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DISNEY FILMS
In this crossword puzzle activity, students match songs from Disney films to the title of movie in which the songs appear. They then choose a word from the title to fill in the crossword puzzle.
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Crossword Puzzle: Disney
In this crossword activity, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving clues about Disney movies. For example, "Never Smile at a Crocodile."
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Vocabulary Building: Short i
In this short i activity, students write 6 short i words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Polymer Rockets
Students examine polymer rockets and complete an activity. For this rockets lesson students design, create and test a polymer rocket and have a blast off competition.
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Junk Food Math
Students use Skittles candies as they explore estimation and percentages. In this math lesson plan, students sort, count, and chart Skittles candies to learn about estimation and study percentages.
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Homemade Etch-a-sketch
Students explore a homemade etch-a-sketch. In this hands-on experience, students benefit from the directions on how to create a homemade etch-a-sketch. This lesson is intended more as a how-to for the teacher of a younger child.
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Animal Tracks
Students study animals. In this science lesson plan, students make plaster casts of animals that live in the area. Students identify the tracks.
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Word Lists
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read 5 lists of three to four letter words. The lists are groups by consonant-vowel combination.
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Roping Quadrilaterals
Students explore with quadrilaterals. For this roping quadrilaterals lesson, students work in cooperative groups to play the game, "Question, please!" in order to identify, describe, compare and classify quadrilaterals....
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It's Either Simple or Complete
In this complete and simple subject worksheet, learners underline the complete subject in the sentences and write the simple subject. Students complete 15 problems.
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How Does Whale Blubber Work?
Students perform an experiment to find out how whale blubber keeps whales warm in cold temperatures. They use Ziploc bags lathered in shortening to simulate whale blubber. They put their hands in cold water, both with and without the bags.
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The Crucible
Twelfth graders use an Internet scavenger hunt, vocabulary, sample essay questions, and short answer questions suitable for study and review of the play, The Crucible.
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How Can We Locate Specific Places On Earth?
Second graders discover how to use longitude and latitude to locate specific sites on Earth. They compare old and new ways of locating specific places, and discover how latitude and longitude coordinates are used to locate places on Earth.
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Main Idea
Students are read a book but not told the title. They determine the main idea of the story and possible names for the book. They develop their own story and illustrate them to show their classmates.
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Pumpkin Seeds Mosaic
Students examine the history of mosaics. They follow instructions to create their own pumpkin seed mosaic. They also bake some of the seeds to enjoy as a treat.
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Electricity 5
Fifth graders demonstrate their understanding of circuits by working in small groups to create a flashlight using a limited number of supplies.
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Where, Oh Where
Students use maps to explore several traditional regions of Native Americans. They research information on the regions' climate, resources, landforms, flora and fauna.
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Slicing Up Food Fractions
Second graders categorize, cut, and sort food items to explore fractions.
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Kid Garden Math
Students design a geometric garden. Shapes to be included are squares, triangles, and hexagons. After reading a book together about shapes, students get to use construction paper to cut out and design their own shape garden.
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It's Oobleck
Second graders listen to the story, "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," and list the information they learned about Oobleck in order to construct a meaning for Oobleck.
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Clay Whistle/Ocarinas
Seventh graders create a clay whistle/ocarina and sculptue in the round using the pinch technique.
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Going My Way?
Students, in groups, study how a magnet works and how people use the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves.
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Galapagos Project
Students explore Darwin's trip to the Galapagos Islands. In groups, students create a field guide for one of the five major islands in the Galapagos.
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Self-Esteem/Class Pride
Pupils examine and reflect on their own unique talents. They discuss their talents and what they do well, write each talent on five strips of paper, and create a class paper chain of talents.