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Budgeting Your Financial Resources

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore the aspects of making a budget. In this money management lesson, students learn the importance of budgeting and what all goes into creating a budget by eventually creating a budget of their own including how much they...
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Simple Gifts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the concepts of half notes, quarter notes, whole notes, and musical phrases by performing the Shaker song "Simple Gifts". Emphasis is placed on movement with music and meeting national standards for the arts.
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What Physical Activities Do Sneakers and His Friends Do? Lesson Idea

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils listen to the story Big News! They think of other physical activities that Mr. and Mrs. Legs and their little spiders may do together.
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Centennial: Simple Gifts...Personal Contributions To Utah

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders consider how the concept of giving can affect a society for the better. They read various essays on giving and examine obituaries to highlight individuals who contributed to society over the course of their lives.
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Holiday Gift Exchange

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a running or ball dribbling activity, delivering a bean bag across a certain distance to their partner. They deliver as many bean bags to their partner in a two minute time period.
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Mensa For Kids: The Moon

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore space science by completing an arts and crafts activity. In this moon lesson plan, 1st graders explore the geography of the moon and discuss the importance it has for people living on Earth. Students create a...
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Egyptian Scarab Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate and create an Egyptian scarab. In this Egyptian art lesson, students analyze and discuss the Egyptian scarab. Students use Sculpey clay to create their own scarabs.
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Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners complete a chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio...
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Valentines Day Lesson

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this Valentine's Day worksheet, students will learn about Valentine's Day traditions in America. Students will learn Valentine's Day vocabulary and then practice a dialogue about Valentine's Day. Students will write a letter to a...
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Reinforcement Lesson in Place Value

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students play a game to reinforce place value.
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Lesson Plan on Pidyon Shevuyim: The Redemption of Captives

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students receive instruction on Pidyon Shevuyim in a whole class setting. They work in small groups to read and answer question on the topic, and meet as a class to discuss their findings.
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Give It Back From a Snack Lesson 1: Kids' Kompany

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the ways to earn money and discover the different uses for money. They read children's literature and draw pictures of uses for money that benefit the common good.
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Building a Mini-park And Bird Sanctuary Lesson 3: Location, Location, Location

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work cooperatively using the democratic process to select a place for a park. They identify how the garden in the park will look. They write a five paragraph essay as an assessment.
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Gifts From China To The West

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify Chinese inventions that are widely used today and explore how these inventions influenced social development in the West in this Social Studies instructional activity using cooperative learning techniques.
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Time For A Change: Illustrated Plates

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students create illustrated plastic plate designs depicting a physical, chemical, or biological change of some kind after investigating the artwork of porcelain artist Kataro Shirayamadani.
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Review of Ancient Greece

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create Greek gifts out of paper as a review for an upcoming quiz. They are to use a manila envelope to create what they felt was an important gift the Greeks gave. Once the gift has been created, it is placed into a big bag...
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Giving

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Pupils analyze the true meaning of giving in this three part lesson plan. First, the students make a fanciful wish for a loved one. Second, they pupils make hand-made presents such as stepping-stones for the school garden, Finally,...
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Introduction To Calculus

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson plan that is about an introduction to the course of calculus. They practice some of the basic concepts and solve some problems applying different principals of calculus. The teacher uses the sample problems...
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Woven Heart Baskets

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create "woven heart baskets using construction paper or gift wrap and basic art supplies in this upper-elementary art lesson for Valentine's Day. The lesson includes a short materials list and step by step instructions.
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Franklin Says I Love You

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students consider the importance of giving as they read "Franklin Says I Love You". In this character education lesson, students engage in discussion about the importance of sharing and giving. They relate to the story by offering...
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Bag It

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students create a book report in a bag. They include items that explain the elements of the story and share them with the class.
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Developing a Relationship with Senior Citizens

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine how to value their elders and the senior citizens in society. They show empathy through literature to people who are generation or more older than themselves. They also study the importance of genealogy.
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Geometry: Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create tessellations with computer software while applying their knowledge of reflections, rotations, and translations.
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When a Chair is More than A Chair.....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research an artist of their choice and design a piece of art that represents that artist to them. They make sketches, plan their armature, cut out armature, pad with newspapers and apply layers of paper mach??.