Pupils plan a menu considering the number of people to be served and the amount of money they have to work with to buy the necessary ingredients.

Students take home a fat diary and, with the help of their parents, keep track of how much fat they ingest every day. The fat diary should include entries for each day, as well as items eaten, servings, and total fat intake.

Students familiarize themselves with some of the competing philosophies underlying architecture. They explore structures as a form of artistic expression as well as a practical undertaking.

Students uses atlases, maps, and Web resources to determine the distance, driving time, and amount of money they need to make the trip (estimates should include hotel/motel stays, meals, and souvenirs).

Students invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.

Students monitor current events using on-line and traditional resources. They explore issues such as what trends they see developing in specific news issues over time and how different news stories might be interrelated.

Students become familiar with weather terminology and different representations of data as they explore various on-line weather sites. They practice using and interpreting data determining the effects of the time of day, time of year and...

Students observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.

Students discuss ways in which dinosaurs adapted to their environments. They apply the same logic to an analysis of human habitat, survival needs, and survival need fulfillment to explain how people have adapted to their environment.

Students assemble and format their stories and layout their electronic newspaper.

Students visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum created by students in his classroom in order to develop criteria for their own research.

Young scholars present their research reports on global warming, along with any other associated products (models, diagrams, Web-pages, etc.) to the rest of the class and school.

Students gather information about global warming and climate changes in preparation for future lessons on the Greenhouse Effect.

Students create stories about imaginary planets.

Pupils organize a video teleconference over CU-SeeMe to discuss the results of the survey with participants.

Students administer Media Violence Survey to family and friends locally, and to students in remote locations.

Students write reports, including a summary of their research findings and their historical journal entries, to be shared with friends and families, and publish their reports.

Students read and discuss selected library resources about students and immigration.

Learners visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.

Learners use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.

Students access Internet (links provided on thsi lesson plan) and library resources to find the meanings of their first and/or last names. They also discuss the evolution of the concept of naming individuals.

Students check and record heart-rates of other classmates. They compare and design questions to explain the differences in their findings. Possible explanations might include: the effects of culture, lifestyles, age and gender on heart...

Students gather information about the Greenhouse Effect and participate in a debate about the merits of this theory on both sides. They explore the Greenhouse Effect, and its possible long-term effects, from a variety of resources.

Students manipulate computer mouse to place the cursor on a numeral to match the correct number of foods, using Kidspiration.