Students investigate the current environmental movement by cleaning up their own campus.  In this environmental care instructional activity, students practice cleaning their "environment" by picking up trash on their campus and...

First graders ponder the question of how plants help their lives. They observe and compare properties of several different plants. Differentiate between living organisms and nonliving objects.

Third graders research an insect and creates a brochure on that selected insect. Each student develops a Venn Diagram comparing similarities and differences between moths and butterflies.

Students choose one rock from a collection of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. They use multiple resources to create an informational brochure highlighting their rock. The brochures are combined into a class rock museum to be...

Students listen to the song, "Running on Faith" by Eric Clapton. They listen for the present perfect verb tense used in the song and then practice writing sentences in this verb tense and others previously studied.

Ninth graders, while practicing writing, illustrate how verbs change forms both according to subject and time frame. They drill on verbs of all forms and brainstorm different ways to incorporate them into their writing in groups.

Students read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, and develop skits that deal with projecting possible long-term impacts of decisions, and taking risks.

Students write third conditional sentences. In this grammar lesson students assess and recreate sentences using third conditional tense. Students work in pairs and independently throughout the lesson.

Middle schoolers write in their journals. In this writing and responsibility lesson, students write about personal responsibility. They have three writing choices to choose from that all deal with this central theme.

In this word work worksheet, students match adjectives with their meanings and fill in the blanks to sentences about wishes. Students complete 21 problems.

Eleventh graders interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this North Carolina history lesson, 11th graders examine the Briggs v. Elliott case in order to understand the difference in the state and...

Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...

In this ESL passive verb activity, students read 10 sentences that have a missing verb. Students use the verb provided in parentheses and fill in the space with a form of the passive.

Students create a lifeline of an older friend. In this cross-generational activity, students work with an older friend to create a lifeline. The consider similarities and differences in their lifeline and their older friend's lifeline.

In this beginning short stories worksheet, students read a basic version of a story and then they read an advanced version of the same story. Students then answer 8 questions about the story and its vocabulary.

Students discover the meaning of patriotism through literature, songs, and poetry. They also identify patriotic symbols and activities such as the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner, the bald eagle, and monuments.

Students define national identity, explain importance of having national identity, describe America's national identity, work together and formulate class vision of what America's national identity is, identify United States symbols and...

Second graders demonstrate their ability to find the five oceans on a globe and on a world map and relate their knowledge of mountains and other physical characteristics of land masses to the physical characteristics of the ocean floor.

In this Screwtape Letters activity, students define six vocabulary words from Letter 15 and answer eleven comprehension questions about the reading. Students can also answer sixteen extra credit vocabulary words.

Students analyze "The Road Not Taken" and discuss examples of "roads traveled" by their own age group.  In this poetry lesson, students read and discuss the meaning of the poem.  Students choose another poem and review it for...

Students discover the interconnectedness of the world. In this global studies lesson, students identify challenges the world faces and craft solutions to the problems they identified. Students present their findings in a PowerPoint...

Seventh graders create a timeline of the development of electrical appliances. In this physics lesson, 7th graders explore energy consumption over the past 90 years. They create a poster about their chosen electrical device detailing its...

Students conduct research into the life of Americans and how working conditions have changed over time from the 1880's to modern times. They use primary and secondary resources in order to compile research in order to report the findings...