Sixth graders explore scientific observations by analyzing a group of data. In this fingerprint identification lesson plan, 6th graders identify the reasoning behind fingerprinting and create their own ink fingerprints. Students discuss...

Students use graphic organizers to relate information. They read an article and insert information from the article to the theme map using a word processing program.

Students use word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software. In this multi-day computer software usage lesson, students complete a research project that requires the use of a word processor, Excel, FrontPage, and PowerPoint to...

Students, who are studying ESL, examine the use of web sites. In this web site lesson, students watch a teacher demonstration of different types of web sites. They discuss how much time people spend on the Internet. They take a survey...

Students practice listening to math problems in a foreign language.  In this number sentence activity, students listen to the teacher ask them a question in a foreign language that has some type of number combination for an answer....

Students practice telling time using a foreign language.  In this time telling lesson, students listen to a teacher tell them the time in their target language as they translate it while writing.  Students utilize their new...

Students utilize a new language to tell someone they care for them. For this complimenting lesson, students practice saying nice things to friends and strangers in their target language. Students react to the lesson afterwards and...

Learners utilize a new language to discuss dates and birthdays.  For this foreign language lesson, students practice using vocabulary words from a target language to speak about birthdays and culture related to a specific student....

Students celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Students create a bulletin board...

Students explore the concept of courage, both in themselves and in others. In this history and character education lesson, students discuss the characteristics of courage and what it means and how one can show it. Students listen to...

Students gain an awareness for the work of Alexander Calder, study a variety of utilitarian objects and discuss their purposes, and create graphic of a utilitarian piece using computer graphic software.

Students prepare a classroom weathercast and present a broadcast.

Students write and publish a short story using KidPix computer software. They discuss the basic elements of a story, observe a demonstration of how to use KidPix, select a setting and characters, and print out their background picture to...

Students are given the preset graphic organizer using "Kidspiration". They create a graphic organizer about them and then use the graphic organizer to write their personal narrative.

Though an alternative method is suggested, the best way to carry out this investigation is with the use of a computer-interfaced motion detector. Physics fanatics hang a mass on the end of a spring and analyze its motion verbally,...

Youngsters listen to the story of Gregory the Terrible Eater and write a similar story using the same pattern. In the new book, Herman is requested to eat things that are nouns. They must supply the correct part of speech for the class...

Fourth graders identify and list 10 significant dates and events in the life of the person that he/she has read about. Using the 10 events identified from the students' chosen biography, they create a timeline using the TimeLiner 5.0...

Elementary schoolers discover how electricity travels and create an electron flow through a closed circuit. They work together to make a closed circuit and observe the electricity being made. This outstanding lesson plan is well worth...

Students analyze alcohol and tobacco ads and create parodies of them. The eight lessons in this unit include discussions about why teens smoke or drink, the psychology behind the advertising, and writing persuasive letters to agencies,...

Investigate the Remainder Theorem in this algebra lesson. Explore the relationship between the remainders of polynomial division and the function. Each of the four problems gets progressively more complicated. This might be a great...

Youngsters test magnetic strength by measuring the mass of paper clips that they "hook" with a magnet. Your first and second graders should love the hands-on activities associated with this plan. The reproducible materials are quite good...

Learners use an interactive web-based food web game to gain familiarity with tropic levels and interactions. They already understand that in an ecosystem there are four basic tropic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary...

Middle and high schoolers participate in a seven-part lesson plan creating Escher-Esque tessellations. They demonstrate their knowledge of geometric transformations after viewing a PowerPoint presentation, conducting Internet research,...

Learners examine the concepts of symmetry, rotations, reflections, translation, dialations, and tessellations and apply them to indigenous art. They also do Internet research and create artwork (painting, pottery, computer graphic design).