Students acquire knowledge and literacy (through multiple intelligences) in social studies, language arts, science and math as we study the Oregon Trail. This type of lesson is strong in its attempt to be accessible to all learners.

Students investigate the history of fighter kites and build their own.  For this aeronautics lesson, students discover how other countries utilize fighter kites and where they originated.  Students create their own fighter...

Students investigate the deals presented with cards. In this math lesson, students investigate the pros and cons of having a credit card. They calculate interest and fees for credit cards.

Students practice solving problems with non-right triangles. In this precalculus lesson, students define and identify the properties of the Law of Cosine. They solve problems and investigate the history behind Cosine.

Sixth graders solve one unknown number by using hands-on manipulatives after being introduced to the history of abstract mathematics through literature.

Pupils listen to story Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis, explore history of money, and examine how money is produced in the United States. They discuss why money is used for exchange, and describe how money has changed over time.

Students explore lunar eclipses and discover how to predict an eclipse the same way that ancient people did. They examine dates of recorded eclipses and find a pattern. Students apply an algorithm to the pattern.

Students explore the history of cryptography. They assess function notation and transformation, matrix operations, and the fundamentals of modular arithmetic. Using graphing calculators, students develop their own encryption schemes.

High schoolers use materials from their own environment to design a kite. In this kite design activity, students research the history of kites and obtain a formal mathematical definition of a kite. High schoolers sketch kite designs...

Students discover how units of measurement help people to categorize objects. For this measurement lesson, students discuss various units of measurement, use creativity to invent new possible units of measure, and learn the history of...

Students create an earth clock.  For this earth clock lesson, students create a clock which serves as a timeline of the history of the earth from 4.567 billion years ago to present day.  

Students investigate the origin of words in the English language.  In this language history lesson plan, students examine words by breaking them down and finding their roots.  Students analyze words from a poem and complete a...

High schoolers learn that money has value by examining the history, meaning of money. market structures and pricing. In this analysis instructional activity, students use exchange rates to find the cost of an item different currencies.

Students practice solving addition problems of fractions with unlike denominators and discover how to apply the lowest common multiple to solve problems. After completing practice problems, they review least common multiple and apply it...

In this math worksheet, high schoolers are asked to read the book that focuses upon the creation and explanation of three dimensional shapes.

Students read a story called Teenage Golfer Already a Star and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current events teenage golf lesson plan students respond to literature by answering questions, recalling...

Fourth graders examine rice farming. In this rice farming lesson, 4th graders compute how much of the world's rice the US produces. Students gain information about the history of growing rice and how much rice other countries grow as...

Students research masks and their purposes,. They listen to the teacher read books about masks. Students study techniques for working with clay, they create masks from clay. Students take pictures of the process and the finished project,...

Ninth graders research early mining in California. They study the "placer method" for mining gold, which is surface mining that does not involve tunneling. They examine what it was like for the early miners to pan for gold with...

Seventh graders use the Internet to research the holiday of Kwanzaa. Using the information, they create a brochure to promote the holiday to others. They email the information to a friend to end the lesson.

Students reconstruct and make drawings of vessels in the same manner as an archaeologist. In this archaeologist lesson plan, students each get a piece of a broken pot and they have to work together to put it back together. Once it is...

Students, in small groups, use the Internet and other traditional sources to research historically significant mathematicians, write a paper, and creatively present research in class.

Identify appropriate abbreviations, food-measurement terminology, techniques, equivalents, and calculate recipe-size adjustments and demonstrate proper measuring techniques. Identify abbreviations Compute equivalents Identify measuring...

In this abacus worksheet, students use abacus pictures to determine 5-digit sums. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students write eight answers.