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I'm Tellin'!: Kids Bringing Folktales Alive
Pupils participate in a reading instructional activity that works on social and academic skills. They increase reading comprehension with direct instruction with the group reading of a folktale. Then students research their own stories...
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Ants Have Feelings, Too!
Young scholars consider how they show respect for others. In this service learning lesson, students listen and respond to literature from different perspectives.
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Planting Phil's Garden
Learners study how to care for plants. In this plant care activity, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They complete a community...
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Planting Phil's Garden
Students explore gardening. For this agriculture lesson, students plan and plant seeds according to the procedure modeled by a "master gardener." Flowers are distributed at a local retirement home.
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Creating an Artist's Statement
Students create an artist's statement about a piece of work that they created. They follow a worksheet of items that should be included in this statement.
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The Art of Me
Students study about symbols and reflect on the important things in their lives. They choose symbols to represent some of the things that are most important to them and follow directions to create their works of art.
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Writing From Experience (Grades 7-12)
Students brainstorm in preparation for writing an expressive essay. They review their responses to 'Writing from Experience' and write notes and brainstorm other ideas or details for their essays. They take turns illustrating their life...
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Outlining Essays (Grades 3-6)
Students brainstorm story idea in preparation of writing an expressive essay. They study how to outline essays to assist them in writing an expressive essay. Each students conclusion should summarize their main idea and restate their...
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Welcome Back, Carrie!
Students use the Internet and create questionnaires to determine how to help seriously ill students to function optimally at school. They find ways to accomodate the needs of those students and create a weblet to help them.
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Take Home the Bear
Students take home a suitcase with items from the classroom to help them feel safe. They work with their parents to write in their journal about the things they did while the suitcase was home with them. They read their journal entries...
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Presidential Trading Cards
Students use the internet to gather information about Presidents of the United States and create a trading card for one of them. They create a brochure with the president's information and accomplishments.
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Computer (Keyboarding)
Students participate in a floor game to learn the keys on the keyboard. They use their feet to hit the correct letter on the floor.
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Computer: Keyboarding for Kids
Students discover keyboard positions by playing a game on a body-sized keyboard placed on the floor. They learn the key positions by associating them with words easy to remember such as "animals in the snow dig for food," for the ASDF keys.
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What's in a name?
Young scholars learn the history of their name, and create a biopoem. Students learn the pronunciation of native language names, cultural identify and pride in home language and culture.
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Salmon Life Cycle
In this life cycle activity, students fill in the blanks with words about the life cycle of a salmon. Students complete 20 words about the life cycle.
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Cow Parade
Students create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious lesson ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The lesson includes resource links and can be adapted for any animal or mascot.
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Circle Seats
Students create large shapes to sit on during circle time. In this art lesson, students cut and decorate the shapes.
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Thanksgiving Slide Show
Second graders produce a simple piece of writing given the topic sentence: "I am thankful for..." . Students translate their piece of writing into an electronic format using the software program KidPix. Students present their completed...
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Meeting Environmental Demands
Learners investigate the concept of adapting to an environment. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information search is focused upon animals picked by the students that need to be classified and then write a...
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Meiosis
Students practice identifying the stages and purpose for meiosis. They use a worksheet to construct each phase, label its parts and describe the process occurring in each phase. they divide the process into meiosis I and meiosis II.
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Mitosis
High schoolers explore the four stages of mitosis. They view a prepared slide of an onion root tip undergoing mitosis to identify the stage for each cell in view. They record the number of cells in each stage, graph the results, then...
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Acid Rain Keeps Falling On My Head
Students measure the pH of local rain water. Students map the location of the collected rain water according to pH levels.
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Acid Rain Keeps Falling on My Head
Learners examine the pH level of rain water in their local community. They locate each location on a map. They analyze the data and draw conclusions.
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