Students discuss jobs in which have impacted their lives directly. They create appreciation cards for a person who they believe needs appreciation. They give their cards to that person and share their reaction with the class.

Students discuss the invention of barbed wire and how it affected various groups of peoples in the U.S. after its invention.

Pupils research the political aspects of the U.S. position in the Middle East, considering, for example, Truman's position in view of the 1948 presidential election. They examine a telegram sent by the Secretary of State, George C....

Students research an endangered animal's habitat, investigate the survival problems. They research the animal's zoo life. They research some programs of reintroduction and chart the pros and cons of each.

Students investigate non-native species that are invading local or state environments. They choose one species to research and report on.

Students design a community with minimal environmental impact. They rate each other's community's presentation using the "Planning and Zoning Commission Rating Scale".

Pupils discuss necessary community services then complete a worksheet by filling in essential services, the needed inputs and outputs produced by fulfilling the service.

Students study various types of glaciers and the landforms they create. Working in pairs, they research a type of glacial landform and construct a calendar page illustrating and describing it. The pages be compiled to create a class...

Students investigate how the loss of soil, a valuable natural resource, affects their lives through loss of productive land to grow food, loss of coastal land mass, and poor water quality from runoff. They design a project to keep soil...

Students read and discuss a text about housing styles of the Haida and Iroquois Indians. They, in groups, complete worksheets and present their findings to the class.

Students name some interesting backgrounds of Members of Congress, identify their current representatives in the legislative branch of the national government, and describe the background of one local representative or senator.

Students investigate the concept of even change by participating in a coin flip activity. They research using the Internet to investigate the chance of giving birth to a boy.

Students are introduced to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art using both print materials, Take 5 Art prints and the Illusion4 Palm OS program. They complete a research and art production project that focuses on one artist from the two...

Students investigate the concept of water permeability in order to help find the best material to line a canal. The goal is to find a material that does not allow water to escape. They also conduct an experiment and record the observations.

Students use metrics to measure, draw, and cut out a boomerang from cardboard.

Learners summarize the Phenomenology unit in this lesson. They identify character and universal themes from different films. They create a ten question survey for reviewer responses.

Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, this cross-curricular lesson involves having students Learn how to summarize correctly with this cross-curricular writing assignment and prompt.

Designed by groups of Nevada teachers, this collection of modules and lesson plans is continually growing. Find suggestions for incorporating good writing practices in non-language arts areas of the curriculum from history to science.

After students investigate a topic through research, hypothesizing, observing, and experimentating, teachers can use this instructional activity to help their students prepare short science reports and publish them online. The Writing...

A great cross-curricular activity, students will create a diamante poem based on their feelings regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Contains plans for eight cross-curricular lessons that teach about memory and the brain using Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...

How do you develop a cross curricular activity? Come to this website and watch this lesson unfold into several curricular areas.

In this lesson students will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.