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Work Sayings Exercise
In this English vocabulary practice worksheet, students respond to 12 questions that require them match idioms to their meanings. Students also write and explain 3 additional idioms.
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Translations
Young scholars explore the concept of translations. In this translations activity, students discuss similarities and differences between images and pre-images. Young scholars apply translations to coordinates of figures. Students use...
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Patterns in Fractals
Students explore the concept of fractal patterns. In this fractal pattern lesson, students use an applet about the Hilbert Curve to answer questions about rectangles and other polygons. Students derive the fractal pattern when dividing...
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Model Lesson Plans
Ninth graders study how to identify and analyze the use of figurative language used in selected poems, short stories or other pieces of prose chosen by the teacher. These pieces of literature represent at least two pieces by one writer...
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Dichotomous Key
Students develop an understanding of how a dichotomous key is organized. In this dichotomous activity, student are put into small groups, and work together dividing their group of similar objects (buttons, paper clips, screws, keys...)...
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Ancient Abstraction
High schoolers compare and debate how an ancient Greek sculpture is similar to modern art. Then they orally describe the cultural contributions of early Greek civilization and their relationship to the modern world.
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Clay Tiles: Family Mosaics
Second graders design and create a clay tile to represent their families. They research and discuss similarities and differences among families of different cultures, create a tile to represent their own and then compile the tiles in a...
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Supersonic Spies
Students analyze a simple machine and use "reverse engineering" to create an exact replica. They interpret incomplete information to build a simple wheel-and-axle machine. Students discuss how building a machine activity correlates to...
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Cardboard Tree and Endangered Animals Lesson
Students create an endangered animial figure and its home through artistic expression using paint and a variety of materials.
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Divided We Stand
Young scholars figure out how to arrange seating in a concert hall given specific requirements. They better explain how dividing can allow us to arrive at mathematical solutions quickly and logically.
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Math: Shapes and More Shapes
Students locate lines of symmetry in regular polygons and predict the number of lines of symmetry in an octagon. In three different polygons, they construct all lines of symmetry and after making their prediction about the octagon,...
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Historical Scavenger Hunt
Students engage in a game of History Scavenger Hunt to research significant figures found in History. The focus of the instructional activity coincides with the curriculum being studied for review.
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Surface Area and Volume of a Cube
Students explore finding the surface area and volume of cubes and cylinders. They construct similar three-dimensional figures from a two-dimensional drawing. Students derive the formula for volume and surface area through examination...
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Tangram Perimeters
Young scholars work together to make figures out of tangram squares. In groups, they calculate the measurements they need and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. They complete a worksheet solving equations using the theorem and review their...
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Studies of the Eastern Worlds: Cultural Maps
Seventh graders look for similarities and differences in the culture of Eastern World countries by looking at the art from each country. They test their hypothesis and assumptions through further research in the media center. Finally...
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Castles
Students create a scale model to a castle using the dimensions they were given. They calculate the surface areas and volumes of each section of their castle.
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Broccoli
Young scholars sing a song and figure out the rhythm notation for pharases while describing the benefits of broccoli. They compose a four-measure pattern using the rhythms of these phrases. They play the rhythm patterns with the recording.
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Faces of a Cube
Students identify and correctly name three-dimensional solids; cones, spheres, and cubes. In this three-dimensional figures lesson, students build a cube by matching colored square faces to a correct word. Students then...
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The Frankish Building: A Reflection Of The Success of Ontario, California
Students evaluate the impact of the Chaffey brothers and Charles Frankish on Ontario, California, and compare their efforts with those of similarly important figures in their own community's history.
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Save Your Change
Learners solve problems involving exponential, logarithmic, and scientific notations. Using calculators, students explore investment problems. They use a formula and logarithms to determine the years to earn a particular income, figure...
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Hexagoning the Circle
Learners explore similarity to see that the area of a circle should be a constant times the square of its radius. Students create a hexagon. Learners share their designs with the class.
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One-Difference Classification Train
Students practice their classification skills through hands-on practice. Working in groups, students identify various ways in which similar items can be classified. Given a kit of similar items, students classify objects in multiples...
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Biography Flashcards
Pupils choose a modern biographical figure and research that person on the internet. They write a page summary of the person's life and collect images of their person to include in the report. They glue everything to tagboard to create a...
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Which is Different?
For this which is different worksheet, students will choose and circle the different object from a row of 5 similar objects. The figures are pictures and letters.
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