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Creative Body Movement
At the end of this lesson, students will perform a brief dance movement and will demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively. Students observe group dances and are asked to recall interesting shapes and...
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Pulling-Together Web
Students roll a ball to each other that is attached to a string to form a web. In this web lesson plan, students learn how one person's actions affect a whole by making the class web. They discuss citizenship and how they are all...
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Rectangles and Parallelograms
Young scholars compare parallelograms and rectangles. In this comparing parallelograms and rectangles lesson, students make a chart to compare parallelograms and rectangles. Young scholars are given set of quadrilaterals and they must...
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Twelve Days of Winter Break
Students participate in an extra credit activity designed to keep them active over winter break.
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How Does a Spring Scale Work?
Students create visuals of the effect of a spring scale. In this algebra instructional activity, students use the navigator to graph the effects created by a spring scale. They draw conclusion from the graph.
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Snowshoe Orienteering
Students discuss the history of the snowshoe. They wear snowshoes to experience how Aboriginal people used snowshoes. Students simulate a hunting trip. They walk a course, in snowshoes, collecting information on the course and recording...
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Water Fitness
High schoolers participate in a series of aerobic exercises in water to help improve fitness.
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Creative Dancing
Students dance a Cossack dance. In this dance activity, students learn to keep the beat and follow a movement sequence to dance a Cossack Dance.
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Climate, Corals, and Change
Students examine oxygen isotope ratios and how they are related to water temperature. They also identify three forcing factor changes for climate change.
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Creative Body Movement
Young scholars perform a brief dance movement and demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively.
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Muscle Journal
Students study a muscle journal which includes a front and back picture of the following muscles: triceps, biceps, abdominal muscles, quadriceps, hamstrings. They locate biceps on themselves and on others. Next, they utilize their...
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Cardio-Vascular Endurance
Students in a special education class work to improve their endurance. As a class, they complete the same exercises at the beginning of each class trying to increase the number of reps. They are also introduced to healthy eating habits...
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A View Of Home From The Front Door and From Space
Learners discover how distance can change how our view of an object. Students build a representative model of where their home is located from different distances. They create three drawn models of their home from various elevations as...
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Mending the Rift
Learners determine what factors identify a country's political borders. After reading an article, they investigate questions surrounding the Great Rift Valley. On a map, they trace the valley from Asia through Africa and research the...
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Goal Ball
Students participate in some laps around the gym and then listen as a group to learn the history of the game Goal Ball. They go over the rules and learn how to play the game dividing into two teams. Three people play first for each team...
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Introduction to Yoga
Pupils are introduced to yoga for fitness and relaxation. Over the course of the lesson, students practice various yoga poses and relaxation methods. They complete two minute yoga stations after all of the poses have been demonstrated.
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The Voyage Scale
Young scholars identify how models are powerful tools of exploration and that the sizes of the planets and distances between the planets in the Solar System span a large range. They make a sign for each planet they have created in the...
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Descriptive Prompt
Students create a detailed self portrait, and then write about their appearance.
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The Historical Geography of Mesopotamia
Students show how the geography of the Mesopotamia region has impacted the beginnings of civilization. They show how this area has long been the site of the rise and fall of great empires, and how the geography of this region has a lot...
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Dinosaur Designs
Young scholars study dinosaurs in science and conduct online research to gather written information about his or her dinosaur. Then, in art class, they sketch their dinosaur and create an accurate three-dimensional dinosaur model out of...
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The African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard
Young scholars examine sites located in Massachusetts that celebrate the history of African Americans. In groups, they read census reports and oral histories to gather more information about this group of people. They develop a...