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Portrait of a Hero
Students complete a series of interactive activities to explore their beliefs about heroes and heroism. For this hero analysis lesson, students define the meaning of the words hero and heroic. Students research U.S. heroes and everyday...
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Conbination Lock Problem
For this algebra worksheet, students solve a word problem sing algebraic equations. They figure put how to unlock a combination lock. There is an answer key with this problem.
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Art-sculpture
High schoolers demonstrate effective collaboration, the ability to review their own work and that of others, and understand that a sculpture can express a moodor feeling. They listen to "Word Up" by Cameo. Students watch a slide show...
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Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this crossword puzzle instructional activity, students use the 20 words from the word box and the clues to help complete the crossword puzzle about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Undercover Vocabulary
Fourth graders, in groups, create a skit using identified vocabulary words and perform the skit for the class. They choose a place and a person to become such as Batman, Romeo and work all the vocabulary words into their skit. They...
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American Revolution: A European Battle
Students create a timeline of events during the Revolutionary War and conduct research of historical figures. They construct acrostics or diamantes of the figures' names. They evaluate the involvement of Europeans in the war.
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Healthful Eating
Learners read a story about how cartoon characters are partially to blame for American's obesity problem, and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this healthful eating lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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Picture Writing
Fourth graders create symbols. In this visual arts instructional activity, 4th graders study cave drawings, Native American pictographs, and Aboriginal Drawings prior to creating their own communication without using words.
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Using Inverse Operations
Fourth graders demonstrate inverse operations by playing a card game. In this inverse operations lesson, 4th graders work in small groups with a deck of cards. Two players draw cards but do not look at them. The...
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The National Motto
Second graders examine the meaning of the national motto, "In God We Trust." In this national motto lesson, 2nd graders explain some of the reasons why people selected the motto for the nation after viewing and discussing a coins and a...
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A Turkey for Thanksgiving - Lesson #2
Second graders investigate realistic fiction, holiday celebrations, making tally charts. In this multi-disciplinary lesson, 2nd graders listen to a story about Thanksgiving and one about the Chinese New Year to develop an understanding...
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Finding Sales Tax
Seventh graders investigate sales tax. Following a teacher demonstration, they find sales tax and the total cost of items. In groups, classmates choose items from a menu that they would like to purchase. Each student figures the sales...
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ABC Scavenger Map
Students explore phonetics by participating in a class game. In this alphabet sounds lesson plan, students collaborate in a ABC's activity where they identify a random letter, the sound it makes, and place it in it's correct spot on a...
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page
Fourth graders create and solve word problems using the boxscores from the sports section of the newspaper. The role play the sport, define abbreviations used and examine the fundamentals of scoring the sport.
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Alphabet 2-Breathings!
In this Greek breathing worksheet, students review the process of rough and smooth breathing and then figure out what sixteen words in Greek mean.
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That's Not a Verb! Worksheet 2
In this verbs learning exercise, students analyze 12 words in a list that are nouns, but can also be used as verbs. Students select the correct words to complete 12 sentences.
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Prefixes anti-, inter-, intra-, pro-
In this prefixes worksheet, 8th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they figure out the answers to eleven clues associated with spelling words with prefixes.
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Four Armed Men From the Renaissance!
Students study the Renaissance and the important art from the period. In this Renaissance lesson, students discuss the black plague and religion during the Renaissance. Students read the Renaissance worksheet and learn vocabulary words...
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My Test Book: Standard and Expanded Form
In this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding standard and expanded form. Students may view the correct answers.
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Communicating Through Pictures
Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary Writing
Students investigate the quality of writing while focusing on the use of sensory words to convey meaning and ideas. The power of similes and metaphors is emphasized while they create and edit works of writing. The skill of descriptive...
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Worksheet #5 Questions - Tribes of the Southwest
In this Tribes of the Southwest term quiz, students define the meaning of several terms so that they may further their own historical knowledge on the aforementioned topic.
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Adjusting the Quotient
Students solve division problems. In this division lesson, students review estimating and how to figure out if their estimate is too large or too small. Students solve division problems and use their estimating skills to adjust the...
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Get up, Stand up. Stand up for your Civil Rights.
Fourth graders study civil rights leaders. For this Civil Rights lesson, 4th graders investigate what it means to stand up for something you believe in after reading about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Obama. Students create a...