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Serving Up Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the factors that go into running a restaurant and examine how the restaurant industry impacts the economy of the United States. They create skeleton proposals for new restaurants and consider the costs of this type of...
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What's Happening to Your Body

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students list the types of biological development that occur during adolescence and the nutritional, physical, and mental needs that support that development. They describe careers in the field of adolescent health.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students participate in local Earth Day activities. They keep track of the types of trash they pick up. They aggregate their data to develop whole-class statistics of what they found.
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Fuel for Thought

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the mathematical concepts used to compare different types of vehicles. They create a print advertisement in which they persuade an audience to purchase a specific vehicle.
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Putting It on the Map

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the purpose of various types of maps and their different uses throughout history. They create their own maps and reflect on the map-making process.
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Shaken Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the type of information that they expect to read in news coverage of earthquakes. They explore the devastating aftermath of an earthquake in South and Southeast Asia and research and write their own articles describing...
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Introduction To Keyboarding

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students practice the basic typing position, and practice key stroking, spacing and return. They study to operate the home row letter keys and the basic service keys by touch.
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RADIATION PROTECTION: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the effects of shielding on the amount of detectable radioactivity from a gamma source. They investigate the shielding of one type of metal, then design their own experiments to answer questions raised during the...
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So You Want to Drive an Automobile?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research types of auto insurance that are required in the state of Florida. They choose an automobile and find the cost of insurance to legally drive it.
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Capital Punishment

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research capital punishment and then type a six paragraph paper.
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Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a PowerPoint show illustrating two types of figurative language. They demonstrate understanding of personification by creating and interpreting simple examples. They also demonstrate understanding of alliteration.
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Snow Cover By Latitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create graphs comparing the amount of snow cover along selected latitudes using data sets from a NASA website. They create a spreadsheet and a bar graph on the computer, and analyze the data.
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LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS. . .Oh My! Animals of Connecticut and the World

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify and list the different types of pets owned by the children in the class. They graph the total number of each type of pet owned. They draw or cut-out a picture of an animal. Using the materials listed above, the children...
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Maps! Maps! Maps!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and identify different types of maps. They review the types of projections and which maps are better for different information. They answer comprehension questions at the end of the lesson.
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ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils list and explain the three types of economic systems as well as the three economic questions that every economic society must answer at one time or another. In addition, they identify the five features of our market economy.
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Observing Objects

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe the motion of both a pendulum and a spring pendulum . They then explain the differences and the similarities between the two types of motions.
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Bounce Back Ball

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in teams of four to measure the rebound heights of a tennis ball dropped from four different heights. They investigate with the bouncing balls to measure changes in the type of energy they possess.
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Soap, Wood, and Water

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students measure the properties of two different types of soap and wood and calculate their densities. Then they predict whether or not whether or not each object would float or sink in fresh or salt water.
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Getting Around - Transportation Photographs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students locate historical photographs of different types of transportation on a given website. They choose three to analyze and write about. If there is no information with the photo, students will need to research their chosen types of...
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Landforms Slideshow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify twelve different types of landforms, and create a slideshow about each landform that includes a title, pictures, definitions, conclusions and a reference page.
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Harvesting Trees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine and discuss benefits and process of harvesting trees, analyze, compare, and contrast computer-generated depictions of three different types of tree harvesting methods, read Harvesting Trees flier, and answer discussion...
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Outdoor Survivors

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete a survey to decide what are most popular plants among the class. They test the water quality in a nearby pond. Studnts test the quality of soil samples taken from their homes. Different plants are moistened with...
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Magnetic Bookmarks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design magnetic bookmarks with healthy living messages. They decide on the shape, length, color, and type of material to use for creating their bookmark. Students write in an "inventor's journal" about their design and...
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Look Up - Birds

For Teachers K
Students investigate the concept of birds. They identify five different types of birds and name the characteristics that make them different than other living things. Students also name the different parts of the bird and how they are...

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