Eighth graders complete a variety of football-themed activities. They develop creative writing projects with a football inspiration, research and interpret football statistics and practice football skills in P.E.

A passage from Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is the text for a cloze reading activity designed to determine the comprehension skills of class members. The resource includes the learning exercise, an answer key, and step-by-step...

Archerie, archery, arkhery, arhcery? Language learners are presented with the definition of various Olympic sports and challenged to select the correct spelling of the name of that sport. No answer key is provided.

Students utilize a trajectory formula in order to discover the physics of a thrown ball.  In this physics lesson, students videotape the trajectory of a thrown ball or basketball shot and analyze the action by breaking the video...

In this A Separate Peace activity, students answer 12 multiple choice questions about plot, characters, and theme of A Separate Peace by John Knowles.

Students identify gender stereotypes that exist today. They discover that both boys and girls can be good at the same things. They answer questions outloud to finish the lesson plan.

Middle schoolers participate in a game to identify with other people's points of view. They complete a worksheet about minefields and locate them on a map. They work together in groups to identify why the landmines were placed where they...

Students create a variety of poems based on information they gather about the worldwide landmine crisis. They create shape poems, diamante poems and acrostic poems. This is a very nice lesson plan on poetry, with a strong tie-in to the...