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Marketing A Restaurant
Students simulate the opening and operating of a restaurant using the Four P's of Marketing. Students play the roles of all the people involved in the restaurant business, as well as customers, as they act out various "restaurant"...
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Geometric Solids
First graders identify various shapes in everyday objects. in pairs, 1st graders go on a shape field trip to locate various objects of different shapes. They photograph the objects and later use the prints to write sentences describing...
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Basketball Dribbling Activities
Students develop the skills of dribbling a basketball while practicing various types of drills. The teacher helps the them to complete various drills through modeling and supervises successful completion and demonstration of skills.
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Lead Up Skills for Triple Pin Soccer
Students are introduced to the rules of Triple Pin Soccer. Individually, they are given the single to perform the different skill needed in the game. In groups, they run through a game using the skills and working together as a team to...
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Infinite Limits and Horizontal Asymptotes
In this infinite limit worksheet, students compute horizontal and vertical asymptotes. They use trigonometric functions to find the limits of functions and compare results. This two-page worksheet contains examples and explanations and...
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Words Can Hurt: King Day
Students explore stereotyping. In this moral and character development instructional activity, students share reactions to a T-chart displaying what boys can do and girls can not do. Martin Luther King's accomplishments are discussed,...
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Properties: Commutative, Associative, and Identity
Middle schoolers explore the concept of addition and multiplication properties. In this addition and multiplication properties lesson, students create a foldable with the properties commutative, associative, identity, and distributive...
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Dewey Decimal System
Students examine the Dewey Decimal System. In this Dewey Decimal System lesson, students participate in a Dewey Decimal System competition in order to learn how books are categorized in the library.
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Tangram Toil
Fifth graders find fractional parts of a whole. In this tangram instructional activity, 5th graders are given a tangram manipulative and must put the pieces together to form a square. Students determine the fractional value of each of...
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Keys and Classifying
Students classify plants and animals. In this organisms instructional activity, students define classification and sort various objects according to its attributes. Students then research wildlife of Utah and group the organisms into...
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Emperor or President?
Sixth graders complete a Venn Diagram. In this government comparison lesson, 6th graders discuss how rules are similar and different at home, school and in their community. Students learn about the type and structure of the United...
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Green River/Going to Florida
Students plan a trip to Florida, making choices about how they be spending time and money.
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Classify Forces
Third graders compare and contrast the forces of pushing and pulling. As a class, they take a field trip around the school and write down any action they see and any object that is motionless. In groups, they use magazines to cut out...
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Our Solar System
Sixth graders use the internet to examine the different bodies in space. In groups, they select one project they want to complete and are given a timeline for when the sections are due. To end the lesson, they present their information...
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Pushing the Boundaries: The Pioneer Spirit
Eleventh graders recognize how social reform occurred at the turn of the century. Through a debate, 11th graders determine advantages and drawbacks of traveling west using original sources and descriptions of the attitudes, beliefs, and...
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Vegetable Lecture and Experiment
Third graders experiment and answer questions to identify preparation guidelines to preserve the nutrients, enhance the color, flavor and texture of vegetables when cooking.
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Investigation 7 - Rubbing Objects Together
Third graders investigate rubbing two objects together to produce heat.
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Investigation 4 - Collision Zone
Third graders study how forces of push and pull can change speed or direction.
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Science: Exploration Tubs
First graders develop skills of scientific inquiry. They determine which objects float and which sink.
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A Trail Across the Plains
Pupils discuss how pioneers reached Utah, and create a mural of the pioneer trek with captions explaining what is happening along the trail.
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A Pioneer Journal
Fourth graders take on the persona of a pioneer boy or girl. They write a fictional series of journal entries describing, from a child's view, some of the events, hardships and adventures of the trek west
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ExplorA-Pond:2nd Grade Shapes & Fractions
Second graders, in groups, using a map, drawing or aerial view of a pond, represent the shape of the pond using simple geometric shapes or fractions of those shapes.
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What's In the Dirt?
Third graders watch a demonstration and write in their journals their predictions about how time might affect the moisture in the two paper towels. Using a Berlese funnel, they record their observations when it comes the amount of...
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Textile Selection
Students identify various textiles and factors that lead to the selection of specific textiles. They put their knowledge of textiles to use by selecting the textiles that they would use in an interior that they have designed.