Welcome! Sign In or Try it Free!
Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
- Rating
Students create an awareness of sounds found in our everyday urban environment. Students observe and describe habitats of organisms within an ecosystem, and create a song reflective of something within the students' experience. Students write a one- to two-page essay supporting his answer choice about music being essential for survival. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
- Rating
Students explore poetry and the use of special literary devices. Students read poetry for meaning and effect. They analyze poetry for the major elements of the genre. Students recognize the names and works of the greatest American poets. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating
Students examine American attitudes toward war as revealed in Civil War photographs and World War II home front posters. They explore ways in which the experience of war has helped shape the American social and cultural identity. Students interpret archival images. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating
Students use a guiding question to provide context for the activities of the lesson. They discuss the democratizing effect of early photography and relate that to Whitman's poetry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
- Rating
Students engage in a variety of activities concerning the holiday of Hannukah. The use of brainstorming important to generate ideas and tap prior knowledge. They move from brainstorming to a choice of other activities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
- Rating
Students examine the holiday of Kwanzaa. In groups, they discuss "The Seven Principles" and the history of the holiday. They explore the objects that are used and what they represent. They end the lesson with a discussion of the holidays they participate in. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
- Rating
The student will measure the width of the horns on drawings of longhorn cattle and then convert the measurements from inches to centimeters and from inches to feet.1. Review with students the steps required to measure an item and to convert the information into real numbers using a scale measurement. 2. Hand out student worksheet. As a class, read the brief history of longhorn cattle and discuss their effect on the American cattle industry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
- Rating
Students examine historical information about the development of barbed wire and practice identifying geometric terms. After reading through background information, they participate in several activities that include making calculations for a 10-acre square pasture, examining barbed wire, composing letters to companies that market or design barbed wire, and researching fencing of the West and the feelings and attitudes associated with it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
- Rating
Students visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, like the play, film or opera also offers a theatrical experience - one of the staff members dresses up as if he/she were one of the actual historical people who lived in the building at the turn of the century. Visitors are asked to play along in this interactive, theatrical experience. This helps those who come imagine the lives of these people. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
- Rating
Students explore the genre of poetry through centers. They listen to the sound of poems being read aloud, visualize individual poems and observe and apply line breaks in poetry. Full Review »
Link to This
Email This
Share