Young scholars read an online New York Times article and investigate the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans. They examine how Hurricane Katrina affected the celebration. They design a float that represents the Mardi Gras celebration.

Learners reflect on the role of prisons and discuss how they believe sentencing should be handed down. After reading an article, they discover the experiences Martha Stewart went through while in prison. In groups, they share their...

Second graders demonstrate competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process.

In this system of equations learning exercise, students solve 2 problems by creating a system of equations for each problem in order to determine the average intensity of flares from the sun and the average power from a satellite...

Students visit two sites about World War II. These sites show how war can impact a nation and how people have coped with life during years of war. Particular attention is paid to how the media covers the current war in Iraq.

Students discover how clouds form. They use the internet to read about the formation of clouds. They work together in groups to create their own clouds. They identify and label the four cloud types.

Students study the basic need for animals to attract mates and reproduce young.

Students create a food package for a specific food.  In this marketing lesson students divide into groups and research, design, produce, market and analyze packaging. 

Students discover why breakfast is important. In this nutrition lesson, students read a "Power Up With Breakfast" worksheet and discuss the importance of breakfast. Students draw pictures of fruit they would want in their breakfast shake.

Students explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance instructional activity, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and...

Second graders classify foods using the food pyramid and write about the foods they eat. They distinguish between healthy and junk food and make healthy choices for their meals. They listen to the story "No Peas for Nellie" and discuss...

Students use statistics to study attributes of a local center for pregnant teenagers. They apply mean, median, mode and a correlation study between two variables.

Fifth graders investigate the nature of matter and of the scientific processes associated with them in this series of lessons.

Students research, explore and analyze the history of how American women journalists have influenced major social change in the nation and the world. They visit major institution's to examine the written legacies of Abigail Adams,...

Students make painted hand prints to cut out and use as fall leaves.

In this ESL handwriting skills worksheet, students practice tracing words in the English language by tracing a passage on the fours seasons.

Students study the Mount St. Helens eruption and how it occurred.  In this experimental lesson students complete a lab that shows the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

In this spring vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 20 words pertaining to the season of spring and match them to the correct meanings in another column.

Third graders study phrases, poetry and myths of Ancient Greece and Rome in these lessons.

Students describe life on the Alabama frontier. They identify topics important to early settlers and explain the impact of geography on development. They explore the government's role in the sale of public land.

Pupils explore the culture and heritage of their own and other groups. They explain ways communities celebrate New Year's. Students explore how and why individuals and groups pass on and sustain their culture and heritage. Pupils explore...

Seventh graders investigate the concept of looking at the data put in a variety of ways that could include graphs or data sets. They analyze data critically in order to formulate some sound conclusions based on real data. Students graph...

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Use this website to practice the Spanish names for the months of the year.