Students read the novel, "The Giver", and test their comprehension through the game Jeopardy. Then students research individual rights of different cultures and write a summary of their findings. Students develop a personal timeline of...

Students read about and determine their individual learning styles in order to develop learning strategies. They use a learning style inventory to find out their learning style and also to help choose helpful learning strategies.

Students use online self-assessment inventories to aid them in making career decisions. In this career decisions lesson, students visit the given website and identify their strengths and weaknesses. Students complete an online...

Students get a better handle on how they feel about themselves.

Students introduce themselves to the teacher and the class by completing a variety of surveys, interest inventories and questionnaires. They interview several others and then introuduce one of the people they inerviewed to the rest of...

Students examine their own desires and values and complete a values inventory. In this values inventory lesson, students complete two quickwrites to identify their values.

Young scholars investigate how much wood is in a forest. In this forestry lesson, students calculate how much usable wood comes from the forest. They will read, Sizing Things Up from Trees + Me = Forestry, measure firewood piles, and...

Young scholars explore computer work stations and computer commands. They complete a computer skills assessment inventory, identify parts of computers using vocabulary and commands, and write the names of parts of the computers. They...

Sixth graders practice solving math problems by utilizing a data table. In this number sense lesson, 6th graders create a table using the numerical information about a fictitious farm's inventory. Students complete the empty segments by...

Fifth graders explore fractions by participating in a card activity in class. In this percentages lesson, 5th graders inventory the amount of different cards in a deck in order to determine the percentages of getting a certain card....

Learners explore the Pythagorean Theorem. In this math lesson plan, pupils solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem. They select the appropriate numbers to substitute in the formula to solve problems.

Learners are asked to advise a fuel oil dealer on a possible investment. They must use two different rates to set up an equation and solve to determine how much oil he should sell now to break even after selling the remainder the next...

What a fun way to review the year's learning! Working in small groups, learners select a major concept covered in class then create a game about it. The type of game is up to each group, but the expectations of what should be included...

Talk with your pupils about the importance of staying focused at the grocery store. Your special education class will discuss how to create and use a shopping list. They will make a shopping list and pretend to use it in a role-play...

A key challenge in teaching kids how to read informational text, particularly primary source documents, is finding suitable resources and then developing questions that guide readers. Never fear, help is here in the form of a series...

Reading snail mail is a great way to go back into history and to understand others' points of view. The resource, the second in a five-part unit, covers the Dreyfus Affair. Scholars, working in two different groups, read one letter and...

An activity promotes reading comprehension. Readers analyze a text of their choice while activating prior knowledge and asking and answering questions. Scholars enforce multiple strategies to improve comprehension.

Young scholars examine their classroom to find examples of various types of shapes. After identifying and describing the various shapes, they draw as many as they can on a piece of paper. They organize them into an image based on their...

Fifth graders engage in a variety of hands-on and technology-rich activities involving the classification of quadrilaterals. They utilize protractors and rulers to investigate the characteristics of various types of quadrilaterals. They...

Learners review map skills and practice finding locations on a map. In groups, they create maps with mystery locations identified by hidden stick-on magnets. Other groups attempt to find the mystery locations and then check their work...

Fourth graders investigate when to find the mean, median, mode and range.  In this statistical concepts instructional activity, 4th graders collect data, make observations and graph the data. Students verify their work on the computer.

Students examine adjusting and closing entries for a partnership set up as a merchandising business. They participate in a game and online activities, read handouts, complete an outline, and take a quiz.

Learners will use context clues and examine several maps to answer series of short answer questions over range of geographical topics, identify specific places, practice using GoogleEarth to compare satellite views to those produced two...

Students consider how empires are created and sustained, examine Peutinger Table as a whole and in detail as tool of empire for Rome, c. 250 CE, create ancient time-distance travel chart that synthesizes series of strip maps, and...