Welcome! Sign In or Try it Free!
Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
- Rating
Students use plaster of Paris, talc, and cornstarch to create their own chalk. They hypothesize what mixture of ingredients produce the "best" chalk. Students discuss what they think are the characteristics of the "best" chalk. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
- Rating
Students examine how the world around them is constantly changing. In groups, they travel between centers in their classroom to role play the role of explorers in Washington D.C. They share their experiences with their classmates and share photos. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
- Rating
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
- Rating
Students practice various American, UK, and world dances in this Dance lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on the use of local professional dance instructors to supplement classroom activities and materials. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - Higher Ed
- Rating
Students recognize the social, cultural, economic and environmental significance of forests. They develop timeline of activities and developments in the boreal forest since the end of the last period of glaciation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
- Rating
Students research the laws and policies for school dress codes in their school and others in their state or area and explore what others say about these policies. After research is complete, students divide into two teams to develop arguments for each side, one supporting dress codes that limit student hair colors because they can be disruptive and one supporting student expression through such things as hair color. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
- Rating
Students research the laws and policies for school dress codes. They interview school employees to find out opinions of the policies. This they compare the findings with student interviews that are conducted. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
- Rating
Students examine the strategies of restating and summarizing an informational article in their own words. They determine the main idea in the information by looking at the topic sentence of each paragraph. In their summaries, they restate the topic sentence before noting the Tier Two and Tier Three vocabulary in the selection. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
- Rating
Students explore the various trails that settlers took West from Missouri. They examine the reasons that people took these trails as well as the kind of people who made the journeys. They examine the Oregon, the Mormon, the Santa Fe and the California Trails Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
- Rating
Students identify the character trait of integrity in the main character, Slow, in "A Boy Called Slow." They participate in a discussion to determine what steps the main character took to earn his new name. Students write an essay describing their plan for earning their new name. Full Review »
Link to This
Email This
Share