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Open Your Eyes To Art!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students help create a colorful bulletin board for classroom art displays in this short activity for the early elementary classroom. The activity, which can use a variety of items, includes product ideas and resource links to find very...
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Fair Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in several chance activities and examine a few games for fairness. They become game designers who are asked to design a fair game for a toy company. Students must describe the rules for play and examine...
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Fact or Opinion?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders design a political cartoon. In this fact and opinion activity, 3rd graders examine political cartoons and distinguish fact from opinion. Students create a political cartoon on the topic of their choice.
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Turning Up The Heat!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the properties of heat. They explore methods of temperature control and measurement. Through experimentation and activities, students design a high tech tree house. They consider electrical, solar, and natural...
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The Conservation Clubhouse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design a clubhouse. After investigating forms and sources of energy, students investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each. They consider energy use, conservation and the effects of energy shortages. Finally, students...
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Assistive Technology

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the use of technology in order to help students with special needs. They take part in a instructional activity that is designed to help a specific student with an...
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils examine levers and design a machine that uses a lever as a central component.  For this lever machine lesson students test various machine designs and evaluate their effectiveness.
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Earth Systems Science

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers perform experiments designed to grow plants and bacteria in a controlled environment.  In this ecosystems lesson students investigate varying conditions for growing plants and bacteria. 
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Marigold Sculptures

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students design paper sculpture. In this visual arts activity, students follow the provided steps to create their own marigold sculptures from paper products and paint.
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Creating a Basal Area Measuring Tape

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use formulas to design and create a table.  In this calculations lesson plan students create basal measuring tapes that will be used to measure woodlot stocking levels. 
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See That Sound?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study sonar and will explain the concept of it and its major components.  For this design lesson students build a low-cost sonar system. 
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Consumerism and Holidays

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the free enterprise system and the role that buying and selling of holiday goods have upon the economy. They recognize and demonstrate that advertising design influences one's life.
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What a Garden Can Teach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.
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Household Chemicals & the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct a laboratory experiment designed to investigate the effects of chemicals, soil quality and pollution on seed growth and plant yield. They consider how best to maximize agriculture in the long term.
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2105

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read excerpts from Jon Scieszka's novel, 2095, prior to presenting their vision of the future in a creative project accompanied by written explanation. They design a museum exhibit which shows a scene from a science fiction book...
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Core Democratic Values of American Constitutional Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe the ideas found in the core democratic values. In groups, they design and create a brochure explaining how the values relate to other ideas that Americans accept as a nation. They share what they know with with...
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The Role of African American soldiers in World War II

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design and create a poster, advertising for recruitment of African American volunteers for the Tuskegee Airmen. Students Create a historical newspaper front page, from 1996, which details the awarding of the Medal of Honor to...
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The Battle for San Juan Hill: Santiago, Cuba, July 1, 1898

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders design and create a poster, advertising for recruitment of volunteers to serve with Teddy Roosevelt in the 1st Volunteer Calvary Regiment. Students create a historical newspaper front page, from the time period, which...
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Group Rotation Digital Pictures

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders enhance digital photographs. They modify and combine the images to design composite images using Adobe Photoshop. They complete projects in their technology rotation and answer associated questions about the process of...
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New Technologies

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners analyze how technology has changed over time. They identify technologies that did not exist in the past and might be invented in the future and design a poster that illustrates the evolution of one kind of technology and...
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Breads And Nutritional Labels

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of a nutritional label used on bread products. They read different labels in order to strengthen reading skills and interpreting nutritional information. The information is used in order to create...
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Simple Machines In Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars name and recognize six types of simple machines. They use their research to design an amusement park ride that features different types of simple machines. Students create a brochure about their ride and how it works. ...
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Suspension Bridges

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Pupils view examples of suspension bridges and discuss their structure. They complete a tension and compression experiment with a partner then perform a similar experiment with books. They discuss engineers and how they design and solve...
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Fabric Leftovers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch demonstrations on different projects. Using that information, they create the project of their choice using only leftover fabric. They practice weaving, stitching and backing methods for the different creations. They...

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