Young scholars, through the reading of the book: "Jeremy Rabbit's Honesty Pie", study the value of honesty and what it means. This lesson is a fun, interactive way to examine what honesty means and how it should be used in life. ...

Students are introduced to the concept of respect. As a class, they read the book together, identify the important facts and predict what might happen next. They complete a worksheet and a test to test their knowledge of the word respect...

Young scholars are introduced to the concept of compassion. As a class, they read a story together about Pandora Puppy's caring circles and identify the main points. They complete a worksheet and take a test to review how compassion is...

Young scholars are introduced to the concepts of patience and anger. As a class, they are read a story about a patience pit and discover how anger can be controlled. They complete a worksheet and take a test to review how to control...

Students practice the concepts of time and rhythm using drum beats. They also create body shapes using verbal cues. The shapes made include stretched, curled, angular, or twisted. The rhythm of beats is increased or decreased to explore...

Students explore materials and experiment with stencil process. Students study positive verses negative shape. They experiment with color planning and learn what happens when colors overlap. They work with personal symbols and/or...

Students investigate the history and use of the Hubble Space Telescope. They take a quiz in order to establish in any prior knowledge. Students conduct research to find information in conjunction with participating in class discussion...

Students explore linear relationships. The lesson uses science to develop an understanding of the expanding Universe. There are 3 Labs, only 2 of which are required. Lab C is an enrichment for higher level classes.

Students use the time-lapse feature of the QX3 Intel Digital Microscope to observe germination of seeds. They use the QX3 Intel Digital microscope to create time lapse video films of seed germination experiments.

Students view and discuss the movie from 1951 "The Man in the White Suit" and how scientific discoveries can sometimes have negative social and economic consequences. They define key vocabulary terms from the movie, watch the movie, and...

Learners examine the origin and elements of Hip Hop music and the associated culture. They visit websites and listen to examples of the music.

Students using experiments try to demonstrate how observations can be affected by the cycles of night and day.

Third graders observe a demonstration explaining that the moon reflects sunlight in ordr to shine.

Students build and test a type of communication system called a parabolic-dish receiver. This type of system is exactly like radio telescopes, which are discussed in our song. They explain how signals are transmitted and captured with...

In this stars learning exercise, students review what makes up a star, how astronomers learn about stars, and the different types of stars including low mass and high mass stars. This learning exercise has 62 fill in the blank statements.

Students determine that coal can burn to produce heat.

Students classify the visual opacity of various materials, what is needed to create shadows, and classify clouds by the types of shadows that they produce.

In this electricity learning exercise, students compare open and closed circuits, calculate voltage, and determine total resistance is resistors are parallel or series in a circuit. This learning exercise has 19 problems to solve.

Students use lecture and research to answer the question: Why is the sky blue? students research a variety of other sky phenomena, chart their observations and participate in experiments.

Fourth graders examine the makeup of the electromagnetic spectrum and how the various forms of EMRs are similar and different from each other. They, in pairs, solve problems from worksheets imbedded in this lesson plan.

Students create their own transparent banners.

Students create small "villages" of rock bugs in this cute Art lesson using blocks of wood, glue guns, rocks, acorns, and sticks. The lesson includes resource links and pictures of the finished product in either a "natural" finish or a...

Students, in groups, explore how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

Learners investigate the corrosion of different materials in the lab. For this chemistry lesson, students construct a bridge considering different bridge designs. At the end of the lesson, they play the role of scientists and engineers...