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Decades

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students work cooperatively to research the people, places, events, and things that represent their assigned decade. They creatively, write and present ten minute dramatizations of information about their assigned decade.
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Get A Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore choosing a career and living on a budget. They receive an alternative identity and must make choices and decisions based upon given situations. Students research possible solutions, and use spreadsheet technology to...
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Grandparents' Day: Family History

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore Grandparents' Day. They interview their grandparents and select an activity to highlight their interview. They select a project including writing an essay, composing a song, creating a poem or scrapbook, or writing a...
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Money Management

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils explore money management skills and economics thru a creative project where students earn "money" for their assigned "jobs." They keep track of their income and expenses in a transaction record and explore the Excel money...
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Reading Comprehension Jobs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice different strategies to help them draw meaning from their reading. Students, divided into groups, read an assigned text selection. Each group member provided a summary of what they have been read based on a particular...
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Literature Circles: The Cay and Timothy of the Cay

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars read and discuss The Cay or Timothy of the Cay with other students. They complete Literature Circles role sheets. Young scholars map the journeys of Timothy and Phillip. They put the events of the stories on a time line.
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Altering a Plant Environment

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate what a controlled group is by creating an experiment.  In this plant growth lesson, students identify the different parts of a plant and discuss what is needed for a plant to be successfully grown....
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How To Estabish And Use Credit

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners investigate how to establish and use credit. They research the application and use process and the effects upon personal finance when using credit. The qualifying indicators are looked at determined whether they are fair during...
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MG Industrial Revolution

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify advancements made during the Industrial Revolution. Through listening to songs and reading other passages, 8th graders explore the working conditions of children during the Industrial Revolution. They examine...
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Social Studies Lesson: Apartheid

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the Apartheid system of South Africa through a role-play activity. The role-play activity ends with a class discussion on how the events affected each individual. A class discussion continues after reading an article...
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Rembrandt: His Life and Times

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review important facts about the famous 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt. They compare two of Rembrandt's self-portraits and discuss the style of each. Students create an exhibit guide describing the overall theme of the...
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Click! Writing Through Digital Photography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...
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Hoop Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play a modified game of tag. Given specific roles of "it" and "free-er," they try to remain outside of the hula hoops that have been placed on the gym floor. Students work cooperatively with the free-er to remain in the game.
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Chemical Engineers and the Things They Do

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore the field of chemical engineering and identify the contributions of chemical engineers to society. They explore how chemical engineering is like and different from the other engineering professions. They study the...
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The Westing Game: Chapters 13-16

For Students 10th - 11th
In The Westing Game chapter questions activity, students complete several short answer questions over chapters thirteen through sixteen to advance their understanding of the text.
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Invasive Species in the News

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how invasive species can change an environment. In this critical thinking lesson, students study how invasive animals can change an environments population. They will discuss the implications of an invasive species and...
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Technology

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners create podcasts. In this technology lesson, students familiarize themselves with podcasts and develop their own podcast about a current event.
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Reconstructing Artifacts

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars investigate artifacts and reconstruct them. In this artifact activity, students research archaeologists and Native American groups. Young scholars plan a design for a clay pot which represent the Native American artifact.
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Social Protections and the European Union

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders take on the role of social welfare systems in the European Union. In this European Union (EU) lesson, 6th graders discover social programs in the EU and compare them to the social programs in the United States.
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The Impact

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students see what inventors have to think about when making an invention.  In this inventions lesson students examine Thomas Edison and the light bulb and the history of inventions. 
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Great Books: Kafka's Metamorphosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the central image of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and use a strong symbol in a piece of writing. In this Metamorphosis lesson, students focus on the central image of the novel in a class discussion. Students create a...
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Worksheet 6 Vocabulary Practice: Sentence Completion

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students use the words in a word list to fill in the blanks in ten sentences. There is no connection between the words.
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Mysteries in the Bag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a story. In this creative writing lesson, students guess what is in various containers and open and discuss the contents. Students use one of the container contents to write a mystery story.
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Invent a new game!

For Teachers K - 12th
Students work in groups to create a new athletic game. In this creating a game lesson plan, students use athletic equipment to create a new game in groups.

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