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Preparing & Delivering Oral Presentations
High schoolers consider the important characteristis of an effective oral presentation. Students participate in an activity to discover the essential elements of evaluation an audience, timeliness of the topic, and delivery of the...
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Environmental Hazards
Students identify environmental hazards on a simulated field trip. They analyze the exposure and suggest methods to eliminate or reduce exposure to toxic sources.
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What is a "vote"
Students read and discuss why we vote, and fill out worksheets on voting. In this voting lesson plan, students read and discuss the voting process, and obtain mock voter registration cards.
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What would you take?
Students decide what the most necessary things they should take with them in a survival situation. In this survival lesson students complete an activity while divided into groups.
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IPM Basics
Fourth graders recognize that the term "pest" has a social connotation. They distinguish between good pest management practices and poor pest management practice and demonstrate knowledge of the IPM pyramid.
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I Feel Angry or Sad When...
Students identify inclusive procedures for activities. For this social skills lesson, students perform skits that illustrate inappropriate as well as appropriate classroom behavior.
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Doing What's Right
Students hold a class discussion. In this integrity instructional activity, students discuss the definition of integrity and read various handouts about what it means to do what's right. Students write a reflection in their journals.
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Economics: People as Producers and Consumers
Young scholars examine the dual roles of producers and consumers in people by creating fictional stories that include examples of both. Their stories include descriptions of the tools and skills needed for the jobs of their characters...
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Who's the Fool in King Lear
Students complete close reading and character analysis for Shakespeare's King Lear. In this play analysis lesson, students reenact scene 1, Act 1 and pick only the lines that demonstrate action. Students act out the scene so their body...
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The Basic Questions: What, How, and For Whom?
Students review the various types of economic systems. As a class, they identify the three basic economic questions: what?, How?, and For Whom?. Using capitalism as an economic system, they discuss how each question is answered.
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Social Studies Lesson: Apartheid
Students examine the Apartheid system of South Africa through a role-play activity. The role-play activity ends with a class discussion on how the events affected each individual. A class discussion continues after reading an article...
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Addressing the Nation
Students examine the leadership skills of Civil War leaders. In this American Civil War instructional activity, students describe attributes of effective leaders and then debate the effectiveness of leaders during the war.
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Energize Your Future
Students consider the positive and negative aspects of alternative energy. In this physical science instructional activity, students consider the sources of energy they use everyday. Students compare alternative sources of...
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Science Fiction
Young scholars write a science fiction story. In this science fiction lesson, students read selections of science fiction and compare them to supernatural stories from the Bible. Young scholars identify themes and discuss...
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Election of 1860
Students determine how the presidential election of 1860 led to the American Civil War. In this election of 1860 lesson, students discover details regarding the election and hold their own mock debate and election. Students also write an...
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Country Mouse Comes to Tea: Exploring Animal Characters from Tales Real and Fanciful
Learners study animal characters. In this language arts instructional activity, students analyze animal characters from a variety of books and create a story using animal characters.
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Government Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan 7
Learners examine the impact of Franklin Roosevelt's executive order on Japanese-Americans. They discuss Presidential executive orders, read a handout, answer discussion questions, and write a letter to President Roosevelt.
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Using VNTR Analysis to Identify Guilt at a Crime Scene
Students collect DNA from cheek cells. They compare and contrast the processes of DNA replication and PCR. They discuss how this information can be used to determine guilt at crime scenes.
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Topographic Map Unit Plan
Students examine topographic maps and discover how to decipher contour intervals, use contour lines and apply information to complete a topographic map lab. Working in groups, they identify the scale of the map, latitude and longitude,...
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Teaching in the Swithched On Classroom
Students engage in activities to help them develop computer skills and other various problem solving methods. They also work collaboratively, and apply technology in an ethical way.
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Resources
Young scholars describe renewable energy resources and identify the main examples. They compare pros and cons of different energy resources. Students comprehend that fossilfuels were formed million of years ago. They summarize...
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Mushrooms Can Save the World
Students use mushrooms to solve problems. In this environmental instructional activity, students study how fungi have been used to combat environmental problems. Students design strategies that employ mushrooms to combat other...
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Participation in civic life
Students investigate the political activism of Chinese in Australia - from the protests against discrimination in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the participation of Chinese Australians in all levels of government...
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Snack Time
Students brainstorm what they would like for their favorite snack. They take pictures of those snacks and place them in paper bags, one labeled "Yes" and one labeled "No". When those snacks in the "Yes" bag are called they are to color...