Students examine how riding a bike can impact the environment and cut down on carbon emissions.  In this environmental lesson students design a bike rack that is made from recycled material.

An important and engaging lesson on bicycles and bicycle safety that will enlighten and educated your class. Learners are shown the most important bicycle safety rules. After a discussion about what they already know about bicycles,...

Students learn how to use maps, compute mileage, and be physically active while exploring America's national parks, historical heritage, and nutritional information via key agricultural sites.

Fifth graders graph bike mileage results. In this graphing information lesson, 5th graders get into groups, and organize the information they read. Students share how they organized the information with the rest of the class. Students...

Students participate in a variety of activities related to biking. They follow diction to draw a picture of a bike. They read an article about cycling and role play in a bike shop. They design a poster for a campaign that encourages bike...

We are very dependent upon other life forms around us to survive. Here, scholars explore relationships in the ecosystem with the help of Auntie Litter and the pollution patrol. They imagine a world without grass, making connections to...

This is a nice idea for high school students to organize and present a Health and Wellness Fair at a local elementary school. It looks like it would take a lot of organization, but would certainly build community relationships. There are...

Understanding the global interconnection between people of other nations is extremely important in our ever-shrinking world. Emergent global thinkers examine the significance of Chinese culture, religion, and political power. They then...

Kids make big artistic gestures, just like the abstract artist, Lisa Signal. They use her work as inspiration for making simplistic, abstract, statements in an artistic way. They analyze her work, then walk through an unfamiliar...

For kids, taking a vacation is all fun and games, but after completing this pre-algebra project, they'll have a whole new appreciation for the planning that makes these trips possible. Given a budget of $5,000 to spend on purchasing the...

Discover how to program objects to move on a screen. In the second lab of a five-part unit, each learner uses block instructions to program a sprite to follow their mouse (cursor). They investigate how to use these same block...

Students create a safety poster in small groups after a discussion on playground safety issues. They concentrate on bike safety, skating safety and general playground safety. After sharing the posters with the class they role-play safety...

Map the classroom with your kids to help them understand how maps work and how to read them. The lesson starts off with a story about animals living and moving around the globe, and then kids create maps of their classroom to show how...

Reinforce the actions, emotions, and characteristics that determine what a character is like by having your middle schoolers create a biopoem using the model presented here. You could engage them first by having them write a poem about...

Health nuts create a month-long calendar presenting health-themed pictures, tips, or facts in each day's box. Rather than just a project, you could raise the required number of health facts and use this as a unique assessment of...

Fourth graders watch a video and a demonstration and then share their experiences walking and riding their bicycle. They explore how to ride and walk safely.

Eighth graders discuss invention of bicycle and early obstacles to riding, listen to and discuss short story "Taming the Bicycle" by Mark Twain, define vocabulary words from story, and create and present humorous "how to" project to...

First graders identify and discuss different kinds and sources of of pollution. They explain why it is important to keep the environment free of pollution. They make a poster depicting the dangers of pollution and make litter boxes.

Third graders listen to a read-aloud of Leo Lionni's, Inch by Inch before measuring a variety of items using both standard and metric units. They record the measurement data and follow a recipe for dirt pie.

Young scholars research a trail system. They create a display board of the trail system, generate a map of the trail system, and develop a commercial advertising of the trail system. They design a display board featuring facts about...

Students examine how people from different societies and cultures remember those whom they have lost. In this lesson students analyze memorials from around the world, create their own, and find memorials that they have in their own homes.

Young scholars practice persuasive writing. In this writing lesson plan, students understand that there are different ways to write. Young scholars build a list of words that can be used for persuasion. Students develop statements to use...

Young scholars identify the characteristics of a bridge and build with junk materials.  For this bridge building lesson, students use cereal boxes, paper towel or toilet paper tubes and tape to create their bridges. ...

Fourth graders discuss cycling and create a list of good effects from cycling.  In this cycling instructional activity, 4th graders design a leaflet or poster to encourage cycling. Students debate the benefits of cycling.