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Providing for the Afterlife
Learners decide which personal items would be necessary for success and happiness in the afterlife.
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Understanding Tone
Eighth graders define tone and determine the tone of a particular passage making a web of tone words on Inspiration. They write a journal entry expressing how a piece of music makes them feel and create a PowerPoint to share.
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Wolves
Young scholars utilize several different sources to research wolves, after completing the K-W-L process.
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Black History Month
Students work in cooperative pairs to research information and give oral presentations about African American men and women who have made significant contributions to U.S. history.
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What I Can Do on Summer Vacation
Students explore environmentally friendly activities for summer vacation on the Gulf and create a travel guide for these activities.
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Helping Your Community-A Storytelling Performance
Imagine you're sitting around a campfire with a group of friends. Each person tells a story with a wierd and mysterious plot. As the campfire glows brighter, everyone focuses on the storyteller. This is the scene you and a group of...
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Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Young scholars identify the plant parts and bee structures that are involved in pollination. They simulate pollination in a group activity and process the information.
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Small Wonders
Students investigate some of the 'mysteries' of the animal, marine and insect worlds, and create student books explaining their findings to younger students.
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The Frontier
Students, given certain background information, list hardships that Laura Ingalls Wilder and other people that lived during the same time period went through. They interview someone who grew up in a different era than them.
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Modern Advocates for Change
Learners make a list of "modern day prophets" and explain how they have made considerable contributions toward the common good. They write a letter to a community leader in which they advocate the solution to a problem or issue in their...
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Finding Out About the Stars and Planets
Students complete a web-based activity to study the planets and solar system. Students complete a number of activities including a slide show that depict the true facts about planets.
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Minding Your Manners
Learners practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.
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AIH-15: Colony Settlement & American Indian Involvement
Middle schoolers examine American Indian individuals and tribes involved in the settlement of English colonies.
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Minerals, Crystals, and Gems
Students discover the relationships between minerals, crystals and gems. They bring in rocks that they find at home, in the schoolyard, etc. and examine them and attempt to identify them. They set up a classroom exhibit that includes all...
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Are You Plugged In?
Students develop an awareness of one's own media habits. Make connections between ads and one's own consumer behavior. They track their current TV and/or Internet viewing habits and video game time by keeping a TV Diary for one week.
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Everyone's an Author
Students examine variety of written pieces of quality fiction, discuss what different story elements are present and how those elements make stories as effective as they are, and create a class story.
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Sign Language
Students consider what defines their local town or community and create a welcome sign for their town after learning about a special sign that welcomes visitors to Las Vegas.
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Up, Up, and Away
Fifth graders participate in a WebQuest that introduces them to a study on clouds and how they relate to weather systems.
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Identifying an Author's Purpose
Students read, "Research Shows TV PSAs Effective In Reducing Teen Marijuana Use", discuss the article with questions imbedded in the instructional activity and write their own PSA.
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Environmental Quality in Our Own Backyard
Students research an environmental issue and decide on a course of action. They write a reseach paper and present an oral presentation based on the research.
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Create Your Personal Shield
Fourth graders create a poster in the shape of a shield, which represents their individual lives by using art, photographs, magazine and newspaper graphics.
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Persuasive Vegetables
In groups, write persuasive essays telling people whether or not they should be eating vegetables.
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I'll Take One!
Fourth graders collectively create a product, slogan, and advertisements for different types of media. They define different types of appeals such as bandwagon, emotional, glittering generalities, snob appeal, plain-folks appeal,...
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HOW BIG IS A BLUE?
Students compare the lengths of whales using different lengths of rope. They illustrate one whale in life-size proportion.
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