Students create a dodecahedron shaped visual report of the literary elements of a short story.

Students describe the pattern of a bell curve graph. In this statistics lesson, students move data around and make observation about the mean, and the quartiles. They define boxplot, outlier, range and other important vocabulary words...

Students use the relationship between volume and surface area to construct a box out of a piece of paper that maximizes volume using a table and by using graphing and calculus techniques.

Young scholars are in a group - half of them be an obstacle and half be moving around them, and then they switch. This engaging game promotes lots of movement.

Students sort, classify, and write about how they sort a variety of shells.

Students demonstrate knowledge of sorting and classifying by color as they sort gummy bear candies.

Students work in small groups to find pictures that represent the fractions 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. They paste their examples onto bulletin board paper and share their results with the rest of the class.

Students generate a word bank drawing on vocabulary from fifteen school related topics. They use the word bank to write poetry in the styles of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky.

Students create a dyed flower garden. In this art instructional activity, students read the book Tiny Seed and cut flowers out of tissue paper to create a paper flower garden.

Learners write and perform a scene using Elizabethan language. They study the language of William Shakespeare.

Students study the history of stain glass. In this stain glass lesson plan, students select an art period and research the use of glass during that time. Students create a picture presentation of stained glass pictures from their town....

Middle schoolers explore the work of Xu Bing. For this visual arts lesson, students examine the art piece "Monkeys Grasp for the Moon" and compare it to the Buddhist folktale on which it is based. Middle schoolers create animated flip...

Students explore a creation myth. In this visual arts lesson plan, students discuss the Dogon creation myth and the design and make refrigerator magnets in the style of Dogan granary doors. The design of the magnets should include linear...

Students learn about animal camouflage.  In this animal adaptations lesson, students discuss the patterns and adaptations animals use to help them survive, discuss the uses of camouflage, visit a local wetland if possible, and...

Students display knowledge of line of symmetry by designing a geometric stained glass window pattern.

Students demonstrate counting skills. In this number sense lesson, students glue numbered feathers onto a turkey pattern in numerical order.

First graders study the attributes of circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. They sort shapes that are the same and those that are different into groups.

Students will read the short story "Meenakshi's Magic Hands" by Santhini Govindan and view a slide show of photo images interspersed with the text to learn of the art form of Kolam. Students read and reflect upon a nonfiction essay,...

Students learn about and create a pet rock.  In this creative expression lesson, students pick a rock to make into their "pet".  Students use various art materials to create their pets and write a personal profile which...

Second graders read poetry and build their vocabulary through use of the puppet Geo George.

Students explore an Internet website, locating and matching the shape of an elephant's head to a state in the U.S. They complete an Alaska worksheet, identifying other geographical locations surrounding Alaska.

Students use shape puppets to review geometry content. They take turns singing songs, reading students poems, reciting class bulletin board notes and choral poems. They prepare for their summative assessments through play and interview...

Students search the school grounds for examples of symmetry in nature. They bring examples back to the classroom and write about them.

Students discuss pyrotechnics and what they have noticed about their height and speed. They think about the path which fireworks follow which is a parabola. They follow multiplication patterns to determine the Zero Product Property and...