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Foodborne Illness Educational Materials
High schoolers work in teams to research and create educational material succinctly summarizing known salient fact, including prevention, of a particular foodborne illness. Pupils educational materials are presented in both oral and...
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The Grouchy Ladybug By Eric Carle
Second graders complete a unit about ladybugs based on Eric Carle's, The Grouchy Ladybug. They complete comprehension questions, categorization activities, Venn diagrams, and choral readings of Susan M. Paprocki', Little Red Bug. As they...
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Demonstrating an Epidemic
Pupils use an experiment that allows them to experience a small scale "epidemic", demonstrating the ease with which disease organisms are spread. Students determine the originator of the epidemic. They transfer live bacteria by hand...
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Routines and habits
Students tell time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour. They practice vocabulary of daily routines. They match word cards with a picture representation of the card. They graph classmates schedules.
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"Our Class Hatches the Egg"
Students research all about the process of egg development and hatching. They access about temperature, recording data, and charting. In addition to the outcomes for science mastery, students gain experience in cooperative group work,...
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Timetables
In this timetables worksheet, learners solve 40 problems that pertain to train timetables in England. All times are expressed in 24 hour form. This page was intended to be an online activity, but can be completed with pencil and paper.
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Make a Shadow Clock
Learners create a shadow clock. In this time instructional activity, students make their own shadow clock or sundial from tag board. They place it on the ground and check it every hour to mark where the shadow lies.
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Multiplication Word Problems
In this multiplication word problem activity, students find the products in 4 two and three digit multiplication problems. They show their work in the work space and write their answer on the blank line.
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum
Students practice looking skills as they reflect upon the differences between viewing original works of art and reproductions. In this art viewing lesson, students interpret a work of art using formal analysis and research done for...
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Thirty-Second Look
Students articulate why more than 30 seconds is required to examine a work of art, in order to gain an understanding of it. They give reasons why discussing a work of art increases their understanding of it.
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Haring Art Truck
Young scholars are introduced to the work of Keith Haring and graffiti art in general. They work together to design and paint a car imitating Keith Haring's style.
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Human Power or Machine Power
Learners compare different means for accomplishing tasks. They explain benefits and liabilities for the above different means. Exploration is studied in photos of laborers, animals and machines doing work.
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Life of a Logger
Young scholars are introduced to the work and lives of 19th century lumberjacks through a living history slide show presentation. They compare and contrast life 150 years ago with the present. Students describe the history of logging in...
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Personal Peace Symbols
Eleventh graders produce a work of art that symbolizes peace and their experiences with it. In this peace symbolism lesson, 11th graders sketch symbols associated with peace view art examples of peace images. Students complete a...
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Sanctuary: Quail Island Banks
Students explore visual arts by examining a diorama in class. In this geography lesson, students examine an island off the coast of New Zealand and identify the physical attributes of the land. Students answer study questions...
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Managing Stress: Living without Stress Overload
Students explore a three hour set of readings, discussion questions an web links to gain tools to identify, alleviate and prevent stress in their lives. They work to develop a life-style that is, to a large extent, stress-free.
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Environment: Inupiat Weather Expertise
Students investigate methods of weather prediction prior to modern communication sources. A local elder lectures the class on weather prediction and safety. They document the experience by creating posters. Applying methods given by the...
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Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
Pupils work together to test how the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. They make predictions and take notes on their observations. They discover how engineers use this type of information.
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Getting Dressed For Success
Students in an ESL classroom describe and identify different clothing items. In groups, they compare and contrast the various clothing tradtions found in each home country. They discuss the importance of clothing and how they should...
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Precalculus Worksheet
In this Precalculus worksheet, students solve four problems in detail by working with the functions and figuring out the angles. The worksheet could be shrunk to fit on one page.
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What is your future career?
In this interview process worksheet, students work in pairs to interview each other using the twenty questions given. Student culminate their information and choose a career from the list given. Students write a sentence justifying...
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Percentages: Calculating Percent-1
In this percentages activity, students calculate percentages in eighteen problem solving percentage equations. Students show each step of their work.
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Labeling a Map of the British Isles and Elapsed Time
In this map work and elapsed time instructional activity, students label England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland on a map. They calculate the elapsed time of a delivery that is described in a word problem that is broken down into four parts.
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Activity: Estimate Time
In this estimating time review worksheet, students practice their estimation skills as they estimate how many times they can do 3 activities in 1 minute. Students check their work and then identify things that take them 30 seconds, 5...