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Food Labels in the Classroom
Learners read all information given on packaging; write down complete ingredients and grams of protein, carbohydrates and fat per serving. They compare the information with current health references and write a business letter to a food...
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Résumé Writing
Young scholars research examples of resumes on the World Wide Web. They use the good examples to write their own resumes focusing on their strengths.
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Family Life Cycle
High schoolers 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...
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Gingerbread Man Math
Students collect and explore gingerbread man data. In this math and technology lesson plan, students examine how to organize and interpret data in three formats: objects, pictures, and graphs.
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Machinery In Society
Students explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. For this common machinery lesson, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Students utilize verbs to describe...
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Simple Machines
Students research simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students explore the many types of simple machines such as the lever, pulley, and screw. Students discover simple machines in the classroom.
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Design and Build Lego Cars
Students build cars out of legos. In this building lesson plan, students can also use Lego Mindstorms robotic equipment to add engines.
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Drawing Animals
Students draw animals using photographs and/or mounted animals. They apply details using shading techniques. They illustrate animals using geometric shapes.
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Pets: Stuffed Animal Day
Students bring in their favorite stuffed animals to class, and listen to the book, The Perfect Pet. They develop graphs for their stuffed animals, and create booklets titled, My Pet Book.
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Kitchen Work Centers - Level II
Ninth graders apply the skills of kitchen equipment and management.
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Quilting with Literature: Internet Research and Multi-Media Presentation Skills in AP English
Have your class acquire research skills such as using hotlists and evaluating websites while they study major literary eras. They create multimedia presentation using information from the Internet research.
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Echolocation Lab
Students explore echolocation of animals. They examine how dolphins and other echolocating animals use their senses to locate and identify objects without using their sense of sight. Through experimentation, they discover how sound waves...
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Bridge Building
Students explore bridges and how they are constructed. After reviewing materials on bridges, they work in groups to record their findings. They design and construct a bridge using K'NEX or straws and predict which bridge will hold the...
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Case Closed... Or Confusing?- a Quick Guide To the Three Cases
In this grammar worksheet, students read about grammar rules and then complete questions. Grammar rules covered are possessive, nominative, and objective case, linking verbs. invisible verbs, and pronoun use. This is an advanced grammar...
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Annual Skinner Box Rat Training Competition
Students explore animal behvior. Using Skinner boxes, they monitor and train rats to accomplish a set of tasks. They maintain a log of observations, task completions and data.
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Consumerism - Labeling Lab With Convenience Food
High schoolers examine the differences between convenience food and food that has to be prepared in order to use it in another recipe. In groups, they make a calzone using only convenience food. After baking, they work together to make...
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Searching the Internet Beginners
Students explore how to research on the Internet. In this Internet research lesson, students research the Internet directories and answer questions about using Google. Students complete an evaluation sheet of the activity.
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Combinations And Permutations
Seventh graders investigate the mathematical concept using a lecture format. The lesson includes a classroom management section with suggestions for lesson execution. Students write a definition for the Fundamental Counting Principle....
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Active Citizenship and The New Britons
Students determine some rights that citizens have and then list some responsibilities. They try to list the 5 most important rights and the 5 most important responsibilities. They try explain why they think this.
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Positive Tolerance
Students engage in a lesson that focuses on the principal of tolerance. They are given examples of what a school should be like. The goal of the lesson is to get the students to treat others fairly even if differences exist.
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To teach s
Learners learn offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Pass for Points
Students participate in offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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Blooming with Self-Confidence
First graders read "Leo the Late Bloomer" and discuss what it feels like when they are struggling to master a new skill. They make flowers showing several things they all ready know how to do and one thing they are still learning.
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CLASSROOM MAPS
Students do a blind tour of their school by responding to verbal commands. They look and discuss various maps in the classroom. They locate the direction of the sunrise and discuss the compass directions of North, South, East, and West.