In this ESL open cloze learning exercise, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences. They use words related to English grammar, not vocabulary words, to fill each blank.

In this The Princess and the Pea worksheet, students fill in the blanks for the past tense of verbs int he story, label pictures of characters, match sentences to characters, and more. Students complete 6 activities total.

Students face the challenges of building big, functional structures, like bridges, domes and skyscrapers. They turn their talents to satisfying clients who have hired them to design their new home.

Students read a traditional story from India and discover how two people can see the event in different ways. Using their own experiences, they examine how each of their classmates is affected by them in how to read a situation. They...

Students explore current events by completing worksheet activities in class. In this Osama Bin Laden lesson, students read the news article of Bin Laden's death and subsequent photo while discussing the event with classmates. Students...

Fifth graders recognize the need to follow the scientific method carefully and be aware of variables in experiments.  In this airplane instructional activity, 5th graders design and test an airplane, and complete a data sheet....

Students examine Chinese culture and values. They research the teachings of Confucius, create posters, write short stories, and analyze the history of and present state of gang culture through research, discussion, and writing.

Learners work in teams to research ancient Mayan civilization as they simulate working for the President of the United States. He is concerned that if a civilization as technologically advanced as the Maya's could disappear, could the...

Through the use of an interactive Web site, learners explore C-14 and C-14 dating. Then students analyze an article written about the C-14 dating of the Shroud of Turin and draw conclusions.

Students read Animal Farm and examine how power corrupts. They role-play situations involving power and control. They investigate corruption and abuse of power in society. They write propaganda articles and hold panel discusssionsabout...

Students explore fiction that moves individuals to social action. In this literature lesson, students read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and analyze its literary worth as well as its investigative journalism. Students investigate other...

Students explore the importance of toads and the need for toad habitats in the environment. In this animal habitats instructional activity, students create an adobe habitat for toads by using a clay pot. Students paint their pots and...

Young scholars watch tapes of televised presidential debates dating from 1960. They analyze debates and participate in mock debates.

Students view a video clip about ideas displayed through images. They work together to analyze paintings and complete activities. They discuss how media representation of an issue can affect one's viewpoint.

Students explore proportions and ratios. In this solving percent problems lesson, students examine percent problems including tax and percent of change.

In this resistance worksheet, students solve 10 problems about the changes in resistance as the temperature changes in resistors.

In this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer questions about World War I. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.

Review the steps for preserving wildlife tracks and then take ecologists outdoors to create plaster casts. This lesson is best used at an environmental or outdoor school situation since wildlife footprints aren't easily located within a...

Students determine how accurate the dinosaur-makers were in creating realistic dinosaurs for the Jurassic Park ride. They explore how the ride designers are going to top themselves How could the next ride be even better?

Fourth graders participate in a demonstration lesson using bubbles in which they determine that air fills the bubbles. Next, they work in small groups as they they experiment with the properties of air at separate work stations. After...

In this reading comprehension activity, students read a passage on how to write a fiction story. They then write their story using the ideas in the passage. There is a discussion point provided on this page. The students also complete...

High schoolers read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.

In this language arts worksheet, students read through the summaries of the eighteen chapters from this book study of The Pigman.