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A Healthy Diet
Young scholars examine their own fast food habits and discuss the poor nutritional value of this type of food. They read nutritional labels on popular packaged foods. They analyze the risks of a diet high in fat and sodium versus a well...
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Kidding Around In The 1980s
Students examine pop culture of the 1980s. In this historical time period lesson plan, students view a Smurfs cartoon from the 1980s and discuss its similarities and differences to cartoons today. Students work in groups to examine an...
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Digesting the News
Students explore the editorial concepts, site designs and business models of online news digests. They propose detailed plans for Web sites that demonstrate their own areas of expertise.
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Personal Clay Box
Students search for and sort ideas for content in their artwork, explore African art, and create and assemble a lidded box-like form from slabs of clay half way between soft and leather hard.
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Sorting Through Spiders
Students utilize their own drawings of spiders to analyze and sort the attributes that each student drew.
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Ways to Start the Year Off Right
Here are some simple ways to get your year off to a great start.
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Big Bubble Letter Poster
In this getting to know you worksheet, students follow the directions to create bubble letters for their names and then fill each letter with information about themselves.
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Tree Brains
Seventh graders use a tree as a graphic organizer for a prewriting strategy. Some of the "trees" are used to create verbal paragraphs for practice.
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Circle of Friends
Students investigate the meaning of friendship and how to make friends. In this friendship instructional activity, students make Venn Diagrams showing the similarities and differences of characters in two stories. They discuss their own...
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Career Bulletin Board
Students examine and discuss different careers. They use magazines and newspapers to find pictures of a career of interest to them. They create a career collage for a bulletin board display.
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Grammar: Clear and Interesting Subjects
In these simple and complete subject worksheets, students review definitions for a simple and complete subject. Students complete three pages of activities identify simple and complete subjects.
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Email - reading comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students label pictures, fill in the blanks to sentences, answer yes or no questions, and more having to do with email. Students complete 8 activities.
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All About Me Poster
In this biography/autobiography lesson, young scholars read a few biographies and discuss the term and it's characteristics. Students then brainstorm what makes a good biography/autobiography and create an 'All about me' poster....
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Same as Me
In this language arts instructional activity, students answer 20 questions about personal preferences, choosing between 4 possible answers. Students then circulate around the room and find classmates with the same answers.
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Breaking News English: London to Host 2012 Olympics
In this English worksheet, students read "London to Host 2012 Olympics," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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More than Masks
Learners design their own mask using the face as the base. Using pieces of acetate, they mold the material into the shape of their face and turning it into an animal. They must draw their design and calculate the measurements before...
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Mother Goose Poetry
Students practice technology skills such as open, save, print,
type, font size, font type. They also do graphics, importing,text wrapping.Critical thinking,graphic design, presenting are other skills practiced.