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Dia de los Muertas/Day of the Dead Cultural Project
Young scholars explore the celebrations of different cultures, comparing and contrasting what is unique to them. Students explore different ways to celebrate those holidays. They construct a personalized alter to demonstrate one aspect...
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How Cortez Defeated the Aztecs
Students explore the cultural aspects of the Aztec Indians and their beliefs and knowledge base at the time of Cortez's invasion. They explore how their beliefs impacted the results of Cortez's invasion. Students synthesize information...
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Creating TAKS Handout with WebCCAT
Students will use the lesson will integrate WebCCAT a TAKS prep software. The software will be extensions for helping the middle school teachers prepare their students for the upcoming TAKS test.
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Food Chains And Webs
Students investigate the concept of soil and all its components. They collect samples from a local site and transplant it into a terrarium. Students identify the organic elements, clay ,silt, and other forms of debris. They also identify...
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Newton in Motion Project
Students investigate Newton's Third Law of Motion as it exits in real world applications. They watch as the teacher makes a simple balloon powered car before explaining how the motion of the car demonstrates Newton's Third Law of Motion....
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Little Hands Help the Homeless
Learners explore, analyze and study the concept of the homeless. They cover a wide range of classroom, community and career activities that define, develop, encourage, support and defend the homeless as well as what we can do as...
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Lucy's Literacy Legacy
students examine three local public arts portraits of Lucy Stone. They study her role in the women's rights movement through comparative readings, Internet research, and children's literature. In addition, they gather and organize...
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Literature: War-Themed Poetry and Drama
Eleventh graders examine Arthur Miller's play, "All My Sons" to discover major dramatic elements. After reading several war-themed poems, they connect the concepts presented in them back to a major character in Miller's play. ...
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Exploratory Teaching
Students participate in an exploratory teaching program. Individually, they identify the positives and negatives of being a teacher and how they effect the students. They use the internet to research the history of the profession and...
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Service Learning Project-American Civil War
Tenth graders study the American Civil War. As part of a service learning project, they volunteer to help preserve or promote a local Civil War site. They conduct research and write letters or lobby legislatures on behalf of historic...
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Build a Simple Circuit
Students construct an extremely simple series circuit that powers a lamp on and off with a switch. They are in groups of 4 and are given a set of components and have to build the circuit working together as a group. Finally, they have to...
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Nand Gate Logic
Students assess how to construct all possible circuits out of Nand gates. They divide into groups and are given a set of manipulatives to organize and explain the operation of a Nand gate. Each group recognizes the need to construct...
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Popcorn Science
Students identify and apply the scientific method through an experiment with popcorn. Then they identify what independent, dependent, and control variables are and create a list of different variables that affect popcorn popping....
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Frogguts
Students comprehend the basic anatomy of the frog and prepare themselves for dissection. They work through the virtual dissection. Students complete the worksheet and begin to assemble the frog skeleton. They are assigned frog...
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Louis Armstrong
In this reading comprehension worksheet students read a biography of jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Students answer 6 questions.
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The Adult in Society
In this adults in American society worksheet, pupils respond to 7 short answer questions and answer 7 multiple choice questions regarding the expectations of males and females in American culture.
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Propaganda in Literature
Students explore propaganda. In this literature lesson plan, students read a written work and evaluate it for its propaganda value.
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Women in Math
Students explore the concept of women in mathematics. In this women mathematicians lesson plan, students research the role of women in mathematics using books and the Internet.
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I AM a Researcher, "I"nca, "A"ztec, "M"aya
Students create and original multimedia presentation on the Incas, Mayans, or Aztecs. In this Meso-American civilization lesson, students research and then compare and contrast the civilizations of the Incas, Mayan and the Aztecs....
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A Year in Arizona
Fourth graders create a calendar about their state. In this state calendar instructional activity, 4th graders select a state theme and create a calendar based on that theme. Students write paragraphs for each month related to the theme...
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Design Team Challenge
Students work in groups to build a robot. In this robotics lesson, students create an electronic robot and program it to follow directions. They create an obstacle course for the robot to follow and test its performance.
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Nature of Geometry
Fourth graders capture geometry in nature. In this nature of geometry lesson, 4th graders use digital cameras to find real life examples of geometric terms. Students create a presentation using the digital pictures and terms with...
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Service Learning--A School Violence Prevention Strategy
High schoolers analyze school violence issues. In this service learning instructional activity, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding school violence issues. High schoolers examine service projects to prevent...
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Interview with Meriwether Lewis
Young scholars ask questions and prepare responses to Meriwether Lewis and his expedition. In this journal instructional activity students present their questions to the class.
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