Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions...

Students demonstrate their understanding of patterns and create patterns to share with others. Each student selects a different set of materials to create a pattern. Digital photographs are taken of each student and his or her pattern.

Students create pattern books. In this math patterns lesson plan, students create various patterns using manipulatives. Students take digital photographs of the patterns and create books.

Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations. In this artwork lesson plan, students explore cameras, poems, and other art forms to understand line, light, and other attributes that contribute to artwork.

What better way to learn about plant life than by creating a class garden? Young botanists start with a brief discussion about radishes before planting seeds and watching them grow. To determine the importance of water,...

Students, in groups, identify examples of shapes around the school site. They take digital pictures of these shapes and use them to construct a class book.

Fourth through sixth graders incorporate Gandhian principles into Math curriculum. They explore Gandhi's teachings on communal unity and economic equality. This has quite a bit of information about Gandhi and his observations and...

Students identify and manipulate shapes to create tessellations. In these geometry/spatial relations lessons, the students use of a variety of modalities such as literature, music, writing, and art as introductions to the concept of...

Students solve problems using various strategies. In this problem solving lesson plan, students read the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. Students make fish swimming patterns, measure how many goldfish crackers it takes to make a handprint and...

Students improve vocabulary and explore predicting and categorizing after reading the book, Is Your Mama a Llama?

First graders practice number identification by reading a story in class. In this number sense lesson plan, 1st graders read the story A Wish for Wings that Work and identify objects within the book's photographs. Students count the...

Students identify geometrical shapes displayed in photographs of everyday objects in a metropolitan setting.

Students complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio...

Students build on what they know to make new discoveries. For this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.

Students discover that the possibilities are limitless in this block-building activity. For this early childhood, problem solving lesson, students develop social, problem-solving, math, and language skills using a specific number of...

First graders dress as their favorite storybook character. They draw a self-portrait, then place the drawing on a graph.

Students identify two and three dimensional shapes and use appropriate geometric vocabulary to write a description of the figure by taking pictures of geometric figures in their own environment.