First graders locate countries on maps and globes and learn about the hemispheres and the cardinal directions. They listen to books read out loud and dicuss geography.

Students, in groups, study how a magnet works and how people use the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves.

Students investigate the combination of colors created by the human eye. The lesson highlights the eye's ability to retain the individual colors and add them together to produce a third when the colors are spun.

Pupils observe the migration of monarch butterflies. They collect data regarding the number of monarchs they see, the location, the butterflies' behavior, the temperature and the date and time. Then they send their data to a university...

Students track a character's journey through different cities in Texas using the internet, a Promethean Board, and the educational program Keynote. This lesson plan is intended for upper elementary classrooms and includes a video...

Students create Optical Art, art that seems to move when you look at it, in this Art lesson for the High School classroom. Included with the lesson is a list of recommended materials and suggested resource books for lesson implementation.

Students use problem solving skills to create various models of tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes. They classify the cubes into various groupings and identify them as mirror images, regular arrangements, and irregular arrangements....

Students role-play as escaped slaves making their way from North Carolina to Canada, stopping in Indiana. They track their journeys on maps and include a stop at Harriet Tubman's. Students write three paragraphs about how Tubman aids...

Students use maps to discover where Puerto Rico is located. In groups, they use the internet to research the vegetation. They also compare and contrast the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico's government.

Students explore three lab experiments involving DNA, mitosis, and mutation. They complete activities and play games to review DNA, mitosis and mutation concepts. They build a DNA molecule and create flip cards representing mitosis in...

Fourth graders explore magnets as fundamental parts of generators and how they are used to produce current electricity. They distinguish between the north and south pole of magnets and the difference between repel and attract. Students...

Students study the retreat of the Nez Perce Native Americans into Montana while tracing their journey on a map. They use the law of cosines to solve problems based on the navigational methods of the Nez Perce. They work with both the law...

Students explore electricity and magnetism. Through the use of role play, students simulate being a scientist. Experiments are performed during the simulation to discover the relationship between electric current and magnetism. After...

Students examine nautical navigation and discover the differences between nautical charts and other types of maps or charts. Students practice setting a course, taking a bearing, and dead reckoning. This gives students an example of...

Students explore the history of music written during the classical era. They compare the melodic contours of specific thematic music, identifying the trills, slurs and articulations. As a class, students discus the characteristics of...

Through an interdisciplinary lesson plan, emerging engineers explore the history of surveying systems. After discussing various systems, they perform surveys on printable pages. Using their geometric skills, they physically stake out...

In this constructions and loci worksheet, students create a scale drawing of a running track. They identify the starting positions for a given race. Students bisect angles. They construct an angle trisector. This three page worksheet...

In this angle worksheet, students answer forty mental math questions divided into four problem sets.  These problems require students to remember angle facts and so simple calculations mentally.

Study explore coral reefs. In this coral reef lesson, 4th graders examine the physical structure of coral reefs. Students consider why coral reefs need to be protected and ways to protect them.

In this cardinal directions worksheet, learners read a 2-page review of cardinal directions and use a globe to respond to 5 questions.

Students explore the concept of constructions, sketches, and drawings. In this constructions, sketches, and drawings lesson, students discuss the differences between constructions, sketches, and drawings through teacher led discussion.

Students study wind and the direction terms related to wind. In this meteorology lesson, students learn about the wind directions by completing a wind direction activity where kids locate cones marked with the specific wind...

Students draw series and parallel electrical circuits. In this electromagnet instructional activity, students describe how current changes depend on circuit components. Students use an OHT of a series and parallel circuit to...

In this angle learning exercise, students first draw a set of intersecting lines, then use a protractor to complete a set of instructions about angles and answer related questions. Answers included on page 2.