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Academic Raceway 500: Vocabulary Using Context Clues
This vocabulary skills PowerPoint presents a game to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within a sentence. The game is based on the theme of a car race. The goal of the PowerPoint game is to finish the race...
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Not So Strange
Students examine aspects of culture that may seem strange and prepare skits illustrating how a person may want to behave in these situations without being offensive.
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power
Students explore the earning power of someone with a post-high school education. In this education and income lesson, students evaluate examples of occupations, their salaries, and education level needed for the job. Students calculate...
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Saint Patrick's Day - Cloze Activity
Learn about St. Patrick's Day traditions while filling in the blanks with prepositions, articles, and conjunctions in a one-page cloze activity. Grammarians can get a score and see correct answers in this online interactive exercise. For...
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Outdoor Survival
Students are introduced to basic outdoor survival concepts. They identify the seven basic needs for survival. Students describe the symptoms and treatment for frostbite and hypothermia. They compare and contrast the value of different...
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Roanoke- Reading Selection and Questions
In this Roanoke reading and questions worksheet, students read a two page selection about the colony of Roanoke. They answer 3 multiple choice questions, 5 fill in the blank questions, and 2 true or false questions based on the reading.
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the Business of Good Ideas
Students consider economic factors in patenting a new invention. They research an already-patented health product and assess its profitability.
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Giving Them the Business
Young scholars work in small groups of 4-5 students to form a business, create, market and sell their product, and track their expenses and profits. They experience the roles of the producer, distributor, and consumer of goods.
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People Who Wear Uniforms
In this people who wear uniforms worksheet, students write what job they have based on the description. Students complete 11 questions.
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Biological Diversity and Conservation
In this conservation biology worksheet, students will complete 9 short answer questions on the different strategies of conservation biology, including the Endangered Species Act and establishing protected areas for animals.
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HAPPY SOIL, SAD SOIL
Learners will be able to identify the characteristics of healthy soil and unhealthy soil.Take the class outside to an area of thick grass near trees, if available. Compare the
clothes people wear to the thin cover. Discuss the reasons...
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Watchable Wildlife Checklist
In this wildlife worksheet, students will read over a list of 28 native animal species, their needs, and interesting characteristics. This list can be used as a checklist when out on a hike or in the school yard to identify common wildlife.
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Paper, Plastic, Glass, and Metal Recycling
In this recycling worksheet, students complete 4 pages with 5 essay questions each. The pages are about plastic, glass, metal, and paper recycling. Research will be needed. This is best suited for students in the UK.
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Ad Targeting and Techniques
Students explore advertising techniques. In this advertising lesson, students discuss what a target audience is. They brainstorm what products might be targeted toward them and other target audiences such as their parents. Students also...
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Out of the Dust
Students examine 1930's America through literature. In this Dust Bowl instructional activity, students read Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust and set up vocabulary journals and question bookmarks to log their thoughts and impressions as they...
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Chapter 17 – The Great Depression
In this U.S. history learning exercise, students read assigned textbook pages on the Great Depression and respond to 27 short answer questions.
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English Idioms II - Money Talk
In this idioms activity, students match the idioms to their meaning. Students match 12 idioms to their correct meaning on this activity.
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Discovering the Regions of France
High schoolers explore the regions of France. In this cultural studies lesson, students research the geographic and cultural regions of France. High schoolers prepare PowerPoint presentations to share their findings with...
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Peter Rabbit Meets Charles Darwin
Ninth graders explore evolution. They study a cartoon scenario of a rabbit population in which there is selection and a change of gene frequency. Students discuss frequencies, evolution, and speciation.
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Coral Reef Lesson Plan Caution: Do Not Bleach!
High schoolers explain five ways that coral reefs benefit humans and identify three threats to the reefs. They investigate the phenomenon of "coral bleaching" while examining ways to reduce threats to coral reefs.
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LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING
The student will recognize different information sources. 2. The student will use a telephone book as a resource for locating agricultural businesses
and people with agriculture-related jobs.Discuss the purpose of the phone book, and...
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Wondrous Water
Students explore the different properties of water. They experimenting with different activities, each one explaining a different property of water. Students read an article "Small, Ues, But Might: The Molecule Called Water." and then...
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Gobble, Gobble and Gobble Some More?
Learners are taught about stomach capacity and they reflect on how overeating might affect the body. They discuss the biological effects of binge eating by reading and discussing the article "Ate Too Much? Tight Pants May Be the...