Fifth graders study place value. After forming teams, they play a game called, "Who Can Line Up the Number." Students observe numbers in expanded form and place representative digits in the correct order.

Eighth graders explore the pottery traditions of North Carolina through a progression of investigation and hands on experience. State Standards are addressed during this two to three week lesson on regional pottery techniques.

Pupils define the terms polygon and perimeter to begin the activity. Using a calculator, they practice determining the perimeter of various symbols in a painting. They discuss how geometry and art are related to one another.

In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students determine whether or not a relation is a function.  Students determine the domain of a function and express the answer in interval notation.  The three page worksheet contains...

Seventh graders create a graph of their Christmas gifts. They develop categories, compute fractional and decimal parts for each category, identify the number of degrees to represent each fractional part, and create a circle graph to...

Students investigate with radio waves that are used to remotely sense the topography beneath the ice sheet. They experiment with travel time of waves and convert data to distance and depth. As a result, they develop a profile of the...

Students use their imagination in cooperative efforts to role play processes in Science. Each student in the group 'plays' the 'part' of one part of the process. The other groups then watch as each group acts out their version of the...

Third graders go on a mission to research three different habitats on the campus of Manchester College so that they can be part of a resuce effort. They work in groups and each group starts at a different habitat. Group one starts at...

Students explore number sense applications and discuss strategies for multiplication and division using mental math. For cross-curricular purposes, they explore causes and effects of inequality and social injustice. Students explore...

Fourth graders complete math problems where they round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand. In this rounding lesson plan, 4th graders explain how to round the problems they solve.

Students compare two lengths using the area of a square. In this geometry lesson, students solve problems using ratio and proportion of the two shapes. They solve equations by taking the square root of both sides.

Fourth graders use two activities to draw four different conic sections. One activity is of a physical nature and one is traditional paper and pencil.

Students complete a unit of lessons on web pages and web page creation. They conduct Internet research, identify the characteristics of effective and ineffective websites, construct a glossary of terms, and develop three web pages.

Students create artistic renditions of two random adjectives and one noun in this game-like Art lesson for the elementary and middle school classroom. The cross-curricular lesson includes a vocabulary list and a short resource list.

Fourth graders write full paragraphs about important historical figures from Virginia's history. They research an the historical figure before word processing three complete paragraphs using facts and appropriate clipart. They compare...

Students investigate numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers and number systems. They comprehend the meaning of operations and how they relate to each other.

Students illustrate the paper recycling process. They collect and weigh all the newspapers that come to their house in a week's time. Pupils multiply this number by all the weeks in a yeat and again by an estimate of the number of...

Fifth graders examine how to see patterns by showing how things work together. They identify, analyze and determine a rule for predicting and extending numberical patterns involving operations of whole numbers, decimals and fractions.

Fourth graders select the Quadrilateral Quest game, they find all quadrilaterals with the given properties. They are told that the word congruent in this game means equal. Students are given two to four properties of quadrilaterals. ...

Students 'browse' like a deer, demonstrate how deer react when danger appears, demonstrate survival of the fittest, identify 4-5 sources of danger to deer and describe 1-2 ways deer protect themselves.

Eighth graders explore the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment.  In this US History lesson, 8th graders read and analyze primary source documents.  Students write a three minute paper demonstrating their understanding of the...

Learners explore physical education by participating in a game with their class. In this number sense lesson, students utilize their motor skills while performing a music version of racquetball. Learners utilize math skills by...

Students debate issues. In this debate instructional activity, students are presented topics to debate. Working in small groups, students compete in one minute boxing rounds.  Resources are included.

Students are segregated into groups according to their clothing and experience first hand what it feels like to be a minority in everyday life. For this cultural acceptance lesson plan, students experience discrimination first hand....