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Changes in the Community
Students research the history of the ethnic diversity of Ohio when exploring the changes in the community. They analyze the history of Native Americans in the region as well. The role of school is analyzed as well within this lesson.
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Have You Heard It Through the Grapevine?
First graders, in groups, try to figure out which box of name brand raisins have more.
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Breaking Beams
Students work together designing and building their own beams. They discover the concepts of stress and strain. They participate in a competition to determine the best beam.
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Sequential Directions
Students demonstrate how to give clear directions when drawing a map to a specific location. For this map skills lesson, students create a map to a location, such as their school, and write down clear directions to the destination.
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Supermarket Science: The King Sooper Lab
Students read product labels, compare fat, sodium, and sugar contents of various food items. They work with a partner and often employ the assistance of the deli and bakery managers in a supermarket.
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Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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Nutrition: One Hot Topic!
Students learn the content of the food groups and are better prepared to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. Students identify the main food groups and list content examples. Students create a cookbook of new and healthy snacks.
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Building an African Compound
Students, in small groups create a model of a compound that might be found in a rural African village. As a class, students orally contribute to a summary paragraph on what they have learned about different forms of shelter found in Africa.
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"Hand 'n Glove"
Students identify community helpers and learn about their jobs with this role-play game.
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Community Foundations and You
Students list and explain the functions of the three sectors of the American economic system. They identify foundations as part of the third sector. They summarize the function and purpose of their local community foundation. They apply...
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Nonprofits in Our Community
Learners identify nonprofit organizations within their local community. They practice using the yellow pages to locate these organizations. They use an organizer to keep all of the information they gathered organized.
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Super Seniors
Students research senior citizens who were heroes during the Reconstruction Era. They interview senior citizens who they believe to be heroes and write a biography about them. They explain how small acts can contribute to the common good.
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Postcards from the Net
Young scholars take a closer examine the world just outside their doors and share their experiences with their classmates, near and far. They create postcards of their community and email them to pen pals in other school districts.
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Salt Junk and Ship's Biscuit
Eleventh graders describe the diet of the Royal Navy during the Revolution. They prepare and cook a typical meal for a sailo and identify potential health problems arising from such a diet.
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People & Trees
Students see that people have developed new technologies and new products that increase efficiencies and maximize the productive use of each tree harvested. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to study forestry.
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How to Get Rich Slowly
Fourth graders discover how to budget in order to live in today's world. Allocating their resources is of prime importance in the monthly budget. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to figure out their monthly budget.
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Ready, Set, Grow
Create a class butterfly garden, then write journal entries with illustrations of the garden.
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Water Density Boundaries
Students create observable layers in water that represent a separation based upon density differences. They model density boundaries using differences in temperature and salinity. They, in groups, perform a meaningful experiment...
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My Favorite Meal
Students investigate ecological systems and the multiple uses of the environment by studying the osprey population.
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Growing and Changing
Third graders discuss how their major life roles change as they get older and fill out a worksheet.
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine
Students construct a device to 'launch' a marshmallow at the teacher and then discuss various forms of levers. They work in teams to design catapults and identify different kinds of levers.
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Good Guys or Bad Guys
Sixth graders complete a variety of activities to explore both positive and negative effects of microorganisms. They, in groups, engage in a series of experiments which illustrate the effects of certain molds.
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Foodways
Fourth graders discuss where food is obtained and list their favorite items. They research recipes to discover their ingredients. They investigate the advertising and cost of food and prepare menus from earlier eras.
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Wolf Habitat
Young scholars identify their own basic needs for food, water, shelter and space in a suitable arrangement. They generalize that wolves and people have similar basic needs.