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Recycling

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the impact of recycling on the economy and environment. They develop a recycling plan for their own community in order to solve recycling problems.
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct survey and sort data according to categories, construct bar graph with intervals of 1, and write a few sentences about their graphs.
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Getting to the Bottom of the Pyramids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to develop logical arguments about pyramids and chain letters. They share their ideas with other groups and create a diagram showing the breakdown. They discuss the results.
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Junk Yard Math

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the process of place value and subtraction through regrouping and borrowing exercises. Several activities using manipulatives are utilized in the lesson.
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What's Your Expression

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore facial expressions in a mirror and create drawings of people with a facial expression of their choice. They graph the facial expressions drawn.
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Creating a Thematic Map Using S'COOL Data

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners observe weather patterns, collect data, and make a weather predictions for various locations on a map.
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Words And the Images They Create

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore how the written languages of China and Japan evolved, creating representations of Chinese and Japanese Poetry. Emphasis is placed on small, cooperative learning groups.
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Internment of Japanese Americans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study the Japanese-American experience in the western United States during World War II. They view a video, "Japanese Relocation" and take notes on arguments in favor of internment. They share their notes and new...
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Where is Everybody?#135

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine the human uses of school spaces through a variety of activities. They draw the playground during recess and not during recess. They determine how many people use each room at different times before graphing the...
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Review for the Algebra One SOLs

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners review the standards for Algebra I. Using the text, they discover two problems that match each standard and solve them showing all steps on paper. They create a PowerPoint slide for each problem and go through the correct...
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Strange Encounters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine a variety of Robert Harris' paintings. Using the characters in the art, they develop a conversation between them in a musical verse. In groups, they identify safety procedures to be used by those traveling in the...
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Tangram Perimeters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers work together to make figures out of tangram squares. In groups, they calculate the measurements they need and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. They complete a worksheet solving equations using the theorem and review their...
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Cloud Discovery

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a HyperStudio stack that describes and illustrates twelve different kinds of clouds. They then make inferences about which types of weather the different types of clouds could help predict.
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Woman Suffrage

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are provided access to primary sources for a discussion of woman suffrage. They are introduced to the motivations, ideology, and organizations involved in woman suffrage. Students analyze primary documents including cartoons,...
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Reading to Calculate

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore uses of the calculator. They explore using reading strategies to solve problems. Students recognize when calculators are useful. They construct real life situations for calculator use.
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Bugsicles (A Frozen Insect Larva You can Find!)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore how animals survive in the winder. After attending a gall-collecting field trip, students place them in a freezer. Once frozen, the students open the gall flay larva and observe it as the larva revives. Students...
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A New Voting System for B.C.

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examin past elections results of British Columbia. They prepare a proposal for the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
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Continuity and Change in Africa

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students become more informed about a country on the African Continent. They are more informed about the socio-political and socio-historical events within a selected country. This is done by performing research.
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Angle Pairs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice identifying right, vertical, and adjacent angles using a Smartboard. They then determine measurements of all of the angles when only one measurement is given.
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Build-Renovate-Restore

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars discover how buildings are changed over time from their original states by nature and man. They will "create," "renovate," and "restore" a building. They then develop a time line to show the origin of his/her building and...
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Newton's Earthquake

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss Newton's 2nd and 3rd laws using the example of a football linebacker and a small child pushing against each other on an ice rink. Students are able to visualize the results of the push and link it to the laws. Discussion...
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Jumping Frogs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a jumping frog out of construction paper, close pins and pipe cleaners. They predict how far they think their frog jump and then test it out to see how close or far away they were from their prediction.
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Creating your Frog's Environment

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss where frogs can live. After the discussion, they create an environment for a frog using items of their choice. Some may include: construction paper, paint, magazines. The environment could even be 3-D. The key to this...
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Art Changes You And the World

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore advertising as a way to change their world. They use the Internet to research an energy, an environmental, and a cultural issue and create three 'world changing' pieces of advertising/artwork to express their ideas.

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