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SIMPLE FABARIC FOLDING FOR CHRISTMAS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore easy techniques for creating folded shapes with Christmas-colored fabrics to make quilts, stockings, table runners, placemats, pillows, or count-down calendars
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Rhythm - Principle of Design

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students demonstrate their knowledge of design through the creation of a portfolio. The assessment is based upon the portfolio. Design principles like rhythm are demonstrated.
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The Late Middle Ages (850 to 1492 A. D.)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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...
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Lemonade Stand: Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students run their own lemonade stand and are to figure out what to sell the lemonade at to gain the maximum profit.
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Yin Yang

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students apply yin and yang characteristics in sketches of clothing. They observe a PowerPoint presentation, discuss the characteristics of yin and yang and then apply their knowledge of the content to fashion sketches. They rate...
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Historical Witness - social Messaging

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine and develop artwork that shows women's roles during different eras. In this women's role lesson, students look at artwork that shows women at work during the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. They design a...
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Roll With the Punches: Oprah's On!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders prepare questions for an Oprah Winfrey talk show featuring the characters from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the amazing novel by Mildred D. Taylor. Selected students role-play the characters and answer questions Oprah...
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The Need for Normality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the need for measuring concentrations in normality in titrations. In this titrations and normality lesson, students perform titrations and use different indicators to show they change colors at different pH values....
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Lunar Lollipops

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate the phases of the moon using a lamp and styrofoam balls. In this lunar phases lesson, students stand around a lamp and act as Earth. They hold styrofoam balls and rotate to show the phases of the moon.
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Refinement in Deerfield: The River Gods

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research the town of Deerfield, CT and its River God families to show how the middle class developed in the Connecticut River Valley.
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You Are What You Wear

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students, after analyzing interactions between groups/societies, effects of causality/change over time, forms of imaginative writing and utilizing art media to conveying messages/meaning, examine the relationship between clothing and...
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Now and Then

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students record transformations and their effects within and across cultures. Students study the life of specific people in a former time period and then in the present time period. This teacher focused on the Winnebago tribe, using her...
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Rocket Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct an experiment. In this physical science lesson, students learn about Isaac Newton's theory that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Students show this theory by looking at how a rocket is propelled...
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A Biblical Perspective

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze money using a Biblical and business perspective. In this algebra lesson, students define their money relationship biblically and in a business fashion. They compare their view with the view of someone in the Gold Rush days.
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Channel Islands Film

Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 4

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Imagine being stranded all alone on an island for 18 years. How would you survive? Class members are challenged to makes necessities out of natural materials that would likely be found on an island.
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Guidance for Creating Reading Lessons for Dyslexic Students

For Teachers K - 12th
Here are a few practical tips and sound strategies you can use in writing effective reading lessons for your pupil with dyslexia. The resource provides simple guidelines and accommodations that can be incorporated into any lesson that...
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Social Media Toolbox

Social Media Roles

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Social media has changed the news publishing process, so how does it affect school news publications? Lesson nine in a 16-part series titled The Social Media Toolbox explores the traditional publishing roles through the lens of social...
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Writing Process

For Teachers 6th
Test students on what they know about the writing process and general grammar terms. The game is fashioned after the "Jeopardy" quiz show, where the answer is phrased in the form of a question. There are 25 questions and answers.
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Torn Paper Collage Portrait

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars watch demonstrations on how to create a collage out of different materials. Using town paper, they create their self-portrait and view art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. To end the instructional activity, they...
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Rock n' Rollin in the '50s

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the culture of the United States in the 1950's.  In this history activity, students research culture in the 1950's, with a focus on fashion, music, television, automobiles, etc., then work in groups to create a...
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The Art Of Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that focuses upon the use of persuasive speech. They conduct research into the famous sayings used by sideshow owners and performers from the Old West. Students then create advertisements for shows that could...
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Leisure Time

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write about and discuss personal leisure time activities and record their activities in a slide show format to present to their classmates. They work off a word bank of materials relating to fly-tying and fishing after all other...
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Diggin' The Past

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore the culture of Ancient Egypt. In this ancient civilizations lesson, students are divided into groups to research how aspects of culture were influenced by the Nile River. Young scholars create a slide show that...
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Students Exploring Cyberspace (SECs) Project

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners study AIDS and other current topics in a multinational, interdisciplinary fashion. They communicate with students from other countries throughout e-mail to find out how AIDS impacts other societies.

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