Students play dominoes with regular dominoes rules with some modification. Every student keep score. Every count be used--not just the 5's as in dominoes. They count outside points using white dots as positive and red dots as negatives.

Sixth graders add and subtract positive and negative integers. For this integers math lesson, 6th graders review the number line as a class, with students representing the numbers and moving in a positive or negative direction to find...

Middle schoolers examine the problems associated with gender based and race based education. In groups, they research the history of education and the laws that have changed education and impacted lives. They brainstorm a list of the...

Students examine the event of the Great Flood of 1993. Using the internet, they research the economic, social and ecological changes that impacted the area. They conduct a town meeting in which they debate the positives and negatives of...

Fourth graders are read a story in which they identify the positive and negative thinking. In groups, they are given a scenerio in which they change the negatives into a positive. They perform the scenerio to tthe class and discuss how...

Eleventh graders explore Communism. They explore Communism's roots in economics and discuss the spread of Communism in the Eastern Hemisphere. They evaluate a Communistic and a Capitalistic society. Students reflect upon the positives...

Pupils arrive at a verifiable rule, or set of rules, to handle all addition situations with signed numbers.

Eighth graders act out a number line using integers -10 to 10 on large cards. They practice addition and subtraction of these integers to gain explain the relative size of numbers.

Students explore how the brain works. In this nervous system instructional activity, students create a network of "neurons" to simulate how the nervous system and the brain work together.

Young scholars are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.