What kind of treatment could a patient expect in an asylum during the 1800's? The abusive and neglectful conditions in 19th century asylums are the focus of a lesson plan that examines the work of reformers Nellie Bly, Dorothea Dix,...

Designers in Prague are not diagonally challenged. The mini-assessment provides a complex pattern made from blocks. Individuals use the pattern to find the area and perimeter of the design. To find the perimeter, they use the Pythagorean...

Need to know if your students comprehend all the Common Core standards covered in second grade? This growth assessment will let you know.  Find out if your second graders can add/subtract, tell the time, read a bar graph, know their...

As learners become familiar with counting, it's helpful to use worksheets like this one to focus on just a few numbers at a time. Scholars begin by tracing the numbers 17 and 18, then print each numeral once on their own. Next, they...

A search can be strengthened by unique terms. With the activities and presentation included here, show your class how to target their searches with unique terms and context terms. They can then practice their search skills with...

In this time and timetables worksheet, students examine clock faces and tell the time. They draw pictures and indicate the time on a clock. This 22-page worksheet contains approximately 100 problems. Answers are provided at the end of...

Students explore time management by participating in itinerary activities. In this time telling lesson, students identify how to read a clock, how to communicate the time to others and how to plan for events in the day. Students practice...

Students research primary readings concerning first hand accounts of the Indian tribes living in and around Louisiana's River systems. They complete a brief character sketch of each tribe characterized in the digital readings. These...

In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to solve a problem about elapsed time. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.

Learners participate in hands-on activities using a hundreds chart and counting toes and fingers. They discover the patterns that are created when counting by ten. After a lecture/demo, students practice by using a worksheet embedded in...

How can places on the Internet be dangerous? Youngsters draw important connections between traveling online and staying safe in the real world. They also discover three key online safety rules to guide them throughout their...

In this telling time instructional activity, students practice reading time and describing time in at least two ways. Students must read clocks and also write the number of a time given. Student end the instructional activity with a...

For this time worksheet, students look at the times shown on both digital and analog clock faces. They make the clock next to each one show a half-hour later. They tell if the hour hand is closer to the 3 or 4 when it is 3:30 while...

Students explore new medical technologies to exhibit in an Amazing Medical Machines technology fair. They research different types of advanced medical technologies; then create posters to summarize findings and present at a mock medical...

Students watch the Discovery program "Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time" then examine the ratification of the 14th Amendment and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. They research one of three events that tested Brown v. Board...

Scholars time each other as they work through a sheet of all 26 letters. They test each other to see how many letters sounds they can identify in one minute.

In this problem solving worksheet, learners calculate and solve 52 questions or equations having to do with a variety of math concepts and strategies.

Learners read as many high-frequency words as possible in a given amount of time. Peer one reads a word from a list, and peer two points to the corresponding word as they are seen on the table. This activity is timed and peer evaluated.

An activity boosts readers' fluency in reading common phrases and idioms. Peers time one another and track their progress using phrase cards and record sheets.

Learners time each other as they read as many high-frequency words as possible in one minute. Peers record progress.

One of the great things about technology is that it lets youngsters visit museums that may be many miles away. With this resource, middle and high schoolers can visit the portrait galleries at J. Paul Getty Museum, located in Los...

Encoding What I did Last Summer. Class members develop a way to encode a personal experience using a top-down approach to determine components and sub-components of their experience They then pick one portion of the experience and go...

Today, Cuba and America sometimes struggle with diplomatic relations, but did you know that America went to war against Spain to free Cuba? Learners examine many interesting facts related to the Spanish American War using an informative...

If you've been itching to replace your students' worn, lost, or insufficient paper planners, and to dramatically improve the efficiency of your own communication with your class members, then this is...