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Present Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this game students move around a game board by spinning a spinner and moving to the next place on the board whose shape matches the one they spun.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and discuss still-life paintings and develop a definition for the genre. They paint their own still life paintings from direct observation.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and analyze the characteristics of European still-life paintings. They paint still-life arrangements using various opaque medium techniques.
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Angles: Angles, Angles, Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students estimate and accurately measure the size of angles communicate with the appropriate geometric terms and symbols to describe and name angles, lines, line segments, rays
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What a Site!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to how to properly create a grid site. In groups, they use Cartesian coordinates to establish the boundaries for the grid and photograph the location of artifacts. They exchange their photos with another...
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Discovering Art - Scott Gallery: Line

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study how line is used in art. They identify horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in artwork. They view the painting, The Western Brothers, and identify the line the dog makes and the position of the boy's arm. They discuss...
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Physics Rewind

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders differentiate speed and velocity. In this physics lesson plan, 8th graders explain Newton's laws of motion. They calculate speed using a mathematical formula.
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Parallax

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils discover how astronomers used the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a baseline for estimating the distance of some stars, and the meaning of "Parsec" and "light year."
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Mine Is! Is Yours?

For Teachers 1st
First graders engage in a lesson which teaches the concept of symmetry through the use of letters in the student's name. They use a piece of yarn to see if they can make symmetrical pieces out of their own names.
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Mobile-ize

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using a minimum of four space figures, create a mobile. They use a "Draw" program to first plan out their figure.
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Introduction to Plates, Axles, and Gears

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils are introduced to the function and design of the following Lego pieces: beams, bricks, plates, axles, tires, hubs and bushings. They then work with a partner to build something using only these pieces.
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Physical Pendulum Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students calculate the moment of inertia of a disc. In this physics lesson plan, students differentiate the two methods used in finding the inertia. They construct their own pendulum for the lab.
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Portrait Propaganda

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers design an installation for a portrait of Hadrian in an ancient Roman town to illustrate and comprehend its propaganda role in daily life.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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Shape Makes a Difference!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners learn the difference between perimeter and area by watching a video and a hands on activity.
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Assignment: Creating within a Limited Format

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students follow set of guidelines to create a picture of an apple with a stem and leaf. They think about whether they are more or less creative when working within a set of rules.
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Data Days

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice collecting, organizing and displaying data. They create circle, bar, line and picto graphs. They analyze data in small and large sample groups.
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Can You Catch the Water?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars work together to construct a model of a water catchment basin. They survey water patterns and complete experiments to see where rain travels and collects. They discover how engineers design structures that help with...
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Fitness

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine how to design regular and semi-regular tessellations of the plane. They develop the ability to demonstrate why a tessellation covers the plane in this series of lessons.
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Slimy cells

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study the parts of a cell.  In this chemistry lesson students complete an activity in which they make as much slime as they want. 
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Measurement, Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept of measurement.  In this measurement instructional activity, students collect data about themselves such as height, finger length, neck circumference, foot length, and other body measurements. ...
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Vectors

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students differentiate distance and displacement. In this physics lesson plan, students use formulas to calculate for displacement. They draw vectors using the grid.
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Rotating Rings of Ice

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students work together to develop a model of Saturn and its rings. They identify what types of materials make up the rings and how they revolve around Saturn. They write a short paragraph describing the rings.
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Matter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete a unit of activities to learn about states of matter and how to measure matter. In this matter lesson plan, students complete 8 lessons to learn about matter, its states, and how to measure matter.

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