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Watercolor Landscapes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. They use watercolor paints to create landscape paintings.
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Spring Slide Show

For Teachers 1st
First graders work cooperatively to create a sprintime poem, slide show and book entitled "Who Said It's Spring?"
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Memories

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect artifacts of their fifth grade school year and make a technology based Memory Book.
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Who Am I? A Look at Portraits

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine a variety of portrait examples in order to visualize how information is portrayed in the pictures. They create a portrait.
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Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Declaration of Independence and write a group paper. Students use a set of designated questions as a guide for the threee to four page paper.
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Class Alphabet Book

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students are introduced to the Kid Pix software program and its templates. With a partner, they use the internet find a picture that starts with each letter of the alphabet. They practice saying and reading the words to their partner for...
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Comparing Cities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the characteristics of cities in two different geographical areas. Using the internet, they take notes on the information they collect and record their observations on the two cities. They discover how the location...
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I 695 (The 30$ License Tabs Initiative)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the bill I 695 issue. They discuss the topic before they research the issue of I 695. Students discuss how new laws are always being created and the differences in opinion about these laws. They see how this...
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Infectious Diseases

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a brochure for a fictional pharmaceutical company.
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Transformations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete activities to perform transformations of various figures and describe the transformations. In this transformations lesson, 7th graders perform a translation, a rotation, and a reflection on graph paper. Students...
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Narrative Procedure

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify narrative procedure. In this narrative procedure lesson, students analyze a recipe and visit the website www.ehow.com. Students discuss narrative procedures and answer questions. students make a list of the procedures...
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Social Studies Timeline

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make a timeline for the information covered in their social studies textbook. They use Inspiration software to create a timeline that includes information from the social studies chapter.
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Watercolor Techniques

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the medium of watercolor paints. They observe basic watercolor painting techniques and experiment with these techniques on watercolor paper.
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the basics of drawing forms in one-point perspective, and linear perspective. They transform their drawings into city scenes using one-point perspective.
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Composting

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders collect data from Bottle Biology compost columns and record using Excel spreadsheet.
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Yaba "Data" Cereal

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create and modify a database using information from cereal labels.
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Clouds and Solar Radiation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use satellite imaging and Mesonet solar radiation maps to answer questions given to them by the teacher and look for differences and similiarities in the data.
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"Investigating Hazardous Materials"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders gather Internet information on a variety of related topics concerning hazardous waste.
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Top Ten Facts

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students, in pairs, complete research about an assigned person. One student does research in the library and the other on the Internet. They come back together, compare their research, and compile a list of 10 main facts about their person.
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Creating and Analyzing Graphs of Tropospheric Ozone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create and analyze graphs using archived atmospheric data to compare the ozone levels of selected regions around the world.
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Investigating the Mammoth Mystery

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders go on a virtual dig to find out where the mammoth bones found in a rural U.S. county came from. They determine whether the bones were created by humans or were they the actual remains of mammoths who walked the area during...
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Digital Photography to Result in a Powerpoint

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders illustrate difficulties in giving speeches in Powerpoint presentations. Using digital cameras, they take pictures of objects both in and out of school. Students use the photos to illustrate prepositions, adverbs, and...
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Good Enough To Eat

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners are introduced to the five food groups. In groups, they place different foods into the correct section of the Food Pyramid. Using different types of technology, they create one page of a class ABC book sharing what they know...
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Meet Cecilia, Gilbert and Kate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experience the experiences of several ESL students. They view there journeys in life. Students encounter first hand their joys, pains and hardships. They begin to feel what these young people feel everyday of their lives.