Learners analyze personal goals and set goals for themselves. In this goal setting instructional activity, students discuss short and long term goals. Learners visit a website about goals and use the FCCLA planning process to set their...

Students identify the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. In this drug and alcohol abuse lesson plan, students research the dangers of drugs and alcohol and prepare a presentation for the information. Students write a paper on their...

Students simulate the role of a presidential analysis group to research a location for a Revolutionary War museum. They conduct research, and write a summary of their findings to present to the President.

Learners examine healthy diet. In this health lesson plan, students use Online resources and provided web links to research the effects of diet on the body.

Learners summarize a piece of text. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph using the process outlined during...

Students explore the concept of neighborhoods and identify primary and secondary colors. In this colors and community lesson plan, students read the book Harold and the Purple Crayon and then discuss the concept of a neighborhood....

Students compare violence to nonviolence. in this peace lesson, students tell stories from their own life that show the difference between violence and nonviolence. They listen to examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. 

Students read about settlers in Kansas and the adaptations they made in order to build different kinds of houses. For this Kansas settlers lesson plan, students participate in choral reading and retell information they learn.

Students create a timeline detailing the events of the Great Depression to identify causes of the Great Depression. Then students organize the programs created by the New Deal using a graphic organizer.

Third graders examine place value in the hundredths place. They use decimals and money for understanding.

High schoolers review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the lesson, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress...

In this Carrie's War activity, students analyze each chapter through word level, sentence level, and text level evaluations for ten chapters. Students respond to short answer questions about six characters in the book.

Students consider colonial rights. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students complete an activity guide that requires students to analyze taxation without representation. Students respond to discussion questions pertaining to taxes imposed...

Tenth graders explore the impact of Thomas Paine on the American Revolution. In this colonial America instructional activity, 10th graders analyze Common Sense and then paraphrase selected excerpts of the pamphlet. Students also respond...

Students examine what it would be like to be disabled. They read literature with characters who have disabilities and discuss how society treats people with disabilities. They write an essay explaining why they are "normal."

Students examine the concepts of food chains and food webs. They trace back common food chains found in nature, demonstrate the interdependence of organisms through a food webbing activity, and analyze the flow of the food chain of a...

Students recognize the concepts of evolution and natural selection as well as cladistics and phylogenetics. They observe the process of regeneration in a sea anemone to simulate asexual reproduction.

High schoolers research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.

Students explore the transformations that the institution of slavery underwent in the English Colonies. They study the impact of slavery on black families.

Students identify the roles balanced in family and career activities. In this family and career balance lesson plan, students identify the roles each family member has and discuss problems problems they see in their own families....

Seventh graders view Edward Burtynsky's artwork that represents ship breaking. They view images of recycling, the water cycle, rusted metal, and ships to determine factors that threaten the existence of a particular habitat of an...

Students recognize and read their birth date when it is written. They make a picture of a birthday soup bowl that includes the month, day and year of their birthday. Students memorize a poem.

Learners recognize their birthday and how it is written. In this lesson, students read a poem about birthdays. Learners create a soup bowl that has their birthday month, day and year in it.

Eighth graders identify and describe career opportunities in a changing society