Students recognize the need for a standard unit of volume. They estimate and measure to the nearest liter. Also they relate the liter to the familiar everyday containers.

Students gather statistical information on a chosen topic and place it into a spreadsheet. Using th Excel chart wizard, students create tables, graphs and charts of their information. They interpret the data and share it with the class.

Young scholars recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pseudo words...

Learners pose scientific questions about food items and research their explanations. They then create recipe cards with the answers and present their findings in a cooking show format.

Students investigate how correspondences appear differently in different words. They also recognize the difference between long and short vowels. Students study how these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently.

Second graders are involved in hands on and guided practice activities for learning how to put words in order to make a telling sentence make sense.

Learners demonstrate that, although we sometimes can neither smell nor taste them, many ingredients in our foods and household products come from the sea. They also investigate food eat to determine algae derivatives they contain.

Students design and create a graph of data they have collected on their favorite candy bars. They explore how to organize data as well.

First graders listen to and discuss historical fiction and bigraphies from the early American time period. They role-play, draw, write stories and dress up to re-create events from these historical characters.

Students explore the process of harvesting and canning prunes. They discover the benefits of prunes to the Santa Clara Valley. Students investigate prunes at designated websites.

Seventh graders perform research related to the concept of the European Union. By becoming familiar with the Union they comprehend the advantages and disadvantages of the governmental structure.

Students demonstrate a higher level of thinking in writing a poem that delivers a message of wisdom and is metaphorical in meaning. They study the use of metaphors in poetry as well as the meaning and use of concrete and abstract words...

Fifth graders explore the phases of matter, make observations of matter, the physical and chemical properties of matter, solutions and mixtures, formation of molecules and atoms and molecules all through hands on activities.

Students explore why the Founding Fathers felt it was necessary to have a solitary form of money used throughout the land. Students create their own money systems and have a class sale to simulate the confusion of multiple forms of...

Learners identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

Students examine how to become more efficient readers by practicing repeated readings. They listen as the teacher models both non-fluent and fluent reading before working with a partner to read assigned sentences a number of times. They...

Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through matching and listening activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify...

Students answer a series of question about different letter sounds. They verbally practice the sounds of each letter following set responses. They write the different letters and find words that start with that letter.

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will determining the top three flavors of ice cream bars that an ice cream truck should serve. Students must work in cooperative groups as they work to...

This lesson is a an activity that allows young scholars to analyze the Four P's of the marketing mix and determine the target market for three ice cram brands. This lesson is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.

An investigation into change of state where students prepare small bags of ingredients and shake them within a bag of ice and salt to see if they can make ice-cream. As they progress, they apply the scientific method.

Third graders can collect and represent data with a unique scale.

Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...

In this lesson, students will figure out how many different combinations of ice cream flavors and cones they can make. Students will work cooperatively to make the different combinations. They will use various materials to actually make...