In this lesson plan, students will learn about Sacagawea and her contributions to the Corps of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through the lesson provided here, students will not only learn about civil rights and civil liberty but also understand the key roles played by President Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. The detailed...

Great teacher resource for helping your middle schoolers learn about immigration and why people come to the United States. Help them understand the whole immigration process and why some immigrants may have complications. Includes a...

Students will learn about the life stories of victims of the Holocaust in order to see the victims as people and not numbers. Using pages of testimonies written by relatives or acquaintances, students will discuss the life of the...

In this lesson, young scholars learn about the structure and function of the human eye and research how it compares to animal eyes. They will then choose an eye, write a description, and make an illustration of it, which other students...

Familiarize your students with South America by having them create a slideshow of a "Tour of South America" that focuses on its culture, geography, and history. This will help the students learn more about South America's people and places.

This lesson plan focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in...

This lesson plan shows that by studying the population of the U.S. through census figures, middle schoolers can learn about interesting cultural and economic trends.

Introduce your young scholars to South America with this physical map activity. The resource contains a detailed lesson plan to help students learn about the geography, people, and environment of South America.

For this instructional activity, students conduct research on what paleontologists do when they study dinosaur fossils. They learn about some of the major paleontologists, what they discovered, and how opinions about fossils change over...

Lesson discussing quarter, eighth, and half notes and using them to create rhythms for students to clap. Includes instructions for 4 small group centers.

Use triangles and worksheets to guide the learning of triangles to the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem.

The students will be using discovery techniques to learn about box and whisker plots.

Students explore the outermost planets of our solar system: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They also learn about characteristics of Pluto and its interactions with Neptune. Students learn a little about the history of space travel as well...

This lesson will engage students in discovery learning. Through various tasks, 6th graders will learn the characteristics and challenges in daily family life that may be experienced when living independently. Communication skills are...

This unit allows students to research some common herbal supplements to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the herb. Students will compare the herbal supplements to pharmaceutical medicines to judge which is the better choice....

This lesson is part of a project-based, hands-on unit in which children discover the native cultures that existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of explorers. The students will "become" part of their assigned culture through...

Diabetes has a history dating back to Ancient Greece. Our treatment of it, however, is more recent and was originally made possible with the help of man's best friend. Due to physiological traits shared with humans, dogs have saved...

NASA site features a lesson plan that teachers can use to help their students see how far they are from each of the planets.

In this lesson, 5th graders will use primary sources to learn about World War I. Students will record their discoveries about World War I on a graphic organizer provided with the lesson.