Pennsylvania Department of Education
Write My Name With Shaving Cream
Students write their names using shaving cream. In this write my name lesson, students practice forming letters using shaving cream. Students follow appropriate conventions of print to convey a message and use spacing and letters...
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An Ancient Egyptian Journal Entry
Students, after watching W?hat Does This Show, describe everyday life in ancient Egypt by writing an entry in the journal of an ancient Egyptian man or woman.
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Show Some Backbone and Teach Invertebrates
Fifth graders identify two similarities and two differences between two phyla, assign fictitious invertebrate to its phylum and explain why it belongs in that grouping, and construct member of given phylum and explain why it should be...
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Cows on Parade
Students use assorted drawing materials and sheets from a cow shaped pad to create a unique, bright, colorful cows.
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State Symbols
Third graders examine the symbolism of the United States by observing different flags. For this U.S. History lesson, 3rd graders utilize the Internet to research state seals, flags, and other symbols that represent specific areas...
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Using New Vocabulary in Context
Sixth graders analyze new vocabulary from a narrative. In this vocabulary instructional activity, 6th graders read a narrative and create a paragraph as a group using words from the text. Students then create another paragraph using the...
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Where Do Weeds Grow Best?
Student design an experiment in order to determine where weeds grow the best. Through data collection and observations, they discover optimum conditions for weed growth, conditions that make it difficult for weeds to grow, and create...
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Hallo-Wiener Lesson Plan
Students listen to the story The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey in order to learn about the "monster" character. In this reading and art lesson, students cut a "bun" from beige construction paper, cut out an image of the main character...
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Ancient Egypt: Domestic Life: Bartering
In this ancient Egypt worksheet, students read about bartering in the marketplace. Students find the value of 4 items and draw the things you could barter them for.
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Texas Estuary Project
Students practice the proper lab techniques of coring, seining, taking temperatures, and salinity. Students analyze and graph data. Students write a 3 part essay and correctly draw and label a food web of their field site.
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Investigating Density: Heavy Ice
Students end up learning the formula for density and calculate the densities of various materials, and predict if they sink or float.
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Die Hard if You're Dumb
Students discern their responsibility around railroad tracks. They recognize and define potential dangers around tracks and explain how actions around railroad tracks, crossings and yards can save their own lives, as well as others'.
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Travel, Photography and ISLA
Learners examine and research habitats, and analyze how to shoot travel photographs. They take five environmental portraits, present them to the class, and critique the students' slides.
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The Origins of Business
Students explore the world of inventions by utilizing Google Earth. In this global geography lesson plan, students research inventions such as the ball point pen, computer, telephone and typewriter. Students use the Google Earth software...
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Visual Arts:Literature and World Civilization
Fourth graders examine the art of the Middle Ages or Medieval time period through the activities in this unit.
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Myths and Legends
Eighth graders write a myth about a constellation that is seen from the night sky in South Carolina. They draw a picture of their constellation to attach to their myth. They scan their pictures and type their stories into a web page...
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San Francisco Explodes
Students investigate why San Francisco grew so quickly during the Gold Rush. They
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Backwards Goes It Does
Students create a three-dimensional model of the Chicago river watershed to determine the flow of the river at its mouth. They use prepared clear gelatin and topographic maps to discover that the building of canals actually reversed the...
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Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture
Students consider the ways that sculptors have represented concepts and ideals as symbolic forms in three dimensions. They compare historical examples to those in contemporary culture, and begin sketching designs for their own symbolic...
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Portraits of Power-A Set of 6 Activities
Students describe visual techniques used by artists to convey a sense of power and importance.
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Life in Streams and Ponds
Students collect microorganisms, demonstrate correct laboratory/Gram stain procedure, and design and construct tables to organize data.
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Lightning Lesson Plan
Students explore how to read scientific material by reading about the research being conducted by Dr. Rob Cifelli from the Colorado State University.
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Surgical Resident for a Day
Students simulate the job of surgical resident by using surgical instruments to complete a task inside of a black box using a webcam and flashlight. They complete the task and complete a worksheet.
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Zigzag Seeds
Students observe the effects of gravity on seeds. Students place seeds in various orientations and record their growth to determine how gravity affects the seeds' growth.