In this Excel lesson, students set a formula to check their homework. Students also use clipart, work in groups, and learn to use the tools in the drop-down list.

Students read a story called Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current event Lose a Million Pounds lesson plan, students respond to literature by...

Students examine popular media. In this media awareness lesson, students keep logs of their interactions with media and then write an essay regarding the data.

Students calculate bowling scores by using math skills. In this bowling lesson, students take a trip to a bowling alley and use a worksheet to figure out bowling scores. Students use prior math skills such as addition to calculate their...

Students obtain how polls are conducted. They differentiate between scientific and non-scientific poll. They analyze the role that polls play in an election.

Learners reflect on the importance of science literacy. They review the year's science curriculum by reading, discussing and writing questions on teacher-selected New York Times articles and the related science content.

Young scholars read the newspaper article, "A Pat and a Nudge from Outgoing Chief," about President Clinton's end of term actions, then discuss it.

Students consider the accuracy of the Web sites they regularly use, then prepare for a formal debate on the reliability of Wikipedia and similar Web sites. For homework, they prepare note cards and practice delivering their orations.

Learners discuss the impact that fans have on a sports team. After reading an article, they identify how Chicago Cubs fans are responding to their loss in the playoffs. With a partner, they develop surveys in which they give to family...

Students share their all-time favorite books with peers. They read and discuss the article Notable Children's Books of 2007. Afterward, they create book webs and compose reviews based on their book selections.

In this math worksheet, 3rd graders tell the value of American coins. They count the number of each coin in the illustration. Students tell the value of a dollar and the number of dollars in the illustration. Links for coin lessons are...

For this English worksheet, learners, with a partner, interview their partner about several topics including general information, motivation for studying English and personal language learning experiences.

In this grammar learning exercise, students choose the appropriate colloquial pair phrase to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.

Third graders compare numbers. In this math activity students compare ones, tens, and hundreds. They also order numbers from least to greatest and from greatest to least.

Students explore several significant figures and events of the Civil Rights Movement and sequence the key events to create a timeline. The lesson plan utilizes the story, "The Story of Ruby Bridges," the work of Robert Coles to introduce...

Students use the Internet and video to discover how find evidence in poetry in order to discover the theme(s) of the poems. They are able to define poetic devices like simile, metaphor and repetition. Students identify themes in...

Students discuss what roles the clergy, nobles and peasants played during the late Middle Ages. They explain what led to the growth of trade and towns in Western Europe. Ultimately, students describe how kings in Western Europe built...

In this vocabulary building worksheet, students read 8 sentences that have a missing word. Students analyze 4 possible answers and check all possible completions.

In this vocabulary review worksheet, students determine synonyms in sentences. Students answer ten multiple choice sentences.

In this scrambled letters worksheet, learners unscramble groups of words that are categorized. Students determine fifteen words and write in blank spaces.

In this which word doesn't belong worksheet, students determine categories from groups of words and find the words that don't belong. Students discover nine words.

In this conversation completions learning exercise, students choose phrases and sentences to complete communication sentences. Students determine four fill in the blank answers.

For this past tense verbs worksheet, students fill in 11 blanks by using the correct form of one of the verbs in each word pool. There are three paragraphs to complete.