Students discuss the information listed about how to make an outline for a short story or book. They then begin writing their short story and edit it and revise before turning it in to be graded.

Pupils use construction technology to identify and find relationships between the attributes of various quadrilaterals. They make and test conjectures about the distinguishing properties of parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, squares,...

Students experiment with different bacterias that they found and make predictions of their growth.  In this investigative instructional activity students use petri dishes to grow their bacteria then summarize what has happened. 

Pupils make, read and interpret circle graphs.

Students investigate art elements such as color schemes and proportion by creating their own personal Mandala Circle on paper or canvas. This also allows students to investigate mathematical concepts such as tesselations or social...

Students examine artwork to view how artists use objects, symbols and elements of art to tell life stories. They create personal journals while learning the art of bookmaking using a variety of creative materials.

Students work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.

Pupils will explore the role and structure of the family in the target culture and the relationships among family members. The skills help learners make connections to language because the information of the lesson plan uses personal...

Students collect and organize data, make a scatterplot, fit a curve to the appropriate parent function, and interpret the results. Students translate among the various representations of the quadratic function, formulate equations, use a...

Students practice reading faster, smoother and more expressively by exercising the strategy of reading and rereading text to become more familiar with word recognition. They participate in reading a page or two of "Pen Pals" to...

Students explore a career in journalism while using various forms of technology; such as, distance learning via the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) and the Internet. They have the opportunity to create a final project that is based...

Second graders create and act out mirror images of their partners and the movements they make. They focus on spatial awareness skills associated with this activity, including exercising in large and small movements. Students observe...

Students study the music of Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They compare the sounds individual instruments make. They listen to and study the story of "Scheherazade" and compare it to other pieces that also portray a story or...

Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...

In this language arts worksheet, students study 32 words in a word bank, then locate them in a word search puzzle. There is no apparent connection between the words and the meaning of the title is not known. Note: Several words in the...

In this language arts worksheet, students examine 6 pictures of farm animals. From the 2 choices, students circle the beginning consonant sound.

Second graders focus on people skills. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders distinguish between evaluations of performance and self-worth.

Learners identify community helpers. For this philanthropy lesson, students read Strega Nona and identify different characters' responsibilities in the story. Learners use character traits to describe the main characters and make a list...

Fifth graders explore leaders of the Civil War. In this history lesson, 5th graders use picture puzzles, vocabulary, worksheets, WebQuest, a Venn Diagram and role play activities in order to learn who the Civil War leaders were, what...

In this online interactive figurative language activity, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 11 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.

In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 14 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms. Students may check their answers immediately.

Students collect data using the CBL. For this statistics lesson, students predict the type of graph that will be created based on the type of activity the person does. The graph represents heart rate depending the level of activity.