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Monarch Butterflies
First graders listen to books about butterflies and look at pictures of butterflies. Students review the stages of butterflies and learn the migratory path the monarch takes in its adult stage.
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Measuring Mania
Students rotate through stations in the classroom, completing different types of measurements. These measurements are placed into a spreadsheet, and a scatter plot is generated. They type an explanation of their results in correlation...
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Making It All Add Up!
Pupils use technology resources for problem solving. They complete math problems or integrated science problems dealing with math concepts using an online calculator.
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Who IS That Woman?
Learners participate in a jigsaw reading activity about the contributions of Sacagawea to the Corps of Discovery. They also write a poem to reflect upon what they studied.
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Do You See What I See?
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Simulating the Legislative Process
Students research and simulate a debate of an issue. They simulate proposing a bill to the legislature.
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Termite Lab
Students examine insect behavior in a lab activity. Students explore the idea of chemical specificity and the reactions of termites to a chemical found in their trail pheromone. Students watch a demonstration with termites before...
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Structures Of Life
Learners investigate the basic conceptual structures of plants, with the focus being the parts that contain seeds. They comprehend that organisms that have fruit for the holding of seeds for replication of the species. The students work...
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"Braiding and Weaving" Dance Lesson Plan
Fourth graders explore braiding and weaving through dance. They create their own braiding and weaving dance.
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Extreme Weather
Tenth graders explore how to avoid problems that occur during extreme weather and how accidents can be avoided by not taking risks.
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What Are The Risks From Radon?
Students examine the health risks of radon in the home. They calculate the odds for each risk and use different forms of measurement. They work together to complete the activity and worksheet.
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Egg Hatching into Sequencing
Pupils create an egg. In this language arts instructional activity, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Pupils write about the sequence of the hatching.
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From These Beginnings
Students prepare a bulletin board that shows the changing identity of their state before and after statehood.
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Caesar
Students examine patterns of imagery in Caesar by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then students draw conclusions about why Shakespeare might have used the...
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The Boundary Dispute between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 1677-1741
Students research primary and secondary source documents to examine the separation of New Hampshire from the larger colony of Massachusetts.
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Cubing Strategy
Fifth graders interview each other in the role of civil war personalities. In this Civil War lesson plan, 5th graders create a script and video of an interview with classmates who are portraying characters from the Civil War. Students...