Students work in teams, participate in the "Lifeboat Game." Discussion following the game helps students process the activity to realize teamwork skills they used to facilitate meeting their game goal. Students identify and relate the...

Learners study their culture while filling in a chart that shows how culture meets basic human needs. They examine the role of archaeologists in studying people from past cultures.

Students study the characteristics of communities. Students identify similarities and differences in communities. Students identify that all people have basic needs, understanding that these needs are met through the community. Students...

Students, in groups, create a project to display examples and non-examples of basic needs. They answer what is needed for basic survival of all living things.

First graders study the basic needs of animals and compare them to human needs. They make bird feeders using milk carton and pine cones. They review the basic needs of food, water, air, and shelter and discuss what happens when animals...

Students use fitness skills to solve basic math problems.

Students practice in refining their locomotor skills and developing their understanding of pathways and basic map reading skills.

Third graders complete Internet research to find information about an animal and its basic needs. They design a model of a zoo habitat that would accommodate their animal. They write a letter of recommendation to a Zoo board of directors...

Students listen to the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and participate in various map skill activities. They manipulate magnetic tortoises and hares on metal cookie sheets to practice direction, and construct racing tortoises out of...

Students study the characteristics and basic needs of insects. They compare and describe similarities among insects. They examine the body structure, covering, and movement of insects and also, examine insect life cycles in this unit of...

Learners participate in an activity that is aimed at increasing their organizational skills. They reorganize magazines that have been taken apart and scrambled.

Students visit a multimedia online journal as a model for their research and journal about their own communities. They examine writing for themselves and writing for an audience as they study the community and present it in more than one...

Students role-play telephone conversations. They view a video of a telephone conversation and discuss the vocabulary used during the conversation. They practice conversations and substitute responses.

Students practice a variety of locomotor skills and integrate the writing of numbers, letters and shape drawing. Done with music.

Students integrate locomotor skills and math skills.

Students practice locomotor skills, space awareness and cooperation. They are encouraged to cheer on their teammates, showing social responsibility. Students are assign an Easter basket that a specific color egg to retrieve. They...

Students practice basic social etiquette skills. They view a video, write a thank you note with an addressed envelope, eat a dinner and simulate introductions and phone conversations. They identify accepted manners and demonstrate them.

Pupils experience real life by utilizing math skills to plan a household budget and enhance their financial planning skills.

Students work in small groups to practice basic map skills. They take turns giving directions and tracing a path from one location to different destinations on the map.

Develop life skills through the use of an AppleWorks Banking kit, a spreadsheet program, and a role play activity. This life skills lesson plan utilizes technology plus busines and social studies principles. Note: All materials...

Young scholars explore the basic concept of micro-financing. In this economics/literacy instructional activity, students listen to One Hen by Katie Smith, in which a small loan changes the life of the main character. Young scholars...

Students compete to achieve excellence in math facts, writing terms, problem solving, and writing skills on the computer. In this Computer Olympics lesson plan, students practice the skill of drill and practice in order to succeed and...

Students use their note-taking skills to write summaries of information. In this writing skills lesson plan, students use the notes they have taken in another lesson plan to write adventure stories by implementing the Rule-Based strategy.

Middle schoolers explore the concept of absolution location. In this geography skills instructional activity, students discuss how to identify and locate latitude and longitude. Middle schoolers play a game to reinforce the skills.