Students name their favorite actors and actresses, and then use adjectives to describe them. They go through a list of actors and actresses and discuss the adjectives they used to decribe them. As an extension, they can write about a film.

Students choose a city, make a poster promoting that city and present the poster to the class highlighting positive aspects of the city.

First graders express the words of Autumn through creative dance movements.

Students investigate how and why to use the passive voice in text.

Students develop a list of images of President Abraham Lincoln: for example, self-taught youth, great debater, advocate of abolition of slavery and assassinated hero. They must determine if these images of Lincoln stand up under scrutiny.

Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.

Middle schoolers are given an example of a biography and they are to find the mistakes. They are to use proofreading marks to mark the errors.

Young scholars discuss the different types of reading styles. They are then given situations in which they are to assign it a reading style.

Fourth graders discover the appropriate way to construct and analyze bar, line, picto, and circle graphs. They set up frequency tables and perform some statistical analysis (mean, median, and mode) on their data.

Middle schoolers create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.

Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...

Student examine selected works of twentieth-century female poets that speak to the stereotypes about women inherent in Western culture. Individually, students explore these stereotypes and their experience with them. Students create a...

Students analyze data from their primary literature (textbook) and explore multiple aspects of digestion by generating alternative or multiple explanations for questions posed during the lesson plan. This lesson plan includes a handout...

Students investigate the mark-and-recapture method for estimating the population of an animal species. They evaluate given data to answer a set of questions.

Students listen to the story, "The Mangoes." They answer and discuss a given set of questions then volunteer to share an experience of when they told the truth and what it felt like. Students perform a skit to reinact the story, "The...

Ninth graders discover how statistics are used to interpret results of scientific experiments. Students write hypotheses and test the hypotheses by collecting data and organizing the data. Students graph their data to produce a visual....

Students examine the validity of standarized tests. They explore the emotions felt during a test and ways to prepare for a test. Students interview teachers about testing. Students create a student guide to testing.

Students discuss what enables us to read a face: features, expressions, standards of beauty, age and gender. They discuss what enables us to read motion: repetition, sequence, changes in form and scene.

A hands-on activity which allows students to learn about cellular respiration. This lesson contains a range of investigations testing the rates of cellular respiration to demonstrate the relationship between metabolic rates of...

Learners showcase what they are doing in physical education classes. They volunteer to participate in this activity and perform activities that they do every day in their PE classes. They demonstrate their skills in a one minute...

Young scholars practice summarizing techniques in this instructional activity. They listen as the teacher reads from a non-fiction article, and the class creates a story map to highlight the most important facts from the article. They...

Students analyze poems by Tennyson and Noyes. They identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile. Students create examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile.

Middle schoolers are introduced to the primary and secondary colors. Using a worksheet, they follow the directions from their teacher to complete the activity. To end the lesson plan, they use the worksheet to create a separate color...

Students explore rap music and its components. They listen to examples of rap music and discuss their common features. After selecting a topic, they compose a rap with both words and the beat and sing it to the class. As a class they...