Use this lesson plan to help students learn about cylinders. Students will be creating cylinders, and comparing them and their capacity. This engaging, hands-on lesson will hold student interest and be very beneficial to student learning.

Art lessons for elementary students. They are sorted into categories of grade levels, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.

This site contains lessons using Geometer's Sketch Pad for elementary and middle school aged young scholars.

Quadrilaterals-parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids-are thoroughly introduced in this lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school students. Lots of resources are linked to it to help support the teacher and students....

A collaboration of elementary level lessons on data management and analysis. Some examples of the topics demonstrated are grids, timelines, and weather.

In this lesson students will practice finding the area rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes.

A lesson plan format for a high school student to write an autobiography using the elementary school alphabet book format. ("A is for Alabama. I was born in Alabama")

Have your students practice writing directions, then listening to and comprehend those directions with this lesson plan.

This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan introduces a variety of motion geometry concepts such as translations, reflections, and rotations. Lots of interactive support for learners.

This robust lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school grades introduces the concepts for lines, rays, line segments, and planes. Resources are linked to it and ready for your use.

A list of language arts lesson plans with corresponding books for young pupils with special needs. Click on the links in the right-hand column to access the complete lesson plan.

Great lesson for upper elementary students who think that all art has to look "real." Through the images of Edvard Munch's work, students come to understand the role emotion can play in creating visually compelling work.

Lesson for early elementary and special education students using graphic organizers/thinksheets to learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and honesty. Students finish by creating pop-up or pocket books about honesty with teacher...

Primary elementary lesson plan about primary colors. One rainbow activity and one blending activity.

Activities and an easy to read biography on President Barack Obama for the elementary student. With printable activity pages; including cloze activities, synonym sheets, essay topics and more! Also includes links to information on the...

Lesson plan from the Illinois Institute of Technology that incorporates many demonstrations like pulling a tablecloth from under a place setting, or launching a rocket to show Newton's laws.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video lesson explains the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to assess student...

This upper elementary lesson plan focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Students will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.

Five day lesson plan uses a variety of resources to cover the book, From Seed to Pumpkin, by Wendy Pfeffer.

After creating three different ramps with various heights, students will release toy cars from the tops of each ramp. Based on the elementary age level, students will collect data and analyze it.

This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Using a candy bar as a theme, students will explore their common link to other "systems on a global scale." Mutual dependence is a key concept taught in this lesson....

Understanding cultural differences is one of the main concepts taught in this instructional activity from the American Forum for Global Education. Students take a close look at communication and cultural differences.

Using some basic items, you can demonstrate the basic principles of sound, pitch, and vibration. This will allow the elementary student to discover some basic principles of sound and vibrations.

This lesson challenges students to speculate about voting requirements. Students will begin learning vocabulary that is used when talking about voting.