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Healthy Eating: Are We What We Eat?
Students watch an introduction slide show to assess prior knowledge of healthy foods. They listen as the teacher goes over the food pyramid and food groups. Students analyze a lunch they bring from home by tallying their lunch items on a...
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Sculptures for a Peaceful Planet
Students create a symbol that is a visual representation that will be used in a three dimensional sculpture. The sculpture can be envisioned into a larger work and requires students to learn about other materials that can be used for...
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Advertising – Does it Affect Our Purchasing Descisions?
Students consider the power of advertisements. In this consumerism lesson, students dicuss advertising techniques, advertising regulations, and analyze advertisements. Students also complete and evaluate and ad count actvitiy.
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Match the Trucks
Students discover the many types of delivery work vehicles in the world. For this transportation lesson, students investigate how our local products get here, and where they come from. Students solve a work sheet based on...
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Branching Art From Nature
Learners construct an art piece from nature. In this visual art lesson, students use objects from the environment (petals, leaves, and stones) to create a unique art piece.
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Career & Technology Education Introduction to Farming: Seeds of Successful Marketing
Students play an agronomy game. In this agriculture lesson plan, students explore modern farming practices pertaining to the cultivation of grains as they play a game that requires them to act as agronomy specialist as they apply their...
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Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better
Pupils examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.
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Let's Build a Truck
Pupils study the basics of trucks and transportation vehicles. In this transportation vehicles lesson, students study pictures of basic key truck components and recognize differences between various product transportation vehicles....
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Floaters and Sinkers
Fifth graders define density as the amount of mass per volume a material contains, compare the densities of several types of materials, especially those that sink in water compared to those that float. They use two different methods to...
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Grain Properties Activity
Pupils study the similarities and differences of five different grains. They analyze the characteristics of corn, sunflower, milo, wheat, and soybeans.