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Connect the Mathematical Dots
Teachers can choose visual activities that demonstrate the elegance associated with the coordinate plane.
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Integrating Science and Literature: Life as We Knew It
Supplement your science units with science fiction novels!
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Narrative Writing--The Hobbit
Hobbits, dwarfs, wizards, trolls, and goblins. Readers track these fantastic creatures through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit noting passages of character description and habitats. Using specific passages from the novel, class...
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Infinite Geometric Series
Eleventh graders investigate infinite geometric series. In this Algebra II activity, 11th graders explore partial sums of geometric series, converging and diverging series, and sums of infinite geometric series. The...
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Graphing Data from the Chemistry Laboratory
Young scholars graph and analyze data using a spreadsheet.
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ABBA - Lesson 4
Young scholars discover a connection between the genres of popular music and musical theater. They find and discuss musicals written in many different musical styles.
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Gender and Income
Students investigate Income and gender preference. In this statistic lesson, students collect data of Income to see if one gender makes more than the other. Students examine the data and draw conclusions.
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Untitled Document Aerospace Team Online:
Students explain the historical significance of use of the scientific method in developing the first airplane and appreciate the process involved in developing a new technology.
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Comparing and Contrasting Fiction and Nonfiction Using Graphic Organizers
Learners compare and contrast fiction and non-fiction selections. In this writing skills lesson, students use different forms of graphic organizers to compare "The Three Little Pigs," to Wiesel's Night.
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Inverse Relations and Functions
In this algebra worksheets, learners find the inverse of a given function by switching the y with the x. They graph the different functions and identify the difference. This worksheet includes thoughtful questions and worked examples.
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Screening the Silver Screen
Students write New York Times Movie Guide Reviews using descriptive and persuasive language.
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Writing with Writers
Pupils participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to produce...
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Identifying Science Fiction
Students discuss works of science fiction that they read, highlight aspects that made each a part of science fiction genre, identify formal literary elements, and discuss ways each can be developed through science fiction.
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Trigonometry: Worksheet for Test #4
In this trigonometry worksheet, students determine whether given mappings are functions. They evaluate 5 functions for a given x value. Students graph 2 functions. They determine which ordered pairs are solutions to given functions....
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A Look At Osteoporosis
Eleventh graders study osteoporosis and understand the relationship between calcium and bone mass. For this investigative lesson students participate in an activity in which they graph and construct basic bone biology.
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Layered Unit: Macbeth
Eleventh graders take notes from lectures on Shakespearean Theatre, Language; kingship, witchcraft and omens, symbolism. Include your reflections as well as copied information (5 pts. per day, must be present).
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Acting Like a Bunch of Animals: Fables and Human
The video "The Tales of Aesop" traces for viewers the history of fables and identifies their characteristics. The class then goes to the web site "The Fisherman and the Little Fish" where they examine the classic and a modern version of...
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Protest Art in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
High schoolers study the social class conflicts that existed during the Russian Revolution by reading the short stories of Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy. They analyze the stories to find criticisms of pre-Revolutionary Russia before...
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Calculating Distances in Two and Three Dimensions
Students use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems. In this geometry instructional activity, students solve for the distances by calculating the different parts of the shape of a two and three dimensional shape. They reason by analogy.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
Students explore how F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. In novels such as Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby, he captured the mood and manners of his time.
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Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius
Students explore how Tennessee Williams revolutionized American theater with plays like A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. But he never escaped the painful legacy of his childhood.
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Meet the Press
Students give their book reports as oral "Meet the Press" type interviews. They team up with another student "reporter" and answer questions about main idea, details, and the point of view.
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The 32-Second Macbeth
High schoolers read a very short script synopsis of Macbeth. They read the script, in small groups, trying to break the 32-second record, then write their own 32-second versions of one act from Macbeth.
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Mapping Los Angeles over Time
Young scholars read maps for chronological information in Los Angeles. They develop a multicultural chronology of Los Angeles.