Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions...

Grouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop...

Here is an authentic assessment task for Shakespeare's Macbeth. Young literature scholars prepare, perform, and record a news broadcast about the major events in the play. For example, groups may choose to report on the death of Lady...

Students investigate the dangers Coral Reefs face by investigating satellite images.  In this environmental protection lesson, students utilize the Internet to discover the types of satellites and sensors used to provide...

Students search the World Wide Web to locate an artistic image that inspires an aural composition. They compose a musical piece using loop-based composition software and use file management and storage techniques to archive project work....

Middle schoolers compare and contrast related two- and three-dimensional shapes, and complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an...

Sixth graders design and draw a model playground to scale. They configure the layout to include a sandbox, slide, baseball field and other equipment. Their design includes adaptations for students with disabilities. Their designs are...

In this sign language worksheet, students review, discuss, practice and color the sign language alphabet sheet. Students practice with a partner signing their own names.

Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...

Students research specific answers to questions about air pollution. In this air pollution lesson, students share information to fully understand the causes of air pollution. Students role play individuals from different groups to...

In this ice cream patterns activity, students cut out ten scoops of ice cream and two cones. Students team up with a partner and exchange matching different patterns for the other one to model.

In this clothing word/picture matching worksheet, students cut out 36 cards. Each card has a picture of an article of clothing or the word name. Students match the cards.

In this telling time worksheet, learners cut out forty-two clocks, shuffle the clocks and then put them in sequential order by telling time in fifteen minute increments starting at 1:00am.

In this matching similar items worksheet, students match and color the four objects on the left to the four objects on the right by drawing a line to each matching item.

In this objects that go together instructional activity, students match up and color the four objects on the left to the four objects on the right. Students draw a line from one object to the other that matches.

Students follow directions in the ABC of Symmetry to make a butterfly which shows a line of symmetry.

Students create technology based portfolios for others to use as a pattern for assessment. They make a "Personal Autobiography Page" to start the portfolio.

In this secret code worksheet, students analyze and interpret a noughts and crosses code in order to decipher the code and figure out what the message is.

For this tiny alphabet book worksheet, students cut out, color, assemble and staple a tiny alphabet book with uppercase letters A-F. Students look for examples in each picture that begin with each alphabet letter illustrated.

Students investigate the world of Television by contrasting specific programs.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students compare and contrast the differences between comedy and drama by making a Venn Diagram.  Students...

Students listen to a book that facilitates a discussion of trade and things that people need. They determine what things might be traded.

Students accurately construct a model of a sanitary landfill and identify the parts of the landfill and explain their function. They work in grous using a clear plastic box, modeling clay, soil and a variety of garbage to create their...

Sixth graders explore the art of sculpture. They examine the sculptural techniques that can be used. Students select sculptural materials, tools, and techniques to create a novel interpretation of an everyday object.

Fifth graders identify the regions of the United States. They gain general knowledge of Regions of the U.S., create a spreadsheet and use word processing to create a report.