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Worksheet 4. Reading: A Green City
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, learners read the passage about a new city in Abu Dhabi. The reading is titled A Green City. They then answer the 8 questions pertaining to the passage.
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The Entrepreneur's Game
Twelfth graders explore the basic principles of the US free enterprise system. They examine the basic principles of the US free enterprise system including profit motive, voluntary exchange, private property rights, and competition.
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Managing Your Money
Students use the internet to gather information on saving money. They describe the history of money and the responsibilities of the United States Mint. They list their own personal goals and keep a journal as they operate a lemonade...
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The New Canada Project
Students focus on one province/territory in Canada. They study the natural resources, location and geographical significance, physical geography, people, culture, climate, and the brief history.
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WORKING WITH WORKBOOKS
Students work through problems in the textbook and teacher-made problems to reinforce the new learning. They turn in practice problems to instructor to be checked for accuracy and evidence of understanding
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A Shopping Center Field Study
Young scholars analyze how developers plan for a shopping center. They take a field trip to a nearby shopping center. Also students participate in a shopping center scavenger hunt. Young scholars identify factors important to the...
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Electric Light Tower
Students examine the San Jose Light Tower as an example of the development of urban lighting circa 1900. They view a slideshow, conduct research and write newspapers to chronicle the lighting ceremony from a variety of perspectives.
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Forest Grump
Students consider the definition of an ecosystem, its parts, and how these parts can be affected when the ecosystem is endangered. They examine dangers being faced by the Canadian boreal forest by reading "For Billions of Birds, an...
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Communication & Ethics
Students are introduced to the concept of accounting. Individually, they use the internet to research the job opportunities and careers in accounting and identify any they are interested in. To end the instructional activity, they...
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An Irresistable Offer?
Students identify inducements the emperor Constantine offered people to move to his fledgling capital city of Constantinople and compare similar situations offered by the American government in our history and by local governments for...
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Accounting -- Journalizing Transactions
Students are introduced to a five column way to record transactions. In groups, they discuss the importance of source documents when recording the transactions and balancing the account at the end of the month. To end the lesson, they...
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Variable Arrays
Twelfth graders compare and contrast variables and arrays. Using data, they enter the information into a spreadsheet and an array to compare how they appear. To end the lesson, they complete basic programs in which they use arrays.
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Staying Safe on the Job
Students share their opinions about the rights and responsibilities of employees, businesses and the government in maintaining a safe work environment. They prepare arguments supporting their assigned positions concerning workplace...
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Total English Advanced: Getting the Idiom Right!
For this advanced idiom review worksheet, students unscramble 10 sentences containing idioms and respond to 5 short answer questions.
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Looking at French Decorative Arts
Students compare the role of a marchand-mercier to that of a modern-day business counterpart and write a persuasive letter. In this French art instructional activity, students discuss the role of the marchand-mercier in French design and...
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Exploring Nonprofit Careers
Students interview members of nonprofit organizations about their careers. In this nonprofit careers lesson plan, students research nonprofit careers, prepare questions to ask, and interview those who have those careers.
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Progressives and the Era of Trustbusting
High schoolers investigate the free-market system and anti-trust laws. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of monopolies and the progressive reform movement to...
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Prairie Voices: Community Development, Investigating Local History
Students investigate local history. In this research skills lesson, students examine historic landmarks, tax records, fire maps, town plans, historic photographs, newspapers, and other primary sources to learn about local communities in...
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Job Shadow/Internship
Students identify a career field to research and complete a job shadow activity. In this career exploration lesson, students brainstorm a list of careers they are interested in and research them. Students participate in a job shadow of...
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Town Directories: Life in Griswold during the 1870's
Eighth graders explore what the city of Griswold, Connecticut, was like in the 1870's. In this American history lesson plan, 8th graders research what the city of Griswold was like in the past and compare it to the present, then...
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Participatory Citizenship
Pupils explore U.S. politics by completing a class project. In this National policy lesson, students review and compare the National Service Act of 1990 and the Kennedy Service Act and the importance of service in the U.S.A. Pupils...
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Why Data
Students investigate and discuss why data is important. In this statistics lesson, students collect, graph and analyze data. They apply the concept of data and lines to finding the rate of change of the line created by the data.
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SHHH It's a Secret
Students rewrite word problems using expressions and equations. In this algebra lesson, students use the correct variable to solve and write equations. They use the TI to graph their solution.
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Talk the Talk
Students interactively learn multimedia terminology while using the Alice Programming. In this multimedia lesson plan students become the director of a movie or video game.