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Subway Drawings
Students create oil pastel paintings where they cover the whole paper with oil pastels and outline and smear with black. In this oil pastels lesson plan, students first study the Subway Drawings done by Keith Haring.
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Mathematics in Art?
Fifth graders view prints of M.C. Escher's work. They look at examples of geometric figures and polygons and discuss places they have seen them. Students create their own tessellations. They write a report about the process they used in...
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Romare Bearden Collage
The students study collage as it is used in works of art. They create a collage based on a masterpiece. They critique student art work and research the work of Romare Bearden.
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Simple Machines
First graders study and describe simple machines such as the hammer, screwdriver, nutcracker, bottle opener and scissors and select the appropriate tool for a particular type of work.
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Reading to Learn: How Do We Sum That Up?
Students explore the topic of summarizing. They read the book, Dolphins at Daybreak, to practice summarizing. They determine what information is important and choose sentences to summarize the passages they read. They write a summary...
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Main Idea and Supporting Details
Eighth graders identify the main idea and supporting details in paragraphs. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders review organizational patterns in paragraphs and determine which pattern is best for a given situation. Individually,...
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Rules and Procedures: Part II
Students discuss personal responsibility. Students listen to the teacher as classroom rules, responsibilities and consequences are explained in detail. A volunteer is chosen to demonstrate what a tardy student is. Students fill out an...
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Word Structure
Students infer the meanings of unfamiliar words using context clues and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. They identify vocabulary words as nouns or adjectives using context clues and suffixes. In addition, they decide the meaning of a...
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Double Exposed Photographs
Students create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations. In this artwork lesson plan, students explore cameras, poems, and other art forms to understand line, light, and other attributes that contribute to artwork.
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Verb Tense Review
For this verb tense worksheet, learners complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive worksheet about the proper subject and verb agreement in sentences.
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Vocabulary Follow-Up
For this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the given words on line, then check to see if the answers are correct.
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Rocks and Minerals: Sedimentary Rocks
Students explore the concept of rock formation. In this sedimentary rocks lesson, students observe and record their findings about sedimentary rocks. Students then create limestone, coal, and sandstone models and write reports...
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We're Going on a Picnic: Lesson 22
In this language arts worksheet, students read the story We're Going on a Picnic and then complete language arts activities with it. Students write spelling words, fill in the blanks to sentences, answer short answer questions, and write...
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Reviewing Proper Writing Techniques
Students use proper writing techniques to write an effective description of the best or worst meal they have ever eaten. For this proper writing techniques lesson, students review the parts of a composition and discuss was to...
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Grade 5 Basic Math
In this grade 5 math learning exercise, 5th graders answer a set of 22 multiple choice problem solving and estimation questions. Worksheet may be completed on-line and answers submitted.
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Cut-Out Figures
Pupils trace and color their figures, cut them out, and put them up on the wall much like a Keith Haring painting looks. In this self portrait lesson plan, students then try to match the figures to each of their classmates.
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Creative Inventions
Ninth graders develop ideas for an invention and write a persuasive essay explaining why their invention is best. In this invention essay lesson, 9th graders review persuasive essay writing. Students create a graphic web for an original...
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What Pie?
Students practice making and interpreting pie graphs so they are better able to decide if a pie chart is the appropriate form of display. Students examine included overheads of different pie charts, and directions on how to make pie...
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Manners
Students investigate the concept of manners and how they should be exercised at school. This lesson is a foundation of classroom management for Physical Education and is meant to be adapted to other classes if needed. Students focus upon...
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Taylor's Theorem
In this Taylor's Theorem worksheet, students use the microscope approximation to determine the approximate value of a function. They rewrite expressions for the relative error, and observe changes in the relative error. They use...
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Observations and Inferences
Students observe how to distinguish observations form inferences. In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them.
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Punctuation Review
In this punctuation review learning exercise, students determine sentences that are punctuated correctly/incorrectly. Students may correct answers on-line. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Verb Tense Exercise 4
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Oh My Gosh, It's a Bosch
Students explore the art of Hieronymous Bosch. In this surreal art lesson, students look at paintings by the Dutch painter and then follow the provided steps to create their own surreal piece inspired by his works.