Students discuss the role of a paycheck advance loan company. Using data given to them, they calculate interest rates on the amount of advance they receive and identify the penalties of not repaying the loan on time. They record their...

Students, after reading The Giver, create a PowerPoint presentation, a Web page, and a newsletter or brochure demonstrating their understanding of the novel?

Ninth graders examine the world after the end of World War II. In groups, they complete a Naturalization Review Board activity and discuss how immigrants changed the United States. As a class, they discover how the immigration policies...

Students create and conduct experiments on a "classroom river habitat." They manipulate the biotic and abiotic factors so that they are able to compare an artificially prepared river model to a naturally occurring lotic ecosystem.

In this 4th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students listen to a fictional story that as their instructor reads it aloud 2 times. No questions accompany the worksheet.

Students investigate the impact inventions have on society. In this technology lesson, students review the facts they learned about famous inventors and brainstorm an invention that can improve people's lives. Students use a graphic...

In this geometry learning exercise, students calculate the radius of the smallest possible circle that contains the figure provided.  The complete solution is provided by clicking on the "show solution" button found below the problem.

Students investigate the properties of two and three dimensional objects. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate polygons based on similarity and congruence. They make observation and interpret the data.

High schoolers describe the ideas found in the core democratic values. In groups, they design and create a brochure explaining how the values relate to other ideas that Americans accept as a nation. They share what they know with with...

Double, toil ,and double linear dimensions. Learners first complete an assessment investigating how doubling linear dimensions affects the area of pizzas and the volume of popcorn containers. They then complete an activity investigating...

Students view a video and design a comprehensive plan of action to assist in the resolution of one or more previously identified environmental problems. They, in groups, devise a solution to a real world environmental problem.

High schoolers explore problems and design solutions in relation to water issues. For this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students play an interactive game in order to explore global water issues to create solutions for the water...

Seventh graders create plans for an energy efficient addition to the school. They work in small groups with each group having responsibility for examining one aspect of the problem. They create working diagrams and a model of their...

Students explore the components of matter. They discover what matter is, the states of matter, and how heat and cold cause it to change states in an online format. In addition, they complete internet-based lessons, activities, and quizzes.

Young scholars build and program a LEGO robotic car as well as measure and graph its speed. They acquire familiarity with principles of construction, motion, design and problem solving. They compare a robot's speed over two different...

Students use a series of hands-on labs and activities, practice problems, discussions and writing assignments, students investigate about fertilizer chemistry as they break compounds into ions, make a fertilizer and test various...

In this National Olympiad Exam worksheet, students answer sixty multiple choice questions including topics such as atomic structure, problem solving, thermodynamics, acids and bases and solutions.

Students challenge their math knowledge through a series of lessons designed to engage critical thinking and reasoning skills. In these problem solving lessons, students work with the Pythagorean Theorem, time zones in different regions...

Students work collaboratively to explore the functions of the Robolab program and create a small moving robot out of Legos.

Students create a research questions about animal underpasses and how animals use them. In this animals lesson plan, students use their collected data to answer their question.

Students, through exercises and discussions, examine ethics involved in the process of choosing and using laboratory animals, respect for the animal they dissect and how to behave in an ethical manner as they dissect various lab specimens.

In this mathematical diagrams instructional activity, students solve about 20 short answer diagram problems.  Students diagram driving routes, coin weights, and classifying sporting events.

Students use one of four absorbent products to separate as much of the oil and water mixture they are able to do. The purpose of this task is for students to collect and analyze data for the purpose of determining which absorbent is...

Students read stories about people making differences in the world and specifically the hunger plight. In this making a difference lesson plan, students read stories about people who impacted people and the plight of hunger. Students...