Young scholars explore human behavior by exploring mental and physical disabilities. In this learning disability lesson plan, students identify the different disabilities young scholars have which prevent them from working at the same...

Learners access prior knowledge of the five senses and relate to students with disabilities. In this people with disabilities lesson, learners research and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast famous people and their...

Students participate in activities in which they model different disabilities. They discuss their experiences as a class. They work together in groups to discuss how to improve an adaptive device.

Fourth graders hypothesize about the difficulties they may encounter if they did not have their sense of sight, in order to establish a sense of empathy for the disabled. In this lesson on senses, 4th graders record all of the things...

Students recognize that everyone is different. In this physical differences lesson, students participate in three activities highlighting differences among people. In activity one, students discover differently "abled" dolls and...

After reading about how engineering has made adaptive devices possible for people with disabilities, pupils work in groups to discuss different devices to determine whether or not they are adaptive. They also disassemble a pair of...

Students work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.

Students explore the concept of photosynthesis. They describe the light and light independent reactions of photosynthesis. Students relate physical plant characteristics to their functions. They distinguish between C3, C4, and CAM plants...

Students practice bumping and volleying the volleyball. They also explore how to under hand serve.

Students are given an index card with a warm-up on it for them to complete when they enter the classroom. Individually, they are placed around the room in which they complete the warm-up and assigned a total point value. To end the...

Students discover the proper directions to follow when participating in an activity. As a class, they only move when given the correct command when playing the name game. To end the lesson plan, they stop playing the game when directed...

Which vitamins should be ingested daily for maximum nutrition? Learners with ispecial needs or those who are pregnant focused on television and magazines advertisements that are used to sell food products. They conduct experiments and...

Mixtures and solutions are different; one can be separated fairly easily and the other cannot. This hands-on experiment was written specifically for learners with visual impairments or blindness. They will use lemonade and trail mix to...

Students apply fractions to counting rhythm in music. In this algebra lesson, students interrelate the concept of math into music as they fill out a chart identifying the names and symbols of music notes and their equivalent values in...

Students examine an industrial disaster in India which affected the food for generations to come. In groups, they research the history of pesticides and place them into groups based on the type of pests they control. They partcipate in...

Seventh graders pretend they were Anton looking through the microscope for the first time. They describe the way he felt when he observed tiny moving objects in the sample of pond water. They look at their own samples of pond water,...

First graders develop skills of scientific inquiry. They determine which objects float and which sink.

Young scholars increase their awareness of issues that are related to accommodating students with health impairments.  In this health lesson young scholars participate in a class discussion and answer questions.