In this event graphic organizer activity, students identify an event, record details, list prior knowledge, make inferences, and make a conclusion.

Sixth graders explore Newton's laws of motion with their own bodies. For this relative motion lesson students will use a wide range of materials bringing them from the concrete to the abstract on video. Students will draw inferences...

Students observe and/or conduct five experiments which address the Bernoulli Effect. In this conceptual lesson plan based on the Bernoulli Effect, the students construct atomizers, and make concrete observations and inferences in...

Students consider the importance of biodiversity in the ocean layers. In this oceanography lesson, students use the Shannon-Weaver diversity index to analyze data.  Students analyze the information collected and write a report...

Students investigate the role of a plantation mistress. In this American history lesson, students examine the household accounts kept by Thomas Jefferson's wife. Students decide what Martha Wayles Jefferson's...

Students examine a runaway slave advertisement. In this American history lesson plan, students investigate a missing slave advertisement run by Thomas Jefferson in 1769. Students make inferences based on the advertisement.

Students examine Thomas Jefferson's view of slavery. In this slavery lesson plan, students watch segments of the video "Slavery and the Making of America." Students respond to discussion questions as they watch the video and make...

Students explore protest songs. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine issues-based music by summarizing lyrics and revealing inferences, generalizations, conclusions, and points of view found in the songs.

In this advanced critical reading worksheet, students read a passage about ethanol then answer questions. Students make inferences, determine author's purpose and use context clues to find the meaning of unknown words in the passage.

In this literary elements worksheet, students read chapters 26, 27, and 28 of Holes by Louis Sachar and then respond to 13 short answer questions regarding setting, conflict, and inference.

Students make inferences on how physical geography affected the development of early civilizations and come up with solutions to global issues. For this physical geography lesson plan, students compare maps of the past to maps of today...

Students examine primary sources that include pictographs from Puebla, Mexico. In this Huexotzinco Codex lesson, students perform historical analysis as they investigate the codex as they make inferences and draw conclusions about taxes...

Students experiment with skeletons. In this bone health lesson, students analyze, construct, and perform comparative investigations with bones. They make inferences about the structure and function of various bones. This lesson includes...

Learners examine primary sources and perform historical analysis. In this Huexotzinco Codex lesson, students investigate the codex as they make inferences and draw conclusions

Learners examine maps of a medieval village. In this medieval town lesson, students identify major buildings and make inferences about village life.  Learners could draw a modern day map of medieval Cherstey.

Middle schoolers consider the effects of topography on climate patterns. In this earth science lesson plan, students research weather patterns and make inferences of how the land forms may create different climates. Middle schoolers...

Students watch a movie on religious violence in 16th century Europe and then write a background about a picture they are given on violence. In this religious violence lesson plan, students create the background by making inferences about...

Students make predictions about a book they are reading and use their background knowledge to make inferences. In this predictions lesson plan, students complete a worksheet that they are given.

Students count nematodes, cestodes and crustaceans on approximately one-hundred and fifty fish. They fill out autopsy reports for external and internal parasites then complete and discuss guide questions to make inferences about parasite...

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," from The Jungle Book, offers young readers a chance to examine how Rudyard Kipling uses setting and personification to bring to life the brave mongoose who battles cobras to protect his family. Class members...

Find out how much your class understood of the listed chapters of Wilson Rawls' novel. Class members respond to eight plot and character questions before looking closely at an instance of personification from the text. The resource is...

Students read and discuss poems by Robert Frost. Students collaborate in small groups to draw inferences about speakers' character and motives and to gather evidence supporting those inferences.

Students observe items from their past, making inferences and observations about their own culture based on these artifacts. Students then share with the class what they learned about their own culture, giving all students more...

Students use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those conclusions.