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George Washington Teaches Map Directions
Students follow teacher given directions, either oral or written to plot points on a grid to create a profile of George Washington. They apply cardinal and ordinal directions to find the points on the grid.
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Wave Equations
Pupils manipulate a model of a wave in order to solve the wave equation in 1 dimension. By using a model of a wave on a string the student is able to change the tension, length, and mass of the string as well as fix either end of the...
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Planetary Orbit
Students compare and contrast ellipses of various eccentricities that represent the shape of planetary orbits. They make a circle with the string by trying the two ends togther. Students calculate the eccentricity of their ellipses by...
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Wellness and the Organic Food Movement
Twelfth graders examine their activities and discuss how they impact the environment. In groups, they research the organic food movement and discuss how it changed the type of foods eaten. To end the lesson plan, they examine the...
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Worksheet 21
In this math worksheet, students draw two vectors u and v based at the same point. The vectors are considered neither parallel nor orthogonal.
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English Skills Assignment 6.204
In this English skills learning exercise, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, spelling, and...
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Beginning Punctuation Quiz
In this punctuation learning exercise, learners decide if the sentences should end with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. There are 15 questions on this page.
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Why Use Seat Belts?
Students explore reasons why using a seat belt is a safe choice while riding in a car. In this physics/safety lesson, students set up and observe a doll with and without a seat belt moving down a ramp in a dynamics cart. Collision...
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Birds
Students study birds and examine the idea that they evolved from reptiles or dinosaurs. In this birds lesson students divide into groups and research one side of the debate, then at the end have the students debate each-other.
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Introduce Word Families
First graders study words. For this word families lesson, 1st graders discover words that rhyme with the endings -est and -ill. They work as a group to determine which ending various words have and to put them in the proper category...
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Introduce word families
First graders play a matching game to find words that rhyme with each other with word endings est and ill. In this word family lesson plan, 1st graders match up the words in small groups by using word cards.
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ESL Lesson Idea: Body Parts
Students study common terminology for body parts. They point the body parts and label work sheets using the appropriate vocabulary.
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Guess the Secret Code
Students practice blending sounds into words. After the instructor demonstrates blending phonemes to make words that can be read, students are divided into two teams for a word blending game. Given the initial and final sounds,...
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Coordinate Grid Practice
In this coordinate grid worksheet, students complete 3 problems related to drawing triangles according to given vertices, moving units and re-drawing, finding coordinates and center points of circles.
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Slides, Flips and Turns
Third graders are introduced to the meanings of the concepts slides, turns, and flips in how they relate to Geometry. As a class, they use their bodies to demonstrate how each term should look like. To end the lesson plan, they apply...
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Momentum and Energy
Middle schoolers study how to calculate momentum, kinetic, and potential energy. They apply each form of energy to real world situations including demonstrations, watching videos, and designing a Power Point presentation. They...
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Home Child Chapter 13
In this Language Arts worksheet, students answer two questions about the novel Home Child. The questions are related to the turning point in Chapter 13.
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Buzzing for Products
Students practice multiplication playing a game. In this multiplication lesson plan, students pick numbers and multiply them together. Students are awarded points based on which "hive" their answer falls in. The student with the...
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The Giver
Learners read the novel The Giver and complete six tasks. They identify vocabulary that they did not recongize, create a different ending for the book, produce character cards and pick important events and objects from the novel.
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The Scarlet Letter
Students imagine characters in The Scarlett Letter beyond the ending of the novel. In this literature lesson, students examine the character Pearl and imagine her life at the ages of 14 and 18.
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S.T.A.R.S. Program
Students focus on qualities demonstrated by successful learners. They create a graph or chart to keep track of the STARS points.
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Cooperative Handball
Learners play a ball game while divided into two teams. They show teamwork in scoring points and defending their goal
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Skimming and Scanning
Students practice skimming and scanning an article to determine its main points. They develop their own questions about the article and shares them with the class. They complete a worksheet about the article to end the lesson.
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CAPITALIZATION
Students write a class A,B,C book based on people and events important to the class. They use capital letters at the beginning of sentences and for proper names. They use periods at the end of sentences.