University of New Mexico
Let's Travel
Fourth graders work in groups to research various locations across the United States. They present their findings to the class, participate in a travel fair, make phone calls to tourist agencies and write letters to state tourism...
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Preparing a Balance Sheet
Students prepare a balance sheet. In this balance sheet lesson, students learn the parts of a balance sheet and how they are represented. Students use a formula to calculate equity.
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Preparing an Income Statement
Tenth graders discuss the contents of income statements. In this accounting instructional activity, 10th graders are introduced to the parts of an income statement. Students practice filling out the four parts of an income...
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What in the World..?!?
Students photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on the...
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"An Internet Nose for News"
Students conduct research on the Internet. For this technology studies lesson, students use a variety of Internet search engines to research a topic of their choice. Students complete worksheets based on their research.
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Sort Laboratory Practice
Eighth graders sort animals according to certain physical characteristics. In this science lesson, 8th graders explain the reason for such classification. They complete a worksheet individually at the end of the lesson.
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Birds of Wisconsin
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Make Sense of Nature
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Talking Storybooks
Students create talking storybooks that primary students can read and listen to independently. They create the presentations using multimedia software.
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Fill Me In
Second graders work on expanding their vocabulary. In this personal writing lesson, 2nd graders practice word identification and complete a worksheet by filling in the blanks.
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Making Poetry
A hearing impaired student identifies rhyming words. In this rhyming word instructional activity for the hearing impaired, 2nd graders read and write poetry correctly using rhyming words.
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Vocabulary; Cooking
In this foreign language worksheet, students read ten sentences about cooking. They select the best of the three choices to fill in the blank left in each sentence.
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Culture Sharing:
Students share their unique cultures with others in the class and identify with different cultures from their own. Students use their English speaking skills to work with the other students from the same or nearby country. Students...
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Language Arts: Word Recognition and Mental Images
Students read short stories containing Dolch sight words and describe the scenes and answer comprehension questions. After relating the stories to their own experiences or observations, they draw pictures illustrating a scene from the...
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Bean Bag Challenge
Students explore the human body by participating in a physical education activity. In this bean bag lesson, students identify the hand eye coordination skills necessary to throw and catch a bean bag with a partner. Students throw,...
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What Are Mixtures And Solutions?
Students explore mixtures and solutions. In this chemistry lesson plan, students will add different ingredients to jars in order to classify them as mixtures or solutions. There is also a nail balancing activity that can be done at...
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Shopping With Basic Math
Fifth graders utilize basic math computation on a pretend shopping trip to obtain everyday items and services such as an oil change and grocery shopping.
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Celebrate National Inclusive Schools Week
Students list traits that make them unique. They participate in a Bingo-like game, where they try to identify people by their traits.
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Lincoln's Birthday
Students in and ESL classroom discover and discuss the importance of Abraham Lincoln and why we celebrate his birthday. They study vocabulary associated with Abraham Lincoln.
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Classroom Questioning
Students use this lesson to focus on classroom questioning and Bloom's taxonomy. Using the internet, they use the Bloom's taxonomy website to examine their framework on questions. They use this information to develop their experiments.
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Holidays, Hanukkah
For this foreign language worksheet, students fill in eleven blanks with the best choice when given a sentence about Hanukkah. When both words would work, students are directed to select the best one.
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Holidays: Presidents Day
In this ESL/language arts worksheet, young scholars read sentences about Presidents Day and choose the best word to fill in the blank. Students are given 2 choices for each.
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Devine Design
Students examine the functions of the different systems in the body. They discover how different systems must work together to make the body function correctly. They identify the needs of the body to help it survive.
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Juggling the Jargon (An Idiomatic Lesson)
Fourth graders examine a list of idioms and pick one to focus on for this lesson. They use an illustration program to illustrate their idiom. They guess what other students idioms were based on their drawings.