Students in a kindergarten class are introduced to the concept of time. Individually, they compare the current year to their birth year to discover their age. As a class, they practice reading a digital and analog clock and create their...

Students explore fascinating world of rainforest, and participate in activities such as adopt-an-acre-of-the- rainforest, adopt-a-rainforest-animal, sequencing, comparing and contrasting, word processing and searching the Internet.

Fourth graders use data from volcanoes to organize a spreadsheet and make a graph.

Students examine the sun safety guide. They identify the dangers of getting too much sun and not protecting themselves. They participate in hands-on activities to finish the lesson.

Students answer questions written by other teams about literature in an attempt to become "millionaires." In small groups they write a motivational introduction to their teams selected books, publish their questions as a HyperCard...

Students learn about artist Larry Schulte and view examples of his work. They create addition sentence for the first seven numbers of the fibonacci sequence and use unifix cubes to build that sentences. Students color and create three...

Seventh graders examine genetics combination using statistics. In this statistics activity, 7th graders examine genetic trait using a table or punnett square to identify genotype and phenotype. This assignment requires more than one...

Young scholars explore the impact of invention. In this invention lesson, students examine how inventions are on going and affect all aspects of life in both good and bad ways. Young scholars will research the history of invention,...

Students work in teams to choose a design and use this to learn about the problem solving spiral. For this problem solving lesson plan, students state the steps of the spiral and discuss how it relates to their experiences.

Second graders listen to "Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport" and complete venn diagrams of geographical areas.

Students explore a variety of classroom stations about apples and Johnny Appleseed.

Students, in groups, identify the origins of a number of transportation idioms. They search for current transportation idioms to have a partner explain.

Students investigate Brown versus Board of Education. They read and discuss a handout, discuss vocabulary terms, and in small groups create a brochure, bookmark, puzzle, and a short skit.

Students create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or family member.

Students investigate how to reduce, recycle, and reuse items in order to conserve natural resources. They complete a trash graphing activity after discussing different types of trash. Finally, the examine ways to buy recycled products to...

Students in a teacher education program develop a technology based lesson plan. After the lesson is created, they develop their own performance assessment. They identify the characteristics of good assessment instruments and model best...

Students explore similarities and differences. They name ways they are alike and different from their peers.

Young scholars design original radial art designs.In this radial design lesson, students use compasses and a nature inspired idea to create radial art. Young scholars understand the use of symmetry, balance and design shapes in continual...

Students explore kinetic and potential energy. In this energy lesson, students launch toys cars from ramps in order to examine the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy. Students collect data and graph the results.

Third graders explore different careers by discussing which community helpers might be considered local heroes. In this career exploration lesson, 3rd graders work in small groups to discuss why certain people are considered...

Fourth graders complete activities to learn about career options and the role jobs have in community. In this career instructional activity, 4th graders complete a career exploration worksheet and study the local community jobs...

Students write Sun and Moon poetry. In this poetry lesson, students research the sun and the moon.  They write poetry and create two class baskets for descriptive words about each.

Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value lesson, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.

Students review and reproduce an article of Elizabethan styled clothing as a part of an analysis of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  In this Elizabethan art lesson, students discuss the fashion of the Elizabethan era and research it online....