Students create a sculpture with a theme using a balloon and flour and water paste.

Students make painted hand prints to cut out and use as fall leaves.

Students create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this lesson.

Seventh graders gain insight into the daily lives of Muslims and to develop empathy for them by studying the Islamic world and creating presentations.

Students describe the importance of water conservation and list ways to conserve. They construct composts and fill them with materials that recycle nutrients. They inspect their homes for leaky pipes, toilets, and faucets.

Students analyze components of garbage. They collect and sort a few days' worth of garbage. They chart the results of an investigation.

Students analyze various mosaic murals by the artist Charles Alston. They view and discuss ways to show a family of people, how art expresses relationships between people, and create a painting that demonstrates how people get along with...

Students create and decorate paper mache maracas.

Students study the roles that women have played in science throughout history. They work in small groups while visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Students investigate the history of the waterwheel and common uses for water turbines today. They construct an experimental waterwheel using a two-liter plastic bottle, measure the rate of revolution of a waterwheel, and complete a...

Students explore current fashion trends. As a class, they discuss the statements that a dress makes, brand names, and cultural trends. Fashions from other cultures are observed and discussed by students. In pairs, students create...

Students design and contrast a boat made out of aluminum foil. They test the boats to see which boat floats the best using three different solutions and steel ball weights. Students work on their own to construct a boat of their own...

Students develop a new line of nutritional snacks. They work in teams to submit a proposal for a snack that not only tastes good, but is nutritional as well. Their end-product consists of four parts: background information, developing...

Ninth graders measure the insulation properties of different fabrics by immersing cans of water covered with fabric "socks" in an ice bath and measuring temperature changes. They then calculate heat loss and graph the data individually.

Young scholars examine the culture and history of the Hmong. Using story cloths, they investigate how they were used as expressions of their culture. They discover the Hmong's economic conditions and how they were able to form a new...

Young scholars study the history and importance of clay and pottery. They observe a video dealing the kiln. Students explore ideas for improving construction of pottery. They demonstrate a variety of construction methods and identify...

Students examine the efforts of early American manufacturers to implement the factory system on a large-scale in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. They examine the idealistic goals of the industrialists who financed and built the...

Students create marbled prints by dipping paper through starch and acrylic paint.

Students participate in a simulation of wool trading in the 1800's. They pass around a ball of yarn at various stations to simulate the interdependence of each stage of the wool trade, discuss what happens when there is a problem in the...

Eighth graders conduct research on a topic of choice. They discuss the topics of copyrighting, plagiarism, and biblipgraphic format issues, conduct research using a variety of materials and resources, and create a poster, travel...

High schoolers identify Korean products sold in the US and become aware of Korea's importance in international trade.

Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components

Students work together to discover the concept of angular momentum. They participate in experiments in which they test rotation and relate it to an object's mass. They participate in a literacy activity in which they compare mythology...

Students discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Students create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.