When we read novels, authors provide details about the main character through descriptive sentences, events that directly involve the character, and what other characters think and say about the main character. To show what you know...

This unit includes a complete set of science lessons that enable students to creatively explore basic concepts related to air and the atmosphere, air quality, and associated issues, such as allergens in the places we live, study and work.

Contains plans for two lessons that teach about the theme of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" using blues music, creative writing, and media study. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...

This series of lesson plans for teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula are broken into chapter segments and include many interesting and creative ways to teach this novel.

By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, students can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help explicate...

The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...

In this lesson, students will apply prior knowledge and skills to collaborate digitally and model positive attributes of an effective digital citizen. They will discover how to manage and improve their communication skills and learn to...

Seventh graders determine the decrease in height over a period of time with this real life lesson.

Seventh graders are using proportional reasoning to solve real world problems in this lesson.

In this lesson plan students watch a video of robot races then answer questions in regards to the given graph.

Seventh graders knowledge of proportional relationships is assessed in this lesson using the mixtures of paint.

In this lesson, 7th graders determine the proporitonal relationship between bananas and the cost.

In this lesson plan students are given equations and are to determine the unknown value to make the statement true.

In this lesson, 7th graders rewrite an expression to help determine a solution.

This lesson plan has students determine how fast a human can run and compare that speed to some of the fastest animals.

In this lesson plan, 7th graders use the formula for circles to determine the area and perimeter.

In this lesson plan students use base ten blocks to explore place value.

Seventh graders use proportional reasoning to solve word problems regarding an election.

This lesson plan has students explore and compute volume of water.

In this lesson plan, 7th graders determine the amount of sand needed to cover a particular area using proportional relationships.

In this lesson, 7th graders solve real world problems using the four operations.

For this lesson plan students are given pictures of various shapes and are to determine which one is half shaded.

This complete lesson plans has students determine how to make a number using hundreds, tens, and ones.

In this lesson plan, 1st graders play a matching game to explore unknown numbers.