When we read novels, authors provide details about the main character through descriptive sentences, events that directly involve the character, and what other characters think and say about the main character. To show what you know...

Contains plans for two lessons that teach about the theme of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" using blues music, creative writing, and media study. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...

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...

In this lesson plan, young scholars 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...

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

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

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

In this lesson, 7th graders determine the proporitonal relationship between bananas and the cost.

In this lesson plan students are given equations and are to determine the unknown value to make the statement true.

In this lesson, 7th graders rewrite an expression to help determine a solution.

In this lesson plan, 7th graders use the formula for circles to determine the area and perimeter.

In this lesson plan students use base ten blocks to explore place value.

Seventh graders use proportional reasoning to solve word problems regarding an election.

This lesson plan has students explore and compute volume of water.

In this lesson plan, 7th graders determine the amount of sand needed to cover a particular area using proportional relationships.

For this lesson, 7th graders solve real world problems using the four operations.

In this lesson, 7th graders multiply and divide fractions to determine the repeating decimal.

For this lesson plan students are given pictures of various shapes and are to determine which one is half shaded.

This complete lesson plans has students determine how to make a number using hundreds, tens, and ones.

In this lesson plan, 1st graders play a matching game to explore unknown numbers.

The purpose of this task is to have students think about the meaning of multiplying a number by a fraction, and use this burgeoning understanding of fraction multiplication to make sense of the commutative property of multiplication in...

This task could form part of a classroom activity where students are encouraged to find as many different ways as possible to make different fractions such as 1/12 and then share their methods. While measuring cups would be helpful to...