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Choices and Consequences
First graders read "The Red Racer" by Audrey Wood. They identify choices and consequences present in the story. They identify and evaluate choices, and the consequences of those choices, in everyday life both at school and home.
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A Similar Look at Another Text
Second graders read stories about relationships and record their thoughts using a "Before" and "After" organizer.
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Political Systems in Louisiana
Students examine propaganda as it relates to political campaigning. They' attention be focused on a few important basic concepts they need to explain the functions and use of propoganda.
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Color My World
Pupils examine colors and describe how colors contribute to the way a person may feel after listening to several books. Students also survey class for favorite colors and graph results, as well as discover how different colors are made...
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Teaching Tolerance: Taking Action on the R-Word
Students explore the use of derogatory language and labeling others. In this discrimination lesson plan students research word origins, how different terms came to be used in a negative sense and what it would be like to have a negative...
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Puberty
Students investigate life science by answering maturity questions. In this human health lesson, students identify the changes which occur during puberty and answer study questions based on sexual awareness. Students define scientific...
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New York City: Passionate About Shakespeare
Students read passages from Shakespeare and have a Town Hall meeting in which they defend Shakespeare as part of American culture.
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Final Project Presentations: Water Quality
Students synthesize the information they have been researching on water quality to evaluate the potential health risks in a region with arsenic contamination. They prepare and present a persuasive speech that incorporates visuals.
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Music to My Ears - Figures of Speech and Stylistic Devices
High schoolers know the meaning of a given list of figures of speech and stylistic devices. They identify examples of these terms in the music and songs with which they are familiar. They examine how to apply the knowledge of these terms...
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M&M's Game
Students connect a number to an appropriate quantity of M&M candies. They identify and use whole numbers.
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Real Attractive
Sixth graders create a collage of attractive people. They write about what makes these people attractive. They discuss what makes someone attractive. They research eating disorders and how the media impacts what people deem as attractive.
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The American Dream
Students are given the opportunity to interact with college students and or co-workers, and explore, single-handedly, the different ideals, goals, dreams, and views regarding the American Dream. They interview three people-Any citizen -...
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Hiding and Seeking Lesson Plan
Students watch a film in order to broaden their view of tolerance after the Holocaust.
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Grizzlies: Back from the Brink
Middle schoolers explore the grizzly bear and the struggle for the grizzly bear to come back from the brink of extinction.
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The Stories Behind the Masterpieces
Learners examine Rembrandt's self-portraits and discuss important events in his life. They also examine "Aristotle with the Bust of Homer" and try to identify with the person in the paining, predicting what his life might have been like....