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The Effects of Meteor Impacts
Students investigate meteor impacts on the Earth's surface by using different size balls and charting their impacts, given their diameter and mass.
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Urban Rocks: Investigating Stone Used for Buildings and Monuments
Learners observe the rocks and stones used to build and carve monuments during a field trip.
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Ceramic Owls
Students creat owls through the use of slabs of clay with pinched beak and tufts. They use a clay tool or nail to add shape to mak wings. Students use shells, and other items to create texture. After the creations have dried, students...
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D-Day: June 6, 1944
Students examine the preparations for the invasion of France on June 6, 1944. After viewing a clip from "The War", they identify the demands and concerns of all military leaders for this invasion. They use maps to examine the...
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Little Dragon's Birthday
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a four paragraph story. After reading, they answer five multiple choice, two short answer, and six fill in the blank questions. They also write a paragraph and put five sentences...
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Spaceship math Multiplication 1-12
In this multiplication worksheet, students solve 40 problems where they find the product where the factors are the numbers 1 through 12. Space is provided at the bottom of the page to record a goal, the number of problems complete and...
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No is No, Si is Yes
Third graders match the body part words in Spanish to a picture. They receive a picture of a human with lines coming from its feet, hands, and arms. Students use a word bank, to write the Spanish word that corresponds to the picture. ...
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Initial Sounds with Word Families
In this word sound worksheet, students practice different word and letter sounds. They repeat rhymes, name letters, review letter sounds, review similar word sounds and complete an activity where they use a word bank to fill in the...
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Segmenting and Blending with Word Families
Students sound out CVC words. In this literacy lesson, the teacher guides students through the process of sounding out three-letter words with a as the middle vowel using both repetition and movement. Then students complete a worksheet.
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Word Identification
Students identify grocery items using words on a list. In this grocery word identification lesson, students use a grocery list to choose items from simulated grocery store shelves in their classroom. They work in groups to simulate a...
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Encouraging Cooperative Learning Among Gifted and Talented Students
Literature circles, and other similar methods, provide cooperative learning opportunities.
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Water Cycle (Grades 2-4)
Students demonstrate their understanding of the water cycle and how it effects the environment by graphically depicting and describing the water cycle.
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Pop Into My Community
First graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.
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PERCEIVINGT A CULTURE THROUGH ITS LITERATURE
Young scholarsexamine cultural values in literature, identify the cultural assumptions, prejudices, and purposes of authors and translators, use historical perspective to determine if the values and lifestyle depicted apply to...
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Perceiving a Culture Through Its Literature
Students read After Seventeen Years by Kim Yong Ik and discuss the cultural, political and geographical aspects of Korea that specifically affect the events in the story.
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Remote Sensing
Students study the effects of global warming on specific organisms. They research the possible problems global warming is causing.
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Inference By Analogy
Students infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustration.
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Students select an astronomer or scientist from the past, research the role that they played in the development of the heliocentric revolution, and make presentations on their achievements.
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Surface Tension Grabbers
Learners use the following quick activities to comprehend what surface tension is: 1. Fill a gas bottle with water. Place an uncentered burner screen over the bottle. Hold the screen in place with your finger and invert the bottle on...
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"The Soil Around Us" Project
Young scholars look at Web sites containing information about soil and related subjects such as earthworms. They use Web site review sheets to focus their review of the content on the sites and to introduce evaluation concepts for the...
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Pretty Posy Picture Holder
In this art project instruction sheet instructional activity, students read the directions on how to make a picture frame holder in the shape of a flower. There are 8 steps, with a photograph included.
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The World’s Longest Bridge
In this comprehension learning exercise, students read a story and answer the six multiple choice questions that follow. They identify the longest bridge in the world, what happened during construction, and what possible dangers to the...
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Reading: Johnny Appleseed
In this Johnny Appleseed worksheet, students read information about Johnny Appleseed and answer comprehension questions. Students answer eight true and false statements.