Why is "ambulance" written backwards on emergency vehicles? Young geometers apply principles of symmetry to translate words written backwards. See if your school or district subscribes to Jobland, where you can view a clip that explains...

Students discuss job choices, careers, and how they can affect lifestyles. They research a job they are interested in and write answers to questions about that job. They prepare a poster which includes information about the career they...

Students define the term community. They list many, varied, and unusual jobs (careers) that people might have in our Communities. Students identify the purpose of the work done by their parents-either in the home, or outside of the home....

Second graders investigate the numerous jobs it takes to create paper in the U.S.  In this economics lesson plan, 2nd graders discuss where paper comes from, what types of trees are needed, and how the paper milling process creates...

In this differentiated lesson, students incorporate different subjects using the Ghandi and Montessori methods instead of the traditional method used in regular schools. In math they investigate shapes, colors and sizes. In writing they...

Students investigate how the forest affects their daily lives by creating a concept map.  In this ecological lesson, students create a concept map linking the forest to the many things they use each day.  Students take a field...

Students explore coin value and count coin combinations. In this money counting and social studies lesson plan, students read The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and practice counting money and making change for a lemonade...

Students define new words such as computer, internet and technology to begin the lesson. In groups, they discuss the definitions with the class and take a survey on the same topics. They discuss the ways technology and the internet can...

Students assess the educational and social issues of boys and girls in school as a springboard to interviewing women in the fields of science, in order to study of their early interests and experiences in these typically male-dominated...