By fourth grade, most students are able to construct fairly well-thought-out sentences. Make sure your class is on the right track by frequently introducing concepts of proper punctuation. Each slide contains rules and examples...

A short reading is accompanied by a quiz in a resource describing the differences between identical and fraternal twins. The quiz is mostly true/false and would make an excellent anticipatory set to get kids thinking about what they know...

Students determine how to spend donated money. In this money choices activity, students explore the needs of the community. They determine the best use of donated funds for a good cause or charity. Students play a bingo game to reinforce...

Young scholars explore executive decision making in the federal Cabinet. They are able to explain the need for executive decisions. Students explore how executive decisions are implemented through government departments.

Students study the basic economic trilogy (scarcity, choice, and costs). In this money management lesson, students use a scenario of a High School Prom to calculate how scarcity, choice and cost apply by completing provided worksheets...

Students make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.

The choices made by Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam, the men who murdered Emmett Till in 1955, are usually the ones people ponder when they examine the case. But other individuals made choices that contributed to the event and its subsequent...

Young scholars create a tornado in a bottle. In this climate and weather lesson, students review basic information about tornadoes and thunderstorms. Young scholars make a tornado in a bottle and write about what they learned from the...

Students survey their school to get ideas for how to make the school more environmentally friendly. In this environmental activity, students collect data from other students and teachers. They use the data to create graphs and present a...

Students identify different types of functions and units of measurements. In this statistics lesson plan, students will collect data, graph their data and make predictions about their data. They plot a linear regression graph.

In this seasonal worksheet, students choose a year in the future and make a prediction associated with Christmas in that year and the other students try to guess what year is being predicted from clues given to them.

Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover the secret to what makes things smell through their own investigations.

Young scholars explore the idea of having Benchmarks to estimate the length of given objects. Students demonstrate acquired knowledge of the basic units of length by making reasonable estimates. Young scholars create a personal benchmark.

Learners social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. In this early childhood visual arts lesson, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work together to plan,...

Students explore the recent trend of interest among college students in pursuing teaching careers, as well as their own views about teaching as a career choice. Each student interviews a teacher about the teaching profession.

In this making molecules worksheet, students complete a table of elements with their symbol, atomic number, atomic mass, number of protons, number of electrons, period and group. Students then make models using pipe cleaners and beads of...

Learners study the problems in their school and work on solutions for those problems. In this writing process lesson plan, students analyze a problem and work as a team to find a solution.  Learners present written and oral work to...

In this vocabulary usage worksheet, students choose cards to describe vocabulary words and participate in activities such as illustrating pictures, making lists, making charts, writing short stories, and playing games. Students choose 9...

In this mistakes that English native speakers make activity, students identify one mistake in each of the twenty sentences that follow on the page.

Students examine the grid in terms of a method of organization in our society as well as graphic design. In this "Making and Breaking the Grid" lesson, students design solutions to common problems and draw conclusions about patterns and...

For this making compounds worksheet, students are given 5 atoms and they draw a diagram of each. They identify the atom to the right of each and name the compound they make. Students define the terms compound, molecule and chemical...

Students make an appeal. In this making an appeal lesson students give characteristics of the Washington Supreme Court. Students examine public policy conflicts and present an appellate case.