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Tessellations Lesson
Fifth graders demonstrate their understanding of tessellations by watching a teacher prepared Powerpoint presentation and completing an activity. The students work independently to identify tessellations.
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Everyone Up!
Students examine various agriculture careers, both direct and indirect, related to crop production and distribution. In this food production lesson, students role play the processing chain in which crops move from producer to processor...
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Students read books about animals and describe their structures, how they grow and change, and their life cycles. In this animals lesson plan, students also make animals out of pasta.
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Science Super Saturday
Students share their science expertise with elementary students in a conference format. Elementary students rotate through sessions of different science disciplines (Biology, Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry, Computers).
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Fractals Forever or Obvious and Hidden Order
Students discuss ways computers use properties of similar figures to generate scale models and create scenes. they describe patterns they have seen on a fern, pineapple, or pinecone. Students research Benoit mandebrot, H. von Koch and...
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Camel Number Cards 1 to 20
In this camel number cards worksheet, students cut out and color 20 cards each with a number written on the hump of a camel.
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Addition
In this addition worksheet, students enhance their simple addition skills using addition strategies to solve the two worksheets of addition problems.
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Now You're Speaking My Language; Deciphering the Symbols of Early Civilizations
High schoolers explore early attempts at written language. For this early civilizations lesson, students investigate first attempts at written communication. Among the civilizations covered are Mayan, Greek, and Egyptian.
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Learning to Summarize a Story
Students with hearing loss read independently and understand what is being read to them. In this independent reading lesson plan, students sequence and discuss the book that is read.
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Writing Places American Communities
Students interview a member of the community and write a piece of poetry using the voice of the interviewee.
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Beginning With Writing
Students brainstorm what it means to "convey ideas in writing" They review the standard graphic clarify vocabulary and Discuss the importance of having a standard definition for writing and making sure everyone is in agreement of that...
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The American Dream
Students expand their knowledge by researching on the Internet the African American civil rights movement and compiling a timeline of events and heroes. In addition to the civil rights timeline, students identify the key historical sites...
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Shopping Trip 2- Coin Identification Worksheet
In this coin identification worksheet, 1st graders cut out pictures of coins that are labeled with their value in cents. They place the coins next to the pictures and coin amounts.
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Moving Things with Pressure
Fifth graders complete a construction project. In this pneumatic system lesson students study the basic hydraulic systems and construct their own project.
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Subsidence/ Erosion
Students utilize prior knowledge about the Pontchartrain Basin. In this subsidence/erosion instructional activity, students study the chart on land subsidence and must them identify and find solution for problems caused by erosion.
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Sparky's Engineer Activity Book
Students complete their Sparky's Engineer Activity Book. In this engineering lesson plan, students are guided by their teacher in completing their Sparky's Engineer Activity Book which reviews what engineers make and what tools and...