Learning Environment Lesson Plans

Explore unique ways to improve and make lasting impressions throughout schools. High schoolers begin their projects by investigating building and carpentry careers and then brainstorm how to enhance each classroom in the building to improve their learning environments.

Students identify parts of the brain and what each part does. In this brain anatomy lesson, students participate in activities that focus on the job of each part of the brain co connect the task to the brain section. Students make a model of the brain and put things they have learned into the model.

Students identify each of the three rotations for the READ 180 classroom (computer, independent reading, and small group instruction) and the expectations for each. They check out audiotapes and books for independent reading and discuss the anti-bullying materials provided during small-group lessons. Finally, students describe an ideal classroom learning environment and make commitments toward that ideal.

Students were involved in environmental service learning and they gathered information from academic buildings for a database. The data allowed them to use an establish baseline data on light use, recycling, and water fixtures in five academic buildings. They compared the buildings to determine differences in environmental performance and also compared the data gathered before and after educational campaigns.

Students create class rules by determining the environment they would like to have in the classroom. In this classroom behavior lesson plan, students come to consensus about how to have a safe, fair, fun learning environment. Students discuss the rules in the Karla Kustin poem. Students share their behavior plan with their parents.

Students devise a drama sketch of a futuristic learning environment before considering the advantages and disadvantages of a world without schools. Students role play their creations within the hall or classroom.

Students get a taste of Ethiopia. In this Ethiopia lesson, students examine the education system in the country and compare it to U.S. education system. Students anaylyze photographs to discern what they can about the learning environments in Ethiopia and then write letters to Ethiopian students.

Young scholars discuss what would happen if there were no driving safety laws, orally state four behaviors for walking properly in line, identify why walking in hall properly is important to promote positive learning environment, and perform four behaviors for walking in line properly in role play and real life situations.

Students participate in different activities to discover how they relate to the environment. They watch a video series and answer comprehension questions. They discuss what they can do to protect the environment.

The intent of this curriculum unit will be to reinforce appropriate behavior in and out of school. Students will learn about legal concepts by analyzing and connecting them to school rules. The relationship between the school environment and life outside the classroom will be compared and contrasted.