The lesson will be implemented during a study of bears. Books, class discussions, and the Internet will be used to learn about bears and their characteristics. Black, brown, and polar bears will be categorized according to their food and...

Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.

The learners will understand the relationship between the Earth and the sun and how this relationship affects observable phenomena on Earth, such as the seasons. The activity will help students learn about these concepts and will...

Lesson plan for learners to learn about the principles and elements of design and use them to critique art. (Note: Link to Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art does not work.)

During this hands-on lesson plan, students learn about scientific classification by navigating the Internet. They will examine a variety of potato chips in order to create their own classification key.

This lesson provides a variety of activities for the students to experience using percents. The usage of percents is presented in the context of situations that occur in a student's daily life. A kinesthetic activity is also included to...

This lesson plan provides a fun way for students to learn to classify plants as vascular and nonvascular. Students will use drawing software to create pictures of vascular and nonvascular plants.

This is a instructional activity for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.

A lesson that teaches students the anatomy and physiology of the human voice. Students learn how different sounds are made and analyze their voices as well as the voices of several musicians.

This lesson plan will familiarize middle schoolers with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.

In this lesson, learners will learn what goals are and why it is important to plan ahead. The students will interact with a story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey and use a blog to communicate their goals and plans with...

In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), air pollution will be explored. Auntie Litter and the Pollution Patrol learn how smog forms and find out how to keep the air clean and free of air...

The zero product property allows you to solve a quadratic equation by converting it into two linear equations. This is a common strategy of algebra--to break down a problem into simpler parts, each solved by previously learned methods.

During this lesson, learners will learn why numbers are rational or irrational. Rational numbers are numbers that can be written in the form a/b. Irrational numbers cannot be expressed in the form a/b, where a and b are integers.

In this lesson, eighth grade students will learn the steps necessary to approximate the square roots of numbers that are not perfect squares. Students will use a number line as a visual aid to complete this task.

After learning of a historical event in which elephants were used to test out the Brooklyn Bridge, students construct their own bridge using very basic materials. Students weigh different items to determine the weight their bridge can...

Origami (ori-folding, kami-paper) is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. Students will discover relationships between shapes as they are actively engaged in this hands on geometry lesson to learn basic geometric shapes, their...

In this lesson, learners will learn how to become a wise consumer by creating a budget based on needs and wants. Students will create a weekly budget with a variable income using the interactive app MWB: My Weekly Budget available on...

After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, middle schoolers explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the...

What are the chances of SpongeBob having kids with round pants? Working in cooperative learning groups, students explore the concept of probability. Using interactive websites, students explore the possibilities of an organism having a...

Just how tall is that object? In this lesson, young scholars will participate in an outdoor group activity using shadows to extend their knowledge of proportions to solve problems dealing with similarity. The cooperative learning groups...

In this unit lesson, students will learn about the Pythagorean Theorem and how it is evident in our everyday world. Students will apply the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem to the squares of a quilt. Each quilt square will be designed...

In this lesson plan, students will learn how to use tricks to master multiplication facts. Students will be introduced to the only 15 facts they must know to master multiplication facts through 9X11 with the prerequisite that they know...

In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org)in celebration of Earth Day, the meaning of Earth Day will be explored. Students will also learn the words to a song honoring our planet. This lesson is one from...