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Verb Tenses
For this verb tense worksheet, students read about 5 different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive and future. This worksheet contains no questions.
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Diseases Are Real
Eleventh graders research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point...
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World Awaits Bush Global Policy
Students read an online article in order to participate in a discussion and writing activity based on it.
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How Smoking Affects Our Repiratory System
Seventh graders examine the dangers of smoking. In this life science activity, 7th graders survey their schoolmates about the factors that would influence them to smoke. They present their findings in class by creating a presentation.
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Reading Time Lines
Third graders locate and gather information using a time line. They discuss the order of events of a previous day. They read the time line about Ourtown. They answer questions using a time line.
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Trail Adventure
Students create a trail with numbered specimens. Students complete an accurate and functional interactive trail activity brochure. They complete a web page tree identification guide and interactive identification activity. Students...
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Hachimaki/Shibori Lesson Plan
Sixth graders are introduced to the technique of Arashi Shibori and its history. In groups, they discover how to perform this process and examine how to do hachimaki. To end the lesson, they make their own hachimaki to wear and share it...
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World War Ii - Holocaust Oral History Project
Seventh graders conduct an interview with someone who lived through World War II. They watch a video of an interview, develop a list of interview questions, record their interview, and write and publish a summary and transcript of their...
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Geometry: Classifying Angles
Learners measure, construct, and classify angles as acute, right, straight, and obtuse. Once they have completed an angle worksheet, students use a map of South Carolina to locate cities by constructing the aforementioned angles.
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A Reporter's Recovery of Place
Students read and write their own story about an artifact they find in their community.
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Whose Business?
Fourth graders compare and contrast the businesses in Fort Griffin with those in their own community. Using the internet, they discover the factors that have influenced the development of businesses in a town. They also create a map of...
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Living History
Students analyze how historians are trying to keep history alive and preserve it for generations to come. They view some schools trying to save an entire culture and language from extinction. Students participate in history preservation...
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Local Leaders and Why They Are Successful
Students research local leaders and create a web page showcasing the leader.
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History Today
Young scholars use the newspaper to determine how history is being made in your community, region or country.They identify the different components that comprise a newspaper. This lesson contains adaptations from elementary to high school.
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It's a Matter of Consent: Considering a Patient's Rights.
Students create a Patient's Rights Charter after discussions of past experiments with such rights charters using the biographical posters in order to stimulate discussions on current attempts to create a Patient's Rights Charter. They...
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Interview for Reflection
Students practice their interviewing skills using the elements of questioning. They write and illustrate a past experience of theirs doing a philanthropic act. They share their stories and illustrations to complete the lesson.
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Flying High With Hot Air Balloons!
Sixth graders demonstrate an understanding of a narrative story by listening, speaking, reading and writing activities. They create two visual products that reflect the understanding of events, vocabulary, and characters.
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3-D Posters
Young scholars work in small groups to create 3-D posters to discourage throwing trash away and encourage recycling.
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Twain's Hannibal
Ninth graders explore the life around Hannibal, Missouri, during the latter half of nineteenth century. They use various online and print resources to determine what effects this location had on the writings of Mark Twain. Students...
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Michigan's Early History
Learners use maps and lecture notes to discover the diverse history of the state of Michigan. After gathering their information, students develop interview questions that might be used to interview an elderly person in their community.
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Meet Antonin Dvorak
Students engage in a lesson plan that is related to the history of Antonin Dvorak. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students listen and identify some of the basic elements of music. The lesson plan includes background...
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Create Your Own Photoessay
Students create a photoessay that describes an aspect of the community in which they live. They participate in a photography clinic and then use digital cameras to visually document their community.They also create a narrative writing...
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Students For Political Action
Young scholars that are interested in political action are called together for a meeting and explore how the understanding among each other on issues is important and explore how they can change the world.
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Seeking Clarification Through Questioning
Pupils review ads from the newspaper for goods they would like to purchase. They identify qeustions they would need to ask sales associates in order to make an informed decision about the purchase. Pairs of students simulate calling...