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Stakeholders Lesson
Students discover stakeholders in life situations. Â In this personal responsibility lesson plan, students ask and answer questions about real life scenarios, discussing who is at stake if things aren't handled correctly. Â
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My Life 24-7
Analyze the "My Life 24-7" project as a part of community involvement. Learners discuss the pros and cons of being community involved. They will also write a proposal to increase community involvement and submit a blog entry about the...
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Playing With Food - Food Sculpture
Students create decorative sculptures of various objects out of actual items of food.
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White-On-White Sculptural Faces
Students explore a variety of paper sculpting methods and create a white on white mask form. Their challenge is to create a white on white cut paper mask-like form. They are encouraged to sketch out their plans ahead of time.
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Beautiful and Sublime Landscapes
Learners examine images created by painters, and create an artistic rendition of the landscape in the photograph following the chosen aesthetic.
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A Life Lived Well
Students write poems based on words and phrases found in an obituatuary. They write autobiographical obituaries that imagine their own lives and future accomplishments.
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Celebrating Explorers
Students create a PowerPoint presentation using graphics, text and animations. They access the Internet to research a topic and find historical photographs and documents to enhance learning. They demonstrate how to use an overhead LCD...
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World Hunger
Learners research the causes and effects of world hunger on children. In this world hunger lesson, students discuss causes and effects of hunger around the world and research a specific area affected by hunger. Learners prepare a...
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Back to School (Secondary)
Welcome your class back to school! They will participate in a character education lesson plan in order to build community at the school. First they identify needs of new students by putting themselves in their shoes and create welcome...
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Caribbean Adventures: Research and Desktop Publishing
If you want an interesting way to teach about the Caribbean that incorporates technology, this might be your answer. Class members conduct a WebQuest to gather information about Caribbean islands and create a travel brochure using...
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie
Students use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Students use the Pythagorean...
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Showtime! Profit or Non
Students perform a production. For this job lesson, students perform the production they created about jobs in the profit and nonprofit sectors. Students write an essay describing the advantages and disadvantages of working in these...
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A Historical Presentation
Eighth graders review a chosen social studies topic that was covered during the school year. They research the topic using a variety of sources. Students create a documentary about their topic and they create a PowerPoint presentation...
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Latino-American Authors and Historical FIgures
Eighth graders examine various websites and gather information from them about influential Latino-Americans. They synthesize the information they gathered to create a poster about their chosen influential Latino-American. Students...
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Organisms and Habitats
Second graders investigate biomes and the plants and animals that are native to particular biomes. They participate in a class discussion, conduct Internet research on a selected biome, and create a shoebox biome using their Internet...