Fifth graders create math word problems. In this geometry lesson, 5th graders define perimeter and discover how to find the perimeter of a rectangle, a square and a regular polygon. Students write word problems on finding the...

Young scholars analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis instructional activity, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider...

Pupils analyze William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. In this literature analysis lesson, students compare a modern novel and play. Pupils analyze Faulkner's interior monologues. Students write a paper about the ways As I Lay Dying is or is...

Students discover the ideas of civilizations by researching Gandhi's philosophies.  In this art decoration lesson, students investigate Gandhi's opinions on civilizations, community and ethics.  Students collaborate by...

Students consider the implications of global warming. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to discover information about temperature rises in the world and discuss how to solve some of the issues associated...

Students explore environments and how organisms adapt to the environment. In this science lesson plan, students read a story and discuss how animals have adapted to changes in their environment.

In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, r controlled vowels, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words.

In this Gold Rush worksheet, learners answer multiple choice questions about the Gold Rush. Students answer 20 questions total.

Students study energy generation by the Sun, which involves atoms and nuclei.

High schoolers research gender oppression in Nazi Germany and organize and develop presentations. They identify patriarchal and Fascist policies in Nazi Germany.

Students examine the observation of "coronal holes," by x-rays, also about related fast streams and moderate magnetic storms that recur at 27 day intervals. They study NASA'S great observatories.

Learners explore magnetism and magnetic phenomena on the Sun.

Learners discuss the solar heating of the Earth and atmosphere, its heat loss proceses, and the way these relate to weather and climate.

Students explore rotating frames of reference, focusing on the weightless environment in space and the Coriolis force.

Young scholars discuss the application of frames of reference to an airplane flying with a constant velocity v through the air.

Students explore the concept of frames of reference in physics.

Students study about deriving centripetal acceleration for motion at constant speed around a circle.

Students gain an understanding of Kepler's 2nd law--that planets (and satellites) move fastest at their closest approach to the center of attraction, and slow down when far away. They explore the concepts of "potential energy" and...

Students explain that planets actually orbit the center of gravity of the solar system, and that distant planets may be detected by motions of their central star around the centers of gravity of their planetary systems.

Students become acquainted with linear graphs, the parabola and the rectangular hyperbola. Also prepare tables of paired values as preparation for plotting a line. They study the cartesian equation of an ellipse, with a worked example.

Pupils trace the beginning of the heliocentric theory of the solar system--the idea that the solar system revolves around the Sun--to an observation by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus, which convinced him that the Sun was much bigger...

Students examine total eclipses of the Sun and their limited regions of totality. They explain that this limited view occurs because the Moon is close enough to us for different points on Earth to view it differently.

High schoolers discover how Aristarchus, a Greek astronomer around 230 BC, used a simple observation of the eclipse of the Moon, plus clever reasoning, to deduce the distance of the Moon. They practice the same calculation technique.

Students discover how astronomers used the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a baseline for estimating the distance of some stars, and the meaning of "Parsec" and "light year."