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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Atmosphere Molecules
Students use foam packing pieces to represent molecular positioning inside the four layers of earth's atmosphere. This lesson plan help students visualize that molecules become thinner as one ascends higher in the atmosphere.
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Animal Parade
Students begin the activity by coloring animals on the beginning and end pages. They are to put the other pages in order based on the animals place in the parade.
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Rules of Sign Change
Students manipulate negative and positive numbers. In this integers lesson, students move through three activities exploring negative and positive whole numbers. A number line, cardboard function representation, and solving expressions...
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Math Vocabulary Review
In this math vocabulary worksheet, students read a set of 15 math related definitions and write the words being defined. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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Lesson-Mass and Weight
Student identify the three stationary positions, on the Earth, on the Moon, and in a house floating atop the cloud layers of Jupiter. They also identify the three orbiting positions, orbiting the Earth, orbiting the Moon, and orbiting...
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Questions for Physics
Students practice constructing and expressing logical, concrete arguments to support their selected position. They comprehend how others construct positions radically different from your own, and still requires the development and...
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Movement-Proportion-Greek Vase Figure Drawing
Students begin the lesson plan by drawing figures doing different activities. As a class, they view artwork on Greek vases and discover how the political situations affect the drawings on the vases. They draw their own scene to place...
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The Model of Fitness
Students measure their physical abilities. In this instructional activity on staying active, students record their physical abilities and try to improve upon their own results.
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How to Make Your Own Board Game (Instructions)
In this board board game learning exercise, students follow the instructions to create their own board game. Students use the examples in the sheet for help in creating their game.
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MOSAICS
Visual arts lesson emphasizing pattern and design in individual student mosaics made with paper and reviewing line, shape, space, and color. The individual mosaics will be used to create a border for a group mosaic in another lesson.
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Water Color - Pen & Ink
Learners paint with watercolors, define positive and negative shapes, mix wet and wet colors, develop visual balance, and define shapes with pen and ink.
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Pulsating
Students explore how activity and lack of activity has an effect on a persons' heart rate. They receive instruction and practice in taking and recording their pulse rate. Students also incorporate a variety of music while taking their...
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Finding Jupiter's Moons
Students explore Jupiter's Moons. They calculate and predict the location of Jupiter's 4 large moons. In addition, they draw Jupiter with its moons correctly shown for the time of the observation.
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Bean Bag - Throw And Catch
Students carry a bean bag with a teacher specified body part while traveling in and out of designated spaces. They practice tossing and catching the bag while moving and progress to playing catch with a partner.
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"Fast and Slow"
Students find a partner, they think about their favorite TV sport that they might like to perform in an unusual dance. They practice their chosen sport and students see if they can make a litter repeating pattern of three or four parts...
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Carpool
Students observe general and personal space. They scatter in general space and students with hoops are cars, those with pinnies are police officers. Everyone else is a pedestrian. If tagged, the pedestrian must complete five jumping...
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Lagoon Lake
Students develop skill in using co-ordinates. Up to eight cardinal points of the compass are used making this a useful activity in simple map and grid work. They utilize educational software to gain practice.
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Charge Challenge
Students observe the behavior of different charged objects. In this science lesson, students perform a series of static electricity experiments. They discuss their observations in class.
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Follow the Leader Fitness Jog/Walk
Students demonstrate the fun of jogging/walking in a creative way, work on pacing. They work cooperatively in groups.Students begin by following the teacher and later after they become comfortable and get to be leaders themselves.
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Coordinates
High schoolers use cartesian coordinates (x,y,z) in 3-dimensional space. [Optional: appreciate there exist two ways of defining the z axis, and which of them is used.] They become familiar with the tools and terms used by surveyors.
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Water Magicians
First graders observe water changing states from a solid to a liquid to a gas. They predict what they think happen to ice cubes as they sit out. They paint water with paintbrushes outside the classroom in the sun and watch the water...
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Fancy Dribbling
Students enter the playing area and pick up a ball of their choice to dribble. Then find a good self space and face the teacher with the ball between their feet. When the music starts they are to dribble all over the playing area.
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Gargoyles
Young scholars participate in a P.E. game to demonstrate using quick changes of direction while running away from a tagger. The class is divided into mover or gargoyle groups, while students change directions and pathways quickly away...