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Discovering Art - Scott Gallery: Shape
Learners study geometric, naturalistic, and abstract shapes in art. They review the names of shapes and name them in the portrait, Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt. They simulate a baby as in the portrait and discuss the shapes. They...
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Hip-Hop
Young scholars practice letter recognition. They say tongue-twisters with the practiced sound. Students read a book about the sound. Using laminated picture cards, young scholars pant when they see a word with the sound.
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Units 'R Us
Second graders, using one inch grid paper, create a foot long and a yard measuring tool.
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What Did You Say Relay
First graders each write a sentence describing how they want the other students to race. The teacher calls one of students to read his or her instructions. The other students compete as relay teams to complete the instructions.
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators
Students add or subtract fraction parts of mixed numbers before adding or subtracting the whole number parts. For this fractions lesson, students learn to use a ruler to help them add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Flag Pole
Students determine the length of rope on a flagpole and the cost to replace the rope. They create their own real life math problems.
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Draw Like an Egyptian
Second graders explore Egyptian life and art and examine Egyptian figures and translate them to their own artwork. Students use objects other than paint brushes to paint. Students practice using watercolors and practice figure proportions.
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Newton's Third Law
Learners use inquiry and observation to explore Newton's third law of motion: for every action there is a reaction. In this physics lesson, students rotate through six stations set up with materials and picture directions illustrating an...
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The Jensen Bar - What is It and How to Make One
Students identify and make a Jensen Bar. In this Jensen Bar activity, students study pictures of Jensen Bars and then build their own bar using the listed materials and given directions.
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Reintroduce /F/
Students review the /f/ sound. In this /f/ sound activity, students Students recognize words beginning with the /f/ sound.practice the pronunciation of the /f/ sound. Students list words that begin with /f/.
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A Tacky Cheer
Second graders make predictions, copy cheers, and make inferences as they read a story about an odd bird and his awkward attempts to help his fellow penguins win a cheering contest.
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Elastic Band Shapes
Learners identify basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle), create shapes with different body parts, and create shapes at various levels (high, low)
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An Underwater Sediment Slide?
Students explore the proximity of the Hudson Shelf Valley and the Hudson Canyon to one of the Nation's most populated areas. They study that from 1987 to 1992, two dumpsites in the Hudson Shelf Valley and Hudson Canyon, one 12 miles
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Your Story, My Story
Students write from differing points of view, and act out stories in pantomime as another student narrates.
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String Art
Students create colorful works of art by folding construction paper in half, and pulling out pieces of string that are coated in paint.
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Libby Bloom
Learners read the book, Libby Bloom. They identify the different themes of the book, such as friendship and family and discuss. They relate the book to Math, Social Studies and English
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Fossils and Migration Patterns in Early Hominids
Learners plot the locations where major fossils of hominids have been found to extrapolate possible migratory patterns.
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Understanding Our Planet's Food Web
Sixth graders, in groups, examine how humans have a tenuous position as part of an ecosystem.
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Va Va Va Zoooommm
High schoolers, in groups, measure a variety of physical components to several activities. They use both standard and non-standard forms of measurement and then develop conclusions about the use of units in measurement.
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Out of the Box: From Myth to Art
Pupils position thier bodies in the same position as sculptures they see. They discuss why the sculpture chose that position. They design fountains for a public area using the myth of Pandora's Box.
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Parabola with Horizontal Directrix
Pupils find the vertex, directrix, and focus of a parabola. They graph parabolic functions and solve application problems involving parabalas.
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Parabola With Horizontal Directrix
Students find the vertex, directrix, and focus of a parabola and graph parabolic functions. They solve problems involving parabolas after a demonstration lesson by the teacher.
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Growing Up With A Mission
Student measure heights and graph them using growth charts for which they find the mean, mode, and median of the data set. They graph points on a Cartesian coordinate system.