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Radiation In Our World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the different sources of radiation around us. In this physics lesson plan, students calculate their estimated radiation exposure per year. They research a current issue about radiation.
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Accentuate the Positive

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze the attitudes, ideas and beliefs of characteristics that assist humans in living a positive, proactive life that values self, family, community, nation and world. Students identify their own strengths as individual....
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Natural Disasters

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate why natural catastrophes occur around the world and the results of such catastrophes. They investigate how people recover from catastrophes and can they be prevented. Students create their own work of art depicting a...
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Measuring the Earth

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students identify types of arcs and angles in a circle, find the measure of arcs and angles, and solve real world problems involving lengths of segments in circles, lengths, and areas.
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Technology of the Deep: Experiments with Buoyant Forces

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students conduct a series of experiments to study the effects of temperature and salinity on the buoyancy of an object in water. They devise ways to make floating and sinking objects neutrally buoyant.
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Water 3: Melting and Freezing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand that most substances may exist as solids, liquids, or gases depending on the temperature, pressure, and nature of that substance. This knowledge is critical to understanding that water in our world is constantly...
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Monsoon Winds to the "Land of Gold"

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students recognize environmental factors that influenced maritime trade routes and the establishment of major trading centers in classical times. They evaluate perceptions of the ancient world through ancient maps and primary source...
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Causation-Exploration and World Trade

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate spice trade. In this world history instructional activity, students identify various spices in jars and their places of origin. Students listen to a lecture on how spices came to countries in Europe. Students...
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Transportation History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the major developments in transportation. In groups, they use this information to plot them on a timeline. They also write a paragraph about how advances in technology have changed the world. As a class, they discuss...
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Poverty & Disease: What is the Link?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students consider how to reduce poverty and fight disease around the world. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students participate in activities regarding global poverty, fighting disease, and connections between poverty and disease.
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Air and Water Pressure

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students examine buoyancy and fluid pressure. They conduct a series of fun experiments to discover the effects of pressure and explore how pressure differences can be used to float, lift, transport, or hold a material in place.
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Magnets

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners explore the science of magnets and how magnets work. They conduct a series of fun experiments and magnetize objects and demonstrate how magnetism operates right through other materials.
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Word-zles

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students solve series of word puzzles.
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Greco-Roman Origin Myths

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore myths that explain the world, recognize some characters of Greco-Roman mythology and their symbols, and Make personal connections to the theme by writing and drawing a myth of their own.
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Equality: Are Some More Equal than Others?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research a person who has been active in supporting human rights around the world. They simulate an international conference and write a newsletter focused on human rights in a specific country.
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Fahrenheit 451

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students agree on a definition of censorship and then discuss incidents of censorship with which they are familiar. They might consider incidents in present-day America, elsewhere in the world, and in the past. Bradbury's novel serves as...
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Holy Habitats or Meet Metamorphosis

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine the metamorphosis of frogs and how it adapts to its environment. They research how world pollutants are effecting the amphibian population.
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Slim Down to the Good Stuff by Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils summarize a piece of literature using the technique "mapping" in this instructional activity. The technique involves 6 main steps: delete unimportant information, delete repeated information, substitute easy terms, add a series...
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Lord of the Flies

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare events in the story "Lord of the Flies" to real life events in our world. They create a manual and text describing the elements of survival. They create a poster of a conch shell that includes the scientific name, a...
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Seeing the Other Side

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the concept of justice. In this fairness lesson, students explore just and unjust activities they have observed in the world. Students attempt to look at both sides of stories.
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Energy and Me: What is My Responsibility?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate energy and their impact on the environment. In this environmental lesson plan, students will conduct a series of three activities that will help in their understanding of energy and how we use it.
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The Unification of Italy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars process variety of information on how Italy became a nation, and answer series of short-answer questions on the topics discussed in class.
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Japanese Folktales

For Teachers K - 8th
Students identify that Japanese folktales reveal information about Japanese history, life, and customs. Students identify and interpret the work kamishibai, paper play and explain that in Japanese folktales are told through a series of...
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Investigating Ocean Life

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the various forms of ocean life. They research a creature that lives in the ocean. Students use their research information to create a series of HyperStudio stacks about their sea creature.

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