Encourage self-awareness with a lesson that challenges scholars to identify feelings—happy, sad, mad, and scared. Using a feelings thermometer, similar to that of a bar graph, pupils discuss how they would feel in specific scenarios then...

Scholars become STAR deputies in a instructional activity that encourages them to be problem-solvers. Small groups gather to complete a worksheet by answering questions. A discussion presents a scenario in which a problem occurs on the...

Students create a PowerPoint presentation on school safety. They are required to have illustrations and transitions in their slideshow. They develop a safety test for their classmates.

Students see that baby animals go through different stages of growth during their life, just as people do. They use the downloadable Cyberinstructional activity Worksheet to reinforce what they have learned about animals and their...

High schoolers examine the effects of drinking on decision making. In this alcohol use lesson, students discover how their decision making skills are hindered when drinking. High schoolers discuss how HIV is and is not transmitted and...

Students design a zoo habitat for an animals. In this zoo habitat instructional activity, students develop an idea for a zoo habitat that would meet the needs of a specific animal. They solve problems that might be encountered by using...

Students draw a picture. In this favorite foods lesson plan, students list the foods they like to eat and form each like into a complete sentence. Students cut the word in the sentences apart and then arrange them in the correct order...

Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know.  In this Monarch Butterfly lesson,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly. Students gather...

Students write a story.  In this critical thinking and writing instructional activity, students read a fable, answer the provided thinking skills questions, and write their own fable.

Students listen to The Trouble With Trolls and discuss fables.  In this story elements instructional activity, students work on reading skills.  Students participate in different reading activities.

Fifth graders examine the stages of insect's to understand heredity.  In this inherited traits lesson, 5th graders explore the life of the honeybee for its inherited traits. Students recognize the difference between inherited traits...

Young scholars, after observing and responding to two pictures, consider the interaction of two unknown animals by examining the pattern of their footprints. They make observations, draw conclusions and propose possible explanations for...

Students examine all the techniques required to look good for an interview in order to make a good impression and build up of your confidence level to do well on the job. They soon realize that dressing the part is vital to landing a job...

Students study organisms and the roles they play in nature. In this ecology instructional activity, students photograph several examples of organisms during a nature walk. Students print out their photos and classify the organisms as...

Students select a 'Sweat Head" at the end of the physical education class to represent the effort they believe they gave during class. The "Sweat Heads" are pictures of faces with either 100, 80, 50, or 30 written on them. Each "Head"...

Second graders communicate ideas, information, and feelings.

Second graders create a thermometer.  In this Celsius or Fahrenheit activity, 2nd graders create an individual thermometer to use for measuring the temperature.  Students convert the outside temperature. 

First graders explore the importance of keeping their body clean in order to maintain good health. They explore washing their hands and maintaining other good hygiene practices.

Students listen to a story about different types of animals and explore how they all need each other, just like people do.

Students think about what it means to be intelligent and fast (able to run)/athletic. After listening to the story, 'The Gingerbread Boy,' students write their own stories about a gingerbread girl and a female fox.

Second graders study commercials and determine which cereal they feel is the most nutritious.

Students explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...

Students bring to school five items they would normally throw away and five items they would normally recycle. Expert groups are formed to present information on the recycling of glass, metal, plastic, and organics such as paper and...

Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. In this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...