Students create concept maps in order to assess the information that they have gathered during research. They study the concept map to determine if the research is complete.

Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.

Students experience real life by utilizing math skills to plan a household budget and enhance their financial planning skills.

Students examine the procedures to determine a number when the percentage of the whole is known or to find the whole number when the part or percentage is known.

Learners explore the methods of calculating percentages, reading and the construction of graphs, and an awareness of consumer concerns in this instructional activity. The movement of the decimal point often results in uncertainty and...

Pupils explore the components that comprise the formation of a budget. Sales brochures advertising apartment furnishings are used to assist students in this task.

Learners use a pie (circle) to study fractions. They create their own fraction problems and demonstrate to their classmates how to solve the problems. They discuss ways they use fractions in their daily lives.

Students participate in an activity that is aimed at increasing their organizational skills. They reorganize magazines that have been taken apart and scrambled.

Students explore the process of preparing for a job interview from the classified search to the actual interview. Lists of potential questions to be asked and answered are prepared and shared with the class.

Learners discuss applying for job, write letters of interest, and share them with classmates.

Students brainstorm transition words, and utilize word list to order paragraphs and multi-paragraph essays.

Students discuss and develop graphic writing webs, writing supporting ideas for a given topic.

Students review basics of subject and verb agreement, and write sentences in which the subject and verb are in agreement.

Twelfth graders interview war veterans about their combat experiences and write newspaper stories about their interviews. They share their interviews with classmates. they discuss the impact of war on the veteran and the United States.

High schoolers discuss importance of reading maps and knowing about the geography of the United States, and locate bodies of water on different types of maps and examine how they are used in the state or local community.

Pupils explore the major causes of heat attacks as the topics of the human circulatory system, blood pressure, heart disease, arteries and veins are examined. Opinions on the topics are developed as researched material is presented to...

Students read a variety of reading passages and articles. They investigate how to make implications and assumptions using the information provided.

Students practice with business letters. They identify main ideas and supporting details.

Twelfth graders examine the main characteristics of poetry. They read and discuss a handout on the characteristics of poetry, read the poem, The Road Not Taken, discuss their interpretation of the poem, and research poetry on the Internet.

High schoolers identify main idea and supporting details from a short reading selection using a two-column note taking process. In this literacy lesson plan, students work in groups of three to four, then compare their papers with the...

Twelfth graders examine bias, prejudeice, and propaganda in reading selections. They view commercials and print ads, discuss how the advertisers are trying to convince them of something, and keep a commercial journal.

Twelfth graders examine the elements of literature. They each read a chapter of a novel, sequentially list the main ideas, present a summary of the chapter to the class, sequence the events, and review the novel by summarizing the timeline.

Students, after listening the "My Hero" story, are given four words in which they have to figure out which one does not belong with the others.

Students examine the Ancient Greek Olympics and some of the important Olympians. They complete a word search puzzle and a quiz about the material taught in the lesson.