Students practice with the strategy that letters represent phonemes and spellings map out phonemes in spoken words. They work on the phoneme sounds of /a/ and e=/e/ in correspondences with reading. Each student also recites the tongue...

Students investigate temperature and chemical reactions. They explore the effect of temperature and particle size has on the rate of a simple chemical reaction. In addition, they graph their results and answer assessment questions.

Let everyone bring out their inner Stan Lee, and practice creating visually-pleasing comic strips that represent and liven up their stories, essays, personal experiences, and the personality of the creator.   

Students research and complete two assignments about honeybees. Students draw and color a picture of a flower with a honeybee inside of it. Students write a letter to the executives at Ridit Pest Control persuading them to stop the...

In this word activity worksheet, students color all consonants in a set of letters yellow, then cut out the letters and create as many words as possible, sorting by how many letters the words have.

Students discuss color symbolism and patriotic colors of red, white, and blue, and create patriotic cards using Fiskars CardBoss and ShapeBoss, and Starter or Celebration Card Stencil Set.

Students participate in a number of activities to study the letters A and I. They use food items such as apples and cereal as manipulatives for the activities.

Young scholars examine and discuss Jackie Robinson's legacy by reading two articles about Jackie Robinson, one from 2007 and one from 1947. They analyze how he broke the color barriers sixty years ago and how he is honored today and how...

Middle schoolers arrange the states by alphabetical order, find the five top coal producing states and discover their total production levels. They then find all the states which begin with the letter "A" and whose coal production is...

High schoolers draws the child's face and compares "mother's" and "father's" perception of characteristics. One student draws the child's face; partner writes a biography of the child at age 30- what is the child like, what have they...

Young scholars model traits on genes using colored paper and tongue depressors to represent chromosomes. In this heredity lesson plan, students use their "chromosome sticks" to understand chromosome pairs, genes, dominant traits,...

Students examine artwork and create their own.  In this writing and illustrating lesson, students view illuminated letters from the Getty Museum's collection and discuss art vocabulary.  Students examine the visual elements in...

Students explore symmetry in architecture.  In this cross curriculum art  and architecture lesson, students fold paper to illustrate symmetry and identify symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes.  Students observe photographs...

Fifth graders discuss the effects of scarcity.  In this survival lesson, 5th graders use strategies that would help them survive in a survival situation. Students write letters about bears in need of help to survive. Students answer...

Students practice the proper way to ask and answer questions pertaining to personal information. Students practice words pertaining to personal information by filling out an information card. This lesson is intended for students...

In this galaxies and the universe worksheet, students are given 8 clues about galaxies of the universe, spectrographs, and the theory of the universe expanding. They write the answer to each in given blanks with boxed letters. They...

In this basics of genetics worksheet, students review the concepts of genetic inheritance by writing the alleles for genetic traits inherited in offspring. They identify dominant and recessive traits given allele pairs, answer five...

Students explore the possibility that a products name might bias a consumers decision to buy a particular product. The question remains to be answered, "Why do consumers buy what they buy and why that particular product?"

Students explore many of the countries in the Middle East, developing research-based posters and a spider web illustrating the relationships among the countries. They write letters to fictional peers in Middle Eastern countries.

Students draw a picture. In this favorite foods lesson, students list the foods they like to eat and form each like into a complete sentence. Students cut the word in the sentences apart and then arrange them in the correct order with a...

Students listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear and imitate the style of Eric Carle in writing a sentence.  For this writing lesson, students use the beginning and ending sounds of words to write an Eric Carle type sentence. ...

In this fill in the blanks to complete sentences worksheet, students finish writing the story, "Mandy and Twinkle Toes", by using the word bank of words that can be used multiple times and changing lower case to capital letters when...

Students explain the symbols of Canada and their relevance.  In this Canada lesson, students read Oh Canada and exchange pen-pal letters with students in Canada.  Students create a class quilt with Canadian symbols.

First graders participate in hands-on activities and use objects to create patterns. They observe a PowerPoint instructional activity describing matching objects and patterns. In groups, 1st graders complete geometry computer activities...