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Petroglyphs and Pictographs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make necklaces out of petroglyphs that they stamp into clay. In this petroglyphs lesson plan, 4th graders draw designs and explain where they come from as well.
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Butterfly Introduction

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a KWL chart about butterflies and then read a story about butterflies. In this butterflies lesson plan, 1st graders then discuss the life cycle, body, habits, and facts about butterflies as they read.
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Comprehension Skills: Picture, Question and Summarize Using Fiction Stories

For Teachers K
Students build a variety of comprehension skills through the nine lessons of this unit. Picturing events, monitoring understanding during reading, forming questions, and summarizing stories form the core of the lessons being taught in...
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Civil Engineering: Designing Bridges

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the bridges of the United States. They discuss the concept of balance. They draw their own design of a suspension bridge.
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The WCTU and the Lynching Controversy

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze writings of famous authors and record their positions on lynching and segregation. They research arguments to explore the attitudes of people in the South and the North during the 19th century.
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What Are the Characteristics of Biomes?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers working in groups study different types of biomes and the issues or environmental problems that can affect them. They design a poster board that displays the characteristics of their biome. They make a model of the biome...
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Adventures on the Eastern Half of Planet Earth

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore a country in the Eastern hemisphere. They develop a packet that could be used by someone visiting that country during the month of December. Students explore the climate, foods, geography, customs and culture of...
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A Shopping Center Field Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze how developers plan for a shopping center. They take a field trip to a nearby shopping center. Also students participate in a shopping center scavenger hunt. Students identify factors important to the location of...
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3-in-1 Color Tool

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm and...
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create examples of fall leaves using crayons, paints, and white paper in this fall Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed upon a class lecture/discussion about why leaves change color...
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Most Wanted Villians

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review the characteristics of various characters in fairytales. As a class, they review the story details and create a concept map using a software program. They create their own wanted poster of the villians in the fairytale to...
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Cricket Times

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students design a class newspaper all about their study of crickets, including illustrations and various sections of the newspaper, like sports, jokes, articles, food, and reviews. Students create a plan to design a cricket from food...
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Vocation: Fashion Powerpoints

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the history of fashion through a Powerpoint presentation and several hands-on projects. After creating their own presentations of particular fashion eras, they sketch costume examples and place them in portfolios.
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Lupita Ma¿¿ana

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students join Lupita and her brother Salvador, as they go on a journey to the United States in hopes of having a better life for their family. On their journey, they are doing activities that help them earn points. The goal is to earn...
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Celebration of Cultures

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners create a multimedia project to represent their own culture and personal identity. They design a personal Coat of Arms using a computer graphics program and digital camera, write a script and film an interview, and contribute a...
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Give Me a Hand, I'm "Thumb-body" Special

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners label the bones in the hand, create a model of the hand, compile a set of fingerprints, and explore the importance of the thumb. In this anatomy of the hand lesson plan, students participate in six hands-on activities to...
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Ratios, Proportions, and Percents

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems.  In this using ratios and proportions to solve real-life problems lesson, 8th graders estimate the cost of a road trip.  Students estimate the distance between two...
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Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in Graphical Representation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze graphical forms of Eudora Welty and interpret the shorts stories in the representations. For this graphical representations lesson, students analyze the short story genre in comic strips. Students then create their own...
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Checkbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how to balance a checkbook.  In this economics lesson, students demonstrate that they can balance a checkbook by completing an activity that includes a check register and bank statement.
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Storytelling

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compose a story and tell it to the class.  In this storytelling lesson, students work in small groups to create an illustrated story.  Students are given a checklist of elements to include in the assignment. Students then create...
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Dynamics

For Teachers 1st
First graders review Frere Jacques and perform crescendos and decrescendos. In this music lesson plan, 1st graders also learn about the dynamics of music including piano, forte, mezzo piano, and mezzo forte.
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Biogeochemical Cycles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research an assigned biogeochemical cycle. In this cycle activity, students need to determine that all cycles need energy to continue. The students will look at a given cycle to describe it, research and draw an assigned cycle,...
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Color Picture/Word Match

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students match colors to the color words that they represent and complete a matching puzzle to go with it. In this colors lesson plan, students put the puzzle together to match up the colors.
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Equal Parts

For Teachers K
Pupils explore how to divide things into equal parts, by making delicious banana drops in class. They must divide their banana's equally before they complete the recipe to make banana drops.

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