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Teaching Economics Using LUNCH MONEY
Students, after reading the book "Lunch Money" by Andrew Clements, explore money and different saving places. They research different ways in which productivity has increased over the years, they examine products to determine if the...
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Teaching Inference with Trash and Mystery Objects
Young scholars practice solving mysteries and using inference skills by digging through trash. In this problem solving lesson, students investigate groups of garbage to determine what type of person the garbage belonged to....
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What Does Plant Biology Teach Is About Climate?
Students examine what factors influence climate. In this investigative lesson students compare the factors that influence climate and how they effect tree growth.
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To teach s
Students learn offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Teaching Avogadro's Number
Students design an experiment to determine Avogadro's number. Students utilize an ammeter, an electrolytic cell and internet research.
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The City in Black and White and Color: An interdisciplinary approach to teaching life in the city using literature, social studies, art, and photography.
Students design an artistic and literary collage of contemporary urban life that seeks to interpret, analyze, and evaluate its mettle. They integrate their impressions of urban life with established views, thereby enriching their...
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Using Comics to teach Habitat and the Balance of Nature
Young scholars visit a specific online comics website to view a comic. They discuss the elements of the food chain that were seen in the story. They choose an inhabitant of the pond habitat that they have been reading about and do a...
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Teaching Handball
Students participate in a number of different lessons with the intention of improving skills to play handball. Each lesson plan focuses on a certain skill like strokes and serves. The skills have a progression of difficulty until the...
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Teaching Each Other Gestures
Students are introduced to the use of gestures in other countries. They define gestures in a personally meaningful way that conveys significance to the entire class. Working in small groups, students play a game to aid them in...
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Coins for teaching
In this coins worksheet, students cut out the coins representing pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, and complete money activities with them. Students cut out 66 coins.
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School House Rock Teaches about Pronouns
In this pronouns worksheet, students watch the School House Rock pronouns video and then replace words with pronouns in sentences. Students complete 6 sentences.
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Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan:Launching the New U.S. Navy
Learners demonstrate understanding of the issues related to the creation and ratification of the United States Constitution and the new Government it established.
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Zeal for Teaching: Reconstruction in Port Royal, South Carolina
Students discuss the story of Port Royal, South Carolina and the enthusiasm about the notion that African Americans be educated. They search a Reconstruction archive to find documents supporting the importance of education for freed slaves.
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Student Photographs and Suburbia
Third graders read photographs for information and discuss reactions. They take pictures of several sites or topics that depict change, tension, historic sites or community icons. They choose one to describe, mount and label.
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Teaching Elementary School Social Studies
Students identify possible social studies themes that can come from the video, "Voyage of Discovery". They list the five themes of geography. They develop elementary-level interdisciplinary unit plans for social study content. They...
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students
Students explore the concept of models. In this model lesson, students examine 3-dimensional models of various objects and body parts to better understand the natural world.
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More College Students Get Start-Up Schooling
Pupils explore the concept of start-up schooling. In this start-up schooling lesson plan, students read an article about a hands-on approach to teaching about start-up financing and venture funds. Pupils develop a syllabus for a college...
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CSI: Chemistry Student Investigators
Pupils study chemistry. In this laboratory lesson students watch the CSI episodes and investigate their laboratory techniques and discuss what they saw.
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Fun Creative Activities that Teach Math
Learners have fun with math. In this math skills lesson, students collaborate to solve the problems presented in this interactive lesson. The problems pertain to geometry, measurement, probability, number sense, and algebra.
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Roaring Twenties: The Impact of High School on its Students Over Time
Eleventh graders compare the American high school experience of the 1920's to today. In this historical perspectives lesson, 11th graders examine surveys from 1924 high school students and then create their own surveys for today's high...
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"Teaching with Material Objects" - Horn-book
Students explore language arts by creating Venn Diagrams. For this reading materials lesson, students examine a horn-book and create a hypothesis about how to use it and where they derived from. Students compare their horn-book to a text...
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Teaching About East Asia
Seventh graders research East Asian countries. In groups, pupils are assigned to research China, Japan or Korea. Using the internet and other resources, classmates create a multiple tier time line. They consider aspects such as...
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African-American Autobiography for the Middle School Student
Students are introduced to the characteristics of an autobiography. For each author, they research their life and works and discuss why it reflects different time periods of African-Americans. In groups, they brainstorm characteristics...
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An Introduction to the Marine Environment and Geology of City Point: A Model for Experiential Teaching
Learners begin the lesson by researching the history of City Point, Connecticut. Using a map, they color areas they were asked to find and discuss why the areas are important to the community. As a class, they are shown recent slides...