Professional Learning Communities Lesson Plans

Students discuss the importance of learning communities as a means of bringing about educational reform.

Students explore community service. In this service learning lesson, students participate in 4 weekly activities that require them to research community issues and contribute their time, talent, and treasure the assist those in need.

Students work as an artist using studio rules and in partnership with another student. They create a patchwork quilt that visually represents American pluralism. Students are introduced to Civil Rights, creating an environment for collaborative learning community.

Students introduce themselves utilizing an alliterative descriptor. They begin building a nurturing learning community and follow multi-step directions for preparing applications and completing forms. Each student also demonstrates how to speak in front of an audience.

Discuss how media influences teen sexuality by explaining the importance of values learned from family, religion and society. Learners will role play given scenarios and write a reflection after the lesson.

Students create a list of random acts of kindness and perform acts of kindness during a kindness week. In this kindness lesson, students participate in a project for being kind to others. Each grade chooses their kindness project.  Students write about their acts of kindness.  Students share their acts of kindness. Each student who receives an act of kindness is asked to show kindness to someone else.

Looking for a good social media lesson for your class? Then, this lesson is for you! They study various written reviews, then must choose an item to review of their choice. They can choose from: a book, restaurant, CD/musical artist/video game, or movie. Websites and worksheets embedded in the plan help to guide them through the process of posting their review in blog form. Wonderful lesson!

Tenth graders experience a hands-on field sampling experience in environmental science. They get involved with making presentations at public meetings, the annual River Congress, and any other forum for discussion of a river and its health.

Students identify and examine four heroes from history and imaginative literature. They discuss the characteristics of a hero and share perceptions of what makes a hero. By comparing and analyzing a few historical and literary figures, the students incorporate the concepts of heroism into their psyches.

Ninth graders work in laboratory groups to identify the best brand of a particular product by selecting and defining properties of the product and then designing and carrying out procedures to test the selected properties. Experimental procedures are exchanged between laboratory groups and the properties are retested using the same methods. The two laboratory groups compare and evaluate the two sets of data and conclusions.