Students explore a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students sequence the 12 months of the year using posters with guidance from the teacher. Students recite the days of the week.

In this transportation bar graph worksheet, students will ask their classmates how they got to school and record responses to complete the graph.

Students investigate the correlation between our planet's weather and solar activity. They analyze and discuss data regarding the solar activity cycle, graph annual precipitation and temperature averages over a period of 100 years, and...

Students study letters and letter sounds and are to be used throughout the year. They predict the letters and sounds and words that are represented by each letter. Letter and sound recognition can be assessed through one to one...

Learners choose the correct form of the irregular verb offered in a drop-down menu to complete each of 20 sentences correctly. Possibilities include present tense, past, and past participle. With a single click, learners can see the...

Students examine the process of census taking in the United States. In this "200 Years and Counting" lesson, students examine the data collection process, look at an example of a census form, analyze data, and learn what the information...

Young scholars connect the symbols from the design of the United States Mint Fifty State Quarters Program to our country's history in this five-lesson unit. The culture, unique heritage, and geography of the individual states are probed.

Acrostic poems are a great way to get your class in the back to school mode. Each poet will compose a poem using the letters of the words 'back to school' as the beginning of the first lines of each line of the poem. There are many...

In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about California's statehood. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

In this everyday editing worksheet, young scholars correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Dr. Sally Ride, the first woman to orbit the earth. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The errors range in punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.

In this editing worksheet, students read and edit a short paragraph entitled, "Cola Success Story." Young grammarians find and correct the 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.

Young scholars describe cause/effect relationship of a European country's need for resources, exploration, colonization, and settlement of different regions of the world beginning in the 14th Century, and role play representatives of...

In this verbs of being worksheet, students complete each of 10 sentences with a correct verb form. Some sentences will use the negative form.

Get kids re-oriented to the computer lab for back-to-school. The constructivist approach in this session allows children to exert ownership of their behavior in the computer lab. Read aloud a few books about good and poor manners, as...

Students examine the gender roles of NACW activists. They also discover the attitudes associated with race in the NACW. They work together in groups to write a letter to the leader of the time period.

Students are introduced to the seed cycle and draw the specific steps. In groups, they identify the human barriers to the spreading of weeds. After calculating the rate of spreading of the Yellowstar Thistle, they create graphs to see a...

Young scholars make an island that has a construction site on it. They spill siulated pollution and trash on top of the island and then water it to simulate rain. They will observe how the rain washes dirt, sand, and pollution off the...

Learners examine World War I war crimes. For this world history instructional activity, high schoolers use primary and secondary sources to research and understand the action taken by the United States during the Armenian Genocide....

Students explore the impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska. Lesson can be used in units on western expansion, late 19th and early 20th-century commerce, and urban history.

Middle schoolers build a Colossal Classroom Cladogram of vertebrate evolution. After putting it together, they show the gradual, mosaic accumulation of the traits which we, as humans, possess.

Students explore the process of writing our Constitution through an interactive program. They are to put themselves in the place of the statesmen and predict how they felt at the time. They compare the founding fathers.

Learners identify one object that would tell the story of their lives. In groups, they determine what can and cannot be told from objects left behind. After watching a video, they compare and contrast chicken bones to human bones. To...

Students complete maps of Ancient Greece identifying key sites of the ancient Olympic games. After watching a video, they complete worksheets about the games and the athletes. Students discuss how the spirit of Ekecheiria, the "Sacred...