. The final lesson plan in a series devoted to collecting information and publishing data.
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Presenting Powerful Outlines for Science Fair Reports

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine and reflect on the role of science reports in the larger scientific community and become familiar with one scientist's experience preparing a report. They identify key points to build a strong science report and...
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Jet Engine Magazine

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore physics by creating a magazine cover in class. In this flight instructional activity, students identify the motion and force that must be generated in order for a jet engine to lift off the ground. Students create a...
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Note Taking

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discover how to transfer information from highlighted articles to note cards. Providing students with an organized system to collect and record data provide them with a lifelong skill.
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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss how people, society, and technology change over time through a unit of integrated lessons. In these changes in society lessons, 6th graders discuss the answers to many questions about how changes effect the...
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Wild Animal Science

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover how environmental factors impact the survival of a population. In this landscape design lesson, students create a new animal and discuss the relationship between the animal and its environment before creating a habitat...
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Sidewalks to Success in Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.
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Language Arts: Reading Non-Fiction

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students read and view information sent from seven high school students who travel to China. The daily reports that they send back to the weblog section of the site should be of high interest to students in Minnesota.
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Writing Letters for Human Rights

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students draft and edit a letter regarding human rights. They work in groups to select a cause, follow basic letter writing guidelines and draft a persuasive letter expressing their concerns. Students can also send the letters to a...

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