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Immigration in America
Fourth graders examine the musical traditions that immigrants bring to the United States. They discuss the concept of home, complete the "My Home" worksheet, participate in a class discussion, and write a letter to a fourth grade...
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Introductory Exponents
Students participate in a lesson combining language arts with mathematics. First, they write a paragraph explaining what it means to multiply two numbers. Then students practice using exponents in different problems.
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Future Tense Looking Forward
In this verb worksheet, student read a selection about the past, present and future verb tenses. Students change the verb tense in 8 sentences to make them future tenses and write a paragraph using at least 5 sentences about their plans...
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Fiction or Nonfiction
In this online interactive fiction and non-fiction worksheet, students respond to 7 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
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Let's Get Cooking
First graders create food from their cultures and present food and its history with the rest of class. They read "Everybody Cooks Rice" and everyone tastes the meals brought into class. They write a paragraph describing the reason for...
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Conveying Message Through Musical Composition
High schoolers listen to and discuss various protest songs from the 1960's, and write original lyrics for a song addressing global or societal issues. They write a paragraph evaluating the efficacy of the song to convey a message.
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Comparing Similar Themes in Art And Literature
Students view examples of Rembrandt's artistic works that include beggars and the unfortunate. They also read The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischmann. They use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the themes shared by each.
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Transportation History
Learners research the major developments in transportation. In groups, they use this information to plot them on a timeline. They also write a paragraph about how advances in technology have changed the world. As a class, they discuss...
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The Basics of Creature Connectedness: Biodiversity Diversions
Students study biodiversity. They participate in a scavenger hunt to look for presence of wildlife and connections in nature. They create a collage about Venezuelan biodiversity in small groups and present to the class. They write a...
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Notetaking Procedures
Sixth graders explore notetaking procedures. In this study skills activity, 6th graders use text organizers to categorize information. Students select textbook sections and write headings, subheadings, and summary phrases for each...
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Chinese Dynasties
Young scholars explore several Chinese dynasties and research various topics including papermaking, calligraphy, and Lu Hou. They also demonstrate how to use an abacus and create several math problems to solve with it. Choosing a...
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The Basics: Life Science
Students develop an understanding of the different fields of study that are encompassed by the term, life science. They view and discuss a video on the topic. In small groups they focus on on of the examples shown in the video to create...
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Globe Lesson 8 - Locating Places - Grade 6+
In this absolute location worksheet, learners read a 2-paragraph review of locating places and respond to 16 short answer questions.
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Discovering Leadership
Young scholars identify positive leadership skills and apply them in everyday scenarios. In this leadership skills lesson, students examine the qualities of poor leaders and good leaders. Young scholars create a leadership poster and...
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The Power of Nonviolent Struggle
Students identify how Mohandas Gandhi developed a nonviolent crusade for justice. In this nonviolent protest lesson, students watch segments of a documentary about Gandhi's reaction to imperialism in India. Students write essays that...
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Gender Bias in Language
Twelfth graders study the issues between male and females. In this current events lesson, 12th graders read an article and answer questions. Students watch a video and write an essay.
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Stormy Weather
Fifth graders demonstrate their knowledge for how animals survive in natural environments when a storm occurs. In this science/writing lesson, 5th graders engage in a listening activity with the teacher. Additionally, students write a...
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Flags
Students explore flags. In this social studies civics lesson students listen to Flags of the Metis by Calvin Racette. Students identify examples of symbols used in the 21st century. Students research information about flags, design an...
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Tips for Studying History
In this historical analysis worksheet, students read the 6 tips for studying historical time periods and then read a 1-paragraph selection about the Chinese approach to history and respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Experimenting with Sound
Students explore physical science by completing a worksheet. For this sound perception lesson, students collaborate in small groups to research sound properties on the Internet and in libraries. Students conduct a listening experiment by...
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Let's Find the Main Ideas!
Third graders examine how finding the main ideas and summarizing increases their reading comprehension. They read "The Sea in Danger" while applying the six rules of summarization in a modeled lesson. Next, working in small groups, they...
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Paraphrasing
Seventh graders practice paraphrasing. As a class, they review previous lessons and discuss the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism. Students begin by paraphrasing sentences orally and then they complete a worksheet,...
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Description of Materials for Parts of a Fossil Lesson Plan
Students study fossils. In this fossils lesson, students discuss and study real fossils. Students color in pictures of fossils and their sections. Students then identify fossil picture parts and names. Students write definitions for...
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Using the Present Perfect in Questions
In this present perfect verbs worksheet, students use 12 phrases to write 12 questions. Students also fill in the blanks in 15 phrases with "for" or since".