Internal Revenue Service
Irs: Taxes and a Market Economy Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help learners understand the role of taxes in the market economy.
Internal Revenue Service
Irs: How to Measure Fairness Lesson Plans
This lesson plan will help students understand that people have difficulty agreeing on a fair tax because of different values and priorities.
PBS
Pbs: In the Mix Lesson Plan on Peer Mediation
PBS In The Mix offers a lesson plan on peer mediation, which is a formalized way of presenting problem solving.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Giant Stuffed Birds (Lesson Plan)
A lesson plan for grades 2-4 submitted by a classroom teacher.
Other
Surfing With the Bard Lesson Plans: As You Like It
Delve into the world of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" when you visit this lesson plan. This lesson plan focuses on introducing you to the four central characters.
Other
Rice Romp: Place Value Lesson Plan
Take a look at the mathematics involved in the story "One Grain of Rice". Included is a lesson plan, geared toward 2nd-grade math students, about place value. A link to a quiz on the story is included.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Wordless Books: Creating a Storyline
This lesson plan asks students grades 3-5 to use wordless picture books as a springboard to write an original story based on the pictures.
Lin and Don Donn
Mr. Donn: Social Studies: Lesson Plans
This is a teacher-created collection of social studies lesson plans on world history. Lessons cover ancient history up to the present day.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Cynthia Rylant Lesson Plans
Provides biographical information and lesson plans for Cynthia Rylant, with her book "Missing May" highlighted.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Financial Institution Comparison
The lesson plan investigates financial literacy. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help learners learn how to choose a financial institution. Objectives, instructional procedures, and additional resources are included.
Other
Wizzlewolf's Webpage for Beginning Teachers
Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!
Other
Art Teacher on the Net: Portrait Drawing
Seven lesson plans with unique approaches to drawing the human face. Web site also includes many other links to art related topics.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Story Race
In this instructional activity, students are divided into teams to use their vocabulary words in a cooperative story. Each student in the team contributes a sentence with a vocabulary word in it until all the words are included. Teams...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Tongue Twist Mania
In this lesson young scholars practice saying tongue twisters, read Dr. Seuss' Oh Say Can You See, and then write orginal tongue twisters of their own.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: My Ton of Trash (Lesson Plan)
Here you can find an engaging lesson plan on the trash each individual generates over time. Students will learn how trash is generated, how trash is disposed of, and possible ways to reduce the amount of trash.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
This article outlines a lesson for teaching comparative and superlative adjectives including defining and providing examples for each and a basic lesson plan for teaching them.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Presidents' Day: A Life Lesson for Students
With this resource, teachers can lead students in a topical conversation regarding President's Day. This free-form instructional activity includes suggested questions and encourages student discussion about the powers and...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Geographic Spread and Development of Christianity (Lesson Plans)
Find two lesson plans designed to accompany the PBS documentary "Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution" that are particularly well suited to the study of the spread of Christianity. Students will research Christianity, Judaism, and...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Middle School Art Lessons
Art lessons for middle school young scholars. They are sorted into categories of grades, lessons that can be adapted, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.
Other
Marketing Teacher
Are you a marketing teacher looking for classroom resources? This website offers a variety of marketing resources including: lesson plans, exercises, quizzes, newsletters, presentations, and bookstore.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders Teachers: Portraits
A teacher resource that explains an online activity through which students explore and find important objects in portraits. Click on the lesson plan link on the left to access a lesson on portraits and a student handout that goes with it.
Other
Bscs: Forces Lesson 2: Representing Forces
What makes something start to move? What makes something stop moving or change direction? This hands-on lesson plan will show students that forces acting on an object have a strength and a direction that can be represented by arrows of...
Other
Bscs: Sound Lesson 1: Sound Makers
How can you tell if something is making a sound? This lesson plan will show that to produce sound, an object must vibrate. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Avoiding Armageddon: International Role of the United Nations
A lesson plan for exploring the role of the UN's international peacekeeping and peacemaking abilities. Takes learners through an evaluation of what the UN can and should do, under its charter, to reduce threats and promote stable...