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Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
Students practice reading comprehension, note taking and writing skills. In this literacy and writing lesson, students read about the invention of airplanes, women pilots and the space race before writing their own news article on "100...
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Understanding Freedom: Catching "The Spirit of '76"
Sixth graders complete activities about colonial history through an examination of art from the American Revolution period. In this history and art lesson, 6th graders define an iconic image, sing the song 'Yankee Doodle,' and analyze...
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It's Not Your Fault
Students study the San Andreas Fault, calculate its movements, and compare the movements on both sides. In this earthquake lesson students use the Internet to track movement, and calculate movement using a spreadsheet.
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Conflict Resolution
Students examine ways to resolve conflicts. In this conflict resolution lesson, students define conflict resolution and write down situations where leaders deal with conflicts. Students work in groups to create a PowerPoint on ways to...
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What is the connection between rice and estimation?
Sixth graders investigate estimating. In this estimating lesson plan, 6th graders estimate how much rice is eaten around the world. Students estimate the percentages of rice eaten by other countries. Students compare rice production...
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Lobster Business Charts
Students research four Maine based businesses involved with lobster fishery as a career analysis. In this career exploration lesson, students research lobster fishery businesses and write a class book showing the progression of a lobster...
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Test Your Research Skills: At What Age Can I Legally . . . in the UK?
In this ESL research worksheet, students use the Internet to answer questions pertaining to the legal ages in the UK for different activities such as joining the army or having a full-time job.
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Play or Film Review
Young scholars review the elements for a successful play review. In this play review instructional activity, students work in groups to complete peer responses, a consensus activity, and tally activity. Young scholars write a play...
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Asha's Village
Students compare and contrast their own culture with an Indian girl named Asha. For this culture lesson plan, students read, look at pictures, and make inferences.
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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?
Students explore saving and investing money. In this middle school personal finance lesson plan, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound...
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Earthquakes & Volcanoes I: What Causes Them and Where They Are
Students study the properties of volcanoes and earthquakes. In this earthquakes and volcanoes instructional activity students write a story on what they did during their experiment.
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Amazon Rainforest Poster Project/Service Project
Students make efforts to save the rainforests. In this environmental stewardship activity, students discuss facts about the resources of the rainforests. Students then create posters that encourage other to reduce their use of paper.
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Andrew Jackson vs. The National Bank
High schoolers explore Andrew Jackson's vision for the National Bank. In this Jackson presidency lesson, students determine why Jackson vetoed the National Bank's Charter and indentify the causes of the Panic of 1837.
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Letter Writing from a Different Perspective
Third graders write a letter from one character to another in a story they are reading. In this writing lesson plan, 3rd graders demonstrate their understanding of perspective.
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Saint Nicholas Worksheet
In this Saint Nicholas worksheet, students research and answer short answer questions about Saint Nicholas. Students complete 8 questions.
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Airports Named for People Quiz
In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 18 identification questions about airports that have been named for famous people. Students have 4 minutes to complete the quiz.
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Buying and Owning a Home: Monthly Budget Worksheet
In this personal finance worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer as they chart the 40 listed monthly expenses for 2 months.
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Defining Technology
Students explore technology by completing word processing assignments in class. In this software instructional activity, students utilize the software KidPix and familiarize themselves with the options, techniques and content the program...
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Menu Math
Students follow the food pyramid to create a daily food budget. They research food prices online or in newspapers. They graph the amount of each food group included in their menus. They can also create a weekly food menu based on a fixed...
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What is Happening to Our Water?
Learners compare and contrast Wisconsin's water resources to that of Puerto Rico. They research books about islands, particularly the Puerto Rican islands. Student view illustrations of island ecology. They discuss the illustrations and...
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Science: Entomology in Action
Students discover how coroners use insect life cycles to estimate the time of death in cases. they describe how forensic entomologists combine environmental factors with insect life cycles to note the changes. Students examine an...
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Quadratic Function Graph
Learnerss engage in a study of quadratic functions and how the coefficient of x^2 has on the graph of it. They study the quadratic function for review with the help of index cards. The lesson plan includes a resource link to align the it...
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Building Perspectives App
Learners explore a perspective application of the TI-73. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, middle schoolers view the front, back, right, and left views of a city to determine the height of each building in a city...
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Advanced Matching - Finances
In this financial terms worksheet, students draw a line from the financial terms on the left to their matching meaning on the right. There are 15 terms and definitions to match up.