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Breaking Barriers
High schoolers examine the context of a speech delivered by Barack Obama. In this African-American history instructional activity, students discuss the 15th Amendment and the American Civil Rights Movement prior to analyzing Barack...
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Five Themes of Geography and Current Events
Basically, pupils look for a current world event from a reputable source and identify the five themes of geography within it. Throughout the school year, they keep a notebook of these current events. A grading guideline is outlined, and...
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Get in Order
Students practice putting events from a written passage in chronological order, both in groups and individually.
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Job Applications
Learners fill out job applications for openings as sales clerk and stocker. They role play being the "Boss" to critique job applications.
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Observation Challenge
Fourth graders, in groups, use observation skills at 12 stations and describe what they see.
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School Daze - Remembering First, Best, Worst
Students gather and record information in interviews with adults discovering their first, best, and worst school memories, and transfer interviews into memory pages containing the interview information.
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The Fraction Race
The students participate in a game involving a hula hoop and basketballs. After each student participates in the activity, they write their game score in fraction form using the points they earned over the points possible.
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Abbreviations, Substitutions, Equivalents, Cooking Terms
Learners review abbreviations of words used in recipes, acceptable substitutions of foods in recipes, standard equivalents of measurements and correct terminology of cooking terms through the use of written assignments.
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Movement and Vocabulary Development
Students participate in various activities to use movement and body awareness to expand vocabulary and word meaning.
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Give a Mouse a Cookie
Students listen to the book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. As they listen to the story, they fill in a progression chart. Then students write and illustrate their own story to share with the class.
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Listen to This
Seventh graders listen to a set of instructions and complete a drawing. In this listening skills instructional activity, 7th graders listen to a set of oral directions and follow a command. Students then listen to a second set of...
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Meat Test
Students explore basics of meat, meat cookery, and preparation skills and techniques in safe handling procedure. Students state qualities or advantages of casserole, identify parts of casserole, food ingredients, function of...
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Harmonic Motion
In this waves worksheet, students review the characteristics of harmonic waves including amplitude, cycle, phases, and friction. This worksheet has 37 problems to solve.
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Covering and Surrounding
Pupils develop techniques for estimating the area of a circle and use ideas about area and perimeter to solve practical problems. In this area and perimeter lesson, students apply the concepts of perimeter and area to the solution of...
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My Weather Dial
Students construct a weather dial. In this weather lesson, students examine different types of weather and design a weather dial for use during the daily math meeting.
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Management of Grief and Loss
Fifth graders learn of coping behaviors related to grief and loss. They recognize the tasks associated with the grief and loss process. They also have an opportunity to identify common ways literary characters cope with loss.
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Baby Cell Facts of Life
Students examine the roles of an animal cell's parts, how each part relates to one another and then demonstrate their knowledge by writing a story about the animal cell structure.
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Double This
Students change verbal expressions to algebraic equations. They practice the vocabulary of algebraic equations.
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Allegry Season
Pupils use the Internet to research allergies. They discover different companies which are involved in helping Americans relieve their allergy symptoms. They finally discover the different types of allergy causing agents.
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Be a Whale
Young scholars explore the body shape, behavior and history of gray whales by creating origami whale hats. Students role-play whale behavior as they listen to a story.
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Bits and Pieces
In this activity, students will use a collection of objects as the basis for writing a tale about the people who used them.
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Stupid Quiz
Students listen and discuss word problems that promote students to demonstrate logical reasoning. In this logical reasoning lesson plan, students discuss 10 word problems.
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Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.