Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing diamante poems. Examples of diamante poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

In this activity, students use software tools to create a new cover design for a book they are reading to demonstrate comprehension and explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict. While it is suggested that students use...

This unit includes a complete set of science lessons that enable students to creatively explore basic concepts related to air and the atmosphere, air quality, and associated issues, such as allergens in the places we live, study and work.

This lesson examines the legacy of the "philosopher statesman," James Madison. Madison combined the intellectual knowledge and creativity of the scholar with the practical savvy of the politician, a man of strong principles who also...

Lesson on creative expression and dance in light of the social, cultural, and political climate in Russia.

Students will gather, select, record, interpret, and present information on survivors and their survival strategies gained from reading the novel Hatchet and true life survival biographies. They will produce a piece of comparative...

You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...

This task presents three problems about money spent on grandchildren at a fair. The first problem involves decimal multiplication and the other two require decimal division. The lesson includes two additional lesson attachments that...

A plan for investigating the leadership styles of seven of Egypt's most famous pharaohs using video footage from the PBS series "Egypt's Golden Empire." Includes directions for helping young scholars prepare creative presentations on the...

This series of lesson plans for teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula are broken into chapter segments and include many interesting and creative ways to teach this novel.

By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, students can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help explicate...

The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...

Students will select a Newbery Medal Award book to read. They will complete one of three projects to reflect understanding of the chosen book. Their projects will be presented to the class in an effort to entice other students to read...

In this lesson, third grade students will explore "fossils" by using chocolate chip cookies in an interactive fossil dig! Through creative problem-based learning that incorporates technology, students will work in collaborative groups to...

In this lesson, learners will apply prior knowledge and skills to collaborate digitally and model positive attributes of an effective digital citizen. They will discover how to manage and improve their communication skills and learn to...

In this lesson plan, 7th graders explore proportional relastionships using paint colors.

Seventh graders use proportional reasoning to determine the amount of sales needed in this lesson plan.

In this lesson plan students solve word problems involving money and use the symbols correctly.

Seventh graders determine the decrease in height over a period of time with this real life lesson.

Seventh graders are using proportional reasoning to solve real world problems in this lesson.

In this lesson plan students are to answer questions based off the table with money values.

In this lesson plan students watch a video of robot races then answer questions in regards to the given graph.

Seventh graders knowledge of proportional relationships is assessed in this activity using the mixtures of paint.