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Floor Hockey
Students practice key aspects of floor hockey: passing, playing cooperatively, moving the ball or puck with both sides of the stick and shooting. They practice drills and play a game without a goalie.
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Conservation Collage
Students identify many different ways the environment is polluted, and determine ways to prevent pollution. They create a collage of pictures describing how the earth becomes polluted.
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How Does Radon Get Into Your Home?
Middle schoolers examine their home and calculates the amount of ventilation found. They also compute the surface area of different objects. They determine what is needed to reduce the amount of radon entering the home.
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What Is The Relationship Between Radon and Breathing?
Students examine the effects of radon on their breathing. They review the anatomy of the respiratory system before completeing this lesson plan. They also complete equations to show how carbon dioxide forms in their body.
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Trail Adventure
Students create a trail with numbered specimens. Students complete an accurate and functional interactive trail activity brochure. They complete a web page tree identification guide and interactive identification activity. Students...
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Managing Medical Conditions
Twelfth graders discover more about a medical condition that is of interest to them and write what they have learned about that condition, using the information as a personal resource or to share with others.
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Helping Each Other, Near and Far
First graders examine their knowledge of the world as a larger place than just their immediate environment. They examine how people in Africa are fighting malaria and other issues. During the instructional activity they listen to a...
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WALK, DON'T RUN
1. Bring two quarts of moist soil, a cake pan, a sprinkling can of water and a quart of grass clippings to class.
2. Share background material, and introduce the word "erosion."
3. Prepare a small model hill by mounding the soil in the...
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Presenting Ecology through Rodent Control
Students discuss and explore an ecological problem regarding rodent populations. In this investigative lesson students work in teams, research a problem and present their findings to the class.
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Ground Zero
Eleventh graders study one way that citizens who are involved in a community may determine its needs. In this Government lesson, 11th graders present a power point on community and community needs.
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Protein
Students examine protein, what it is and how it functions in the body. In this protein lesson students study the food pyramid, what a protein is and what it does.
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Dear Darla
Pupils write a letter. In this language arts lesson, students play the role of an advice column journalist. Pupils respond to a letter asking for advice.