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Journalism Career Pathway Unit
Students explore a career in journalism while using various forms of technology; such as, distance learning via the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) and the Internet. They have the opportunity to create a final project that is based...
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The Chocolate War
Students participate in a variety of activities in order to take part in a layered curriculum unit that focuses on a novel study. This allows for a student centered classroom and instructional practices.
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Philanthropy Market Is Open Today
Students earn money for a philanthropic organization. In this service learning activity, students organize a snack market sale to earn money for charities.
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Oral Presentation of a Report With Visual Support
High schoolers create multi-paragraph report using the researched information. Over several class periods, students research a topic of their choosing and create a one-two page report. Student reports are presented to the class using...
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Lesson 11: Illinois History 1800's Dual Timeline
Learners identify and research key event in the history of Illinois during the 1800's and create a dramatic skit or oral report based on the event.
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My Secret War: Lesson 15
Fifth graders discuss civic responsibility. In this social studies lesson, student read about World War II. Students compose "I Am an American" poems and share with the class.
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Creating a Travel Brochure
Students use the internet to research a country of interest to them. Using graphics, they create a travel brochure about the country encouraging people to travel there. They present their information to the class while showing their...
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An Invitation to Simple Machines
Third graders explore simple machines as a way of helping the principle with a hurt foot manuever his way around the campus.
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My Machine
Third graders explore how simple machines can affect their health and lifestyle. In addition, 3rd graders use their knowledge of simple machines to build a unique machine.
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Caterpillar, Caterpillar How Do You Grow?
Students work in small groups of three or four to create books based on the Eric Carle books studied. Topics may include tadpoles, guppies, people, moths, and plants. Media used may include Kid Pix, sound recordings, art pieces,...
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Author Study - Mo Willems
Learners listen to books written by Mo Willems each day and discuss the story elements of each. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their favorite book is and...
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Visual Communication of Quantative Data
Young scholars collect and analyze data based on academic performance. In this statistics lesson, students create graphs and analyze the data they created. They use positive, negative and no correlation to analyze the data.
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: What Constitutes Progress?
High schoolers explore the many resources that one can use to explore a community, the Colonial Revival movement, and how the industry and technology reshaped life in Deerfield the Connecticut River Valley.
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Coming to America
Students discover their families' reasons for coming to America. They view the video "Molly's Pilgrim" and discuss the story. They interview family members as to why they came to America.
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Whose Line is it Anyway?
Students solve systems of equations. In this algebra lesson plan, students identify the domain and range of each function. They use the slope and y-intercept to graph each line.
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Coming to America
Students read one book together about the immigrant experience. Teacher asks students to identify some of the themes around immigration contained in the book (example: prejudice).
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Penguin Paradise
First graders discover where penguins live, what they look like, what kinds of food they eat, and other interesting facts. They communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.
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The Importance of Water
Students explore the importance of water. They discuss why water is important and students design an experiment that evaluates the water quality and methods of improving water quality. Students perform testing and report their findings.
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Media Campaign
Eleventh graders design and present a media product supporting environmental stewardship. They demonstrate an understanding of the nature and types of waste and of their management in industry and the community. They assess the results...
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Black Bayou Lake Short Story
Tenth graders use Microsoft Word to create an original short story. The setting must be Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The characters must be animals found at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The story must contain...
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Phonograms: i, j, k, l
In this phonogram worksheet, students say sounds the given phonogram makes in a sentence, read the sentence, underline or circle the singular phonogram and draw a picture about the sentence. Worksheet contains links to additional...
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Mad Libs: "Big Mac Who?"
In this mad lib worksheet, students follow directions, filling in blanks as indicated to complete the mad lib. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.