Promote collaboration in the classroom with a historical fiction instructional activity. Fourth graders partner up and read the other's narrative to give feedback on vocabulary choice and the accuracy of historical information. After...

Create or expand your college essay and career unit with a business and postsecondary writing activity. The exercise works for college-bound or job-hunting junior or senior learners. They bring their research concerning a college or...

Young learners research and present information about a chosen subject to their peers, parents, instructors, and community. This lesson has a strong research and public speaking component, and would be ideal for your higher level students.

Designed specifically for math instructors, the seventh workshop of a 15-part series allows time to explore Webb's DOK, ponder open-ended questions, and create lessons to apply what is learned. Teachers craft high-quality math problems...

Engage your class in art analysis of Indian Look-Alike by Melanie Yazzie. Using this work of art as inspiration, writers compose a poem or short story. After a peer review session, the teacher conveys information about the work of art as...

Students demonstrate the cumulative knowledge while practicing the skills of lesson delivery for Elementary Social Studies. They set up for the lesson and then teach it to professional peers. They are assessed by the professor for the...

Twelfth graders investigate how to analyze, question and debate the validity of the information given to them from teachers, text books, the media and their peers. The purpose of this lesson plan is to foster a true understanding about...

Eleventh graders assess an appreciation for the sacrifices made to achieve fundamental rights in our society. They analyze how far we've come to explore what more needs to be done in the "Freedom Struggle." Each student completes a...

Young scholars investigate heroes in their community by presenting a story of a true hero to their class.  For this storytelling lesson, students interview a local person who has performed a heroic deed and create a presentation...

Students study the states of their choice by using Superhighway Scholars website. In this Unites States history lesson plan, students create a collage using information collected about a state of their choosing. This lesson plan provides...

Students work in cooperative learning groups to create and perform a newscast about a European country. This geography-based technology lesson concludes with class presentations and student critiques.

High schoolers explore policies regarding environmental issues. In this global issues instructional activity, students research the linked Internet sources to investigate governmental policies to decrease environmental issues.

High schoolers examine the presence of the United States in the world. In this global issues lesson plan, students read "The U.S. Role in a Changing World," and debate the role of the U.S. at the current juncture in history.  

Young scholars explore Chinese culture by performing a shadow puppet play. They create the puppets, develop a script, and rehearse and perform a play which illustrates an understanding of Chinese stories and traditions.

Students design and create business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Once they have applied techniques of typography and layout design, students identify redesign aspects and its importance in the design process. In a slide show, completed...

Young scholars explore the "White Rose" movement. In this Holocaust lesson, students create timelines and collages regarding "White Rose" events as they research the resistance movement in Nazi Germany.

Students examine their own personality traits and preferences. They use this information to write an autobiography.

Students explore and analyze primary documents from historical women's diaries. They conduct Internet research, develop conclusions about the primary documents, answer questions, and present their information to the class.

High schoolers discover the chronology of events related to the Corps of Discovery and the United States space program of the 1960s. They compare the Corps of Discovery's journey with the space exploration program.

Students, in groups, are assigned a policy option. One of the other groups assumes the role of the President and his advisors or of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Students role play the President and his advisors as they review Immigration Policy Options.

Middle schoolers form a Political Campaign Agency and try to secure the job of crating a studenT book about politics through the eyes of Students.

Students explore passive resistance.