In this math instructional activity, students learn real world math applications for budgeting expenses in a simulated family. Students make a family profile with profession choice and monthly income. Students then fill out detailed...

Learners examine why a budget may be helpful. In this budgeting lesson, students graph how they spent money during the past week. They discuss the benefits of creating a budget and explore the difference between wants and needs.

Students explore English by participating in a role-playing activity. In this food ordering lesson, students utilize new vocabulary terms to conduct short dialogues with fictitious servers in a Cafe role-play activity. Students analyze...

Students compare and contrast the prices of various food items at different grocery stores using newspaper advertisements. Students discuss the benefits and drawbacks of shopping around for items that fit within their monthly budget.

Students explore spreadsheet software.  In this personal finance and computer technology lesson, students develop a vacation spreadsheet on the computer.  Students represent hotel, food, transportation, and entertainment costs...

Students examine their family's particular spending habits for a holiday they celebrate, research the financial expectations of retailers during the holiday season and at other times during the year.

Who knew determining author's purpose could be turned into a game? Four teams compete to correctly identify the author's purpose for writing a series of passages.

Here is a well-designed science instructional activity that shows learners that everything that organisms do in ecosystems, including running, breathing, burrowing, growing, requires energy. After a thorough discussion of their own...

Students explore resource management, specifically farming. After reviewing vocabulary words, groups of students explore what is conserved by each practice. They compare and contrast responses. Students describe farming procedures which...

In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Students examine impressions of a community of migrant workers in Texas who go north to pick crops. The lesson highlights the poverty and discrimination that a family suffers in the 1970's.

In this grammar worksheet, students identify twenty sentences as run-on sentences, fragments, has a comma splice mistake or as correct. Students defend their choices.

Students discover different types of birds and the habitats in which the dwell. In this bird lesson, students read Feathers for Lunch, discuss bird facts, and build a bird habitat.

In this sentence completion worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions to fill in the blanks for sentences containing the word "keep". Students complete 20 questions.

In this language arts instructional activity, students read 20 sentences and look for errors. Students write R if the sentence is run-on, CS if there is a comma splice, F for a sentence fragment and C for a correct sentence.