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Minding Your Body
Students explore the benefits of yoga and meditation by studying baseball players who incorporate them into their pre-season training. They investigate a variety of mind-body techniques and create a presentation for the class.
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African Savannah
Students are read two African fairy tales. Using the text, they create a map and key for each region mentioned. They compare and contrast the various communities and discover how geographic features affect how people live.
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Mahler
In this music instructional activity, students read a short piece about Gustav Mahler, the composer. They write responses to 10 questions about this romantic composer. Students are asked to comment on Mahler's interests, techniques, and...
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Viewing Earth and Sky
In this earth and sky instructional activity, students review terms associated with map reading. Students also review topographic maps and how contour lines represent elevation. This instructional activity has 5 matching, 5 true or...
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Forests of the World
In this forests worksheet, students read a one page informational excerpt on different forests throughout the world. They then use what they learned to answer the 20 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page of the...
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Conductors- Gustav Mahler
In this musical conductors learning exercise, 9th graders read about Gustav Mahler, nineteenth European conductor. They use this information and further research to answer 10 questions about his life and accomplishments.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Ch. 1-3)
In this online interactive Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice reading comprehension questions regarding chapters 1-3 of the book.
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Worksheet 5 Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns
For this plural nouns worksheet, students read 10 sentences that have missing words. Students write the plural form of a word in the word bank to complete each sentence.
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Let's Create an Ecosystem
Seventh graders discover how an ecosystem works by creating one in class. For this Earth science lesson, 7th graders study vocabulary terms associated with ecosystem and read environment handouts. Students create an...
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Conversation Starters
In this conversation worksheet, students read the conversation starters and pair up to have a conversation about family, education, and more. Students have 5 starters.
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Power In The Wind
Middle schoolers experiment designing graphs of selected readings from the Nebraska sites from the Power in the Wind study. They choose whether or not to put their data in a spreadsheet program to make a computer-generated graph or to...
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The Oily "Grail"
Students discover the quest for a balance between oil exploration and a concern for the environment in Alaska. They synthesize their knowledge by debating the current length of the oil-drilling season.
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Ground Beef Lab - Open-Faced Tacos
Students will use ingredients and read a recipe to create open faced tacos. The emphasis of the lesson is the kind of preparation that is needed to cook ground beef correctly to avoid diseases associated with improper preparation...
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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
Students read a recipe of beef jerky and explore the process. For this agriculture recipe lesson, students read the process and recipe for creating beef jerky. Students also read a history of the American Plains Indians and their...
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Holidays: Stress on the Body
Students read an article on stress and holiday weight gain. In this biology lesson, students research about the body's response to excess sugar in the diet. They create a pamphlet, billboard, newscast or journal article containing...
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Wintry Warmers
In this season worksheet, students read facts about winter and find 20 homophones. Students also correct the errors in the sentences.
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Study Unit 4, Revised: Run-On Sentences, Comma Splices and Fragments
In this language arts instructional activity, students read 20 sentences and look for errors. Students write R if the sentence is run-on, CS if there is a comma splice, F for a sentence fragment and C for a correct sentence.
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Breaking News English: Kofi Annan - Israel Attack Kills 4 UN Officials
For this English worksheet, students read "Kofi Annan - Israel Attack Kills 4 UN Officials," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
The classic book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs lesson, is used to help readers compare and contrast the weather in Chewandswallow to their own town. Students write their own fantasy weather story. This lesson is intended to be an...
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Outdoor Observation
Young scholars use observation materials to record what they find outdoors. In this senses lesson plan, students use their five senses to observe things outside. They use a clipboard, pencil, crayons, magnifying glass, and their senses...
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Teensy Weensy Scary Spiders
Students create "teensy weensy scary spiders" using foam balls, tissue paper, yarn, pipecleaner, scissors and glue in this Halloween art lesson for the early elementary classroom. It is suggested to begin the activity as a science...
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Weather
Students communicate how weather affects people, classify objects according to how they are used, and observe and record weather data using symbols.
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Rhythmic Movement Skills
Students explore rhythmic movements. In this performing arts lesson, students create their own movements and then repeat the each others movement. Finally, students create movements to the Haiku generated by the entire class.
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Winter Holiday Celebrations
Students understand how holidays revolve all around light. In this winter holidays lesson, students find the similarities and differences between the winter holidays. Students discuss the winter solstice and how it relates to the holiday...