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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Ch. 1-3)
In this online interactive Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH activity, students respond to 14 multiple choice reading comprehension questions regarding chapters 1-3 of the book.
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Hershey and Advertising
Students examine Hershey advertising history. In this marketing lesson, students analyze the advertising strategies employed by the Hershey company as they respond to discussion questions about 4 Hershey ads. Students write their own...
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Writing a News Report
Students explore journalism by analyzing current events. In this news report lesson, students identify important questions to ask during an interview and discuss a fictitious news story about a missing teacher. Students read published...
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Degree Confluence Project: At the Intersection of Geography and Technology
Students participate in a Longitude-meets-latitude project comes together on the Web!
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Tessellation Design And Construction
Students study the basic elements and concepts of the visual art's perceptual component - such as shape, line and color. They create tessellations that foster problem solving and reflective thinking.
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Animal Forms
Students demonstrate similarities and differences in animal forms, including humans.They investigate geometric relationships within those forms by building an animal using Zome System elements.
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Mangrove Ecology and Adaptations
Students create a plant or animal that would be well adapted to a habitat they selected. They first learn about Mangroves and their specific adaptations that help them survive in their habitat.
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Mangrove Ecology & Adaptations
Learners creat a plant, animal, or other living organism that would be well adapted to a habitat that they previously selected. First they learn about adaptations of Mangroves.
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House Floor Plans
Sixth graders investigate the mathematical concept of area. They are given a certain square footage and asked to draw the initial floorplan for a house. Students use computers to create the plan. To finish the drawing it must include the...
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Movement Adventure
Students discover movement and pantomime techniques in this adventurous story telling experience for kindergarten. Assessment is done through a short question and answer session and students drawing the "adventure".
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Design a CD Cover
Students encounter a unique way to design their own personal CD covers. Students research on how others have designed similar covers. Students produce an original CD cover. Students correlate various singers to their CD covers.
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M&M Mountain
Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...
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Role Models, Fantasy vs. Reality
Learners explore the qualities of a hero. Through a class discussion, they compare and contrast a reality hero to a fantasy super hero. Students watch television commercials and identify the influences in them. They determine positive...
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Car Adverts: Tell It Like It is
Students explore the strategies and bias that are sometimes used in advertising with a particular focus on automobile advertising. Working in groups, they read several car ads and discuss the bias, opinion and stereotyping in the ads as...
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Planet Earth
For this Earth worksheet, students review the characteristics of the Earth including it's rotation and revolution. This worksheet has 9 fill in the blank and 7 short answer questions.
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Chairs, Rooms, and Time Travel
Pupils compare and contrast two chairs that were made in different time periods. In this compare and contrast instructional activity students will compare two chairs They will then create a collage that takes place in a historic scene...
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United States Map - Lesson 9
Students explore the concept of cardinal directions. In this geography lesson, students identify the compass rose on a large U. S. map and then discuss the cardinal directions.
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Junkyard Wars: Air Movers
Students study Rube Goldberg machines. In this investigative lesson students design and build a machine that uses several steps to move an aluminum can.
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Nouns and Adjectives
In this nouns and adjectives worksheet, students recognize nouns and adjectives. Students look at six sentences and pick out the adjectives, nouns used as adjectives, and nouns for each sentence.
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The History of Furniture
Students investigate historic furniture. In this art history instructional activity, students compare and contrast two chairs from different periods. Students create a collage from images of the past.
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Fish Eyes Lesson Plan
Students practice counting and matching quantities using paper fish. In this early mathematics lesson, students create a fake fishing pole and attempt to identify numbered paper fish they acquire from a bucket. Students read the book...
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Write Your Own Folk or Fairy Tale
Students analyze folk and fairy tales. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the elements of a tale determining what the differences are between folk and fairy tales. Students then write their own tales using the graphic...
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Sixty-Eight Solving Equations and Performing Operations With Complex Numbers
In this complex numbers worksheet, students classify numbers, perform operations on complex numbers, and find complex solutions to equations, in sixty-eight problems.
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Employer - Employee Expectations
Students role play for job expectations. In this job planning lesson, students work in groups to write a help wanted ad. They discuss the expectations of the employer and the employee.