Middle schoolers review the basketball skills learned in class and are challenged to perform specific skills to the beat of the music.

Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.

Students discover strength resistance of arms in different positions by practicing personal defense positions.

Students work on balance by traveling along lines on the floor; and by starting and stopping a variety of locomotor movements with control.

Students act like the changes in the four seasons by moving like water in each season.

Pupils improve their locomotor skills and their knowledge of recycling. They participate in a relay as they recycle different objects into their proper containers.

Students practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.

Students demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.

Visual arts lesson plan featuring a group mural that is constructed by each student soda straw paintings that reflects the use of shape, color and hue.

A visual arts lesson plan combined with language arts, where the students will create a visual poem using crayons. Students are asked to make a connection to an important aspect or event their lives.

Young scholars improve upper body strength (push-ups). This can be used as part of a strength warm-up or as a fitness station.

Students describe unfamiliar objects and situations using existing vocabulary and circumlocution techniques.

Students explore self space while learning how to interact with others. They walk around the room, then sto on the freeze signal.

Students perform jumps and leaps from one lily pad to another to add to a study of frogs.

Students read newspaper editorials and apply the techniques to writing about school issues or current events. They submit the writing to the principal or newspaper editor.

Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.

Middle schoolers study the meaning of a water table and how it contributes to the existence of streams, swamps, and lakes in Nebraska. They conduct an experiment and complete a diagram of the hydrologic cycle.

Students compose a beat in the style of Kanye West. They listen to and analyze the song, "Through the Wire" by Kanye West, compose a beat, and complete a worksheet.

Young scholars examine the public's awareness of manatees by taking a survey. They display the results of the survey as a graph.

Students explore the physical phenomenon of shadows through movement improvisation and dance. They create an original dance phrase based on this imagery. All students then reproduce accurately the movement choices of another dancer.

Students work with a partner to follow the pathway-jumping in the different suggested ways. They listen to music to rotate from station to station. Students their favorite stations and levels of difficulty. They discuss the use of...

Learners dribble their ball to the opposite goal and try to score. The two noodle stoppers attempt to stop them from scoring by hitting the dribblers ball with their noodle. If their ball is noddle stopped they have to freeze at the spot...

Students create a shadow quilt using designs from the book Shadow Quilts by Patricia Magaret and Donna Slusser. They use the book's ideas to design the quilt with their own fabric choices. They practice the shadow quilt technique and...

Students observe an area of the schoolground, choosing a particular viewpoint or line of vision. At various times, students take photographs and videos of the observed area. Students write a news article based upon their observations.