Students investigate the use of road maps, shadeded relief maps, and topographic maps.

Pupils examine the process for the creation of a home page and the use of HTML or Hypertext Markup Language. the lesson plan was originally written for librarians with little or no net experiences.

Learners review materials covered in previous class. They continue the tutorial in the textbook "Creative HTML Design", chapter 4, pages 78-83. Students work with browser safe colors. They open the CD that came with their textbook,...

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

Using the Montana State Quarter, learners engage in activities designed to help increase their understanding about how animals must change their social and physical behaviors in order to adapt to their environment. Excellent worksheets...

An inventive lesson plan shows learners how to collect, organize, and present mathematical data. They access websites which lead them through a variety of ways to engage in data collection. They get to design and create graphs, and...

This unit of lessons is designed for 7th through 9th graders. They are introduced to the world of agriculture and the genetic research and various technologies that are associated with agriculture. Pupils work together to come up with a...

Middle schoolers will create a children's book on Keiko, the killer whale, that was rehabilitated and returned to the wild after living in an aquarium. In small groups, they conduct internet research to find out the history and current...

Ninth graders create a report that will show an in-depth knowledge of the various geographical and climatic features of Atlantic Canada. They produce various items, on paper and using the computer, to demonstrate knowledge of outcomes,...

Students construct a website with several links to pages they create. The site weaves logo titles, photos, animation, and textured backgrounds created and edited in PhotoShop into pages created using Dreamweaver software. The project...

Students participate in an online scavenger hunt activity, researching the type of housing pioneers built to match the natural environment. They design and create a poster exhibit or Web page presenting information about pioneer housing.

Fourth graders use pattern blocks to create tessellations. In this tessellations lesson, 4th graders create tessellations from a tessellation web page and define a tessellation. Students find examples of tessellations in their world....

Seventh graders investigate the key terms and concepts of the Internet. The explore web pages to define the terms and concepts and word process to design an assessment which becomes a reference sheet.

Students research five types of chemical reactions in order to design a learning center. Students use technology to research and present their material.

Learners, after reading the Web page Turbojet Thrust and completing the activity, explain how jet engines use air to produce thrust. The educational software ""FoilSim" is used in this lesson to help students calculate thrust.

Third graders examine how to summarize the most important details in a reading passage in order to increase their comprehension. They design a story web using the summarization skills. Before class, they complete a reading assignment...

Students revise the in-depth project based on the suggestions they receive from their peer editors and their N/R expert contacts for publication on a class Web page.

Students discover how Internet altered the public's involvement in the 2000 Democratic and Republican conventions, and synthesize their evaluations of convention sites to design their own pages for a convention-related Web site.

Students study about an autonomous underwater vehicle and explain the strategies that it uses to locate and map hydrothermal vents. In this marine navigation activity students design a program for an AUV survey.

Students pose a question that can be answered using the SEM and sand they collected from beach profiles. Then, they use the SEM to answer their question or test their hypothesis. Students design a small testable project and demonstrate...

Students and manipulate data from Internet sites to design a downhill ski course that meets the International Federation of Skiing's requirements for a safe and fair competition.

Learners explore the brain. In this science lesson, students create a model of the brain and discuss steps taken in order to protect the brain. Learners design a container that would protect the brain from injury. Students discuss the...

Students research ways to help a homeless shelter and design a service project to meet the needs. In this service project lesson, students identify and develop a list of ways to meet a homeless shelter's needs. Students then conduct a...

Students engage in the election process. For this public office lesson, students review the election and campaign process then design a campaign for their own selected office election using provided guidelines and links.