Students work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson plan, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance. 

Students analyze the events that lead up to the failure of the South Fork Dam and the impact the flood had on the region. In this historical lesson students develop presentations on the Johnstown Flood.

Young scholars examine the political parties of the 1860 election and compare their platforms.  In this election lesson students determine the meaning of a political cartoon and predict the outcome of the 1860 election.

Students analyze and interpret artifacts and a timeline to get specific information.  In this timeline lesson plan students work in groups to research an Indian tribe and write an information piece of their research. 

Learners study the Poconos and the importance of the resorts there.  For this Poconos lesson plan students research and plan a travel itinerary to the Poconos.

Students create raven masks. In this Northwest Coast Native American lesson plan, students design and create Kwakiutl-style hats that feature the shapes, animals, and colors used by the Northwest Native Americans.

Students explore a creation myth. In this visual arts lesson, students discuss the Dogon creation myth and the design and make refrigerator magnets in the style of Dogan granary doors. The design of the magnets should include linear and...

In this ESL beaver worksheet, students read a chart comparing the American and European beavers, then fill in blanks in text about facts in the chart. 

Students collect data and plot it using a histogram. In this statistics lesson, students interpret histograms. They find the frequency, percents and density.

Learners describe the pattern of a bell curve graph. In this statistics lesson, students move data around and make observation about the mean, and the quartiles. They define boxplot, outlier, range and other important vocabulary words...

Students discover missing letters of the alphabet. In this letter recognition lesson, students identify the missing letters in a short alphabet sequence. Students complete a worksheet as an assessment.

Students divide into two groups. One group uses their body to create a bridge. On the teacher's signal, the remaining portion of the class tries to go under (or through) as many of the bridges as possible.

Students identify the numbers 1-10 while listening to a counting song. They practice counting items using the numbers 1-10.

High schoolers study paintings by a Pennsylvania artist, Horace Pippin, to explore African-American contributions in World War I. They create presentations based on their impressions of the artwork.

An interview delves deep into the life of famous astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson. 

Students investigate expressionist art by researching Wassily Kandinsky. In this abstract art lesson, students utilize the Internet to visit a web museum which showcases Kandinsky's compositions. Students analyze the artistic lines and...

Young scholars work together to solve a jigsaw puzzle.

Students play three simple chords on guitar while singing American folk songs.

In this psychology worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions about personality. They explore Freud and Maslow's theories.

First graders study the attributes of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They sort shapes that are the same and those that are different into groups.

Students enhance their understanding of how animals function in a habitat.Students are scattered individually and in small groups. About half of students make coral shapes in small groups. The other half of students move like animals in...

Students demonstrate rhythmic accuracy and the ability to repeat a group of motions in a sequence.

Students follow written directions to construct their own tangram. In this tangram lesson, students use their tangram to develop original figures that illustrate characters and/or objects from their favorite nursery rhyme. Students also...

Students investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of minerals. They make a list of the uses of minerals found in Illinois. They write a report individually based on their observations.