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Future Career Visions
Students explore a variety of careers. They research careers they may be interested in pursuing. Students create a Career Flyer or Brochure and a PowerPoint presentation to present to the class.
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Brush Lake State Park Indian Education For All Lesson Plan
Students, after exploring several secondary historical sources, compare/contrast their local history of the Brush Lake area, by viewing their own individual local histories. They assess contemporary cultures of the white homesteaders and...
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Get a Job
High schoolers brainstorm a list of items needed to have a successful career. Individually, they complete a webquest in which they identify positions they might be interested in. They also practice the interview process and how to...
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Telling Our Story
Students develop a presentation. For this service lesson, students respond to how they felt participating in a service project and brainstorm ways they can continue to serve. Students create a class presentation that demonstrates...
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Graphing Data
First graders explore the concept of graphing. In this data lesson, 1st graders gather information from a class survey and display their findings on a picture graph. Students also practice solving problems that their instructor models.
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)
Young scholars explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook. In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market. Young scholars decide on a career they would like to...
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Busy Fingers
Young scholars describe their favorite hobbies and pastimes and investigate those of others. They survey the range of hobbies and share them with a partner school abroad. They make a poster or website about hobbies and pastimes.
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FACS:Health Careers Planner - Therapeutic Services
Learners explore the Therapeutic Services Career Pathway using articles in the Health Careers Planner.
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Rocks, Rocks & More Rocks
Second graders work together to examine different types of rocks. They sort rocks according to their characteristics and properties.
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Food Environmental Quality And Health
Students focus on the issues that students face during middle childhood. They recognize the negative effects of poor nutrition and make more informed healthy decisions. They conduct further self-analysis in regards to their individual...
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Why is the Middle East so Stereotyped in the West?
Students examine the stereotypes used to classify the Middle East. After taking a regional literacy survey, they discover their own global awareness. They discuss how stereotypes are formed and how they persist over time if not stopped.
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Thinking about Energy
Students examine their understandings about energy concepts by completing an online survey. Students participate in a class discussion about their uses of resources and the differences between perpetual, renewable, and nonrenewable...
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The Best Vacation Ever
Students research various vacation destinations and the costs of travel. In this vacation planning lesson, students obtain information for various purposes, research sites, document their findings, learn about geographical regions, and...
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Project Assessing the Need
Students determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Students contact local agencies to conduct a...
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Inside the Vault-Entrepreneurship
Students explore entrepreneurship. In this economic study lesson, students take a pretest on attitudes, review characteristics that make up an entrepreneur, review a list of famous entrepreneurs, and create a 5 minute oral presentation...
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Making Babies
Sixth graders complete a human traits survey. In this genetics lesson students read articles and fill out a worksheet on genotype and phenotypes.
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Supermarkets, Sustenance and Sustainability
Students investigate jungles and the people who depend upon them. In this sustainability lesson, students research wild life conservation and discover the importance of a jungle to Amazonian people. Students create a group...
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All About Me Book
First graders create a book about themselves and their world. In this All About Me book lesson plan, 1st graders complete prewriting activities, along with sharing their books with others.
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Exploring Human Traits
Students explore human behavior by participating in a class science game. In this human characteristics activity, students identify different human traits that are passed down by each generation and the purpose each of them have....
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Doing The School Run
Students explore finding the percent of a numbers. They survey their peers to determine modes of transportation used in getting to school. Afterward, students organize information and create graphs and charts. They explore alternative...
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M & Ms in a Bag
Students make predictions about the number and colors of M&M's in a snack size package. They create an Excel spreadsheet to record the data from their small group's bag, create a graph of the data, and discuss the variations of data...
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Picture Writing
Fourth graders create symbols. In this visual arts lesson, 4th graders study cave drawings, Native American pictographs, and Aboriginal Drawings prior to creating their own communication without using words.
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Simple Graph Activity
For this graphing worksheet, students interpret a simple bar graph of favorite sandwiches, answering 5 related questions and then conducting their own survey and creating a graph of the results.
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America Will Be
Young scholars work together to research and create different types of maps of the United States to be used as part of a geography trivia game.Groups research North American annual rainfall, climate, mountain ranges major rivers and...