Students explore the major characteristics of the major animal phyla. They describe adaptive features that have contributed to the success of animals on land. Students explain how primate evolution provides a context for understanding...

For this personification worksheet, students first read a short description about personification. Students are then asked to underline words that represent a quality of a person. Finally, students look at words such as 'frog' and try...

Sixth graders complete a human traits survey.  In this genetics lesson plan students read articles and fill out a worksheet on genotype and phenotypes. 

Students explore the implications of genocide. In this genocide lesson, students reflect on the response of America to genocide in Armenia, Rwanda, and Darfur. Students consider how to prevent the loss of human life through genocide.

Students explore the Holocaust. In this world history lesson, students research Nazi oppression under Hitler's rule as they read Holocaust and Human Behavior and Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe.

Students study the growth of humans and animals and their various stages.  In this developmental lesson students study the life cycle and what that is in humans. 

Students share what they know about the human heart. In this early anatomy lesson, students discuss the location, shape, and importance of the human heart.

In this hyperbola worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 6 different problems. First, they determine the cross-section of a hyperbolic paraboloid curve. Then, students find where the cone intersects the ground in hyperbola as...

First graders sing about their body. In this music instructional activity students sing the songs "I Shake My Thumb" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they...

Students participate in a variety of activities to introduce them to biology. In this biology lesson plan, students use microscopes, discover bacteria, view human anatomy, and more.

Eighth graders perform a variety of activities to explore the human nervous system--making posters, charts, presentations, etc. All activities are extremely well designed and planned for clear assessment.

Students study the origins of New Year's Resolutions while practicing taking dictation and identifying interesting points in a piece that is read to them. They investigate the types of things that people resolve on the first day of the...

Students realize the importance of organisms as standards of measurement and experimentation.The first lab is a simple survival curve that demonstrates the effects of UV light on cells. The second lab looks at repair mechanisms of the...

Students list all equations needed to solve a three variable equation using the Method of Lagrange, after first signing an honor pledge to promise that they have followed the rules on the first page. They solve each equation, telling the...

Sixth graders study the effect of pollution in our food chains. In this plant biology lesson, 6th graders first experiment with pollution by placing a carnation in colored water. Next they use a food chain triangle to see the...

Students make pyramids. In this sports and sciences lesson students work cooperatively with their group members to build human pyramids. The focus is on safety and working together regardless of personal differences.

Middle schoolers develop photo essays on Madagascar's environmental challenges. In groups, middle schoolers research and develop photo essay slide shows to explore the issues of balancing the needs of Madagascar's human population with...

Students discover how to travel from one learning center to another by participating in a human train activity. They sing a song which highlights the center activity as they travel along from center to center.

Students research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.

High schoolers discover that Dorothea Dix was the first to make the pubic aware of the terrible living conditions of people with mental illness in the 1800's. They evaluate the influence of citizen action on public policy.

Young scholars demonstrate how to take bearings using a compass. In pairs, they select objects in the classroom then write down its first initial and bearing. They exchange papers and try to disciver their partner's object.

Students view a short film on the rise of Nazism and its main principles. They read first hand accounts of Kristallnacht and identify turning points in Hilter's foreign policy. They write a newspaper article describing what happened...

Students study Langston Hughes's poetry, short stories, and his first autobiography. They read and appreciate the candid, honest and powerful creative masterpieces of this black genius and discuss the numerous universal themes and...

Second graders review the characteristics and aspects of volcanoes. Using this information, they write a creative story and draw illustrations to accompany the words. They use geographical terms to describe a location and the physical...