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Pledge of Excellence
First graders discuss their prior knowledge of The Golden Rule and compare it to their school's Pledge of Excellence. They discuss the five parts to the pledge and discuss how to be a caring friend, how to do their personal best, how to...
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Farm Animal Friends
Students apply basic communication and math skills to situations. They apply prior knowledge to list characteristics of different animals. They listen to music to engage multiple senses. Then images of animals are shared with them to...
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Brine Shrimp 1: Hatching Brine Shrimp
Students review their prior knowledge on brine shrimp. In groups, they raise a group of brine shrimp and design an artificial environment in which they can live. They change the conditions of the environment to see how the shrimp react...
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What Do You Know? Supreme Court Nominations
Students discuss what they believe Supreme Court Justices should do while in office. As a class, they brainstorm a list of their prior knowledge about the justices and Supreme Court. In their journal, they write about the qualities of...
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Weekend With Wendell
Students discuss prior knowledge about mice, and read a mouse poem. They listen to the teacher read "A Weekend With Wendell" and discuss Wendell's possible reaction when coming to visit the school media center. Students compose a class...
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Haiku For You
Students discuss prior knowledge of Haiku. They use computers with internet connection to find information about haiku. Students work in small groups to summarize their research and discuss Japanese culture. Students write and illustrate...
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Deserts KWL Chart
Students will define what a desert is through the creation of a KWL Chart. This will help students to tap prior knowledge and make new connections with the new curriculum being delivered in the lesson.
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Brine Shrimp Feeding
Third graders study the diet of the brine shrimp. This is an introduction to a math measurement of a micrometer because of the size of the food brine shrimp feed upon. They make predictions about the types of food shrimp eat based on...
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HOT TOPICS OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Students use a five-step process to write a persuasive essay about an issue that is related to the Mississippi River. Students build an argument based on prior knowledge and information from a variety of sources. Students base their...
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Short Story 2
Seventh graders review previous reading of Rikki Tikki Tavi. They discuss prior knowledge of simile, metaphor, idiom, and hyperbole. Students practice using vocabulary words from the story by listing synonyms for them. Students read from...
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Science: Classifying the Planets
Eighth graders, in pairs, use pasta, rice, and prior knowledge of the planets to construct multi-stage classification systems. While examining the bags of pasta and rice, they note the similarities and differences of the nine planets. ...
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Which is Your Favorite Beatrix Potter Book?
In this survey worksheet, students use the form to gather information on people's favorite Beatrix Potter books. Students graph the results. Prior knowledge of multiple Beatrix Potter books is assumed.
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Tornado Worksheet
In this science worksheet, students answer 7 essay questions about tornadoes. No information is provided on this page and prior knowledge or research is assumed.
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Cattle Industry and Cowboys- Overview
In this cattle industry learning exercise, students answer 11 essay questions pertaining to cowboys, ranching, and the history of the cattle industry in America. Prior knowledge or research will be needed.
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Earth, Moon and Sun Assessment Test
In this space science activity, students answer 14 essay questions pertaining to the Earth, moon, and sun and their relationship. Prior knowledge is assumed, or this could be a pre-test.
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students explore what the dinosaurs were like. In this dinosaur lesson plan, the teacher peaks student curiosity about dinosaurs. This lesson plan would be a great starting point for a dinosaur unit since it primarily engages student...
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Bank On It! Ancient Farming
In this ancient farming worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 25 sentences about farming in Mesopotamia. Students will use the words in a word bank. Prior knowledge or research will be needed.
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Astronomy 1 Quiz- Online Interactive
For this space science worksheet, learners complete 5 multiple choice questions pertaining to the planets and other space bodies. This is an online interactive quiz. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Place Value to 1,000
Second graders study the concept of place value with hundreds, tens, and ones. In the place value lesson, 2nd graders demonstrate their prior knowledge of place value with tens and ones. Students are then introduced to place value with...
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Water and Shalom
Young scholars discover main functions and importance of water in Biblical times. In this water in Biblical times lesson plan, students discuss prior knowledge and read Bible passages to find ways that water was valuable in Bible...
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Grow a Plant
Learners combine their prior knowledge about plants with a garden learning activity. In this science gardening lesson, students discuss what plants need to survive. Learners then plant a seed themselves and demonstrate learning by caring...
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Exploring Geometric Patterns and Relationships
Sixth graders explore different geographic relationships in like drawing lines, rays, and parallelograms. This lesson could be used for review because it covers more than one concept. The students should have prior knowledge.
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Linear Inequalities
Ninth graders practice recognizing similarities and differences found in the graphing of inequalities and equations. Once observatioons are made they solve some of their own applying prior knowledge.
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Bioluminescent Bewilderment!
Ninth graders investigate the concept of bioluminescent. They break down the word phonetically for correct pronunciation. This is done as a warm up for learning. Then students create a list of the creatures from prior knowledge and...
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