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Photojournalism: Documenting the Four Greatest Threats to Global Sustainability
Students study global sustainability by viewing photos. In this environment instructional activity students work in groups and create their own photo gallery.
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Reading Review for Grade 5 (5.4)
In this reading review for grade 5 (5.4) worksheet, 5th graders read 7 passages, then answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format.
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Multiple Intelligences: What Are You Good At?
In this multiple intelligences activity, students write words, write sentences, fill out a web, and more. Students complete 9 activities.
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Art Lessons Students Can Appreciate
Art may be something some students have to learn to appreciate, but there is always a lesson that can do this.
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Upside-Down Wings
High schoolers use FoilSim to demonstrate that the graphic analysis of the airflow around one object can be used to hypothesize airflow graphs for objects as they are elongated from a sphere to an airfoil shape.
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Design of Airfoil for Given Lift
Students use FoilSim to design an airplane wing that generates a given lift. As they change parameters such as airspeed, altitude, angle of attack, thickness and curvature of the airfoil, and size of the wing area, the software...
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Lift Relationships
Students use FoilSim (downloadable) to determine how lift is affected by varying parameters on the Airfoil simulation.
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Actual Airflow vs. Ideal Airflow: Stalls
Students use 3-D modeling techniques to observe the characteristic signature of the stall condition apparent on an airfoil at high angles of attack. They use FoilSim to compare the above with ideal airflow.
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Soccer Pass Croquet
Students get the opportunity to develop a controlled inside of the foot pass.
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Museum of Computer Technology
Students research the five generations of computing devices and computer inventors, and create a virtual museums.
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Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditioning
Young scholars view the A.D.A.M. computer simulation of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They break into groups and members brainstorm and list as many aerobic and anaerobic exercises as possible in five minutes.
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Rebus Writing
Fifth graders write rebus stories using technology. They share the rebus stories with younger students
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Editing and Revision Made Easy
Fifth graders use computer to correct mistakes in written sentences.
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Zone Ball
Students are introduced to the basics about zone defense in basketball. In groups, they practice this technique to turn away from gravitating to the ball handler. They also complete non-bounce passes and examine how to move without a...
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Plants and Shadows
In this science worksheet, students design an experiment to measure the effects of sunlight exposure upon plants while comparing the amount of shade as a correlation.
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Basketball Crossword
In this basketball crossword worksheet, students read 15 clues that pertain to the sport of basketball. Students fit their answers in a crossword. There is no word bank for this challenging puzzle.
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Binomial Distribution
Students explore the concept of binomial distribution. In this binomial distribution activity, students perform binomial distributions on a number of problems in this lecture activity. Students find the mean and variance of binomial...
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Reading and Study Guide: Of Mice and Men Chapter 3
In this reading study guide, students define vocabulary words and literary terms found in chapter 3 of the novel Of Mice and Men. Students also answer comprehension questions based on the reading.
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Living History: Documenting Our Senior Citizens Lives
Young scholars investigate stereotypes by researching the elderly. In this senior citizen lesson, students interview elders in a rest home and video tape their experience. Young scholars present their videos to their interview subjects...
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Saving on Lighting Energy Activity
For this saving energy worksheet, students compare and contrast the effectiveness of compact fluorescent lighting, incandescent light bulbs, and light emitting diodes.
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Conspiracy Theory: Lincoln's Assassination
Students determine how the Lincoln assassination impacted the United States. In this conspiracy theory activity, students examine selected primary sources and chart the information they gather from the sources.
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Sponges and Cnidarian Crossword Puzzle
For this marine science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 32 questions on sponges and cnidarian. They identify the different characteristics of sponges and cnidarian.
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Load! Ready! Fire!
Learners will identify the parts of a cannon and practice demonstrating a mock firing. In this math and science lesson, students read background information on the cannon and its firing. Learners read about and role play positions near...
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Microscopes
Microscopes are more than instruments. They are windows into the scientific world.