Students view video and watch an artist create a potlatch (gift necklace).  In this community and resources lesson plan, students understand the culture of Northwest Coast Art & Traditions  .  Students create...

Using M & M's candies, young statisticians predict the color distribution in a packet of candies and test their predictions against their group and the larger class. A review of converting between fractions, decimals, and percents...

Students explore variety of plants & cacti in their Arizona community by collecting samples and taking photographs. Can be adapted to other areas.

M&M's are always a great manipulative to use when teaching math. For this graphing lesson plan, learners predict how many of each color of M & M's there are. They count up each color and plug the data into a graph using the...

Third graders engage in a wide variety of cross-curricular activities designed to give them a thorough understanding of the history of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. There are a very nice set of activities included in this plan!

Students read about and discuss the reasons European countries were interested in the Ohio Valley. They complete a puzzle to review vocabulary and watch a video on the Illinois Prairie and the I & M Canal. They rewrite the historical...

Students examine female artists who perform in the genres of rhythm & blues, jazz, soul, and hip-hop/rap. They compose lyrics and melody in one of these genres.

Third graders work to determine the main idea, recall key details, and answer questions using an informational text on the topic of animal adaptations. Using the non-fiction text "Staying Alive: Animal Adaptations" (provided) the teacher...

Students recall and use previous knowledge of the library's reference and nonfiction sections. Also they utilize various forms of reference (encyclopedias & dictionaries) and nonfiction books.

Bruce Coville's fantasy novel The Dragonslayers (chapters 9 & 10) is the subject of 14 multiple-choice questions that deal with conflict, detail recall, sequencing, drawing conclusions, and identifying cause and effect.

In this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 15 short answer questions covering chapters 10-11 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

In this comprehension check worksheet, young scholars respond to 20 short answer questions covering chapters 7-8 of The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.

In this The Birchbark House comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 23 short answer questions covering chapters 13-14 of The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich in order to help them better understand those chapters and the novel.

For this Walk Two Moons comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions covering chapters 7-8 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

In this Walk Two Moons comprehension check worksheet, pupils respond to 7 short answer questions covering chapters 9-10 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

In this Walk Two Moons comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer questions covering chapters 5-6 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

In this Touching Spirit Bear comprehension check worksheet, young scholars respond to seventeen short answer questions covering chapters nineteen and twenty of Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen in order to help them better understand...

In this Touching Spirit Bear comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer questions covering chapters 23 and 24 of Touching Spirit Bear in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

In this Touching Spirit Bear comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 29 short answer questions covering chapters 24 and 25 of Touching Spirit Bear in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

In this Touching Spirit Bear comprehension check worksheet, pupils respond to 20 short answer questions covering chapters 27 and 28 of Touching Spirit Bear in order to help them better understand the chapters and the novel.

Students watch video clips of "Love & Diane," then discuss media messages and student expectations.

Students complete a worksheet using M & M's to calculate percentages. They are given demonstrations by the teacher to know how to complete the activity.

Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their...

Students use "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" to examine the sectional crisis of the 1850's. Slavery is explored and the mindset of Southern planters during the Antebellum Era. They analyze not only traditional text documents...