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Managing Multiple Roles
Students identify the roles balanced in family and career activities. In this family and career balance lesson, students identify the roles each family member has and discuss problems problems they see in their own families. Students...
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All in the Balance
Learners investigate gravity and balance. In this balance instructional activity, students listen to the story Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully. They experiment with balance by creating a tag board model figure that will...
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Balancing Act
Students describe how balance is important in their daily lives. In this balance lesson, students read Mirette on the High Wire, discuss how the book relates to the concept of balance and complete two balancing activities. Students...
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Tin Can Stilt Walkers
Students make tin can stilt walkers. For this stilt walkers lesson, students use 48 ounce size cans to make stilt walkers. They practice walking on them to improve their balance in this environmentally friendly art and physical education...
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Using a Balance to Compare Weights
For this using a balance to compare weights worksheet, 3rd graders compare two weights in pounds and ounces, write "balanced" if they are equal or circle the one that is heavier if they are not equal.
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Student Exploration: Weight and Mass
In this student exploration-weight and mass worksheet, student use the Weight and Mass Gizmo to answer questions and fill in charts with estimating and measuring.
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Logical Problem Solving
In this logical problem solving activity, 7th graders solve and complete 4 different types of problems. First, they fill in the boxes for each balance problem. Then, students state whether each statement given is true or false and give a...
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Balancing Act
Students demonstrate management skills specific to balance. In this physical education lesson students participate in activities with and without apparatus to improve balance. Students work at 8 stations to practice skills needed for...
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What Instruments Do You See?
In this scientific instruments learning exercise, learners are given photographs and titles of four instruments used in measurements. They answer five questions about the instruments used to measure specific items and the unit of...
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Where do Plants Get their Food?
In this where do plants get their food worksheet, students design an experiment that will disprove the idea that plants obtain their food from soil. Students will set up their experiment and design a data table that will record data over...
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Mathematics Applications
In this annual percentage rate worksheet, 10th graders solve 4 different word problems that relate to determining the interest rate and balance due for each problem. They solve each problem using an annual percentage table when...
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Math Applications 11
In this loans and interest charges worksheet, students solve 3 different word problems, each with 2 or more parts to them. First, they determine how many dollars need to be invested in order to provide a child with enough for college....
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Balancing Chemical Equations
For this chemistry worksheet, students balance each of the equations listed on the sheet. There are twenty-one equations to solve and complete.
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Whole Numbers Problems
In this math worksheet, students solve 40 word problems involving the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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Importance of the Ear
In this biology worksheet, students identify six important reasons of the ears in humans. They complete a graphic organizer filling in each of 6 circles with one reason of importance.
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Music: Dancing a Jig
Students Watch a video to observe Celtic dancers prior to playing a game called, "Irish Jig Tag." When students are tagged with a Shamrock wand, they mimic an Irish jig. The game can be adapted to celebrate other nationalities or...
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Balancing the Budget
Students identify the different components that make up the federal budget. They discuss the relationship between government revenues and spending and between budget deficits and the national debt. Students predict how changes in...
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Balance Stations
Students are introduced to the concept of balance. In groups, they travel between eight stations in which they balance their own body and different types of balls. To end the instructional activity, they share which one was the hardest...
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Balance, Rhythmns and Stomp Rockets
Students practice stepping and jumping, using specified foot action, in rhythm. In groups, they practice jumping onto stomp rocket launchers and demonstrate how to increase the distance by raising the angle of the launcher. After each...
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Stay Fit, 'Cause You Never Know.
Students identify what "Active Living" means and compare and contrast the relationship between fitness and active living by developing a recipe for Active Living. They examine Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating and the importance of...
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Measuring and Comparing Mass With a Balance
Fifth graders observe and demonstrate measuring and comparing mass using a balance. They discuss the definition of mass and the units of measurement used, observe how a balance is used, and with a partner balance the baskets of the...
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Algebra: Lesson 4
Eighth graders participate in using algebraic proportional reasoning to find the missing amount that balances on a scale. Substitution is used to discover the missing objects on a scale. They answer multiple choice questions that are...
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The Shapes Balancing Act
Young scholars comprehend the concept of balance, specifically the terms "base of support" and "center of gravity". They review the different basic shapes: triangle, circle, square, line, point, and rectangle. Students discuss how we...
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Introduction to the Principles of Design & Balance
Students explore the relationship of the principles of design to the elements and also the principle of balance. They demonstrate knowledge of fashion strategies. Students distinguish between line, texture, color, shape/form and patterns.