Students practice making and interpreting pie graphs so they are better able to decide if a pie chart is the appropriate form of display. Students examine included overheads of different pie charts, and directions on how to make pie...

Students produce a 5 minute internet news cast about an active volcano

Students listen to a read aloud of Eric Carle's, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, as an introduction to their study of the metamorphosis of a butterfly. They participate in a number of cross-curricular activities in this unit of lessons.

For this rain forest web organizer worksheet, students complete a spoke type organizer while planning a report, project, or poster about the rain forest. They see pictures of rain forest animals in the center of the spokes.

In this evolution concept map worksheet, 7th graders use the vocabulary terms related to evolution to complete the evolution concept map.

Learners study genes. In this biology lesson plan, students measure their handspan size to determine if one pair or many pairs of genes control that trait.

Students create an organized web of nested grade level folers. Within each grade level folder, they create a Language Arts/Social Studies folder and a Math/Science folder. All folders be color coded.

Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.

Tenth graders explore the events of the Great Depression. They analyze the events and select those most important to contemporary people and the future of the nation. Students create a PowerPoint presentation over the Great Depression.

Fourth graders create fictional stories and demonstrate the use of various writing techniques. After selecting their main ideas, they find appropriate graphics to use as illustrations. In groups, 4th graders apply Hyperstudio in...

Students experiment with biomass materials as alternative energy sources. In this biomass material lesson, students participate in an experiment with cow manure to determine how it can be used as an energy source. They record their data...

Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, pupils practice sequencing events in a story. After reading the story, they head to the computer lab to use Kidspiration to sequence events. Then they create their own books to demonstrate...

Students explain their role as consumers. They use a purchased calorimeter or make their own simple calorimeter to measure the energy content in selected foods. This interesting lesson really gets students thinking about what they eat.

This PDF graphic organizer is a t-chart that will help students organize how land and sea animals are alike and how they are different. There are also color photographs of both types of animals at the top of the page. Requires Adobe Reader.