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Determining Needs Versus Wants
Students discriminate between a need and a want in home buying. They write a detailed description of their dream home. Finally they categorize each of their listed home features as a need or a want.
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Entrepreneurship: Planning to stay in business
Students write the last three sections of a business plan for their hypothetical business: the operation timetable, the start up costs, and the three-month projected statement.
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Managing a Checkbook
How do grown ups do it? Teach your upper graders the ins and outs of personal finance by having them use their algebra skills to balance a checkbook. They examine the financial side of math, set up a checking account, and balance their...
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Native Americans - Searching for Knowledge and Understanding
What do you know about American Indians? Upper graders compose an informational essay based on the research they conduct. They choose a Native American group to study and, using the provided list of web links, gather information and...
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Autobiography - Student Trading Cards
Motivate your class with this lesson! Learners use the trading card format to create an autobiography. They are given a list of characteristics to list, write down what they would like to include on their trading card, and head to the...
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Sky Time: On the Astronomical Meaning of the Day, Year and Seasons
Students simulate the movement of the Earth using their body motion. In this earth science activity, students explain how this causes seasonal changes on Earth.
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Inertia
Learners conduct a simple inertia demonstration by spinning a hardboiled and raw egg. They push a wagon to demonstrate inertia. They explore Newton's first and second laws of motion.
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Money Management
Students choose an occupation and set up a paper family and household. They create a monthly budget, pay monthly bills and file taxes. They practice math skills using financial information and view money as a resource. They create an...
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Animal Life Cycle
Students conduct hands-on experiments. In this life cycle lesson, students are able to observe a variety of animals as they travel through their life cycle (brine shrimp, mealworms, frog eggs and chicken eggs). Students respond to what...
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Searching for Dream Homes on the Internet
Students navigate the Internet and employ research skills to select their "dream home." They decode the Internet Multiple Listing Services and examine housing costs.
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Realtor Role-Play
Students play the role of realtors with other classmates as the prospective homebuyers. The "realtors" determine questions to ask the prospective homebuyer so that they can help the "homebuyers" find the home best suited to their needs...
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Family Life Cycle
Students review the food groups and their placement on the food pyramid. Using the internet, they research the nutritional guidelines for different age groups and compare them. To end the lesson, they identify reasons for choosing the...
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Minnesota-China Connections: Writing Prompts
Students write a short essay in response to a writing prompt related to a theme or issue raised within the Minnesota-China Connection Web site.
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Opportunity Cost
Students study what opportunity cost is and why it is important to their lives.
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ESL Lesson Idea: Describing People
Young scholars practice using the proper vocabulary to provide a physical description of a person. They focus on the details that are necessary to give a complete description by participating in a teacher directed guessing game.
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The Right Ideas
Students investigate the Bill of Rights and explain how non-profit organizations take care of those rights. In this Bill of Rights instructional activity, students work in groups to look at the rights that are included in the Bill of...
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Parental Responsibilities
Students discuss their responsibilities and experiences as parents. Individually, students create a list of parental responsibilities. Individual lists are combined and discussed with the whole class. This lesson is designed for...
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Technology
Students create podcasts. In this technology lesson, students familiarize themselves with podcasts and develop their own podcast about a current event.
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Pedestrian Safety for Students
Pupils demonstrate pedestrian safety. In this safety lesson, students present an idea for a project which addresses pedestrian safety. Pupils can construct a safety brochure or a PowerPoint presentation to share their ideas.
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Dream Bag
Students discover the functions of different types of bags. In this product design lesson plan, students discuss they types of bags that people use and then create their own bags for their own purposes.
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Kid Lit Crit
Learners explore different types of student literature; they then write their own fiction pieces, in either fantasy/adventure or memoir/realism style.
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Grandma Thinks It's Cake Baking Weather
Second graders listen to a read aloud of Patricia Polacco's book "Thunder Cake" to explain how daily life has changed over the past 150 years.
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Construction and the Three Little Pigs
Students construct science experiments based on nursery rhymes and student stories, including: Humpty Dumpty, the Three Little Pigs and Charlotte's Web.
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Child Abuse
Students define abuse, and identify the three major components of child abuse. They identify methods that help prevent, or cope with abuse, and prevention techniques.