A second attack at figuring out the number of leaves on a tree, this activity makes both an excellent follow-up to version 1 and a stand-alone activity. Learners practice setting parameters and deciding acceptable estimate precision, and...

Young scholars investigate feelings with their class.  In this feelings lesson, students mingle with their class and share a specific personal feeling with a random student.  Young scholars record their experience in their...

Attend the party of the year with a hands-on learning experience focusing on the 57th inauguration of the president of the United States. Middle schoolers role play as guests at the prestigious Inaugural Ball, and learn...

Students share and express feelings in order to build a sense of class community. They participate in an activity entitled Mill and Mingle.

Students review information covered in class through participation in action activities. The class begins standing as the teacher asks a question. Students may mingle to obtain assistance. Students sit when they are confident they...

Young scholars study the blood characteristics of a number of distinct racial/ethnic groups. They build skills in observation, information gathering and processing. Students experiences strongly reflect the nature and intent of the...

Students explore vocabulary connected to sleep. They participate in a sleep questionnaire, ask and answer questions for the questionnaire, read an article, answer discussion questions, and identify sleep vocabulary from the article.

Studetns make inferences based upone one-line poetry and group comparison. In this poetry lesson, 9th graders read strips from a poem and write prediction sentences for the poem. Students read each other's poetry lines and then read the...