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Lobby Groups And Their Role In The Democratic Process
Learners explain the role of the different players in the process of lobbying the government for changes in policy and or law. They select an issue of current concern and determine who their contacts would be both inside and outside of...
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Aerobic Sock Darts
Students, in groups, have 2 hoops set up about 8-10 feet apart and across from each other. Each group tries to get as many darts to land inside the hoops as possible in the time limit.
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Temperature Variations and Habitability
Students, in groups, evaluate conditions outside the building and inside the classroom using thermometers, barometers, anemometers, etc. They compare interior and exterior conditions. They consider and discuss factors that contribute...
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Science: A-maze-ing Plants
Students discover how light helps plants to grow. By placing a plant inside a box cut into a maze, they observe how the plant finds its way through the maze to the light source.
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Mapping the Unknown
Students explain how early maps of the ocean bottom were made. They describe and execute a method for producing a low-resolution map of a surface that cannot be seen or touched. Students analyze the data from a mapping activity and...
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The Easter Celebration
Students read a short story about Easter. They recognize and point to pictures of the key words (egg, chicken, rabbit, basket, flower). They make an Easter basket and count how many chickens can fit inside. They also practice identifying...
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Air: You Can't See It, But It's There!
First graders investigate that air occupies space by performing experiments that show this principle. Students are provided with a lunch bag. Students open the lunch bag and look inside. Students determine if there is anything in their...
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What's Living in My Mouth?
Young scholars articulate in written and oral formats that bacteria can be found living everywhere. They explain in written and oral formats why the immune system is necessary. Students are presented with an opportunity to see bacteria...
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Activity #15 The Cartesian diver
Students comprehend that the Cartesian diver is a dropper and the water and air inside it. They vary the volume of the air and the amount of water, the diver can be made to be either more or less dense than water. Pupils squeeze the...
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Vocabulary Cards
Students in an ESL classroom are introduced to new vocabulary for a new section. As a class, they are dealt an index card with an envelope with a vocabulary word on the outside. They practice writing new sentences with the new vocabulary...
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Glad to Meet You, Newfane
Students brainstorm a list of important community locations or buildings. We take pictures of inside and outside and include the history of each. They describe the service or product it provides, the date originated, etc. They build a...
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Run for it!
Young scholars play a game inside the 'base' of dome cones. They attempt to run to any cone outside of dome cone and back to base to earn a point. If a student is tagged by a noodle, he/she simply returns to base and starts over with...
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F - Color, Cut and Paste
In this literacy and phonics worksheet, students identify pictures whose names begin with the sound of F. Next, students cut out each picture and paste it inside a large F-shape. Finally, students share their findings with a friend,...
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Monster Brain Maze for Halloween
In this Halloween maze worksheet, students examine a picture of a scary monster holding a jar with a brain. Students trace a path in the maze which is inside the brain.
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School-Home Links 72
In this spatial concepts worksheet, students tell whether a dog is inside or outside a circle. Students then draw a dog outside a house. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Positions 5
In this positions and instructions learning exercise, students cut out the stars and paste them inside the moon. The objective is to enhance students' understanding of positions and directions.
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Apple Seeds
In this coloring math activity, students color around the edge of the apple and then use a black crayon to make the correct number of apple sees inside each apple.
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Story Elements Test
In this story elements worksheet, students use the four terms in the wordbank and write in their numbers inside each box to indicate what type of element it is.
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Junie B. Packs Her Bags
In this Junie B. Jones vocabulary acquisition activity, students draw a suitcase in the blank space and write their word choices inside it to take to sleep over at Lucille's rich nana's house.
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Chauncey Chicken and Consonant Digraphs
In this consonant digraphs worksheet, 2nd graders complete the words inside the egg by adding the consonant digraph ch or sh to either the beginning or ending section of each word.
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Writing Prompt: "Brother Trouble"
In this writing learning exercise, students write about their little brother accidentally getting locked inside the house alone. Pages are lined for writing.
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Ocean Floor
Students identify ocean floor features. In this earth science lesson, students predict the object inside a close box to make them realize the difficulties scientists faced then. They label the different zones of the ocean floor after the...
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How Can You Study Things You Can’t See Like: Atoms?
Students simulate how scientists studied things they can't see like atoms. In this chemistry lesson, students predict what is inside the numbered obsertainers. They design a way to investigate what's inside without opening it.
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Reaching the Clouds for Equality
Students listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. They create their own cloud and write a dream they have for the world inside. They write journal entries on how to treat others fairly.