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What's My BMI?
Students construct the Metric Pyramid from the handout. They use the Metric Pyramid to convert from standard to metric measure and vice versa. They compute their own Body Mass Index.
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Dietary Fiber
Learners examine the different types of fiber and their benefits. In this investigative instructional activity students find good sources of fiber in different foods.
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Self Acceptance
Sixth graders brainstorm their strengths and the positive qualities that make them unique. They write their own short story in prose.
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Producing a skit for the morning announcements
Students produce a skit to appear on their morning announcement that is in lined with their franchise topic. In this producing lesson plan, students produce a 2 minute skit including originating, scripting, editing, directing, and...
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Ethics and the World of Medicine
Students examine ethical issues in the field of medicine. In this ethics lesson, students explore primary and secondary sources regarding the discernment that medical professionals are presented with as they treat illnesses. Students...
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Immunization Month Lesson Plans
As a part of the back to school curriculum, students can learn about vaccines and their historical significance.
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National Dental Hygiene Month Lessons
Learning about dental hygiene can be interesting with lessons that explore math, science, and the vocabulary of dentistry.
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Paws in Jobland: Role Play
Students think and talk about the world of work. In this career lesson plan, students communicate effectively with other students and work as part of a team to become familiar with database exploration.
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How Clean Is the Air in Your Community?
For this how clean is the air in your community worksheet, students assess the air quality, identify polluters, create an action plan, develop a presentation, evaluate it. This page has many links to helpful Internet resources.
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Where Does it Come From?...Where Does it Go?
Students summarize and illustrate how a water treatment plant and wastewater treatment plant work. Students describe the source of water for their community and the adequacy of groundwater to meet the community's needs. Students also...
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Hearing Handicap
Students examine the effects of hearing loss. In this lesson on physical disabilities, students survey five older adults on hearing impairments. Students pool their data and compare their results with the results from other studies about...
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How to Clean Up An Oil Spill
Students practice cleaning up an oil spill. In this good citizenship instructional activity, students experiment with different cleaning agents to see which ones clean oil off a soft toy. They compare this experiment with the volunteers...
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Frederick Douglass
Fifth graders are introduced to the novel "Frederick Douglass" and conduct research about his life. The instructional activity integrates technology while using a library database. It is used as a source of information with access to a...
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Food Pyramid
Second graders explain the food pyramid, nutrients provided by each food group,and determine whether they are healthy eaters. They note what foods are in this group, what nutrients are found in these foods, and number of servings needed.
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Bribery And Corruption
In this language arts learning exercise, pairs of students examine, discuss, and complete a variety of activities associated with bribery and corruption. The "conversation starters" are particularly interesting in this learning exercise,...
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Sorting
Students study how things are stored and how information is retrieved. In this investigative lesson students play a game that helps them to see how things are sorted in a library.
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Laughing is Good for You and Your Child: Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage pertaining to laughter and then respond to 5 true or false questions regarding the passage.
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Using English Grammar: Nouns
In this definition practice learning exercise, students choose the correct definition of the italicized word. Students have three choices from which to choose.
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Bucket Brigade
Students participate in a physical fitness activity about water. In this water conservation lesson, students discuss how to conserve water and the amount of water most people use in a day. To illustrate this amount students move 70...
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Business 90 Midterm 2: Probability
In this probability worksheet, students examine given business situations and determine the probability of an event. They create tree diagrams and contingency tables. This nine-page worksheet contains 7 multi-step problems.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: World Sleep Day
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about World Sleep Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions,...
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The Nutritional Content of Food
Students are given three unknown samples and must perform two chemical tests in order to determine if the samples contains protein and/or starch. Students work with corrosive or toxic reagents.
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Skills for Building Healthy Relationships
Students create skits showing relationship problems and discuss how communication, cooperation, and compromise can build strong relationships. In this healthy relationships lesson, students are given a scenario to act out in small...
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Germs and the Body
Students illustrate where germs exist, how they can get into and affect the body, and how the body defends itself against them.