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Animal Science Research Report
Students research an animal. In this research instructional activity, students utilize various types of technology to gather information about an animal. Students create a class blog and use digital photography for their research.
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Diversity
Students access prior knowledge of the five senses and relate to students with disabilities. In this people with disabilities lesson, students research and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast famous people and their...
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Learning Economics through Comics
Students summarize the historical development of money. In this economics lesson, students describe the process of bartering and explain how money facilitates trade and exchange. Students also define and describe inflation and a modern...
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It's Just a Barn
Investigate Pennsylvania Barns. Have your class consider the elements common to Pennsylvanian barns and why they are significant to the food production process. They write summaries of Frederick Watts and his impact on agriculture.
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Flight Dreams: Birds Flew First
Students observe how bird flight and machine flight are similar. In this aerodynamics lesson, students observe how birds fly and the shapes of their wings, and investigate how observing birds helped develop the concept of machine flight....
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The Declaration of Independence
Students empathize with the colonists. In this activity on the Declaration of Independence, students collaborate to problem solve a school dilemma that enables them to understand the issues and difficulties that occurred in the creation...
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President FDR and the New Deal
Learners explore the New Deal and President FDR. In this Great Depression lesson, students listen to an FDR Broadcast (Fireside Chat) and read sections in their textbooks. Then, in small groups learners design and create a broadcast to...
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Getting Ready to Become An Adult
Students participate in a problem solving activity and discuss how effective their solution was. For this getting ready to become an adult lesson, students read Ta-ne-e-ka and use guiding questions to address the relationships in the...
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It's Off to Work We Go
Young scholars reenact what finding a job was like in the 1900's and model their actions after Milton Hershey. In this history lesson, students create business cards, and conduct mock interviews for jobs that would have been...
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Milton Hershey and the Qualities of a Hero
Students create a classroom mural that features heroes. In this Milton Hershey instructional activity, students discuss the qualities Hershey had that made him a hero. Students then identify other heroes and design a classroom mural of...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: How to Analyze a Historic Photograph
Learners analyze historical images. In this primary source analysis instructional activity, students examine an photograph of Hershey, PA from the 1920's. Learners collaborate with one another and their instructor to note the details in...
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Endangered Relationships
Students study the interrelationship between the horseshoe crab and red knot. In this ecology lesson, students explain why several species became extinct. They research about endangered species found in their region.
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Marine Protection Areas
Learners explain the importance of having Marine Protected Areas. In this ecology lesson, students research MPA's in any of the Great Lakes. They play a MPA simulation game and identify MPA's on the map.
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