Educational Videos Lesson Plans

In this lesson students examine the condition, triggers, and ways to cope with asthma, compare their previous knowledge of asthma with new information presented in an educational video, and use information about asthma to the creation of an asthma poster .

Students examine the causes and effects of alterations in a forest ecosystem and evaluate how human actions may only seem to have minor consequences, but can lead to extinctions of large numbers of populations. Students produce an educational video, 5-10 minutes in length, within the forest discussing concepts from the unit.

This lesson has students participate in various Columbus Day activities. In this holiday lesson, students construct paper boats and read various books about Columbus. This lesson has students are shown an educational video about Columbus to reinforce factual information.

In this lesson 4th graders trace the emergence and development of culture in Utah. They study the contributions of the American Indian culture on the development of Utah. They create their own rock art by using signs and images that show something meaningful in their life.

5th graders demonstrate their ability to locate San Antonio on a Texas map, use the Internet to conduct research on the War of the Alamo, and simulate the past during dress-up day and Pinata Day.

This lesson has students classify living things according to their characteristics and functions. They observe living things grow, move, use food, and adapt to changes around them. As the students work through the subtasks in this unit, they make connections between the natural and human effects on living species.

5th graders use a needle and a magnet to create a compass.

5th graders compare and contrast the patterns that they create using iron fillings and different types of magnets.

5th graders predict what happens when the north end of their bar magnets are placed near the north end of their hanging magnets.

In this lesson students design streamlined packaging designed to reduce waste production. In this waste reduction lesson, students view a diagram to introduce the concept of the engineering design process and discuss ways that packaging can be useful. They solve an excess packaging problem by designing a new package.