Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Wagons West

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine life on westward trails. In this Westward Expansion lesson, students analyze textbook passages about life on the Oregon Trail and the motivations of the people who settled Oregon.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Evaluate the Main Characters? Problem-Solving Processes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read passages from several sources and evaluate the text for various criteria. In this problem solving instructional activity, students evaluate character problem solving processes after reading passages. They will use a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's All in the Translation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast translations of Greek literature. In this dramatic literature activity, students read and perform passages from four different translations of Euripides's Hecuba. High schoolers discuss how the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sundials

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the different types of sundials and their history.  In this shadows and time of day lesson students build their own sundials. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Groups

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Young scholars share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Soccer Scatter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice dribbling the ball with his/her feet and passing to a partner.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice moving safely through a large area (i.e., without bumping into others).
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Smorgasboard of Control

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice dribbling and trapping a variety of balls.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heartmines

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students think about danger and resolving conflict. They compare and contrast our lives with those of people in different countries. They access a website imbedded in this plan which leads them through a simulatiojn/roles play.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sonic Booms and Logarithms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice working with the symbolic notation for logarithms. They understand various types of patterns and functional relationships. They use symbolic forms to represent and analyze mathematical situations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Football Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars listen carefully and react quickly to the circumstances. While working on these skills, students practice physical skills like throwing, catching and defending.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Search for Ice and Snow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use satellite images to locate areas of ice and snow on the globe. They create a table showing the information they gathered. They present their information to the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Soccer Golf

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice golf etiquette without the use of golf clubs, balls, etc.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Your Spot in the World

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners investigate a world map, a United States map, a state map, a county map and a city map. They locate each student's house on the city map and put a length of yarn from their house to a country of one of their ancestors.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science: Discovering Earth's Air Prressure

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover earth's air pressure through observation of several experiments. In the "Experiment of the Leaky Bottle," they observe how air pressure forces water out of the lowest hole farther than the holes above it. In...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lunar Life Support

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and build models of nine life support systems which are crucial to our successful settlement of the Moon. Each team must define the requirements of their system, exploring how these requirements are currently being met on...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adding Flags and States to you State Report

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders word process, edit text and add images from the Internet to a document. They explore copyright, fair use, how to evaluate web sites and citing sources.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Homelessness:Key Terms

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of homelessness. In this social issues lesson, students research homelessness through key terms, in order explore the concept in more depth.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Toad Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probes, Exploration & Application

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore how a surface can be described without seeing it.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Local Heart Rates

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students determine the type of data needed to test their inferences. As homework, they check and record heart rates of fellow students, teachers and family members. During their next class period, students enter all data into the database.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning About the Shape of the Earth

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate ways of telling the shape of the Earth and its position in the Universe both historically and today.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math Can Be Mean!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the topic of means. Calculating the mean, mode and median, they describe what each set of numbers tell and do not tell about the data. They use a line graph to practice finding the mean. They also use...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sculptures of the Seven Ages

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate sculptors and clay to help them explain abstract phrases in a soliloquy.