Tenth graders investigate the balance between national security and individual rights using the Japanese American internment camps during World War II as the setting. The activity incorporates photographs from the Manzanar camp in...

Students study holidays and culture. For this customs and traditions lesson plan, students create their own holiday based on traditions and holidays that different cultures currently practice.

Use Shel Silverstein's poem "Batty" to introduce poetry to young readers. This lesson is not formatted well, but the plan does suggest learners memorize a poem, recite the poem individually, and then recite the poem as a class. Poetry...

Third graders, in groups, practice outdoors with communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity.

Students estimate and measure exact. In this geometry instructional activity, students create different object in three-dimensional pattern. They use SketchUp to create their shape and perform measurements on their shapes.

Young scholars examine how people grow and mature at different rates. They create a graph and a timeline to organize the data they collect.

Students use this lesson to focus on classroom questioning and Bloom's taxonomy. Using the internet, they use the Bloom's taxonomy website to examine their framework on questions. They use this information to develop their experiments.

Students write paragraphs highlighting reasons why the Grinch may have stolen Christmas.

For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite and finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with appropriate punctuation.

For this current events worksheet, students read a 5-paragraph article about "staycations" and respond to 6 short answer questions. Vocabulary words and definitions are included.

Students explore environmental safety by participating in a class game. In this toxic chemicals lesson, students discuss the effect chemicals have on our environment and how to best protect against their dangers. Students participate in...

Students model the preparation needed for a soft-landing on a planet or object in space. They do this by packaging a raw egg with certain material, and dropping the egg from a given height to test the packaging effectiveness.

Third graders complete various activities about clouds. They create a cloud in a lab, write a cloud story, make a cloud model and complete a webquest.

Students study Mount Ranier and its activity as a volcano.  In this investigative instructional activity students locate cities around Mount Ranier and complete an activity. 

Students identify and implement methods to standardize testing stations that measure solar panel output power. After collecting electrical ouptut data from several solar panels, they plot the current-voltage and power curves. Students...

You'll fall in love with this assignment! In this Valentine's Day multiplication practice worksheet, cupids use problem solving skills to find the product. All 25 problems require them to multiply two-digit multiplicands by one-digit...

Sixth graders identify similarities between home security and computer (or information) security.  In this information security lesson, 6th graders create their own secure folders using passwords on the computer to organize their...

Young scholars determine how engineers decide on choices for final designs and sites for construction. They look at a surveyor's report while they evaluate sites where a pyramid could be build. They consider the distance the pyramid...

Learners read Mr. Peabody's Apples. In this reading lesson, students complete pre-and post-reading activities to improve comprehension skills. Learners role play scenes from the story to analyze.

Students fill out Application for Employment forms, then work in groups to determine whether students have individually filled out the forms correctly.

Students calculate mileage and determine how long a trip take and what stops are necessary as they plan a vacation within the United States. They take money, food, lodging and gas into account for budgeting purposes.

Learners use math to plan a trip by houseboat down the Mississippi River. They research and obtain information on the Mississippi River and its surroundings and use multiple graphs to represent their data.

Students discuss why many people don't have a balanced diet with nutritious food in order to not be hungry. In this hungry lesson plan, students learn what it means to eat healthy and start a service project for their community to help...

Tenth graders practice and facilitate a discussion.  In this literature lesson, 10th graders practice using effective discussion strategies. Students participate in reflection and self-assessment on their own discussion...