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See If You Can Draw

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create works of art by solving art problems in this game for the elementary classroom. Pencils and paper are the suggested materials, but the lesson can be adapted in various ways for different levels and circumstances.
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"Fall"owing Changes in the Season

For Teachers K
Students create a whole class A-B-"C"eason Book. Each student is responsible for creating a "letter" page relating to changes, adaptations, or other fall concepts. After hard copies of the class ABC books are created, the teachers using...
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Field Trip!: A Visit to the Grocery Store

For Teachers K
Students discover that foods are organized into groups of similar items by developing vocabulary to enhance verbal discussion i.e., real experiences provide the foundation for thoughtful discussion and critical thinking. They then...
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Heat Energy- Temperature

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the meaning of temperature. They determine what happens to a thermometer when the temperature rises or falls. They place thermometers in different classroom locations in order to compare the temperature in a...
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Community Culture Trunk

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the similiarities and differences between the various cultures represented in their class. After being read a story about immigration, they identify things they would have to bring with them if they were moving to...
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Pond Water

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore a creek environment. They make observations, identify the living and nonliving factors in the environment and collect a plankton sample to take back to the classroom. In addition, they look at plankton under a microscope.
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Units and Estimation Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students practice choosing the appropriate measurement for different types of objects that are commonly found in a classroom.
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Questions About a Place

For Students 6th - 9th
For this classroom applications of fieldwork basics worksheet, students survey a list of questions that may be used when they conduct interviews with people about a place.
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How Does It Feel?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify the textures of materials in their environments in order to expand their language, math, sensory, and observational skills. For this sensory activity lesson, students first write a list of different words to describe...
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-Ing Forms as Nouns

For Students 6th - 8th
In this gerunds worksheet, students use ten words that end with "-ing" as either subjects or objects of verbs or prepositions. Students identify how each gerund was used in their sentences.
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Walk and Talk Health and PE Activity

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students practice concepts they are studying while exercising. In this health and fitness lesson plan, studnets walk and job while discussing current classroom lessons.
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Family Law - Domestic Violence

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners take a closer look at domestic violence. In this family law lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to define domestic violence and learners then discuss teen dating violence. Students make note...
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Perimeter Playground

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore geometry by participating in a school measuring activity. For this perimeter lesson, students discuss the techniques and methods used in order to measure a large perimeter or geometric figure. Learners utilize grid...
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Regular Polygons

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore polygons. In this math lesson, 5th graders find examples of regular polygons in the classroom and measure the sides of figures to determine if they are regular polygons.
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Seeing Eye "Buddies"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a variety of sights within their schoolyard habitat and sitting quietly back-to-back with a partner describe what they see. The partner sketches the observations, 3rd graders compare drawings with the object described.
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It's a Matter of Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners watch a video on matter and identify examples of solids, liquids and gases in the classroom. They discuss the attributes for each kind of matter and conduct an experiment to explore how matter can change form.
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Creating with "Found Sounds"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are placed in small groups for this project. Groups collect and use ordinary objects to create a "Stomp" like performance.
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Dialog Expansion, Structure Drills

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice speaking sentence patterns used in classroom dialogs. They use new vocabulary within the sentence patterns.
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Math is Beautiful

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore how geometry is used on the composition of artworks by artists from different cultures. This lesson is equally suited for a Math or Art classroom at the late-elementary or early-middle school level.
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Fruit And Veggie Prints

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils discover the art of printmaking and practice painting skills in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Paints, brushes, sponges, paint trays, and fruits and vegetables are all required to produce the prints in the art lesson.
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Science: Leaf Study

For Teachers 1st
First graders go on a leaf-hunting expedition around the schoolyard. They determine from which trees they fell using identification cards. Students read several books about leaves and apply their artistic skills by using the collected...
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Measurement Tools

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand the concept of how to use different measurement tools for specific purposes. Students take pictures of various objects that can be measured using a digital camera and then making a power point presentation.
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Motions and Forces

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the construction of a magnet and the force it produces. They identify various materials as magnetic or non-magnetic, discuss the properties of magnetic properties, and conduct an experiment with a compass and...
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Schoolyard Dig

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students begin the lesson by being introduced to the new vocabulary associated with archaeology. In groups, they use the school grounds to simulate their dig site. They record all the objects they discover and what can be gathered from...

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