Students read the novel, Fallen Angels, and examine the theme of coming of age during the Vietnam War. They create timelines of the 1960s, highlighting important issues of the era. They write research papers focusing on one particular...

Students are able to synthesize information on increasing regulatory reforms during the Progressive Era through individual research and presentation of material. They are responsible for a list of regulatory reforms with dates and...

High schoolers explore surreal art and poetry. In this visual arts lesson, students examine works by André Breton, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miro. High schoolers then apply the techniques in the works they analyze to their...

Students pretend to be ice skating on a frozen lake, putting on their pretend skates and place a pretend hat on their head. They watch a demonstration of the proper skating form, using their arms to give momentum to move side-to-side,...

In this solving coordinate grid word problem worksheet, students plot points, order pairs, identify horizontal and vertical lines, and find distances to solve problems. Students solve six problems.

Students explore African spirituals. In this slavery lesson, students listen to and analyze the spiritual song "Wade in the Water" line by line. Students share their interpretations with their classmates.

Students perform various locomotor skills while practicing cooperative teamwork. In this locomotor skill activity, students move from "island" to "island" using the designated motor skill. Imaginative components such as escaping a...

Students improve their chasing, fleeing and dodging skills in a cooperative, fun, holiday game using white (fleece) snowballs.

Learners participate in a holiday P.E. tagging game involving chasing, fleeing, and dodging skills. With the taggers holding a fleece ball (snowball), they chase and tag the other students, with the tagged learners becoming unfrozen by...

Students examine clay animation. In this technology lesson, students use the Internet to investigate the history of clay animation. Students use story boards and clay figures to create their own "animation."

Students write out rhythm to a song using stick notation.

Students perform a folk dance and discuss its cultural and historical meanings. They review the dance and perform it, beginning with four individuals who dance with confidence right from the start.

Students assess the importance of acceptance of self and others via the development of self-worth and the looking for the good in others not the bad. They explore the task of looking at the world through the eyes of others. In addition,...

Students create and extend patterns. In this pattern activity, students learn to identify patterns using multiple senses. Students work at centers in small groups to explore and extend their understanding of patterns.

Students examine all of the jobs a mother does. In this Mother's Day activity, the teacher read the book Five Minutes' Peace, then students brainstorm a list of things their mother does. Students role play the job of a mom and how to...

Students investigate how animals move. In this animals lesson, students use pictures of animals and demonstrate how each of them moves from place to place.

Students explore the five senses. In this health lesson, students read the book Brave Little Monster and identify the five senses from the book. Students draw an illustration from the book as a follow-up activity.

Students listen to The Trouble With Trolls and discuss fables.  In this story elements instructional activity, students work on reading skills.  Students participate in different reading activities.

Students explore the characteristics of different religions and religious beliefs.  For this World History lesson, students research the history of the Reformed, Catholics and Lutherans, then complete several activities to reinforce...

Students listen to The Brave Little Monster, by Ken Baker. In this five senses lesson, students identify the different senses that characters experience in the book they are listening to. They review the senses as a class with hands on...

Students experience mixing through dancing. In this physical science lesson plan, students not only dance to show mixing but also demonstrate mixing and stirring by combining milk and chocolate milk.

Students explore how dance can be infused with mathematics. In this art and mathematics lesson, students recognize how the ABA dance form is similar to a math number sentence. Students create a dance choosing dance words to represent...

Students engage in non-competitive activities with peers in similar grade levels. They participate in Water Relay, Sneaker Hunt, Clothes Relay, Sacks, and Partner Squirts. Stations rotate about every 10 minutes.

Middle schoolers visualize and manipulate sentences as building blocks, and, given a key, use Legos™ to demonstrate how to construct sentences of variety (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex).