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Focus on the Art of Photography with Photography Lesson Plans
Students explore the world around them through the lens of a camera with these photography lesson plans.
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Using Technology in Science
You can spice up your science content by incorporating technology into your lesson plans.
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The Impressionist Movement
A study of the Impressionist Movement will enhance any European history class.
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Launching Writer's Workshop
Writer's Workshop can be a great way to create a community of writers.
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Setting And Plot
Students engage in study of plot and setting with the reading of many familiar texts. They identify the plot and setting with the help of a worksheet. The teacher works with the class for scaffolding and helps them to recognize the...
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Mark Zuckerberg
In this famous people worksheet, students read a selection about the life of Mark Zuckerberg, then complete a variety of comprehension activities including synonym matches, fill-in-the-blank sentence completions, unscrambling words and...
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Blindfolded Building
Students build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.
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Let's Find the Main Ideas!
Third graders examine how finding the main ideas and summarizing increases their reading comprehension. They read "The Sea in Danger" while applying the six rules of summarization in a modeled lesson. Next, working in small groups, they...
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Scavenger Hunt: Who am I?
In this space science worksheet, learners use the sites listed on the Solar System and Planets page of the Kid Zone to locate the names of the people credited with each discovery. They identify and name 26 different scientists who made...
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Kate and the Beanstalk Lesson Plan
Students read the story Kate and the Beanstalk in order to compare and contrast this fractured tale to the original fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. In this fairy tale reading lesson, students first discuss the plots of many...
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African American History
In this African American History worksheet, students conduct research to find the answer to 10 questions about famous African Americans.
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A Model of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Ninth graders explain how a scanning tunneling microscope works. In this chemistry lesson plan, 9th graders construct atomic models and simulate how their images appear under the STM. They discuss the limitations of their atomic model.
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The Chinese Produce Paper as We Know it Today
Tenth graders explore where paper originated and its importance from the Chinese to the rest of the world. They list ten ways that they use paper on a daily basis and rate that use on a scale from one to ten. Each group also brainstorms...
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Integrating Target Structures
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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Poetry Pot
Third graders illustrate a favorite poem with images, title, author's name and words of the poem on a clay pot.
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Japan's Economic Miracle
Students engage in a lesson that discusses the economy of Japan. They conduct research using budgets found on the internet. Then they have group discussions of how the government gets its money for spending.
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Erutan
Learners discuss that governments exist for many purposes. They describe that governments maintain social order, provide public services, provide national security, manage conflict, establish justice, and manage resources.