In this function worksheet, students complete five lessons all with exercise sets, examples, and definitions, and one set of miscellaneous exercises.  The concepts covers include: composite functions, inverse functions, graphs of...

Learners explore the concept of how air moves and reflect through working in groups about the scientific concept. This lesson is an extension to another similar lesson. Also students develop and draw their own models.

Fifth graders investigate the symmetry of pattern block shapes. Students, working in groups determine whether each shape has line symmetry, rotational symmetry or both kinds of symmetry. Students determine how many lines of symmetry the...

What kinds of birds live in your area? Read a book about birds to your learners and explore their feeding patterns. Charts and graphs are provided in this three page packet, but consider assigning the basic questions if using with young...

Review multiplication facts and concepts! This clear, and easy to follow lesson will help your class to understand multiplication by using arrays and repeated addition. There are strategies to help with memorization and manipulative...

Students practice grouping skills by sorting footwear of the class as a whole group. Activity can be extended by having individual students sort a variety of colored items using a sorting mat.

Students explore the extent of colonialism from the early periods in the 1500's to the later years in the mid 1900's. They explain how colonization differed in regions around the world and examine the lasting effects on the colonized...

Fourth graders draw pictures and diagrams as they attempt to solve a mathematical problem involving the arrangement of eleven tables shaped like equilateral triangles and the seating of exactly twenty-five people.

Help your kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a...

Students are exposed to simple machines and their uses. In this everyday tools lesson, students watch a demonstration on how a lever, pulley, ramp, and wheel works. Students are given the opportunity to use hands-on techniques to explore...

Learners explore slavery by reviewing the written laws intended to keep African Americans subservient. In this U.S. slavery lesson, students analyze a time-line of the history of African Americans. Learners discuss the patterns of the...

Students play a memory game as they explore reasoning. For this algebra lesson, students identify concepts using pictures and words. They model real life scenarios using hands on manipulatives.

Young scholars watch a demonstration on how to make easy-bias covered curves. Using that information, they practice making their own with different types of materials. They share their creations with the class to end the lesson.

Second graders participate in Math-Eze activities to comprehend word problems. In this word problem lesson plan, 2nd graders recognize why a hexagon is the best shape for a beehive. Students calculate how far bees must travel to find 2...

Learners view Elmer Holtzrichter's work Mystery Planet and discuss basic shapes and patterns. They create their own collage. and discuss the patterning they created. Students demonstrate how this pattern would sound with clapping and...

Students use the Internet to visit a dairy farm and watch the ins and outs of the every day life of a dairy cow. They survey products that are consumed that come from a cow. The students determine in what states cows would most likely...

First graders create number sentences.  In this math lesson, 1st graders use M&M's to make number sentences.  Students create charts using the color of the M&M's as data.

In this magnetism worksheet, students answer ten questions about magnets, their magnetic poles, the magnetic lines of flux and how magnets work.

Students, while working in groups under the Operation Genesis project involve fictional elements of role playing to grasp geographic concepts concerning human/environment interaction. They create the physical features of a fictional...

Students conduct an experiment. In this physical science instructional activity, students learn about Isaac Newton's theory that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Students show this theory by looking at how a...

Students linearize data to determine if an exponential model is suitable. For this linearizing data to determine if an exponential model is suitable lesson, students graph the residuals of sets of data that appear to have an exponential...

Third graders compose two or more simple sentences in response to a picture. They construct sentences and produce captions with 3 or more sentences that extend the subject/verb pattern. They demonstrate age appropriate correct use of...

Middle schoolers explore the Navajo culture. In this Navajo Indians lesson, students gain information about their weaving and dancing. Middle schoolers note the patterns in the weaving. Students create a dance that corresponds with the...

Learners explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. In this volleyball instructional activity, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with...