Students write about an ordinary, everyday happening such as riding in the family car, preparing for school in the morning, doing the wash, shooting a foul shot or sitting in English class. They look at how he/she spends time during the...

Students participate with a fleece ball. Each target can be thrown at only once per round. After the throw the student recovers the ball and moves to the next obstacle. The student puts the fleece ball away, picks up the basketball and...

Learners identify if their peers are using the correct cues when shooting a layup.

Students are introduced to different context clues.  In this context clues lesson, students analyze sentences to find the meaning of a word using context clues.

An online Sim City type game from the BBC website guides learners to complete a World Food Programme mission. They investigate the causes and of hunger in different parts of the world and then research a particular region's hunger...

Ready, aim, fire! Launch to a new level of understanding as scholars build and test their own catapults. Learners explore lever design and how adjusting the fulcrum changes the outcome. 

Fire in the hole! Thrill your classes as they see what it's like to fire a cannon ball. Scholars practice aiming a cannon ball by altering first the firing angle, then the velocity, and finally both simultaneously. Can they discover the...

Start putting all the skills learned so far in this soccer unit together. Play mini-games, which means, just two or three players on a team. This way the players can practice all their skills and not be standing around waiting for the...

Fifth graders investigate simple circuits and identify when a circuit is considered opened or closed. In small groups, they experiment with wires, batteries, and light bulbs to identify how to light the bulb. Students also experiment...

Students explore velocity and trajectory. Using exterior ballistics rules, students predetermine the path of an artillery shell. Given equations and the firing angle, students determine the velocity and horizontal travel. Students...

Research how seasonal changes in Louisiana affect learners' lives and the folklife of their communities and the state. They investigate differences in the seasonal round in the regions of Louisiana, including celebrations, festivals,...

Students perform locomotor skills such as throwing balls while counting up to 100. In this 100th day of school physical education lesson plan, the students play a Hungry, Hungry Hippos game to perform the throwing technique. There are...

Young scholars create rockets to test stability. In this rocketry lesson, students discover how rockets fly through air as they follow the procedures included in this activity.

In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Students conduct various experiments on tropism. In this biology lesson, students explain how gravity affects the growth of plant roots. They identify the different types of tropisms.

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Students explore echolocation of animals. They examine how dolphins and other echolocating animals use their senses to locate and identify objects without using their sense of sight. Through experimentation, they discover how sound waves...

In this language arts worksheet, students read 34 clues pertaining to Valentine's Day and fit the answers in a crossword puzzle.

High schoolers see that light and heavy objects fall at the same rate, as established experimentally by Galileo. They see that falling objects, and balls rolling down an incline, tend to accelerate at a constant rate a. Their velocity...

Students explore concept of acceleration and motion under the influence of gravity, starting with free fall and ending with motions that start out with both horizontal and vertical initial velocities.

Students, in order to participate in the carnival, dress out and participate in a Fitness Activity for the day, e.g., 2 minute jog, warm-up by stretching, etc.

Students explore the concept of binomial distribution. In this binomial distribution lesson, students perform binomial distributions on a number of problems in this lecture lesson. Students find the mean and variance of binomial...

Learners practice incorporating the various skills and strategies associated with basketball. This activity can also be used to introduce different offensive and defensive strategies.

Students research the impact of Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show on the world's view of American western culture. They create a poster advertising the Wild West Show.