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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Math: Designing a Playground

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders design and draw a model playground to scale. They configure the layout to include a sandbox, slide, baseball field and other equipment. Their design includes adaptations for students with disabilities. Their designs are...
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Students identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Purchasing Flower Power

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students fabricate decorative flowers to serve as a sales commodity. They assign value and prices to their flower stems. Students estimate and calculate costs using decimal points and place values in order to keep within a budget they...
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Painting a Mural

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners research create and design symbols to welcome students to their school. They present their idea to the class that includes a budget. The class work together to paint the mural.
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Building a Better Home for the Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw a set of blueprints and record measurements on them. They add, subtract and multiply to work within their house-building budget.
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The Sounds of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize that music brings out feelings and emotions in people. In this music themes lesson, students explore the relationships between culture and music. Students answer questions about favorite choices in music.
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Greenhouse Effect: Pop Bottle Experiment

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore global warming by conducting a weather experiment. In this greenhouse gas lesson, students define the greenhouse effect and the impact on our ozone layer. Students utilize a soda pop bottle, floodlight bulb, thermometers...
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Imaginary Spaces: Designing a Play Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars apply their enthusiasm for imaginary play to create their own imaginary play space. In this novice architectural design lesson, students arrange and glue pre-cut foam shapes to a cardboard base to set up their play space....
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A Gift to Give

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the holiday Kwanzaa by drawing pictures. In this cultural tradition lesson plan, students discuss the history and actions that take place during the holiday of Kwanzaa. Young scholars draw a picture of a gift...
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Tower Investigation and the Egg

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build three types of towers, engineering them to hold an egg one foot high for 15 seconds. They discover that engineering designs are subject to constraints such as time, money and size specifications. In this activity students...
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Artlandia: Pattern Design Tool

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If it's in the budget you may want to consider purchasing Artlandia SymmetryWorks, a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. There are two features that incorporate the use of computer technology to create symmetrical patterns. Free seamless...
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Open University: Design a New School

For Students 9th - 10th
You've got a brief to design a new school - and everyone's got an opinion on what they want for the money. Could you balance the demands from a range of interested parties, deliver a design to a high standard and still keep within...

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