Learners participate in a project to map their school. They measure and graph various areas around the school. Students find the longitude and latitude of the school and research the school's history, and highlight special important areas.

Students examine the roles of an animal cell's parts, how each part relates to one another and then demonstrate their knowledge by writing a story about the animal cell structure.

Students investigate racism by completing a writing assignment.  In this civil rights lesson, students research facts about Rosa Parks in order to write a newspaper article about her.  Students utilize the Internet for research...

Young scholars explore communication by participating in a role playing lesson. In this media analysis lesson, students answer surveys about their own television watching habits and compare them to the rest of the class. Young scholars...

This one-page sentence editing practice is a beast! Grammar masters make corrections in punctuation and capitalization in a lengthy paragraph that is about writing process (how post-modern). This efficient resource can be used as...

Young scholars write a paragraph and then revise it. In this editing lesson, students use a checklist and a scoring guide to rate their writing.

Aesop's Fables are the focus of this language arts lesson. Young philosophers study and discuss the morals found in the most famous of Aesop's Fables. They write an original fable that teaches a common moral. A "Fable Listening Library"...

Students write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.

Students examine the animals that live in a coral reef and how they adapt to their environment.  In this coral lesson plan students write a short book on how animals inhabit the coral reefs. 

Sixth graders create a descriptive essay and map describing their island paradise. They try to evoke the reader's senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. They revise their paragraphs using their partner's feedback.

Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.

The class works together to tackle easily confused words. Each learner receives a word and he or she must create a flashcard with the following things: the word, its definition, an original sentence that uses the word, and a picture...

Students research report on their severe weather pattern for presentation to the class.

Students read the story of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Based upon the story, students perform reinforcement and discovery activities, according to their ability level. Pupils may write an essay, perform computer research,...

Students create a timeline which includes four important events from their own life, two national events and two world events. They write an essay highlighting the four events included on the timeline.

Learners use scientific methods during field and lab investigations. Students collect specimens and make measurements using the metric system. Learners describe biotic and abiotic factors in an estuary and design a model.

Learners describe safe practice when doing field and lab investigations in a estuary or wetland. They create a model of an estuary and describe their value and function. They participate in field study in which they collect and analyze...

Learners explore the popular culture phenomenon of the musical 'Cats' and the T.S. Eliot poems that were its inspiration. They write original poems about animals, and read them aloud to their peers.

Sixth graders discover details about Mesopotamia. For this ancient civilizations lesson, 6th graders view a PowerPoint presentation about Mesopotamia and then play a review game based on the details. Several support materials are...

Students create advertising with the intent of protecting wildlife. In this service learning activity, students craft advertisements and write persuasive essays regarding the protection of wildlife.

Students write a descriptive paragraph, in the style of Virginia Hamilton, describing the landscape around their house.

Students observe an object in nature and record them. In groups, they create a group poem about the same object. They create their own poem based on another object using other their senses to help them. They share their poems with the...

Students will discover the direct impact television coverage had on the African American Civil Rights Movement. They will employ listening, information processing, and critical thinking skills while watching the film clips and answering...

Students will read and evaluate another student's culminating project rough draft. Students will make written comments on the evaluation sheet provided by the teacher with regard to relevance to topic of Media and Social Justice,...