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Circuits

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students draw a schematic diagram of parts needed to build an op-amp. For this physics lesson, students test the operation of their machine. They graph and analyze data using excel.
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The Issues

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the issues that concern them and determine where they stand on each issue.
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activity: Hand-Molded Pottery

For Teachers K - 12th
Students view and discuss examples of pottery. They discuss how pottery has always been made by hand and use a ball of clay to roll and shape into a form of their choice.
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Electronic Surveillance: Unlawful Invasion of Privacy or Justifiable Law Enforcement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners state values and analyze them and the values of other students as it relates to the issue of individual privacy. They develop constitutional provisions which address issues relating to privacy with particular reference to item...
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Using Maps to Make Public Health Descisions Case Study: Harmful Algal Blooms in the Gulf of Mexico

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to GIS and its uses. Students participate as public health scientists to deliberate a course of action to explore possible research questions. Pupils interpret spatial data, and make predictions based on GIS data,...
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Author Study

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work collaboratively to create PowerPoint presentations on an author of their choice. This lesson plan is written for a first and third grade joint project with students pairing up across grade levels.
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The Ides March On - Caesar Today

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners make connections between the rule and reign of Julius Caesar and the leaders of other countries. They then create a news show that communicates their understanding of four essential questions that are included in the lesson.
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Investigating the Biosphere With Planetary Models

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a biosphere using the computer program SImEarth. They work in small groups to create "Daisyworld" in which they model aspects of the Gaia hypothesis. They form a question to answer and choose variables to investigate in...
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Bar Charts and Pictographs: How can they help us?

For Teachers 1st
First graders work with manipulatives to solve various math problems by using concrete objects to solve a list of problems . They create and evaluate bar graphs and write a statement about the information on their bar graph.
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Two Faces Of Greece: Athens And Sparta

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the civilizations of Ancient Greece while focusing upon the city-states of Greece and Sparta. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used to create the context for a variety of...
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Tree Identification

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students are introduced to the characteristics of trees and different techniques to identify them. They distinguish between a deciduous and a coniferous tree. Students describe at least four characteristics used to identify trees. They...
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Build an Anemometer

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars investigate wind speed. In this wind instrument lesson, students build an anemometer to measure wind speed and discuss the importance of wind speed knowledge in various professions. 
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Math Investigations Facilitation Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this math lesson plan, students choose a topic involving math that interests them to investigate or research. Students make a plan detailing how they will investigate their topic; such as, keeping track of plant heights over time,...
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Herculean Heroes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and compare Herakles's heroic qualities to those depicted in students' portraits of their favorite heroes.
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Hominoid Cranium Comparison

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe, measure and compare cranial casts from contemporary apes (chimpanzees and gorillas, typically), modern humans and fossil "hominids" (erect and bipedal forms evolutionarily separated from apes).
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Sorting

For Teachers K
Students sort a variety of manipulatives and use a software program that provides more sorting practice.
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Editing and Revision Made Easy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use computer to correct mistakes in written sentences.
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MAKE YOUR OWN MINUTE

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create a historical minute based on a hero. They research the hero of their choice and write a script for two or three scenes with depict significant events from their heroes lives.
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Stellar Fingerprints: the Spectra of Stars

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners explain how an element can be identified using emission spectra. They relate the emission spectrum of hydrogen to its absorption spectrum and identify hydrogen absorption lines in the spectrum of stars.
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NOTHING TO LEAR BUT LEAR HIMSELF

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a scene from King Lear and decide collaboratively how best to present it. In doing so, they examine the scenes and the play from multiple perspectives.
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Direct Object Pronouns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to identify parts of a sentence, and decide where the direct object pronoun should go and what it should replace.
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Exploring the Elements of a Japanese Garden Through the Book Arts

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners create book arts based on a visit to the Botanical Garden. They choose their own images to put into their book and answer discussion questions.
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Dynastic Explorations

For Teachers 4th
Students complete a unit of lessons on medieval Chinese dynasties. They examine the impact the Chinese culture has had on their own lives, label maps, conduct research, read stories, create bamboo stick sentences, write poems, and make...
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Contemporary Japanese Relief Printing

For Teachers 4th
STudents identify and interpret relief printing and that the art of printing is not only an ancient art in Japan but a contemporary one as well. Students identify who Fumio Fujita is and his artworks.

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