Students examine biological information about George Washington focusing on his love of surveying. They explore cartography and field of surveying. They write a letter and make a map of Virginia.

Students act as surveyors. In this George Washington lesson, students read transcriptions from Washington's surveying journal and then try surveying skills on their own.

Students practice taking surveys to answer different questions about radio.  For this communications lesson, students brainstorm to create questions they can ask strangers about how often they listen to their radio.  Students...

Students participate in contrived conversation in French to determine preferences for known food items.

Whether it's an election year or not, a unit on voting patterns and political campaigns will awaken the civic pride in your high school citizens. Divided into six parts, the curriculum covers various facets of an election, including...

Students practice organizing data by creating graphs.  In this statistics lesson, students survey the class about favorite colors and create a bar graph using the data.  Students complete a test based on pet and animal statistics.

Students discuss gender role stereotyping and males and females in non-traditional work roles. They debate and discuss opinions as a group, and then as a class, concerning "men only" and "women only" jobs

Students use compasses and grids to map the locations of artifacts found in a simulated dig site. In groups, they role-play as future archeologists excavating a school site. Groups begin at their assigned datum and site the artifacts...

Young scholars discuss the importance of land ownership and the purpose of land surveying in the eighteenth century. They interpret a transcript of an eighteenth-century land survey. They survey and area of land. They create a written or...

Here is an interesting instructional activity on the manatee for your upper graders or middle schoolers. A game is played where learners work together to complete a successful manatee migration. It's a board game, and all of the game...

Animals have evolved to communicate in different frequencies so they can hear each other throughout the rainforest. The first lesson in a three-part series begins by exploring an interactive story map online about the Borneo rainforest....

Learners participate in The Great Mail Race by choosing a state, and then choosing a town in that state. They use the Internet to find the state's postal code and the zip code for the town they chose. They design a class survey that will...

High schoolers explore the election process by researching politcal platforms, inviting candidates to speak, surveying registered voters, and running a mock election.

Students study wildlife management as it relates to ecological principles and whole systems. They role play professional ecologists working for the fish and wildlife service to develop a plan to manage a new wildlife refuge along the Rio...

Students played a game of Jeopardy where there was five categories with five questions each in order to assess the retention of concepts taught over the semester. The categories included: Graphing/Summarizing/ Scientific Method, Gravity,...

This lesson plan is hilarious! To understand how to investigate a topic, collect data, and evaluate the results, learners research the effects of laughter on health. Each group is assigned a research task, which they will turn into...

Students organize a video teleconference over CU-SeeMe to discuss the results of the survey with participants.

Students identify the types of information gathering styles and different surveying styles. They distribute a survey around your school to determine the different forms of transportation used to get to school.

Students create survey questions to discover why students join clubs. Using sampling methods and question phrasing techniques, they conduct the survey both in and out of school. Once students analyze their survey information, they...

Learners visit a local ecosystem to survey the plants and animals present and identify interactions between organisms. They identify interactions that occur between living organisms and their ecosystem and present their ecosystem to the...

Learners explore politcical polling by conducting a poll of student body elections. They prepare a survey, distribute forms, and tabulate data.

Students enhance their oral and written communication skill while preparing their interviewing skills. They create landscape designs using appropriate proportion and plant symbols.

Learners participate in a WebQuest in which they must determine which amusement park is the "median priced" park. Students visit park websites to accumulate prices for parking, activities, restaurants, and gift shops.

Students participate in a mock election. In this election lesson, students vote online in a mock election, graph the results, and compare their results to the nationwide results.