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Utah History & Geography
Fourth graders practice large digit addition. Students become familiar with column addition. Students develop knowledge of counties and county seats.
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Trail of Louisiana Indians
Prime your students for a lesson on the Native American Tribes of Louisiana. Each slide in this series contains either vocabulary words or facts and background on the Chitimacha, Coushatta, Caddo, Tunic-Biloxi and United Houma tribes.
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Native American Heritage Month
An exploration of Native American culture can lead to art, literature, and poetry activities.
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Cherokee Indians and the Trail of Tears
Students investigate U.S. history by reading American Indian stories. In this Cherokee Indian lesson plan, students identify the cruelty inflicted towards Native Americans by the European settlers and the "trail of tears" that were left....
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CSI Lesson Plans Can Turn Students Into Learning Detectives
Children learn to use the methods of good detection for solving a crime, and even analyzing literature.
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Making a Difference: Community Helpers Lesson Plans
Children can learn about volunteering and put that knowledge into action with community helpers lesson plans.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Lesson Plans
Martin Luther King Jr. lesson plans can provide a way to delve into history and a discussion of what it takes to make a difference.
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Chinese New Year Lesson Plans
Celebrate with food, activities, and learn the traditions of the Chinese culture while enjoying the Chinese New Year.
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Mythology of the Ancient World
The mythology of the ancient world can provide motivating lessons that can help students learn about history.
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Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life
You can make your students amateur paleontologists with great fossil lesson plans.
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Archaeology Lesson Plans
Archaeology lesson plans can give students hands on ways to explore the study of ancient cultures.
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Interesting and Motivating End of the Year Lessons
Motivating end of year activities which can help social studies teachers make their last few lessons have an impact.
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What Kind of School Would You Wish For?
Build safe and supportive school and classroom environments by focusing on lessons that bring the school community together.
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What If You Could Change the World?
You can support service learning in your kindergarten through eighth grade classroom and see learning objectives come to life.
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Ways to Improve Parent/Teacher Communication
There are many ways to make parent/teacher communication easy and extremely productive.
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Getting to Know Your Students
Getting to know your students is an experience that can be fun and enjoyable.
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Character Education - Kindness
How to get students to always remember to be kind to one another.
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Teaching Tolerance and Acceptance
If you teach students about tolerance and acceptance at the beginning of the year, you can create a positive classroom environment.
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When Gifted Kids Are Bullied
There are many effective ways to reduce bullying in school.
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The Life and Work of Jacob Lawrence
Black History Month provides a time to talk about the accomplishments of African Americans like Jacob Lawrence.
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A Love of Recipes
Everyone loves looking through cookbooks and recipes. This can turn into an educational experience for students.
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Hispanic Arts: Visual Arts, Dance and Music
Students observe global cultures by listening to music and watching videos. In this Latin American dance lesson plan, students define merengue, salsa and other dances from the Hispanic culture while listening to Latin rhythm music....
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Understanding and Supporting Our Peers with Cognitive Challenges
Students explore different federal laws promoting the education for the handicapped. In this literacy lesson, students brainstorm how they can help individual with Down syndrome. They read a fiction book related to the topic and discuss...
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Teaching Guide: Asking for Help
In this asking for help worksheet, students complete two discussion questions before viewing a video. They answer 10 more discussion questions after viewing the film. They complete assigned writing and student activities associated with...