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Volleyball - Lesson 6 - Forearm Pass
Feet to the ball, belly button to the target, flat platform. These are the three main cues for making a good forearm pass in volleyball. Teach these cues, practice these skills, work on performing a good forearm pass. Yes, practice,...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 6--Family and Parenting
Students, after defining/reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, discuss and explore acceptable and unacceptable parenting skills with a variety of disciplinary practices to assist them.
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Value Your Digits
Third graders work with place value. In this place value lesson, 3rd graders write three digit numbers and tell the place value of each number. They compare numbers and money, regroup, discuss the value of coins, and count money.
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Character Education - Kindness
How to get students to always remember to be kind to one another.
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Good Classroom Management Can Lead to a Great Year
My top techniques for effective classroom management and a great year.
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The Spread of HIV Through a Population
Students use a model to illustrate the spread of HIV through an adolescent population and, acting in the role of epidemiologists, explore the dilemmas of HIV infection presented by the simulation. beneficence and justice.
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"Disco Sucks!"
Students examine why disco and other forms of music were not widely accepted.
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And You Don't Stop - 30 Years of Hip-Hop, Episode 2, Lesson 3
Students discuss how Run-D.M.C. brought Hip Hop into mainstream popularity. They discuss why melding two styles of music is popular and what the results have been through history. They take two songs and combine elements to make a new...
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Celebrate Music In Our Schools Month
Learners celebrate music for a month with a creative project.
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Combining Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Students combine direct and indirect pronouns in this instructional activity. They practice with rewriting sentences when a direct and indirect object is present. They create a story using PowerPoint with their new sentences.
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An Approach to Chemistry via the Analysis of Art Objects: The Scientific Method, Laboratory Safety, Light and Color Theory
Students create a painting that clearly exemplifies the use of primary pigments to make secondary pigments. They demonstrate the distinction between value and saturation. They explain the affect of adjacent colors on each other and...
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Forces and Graphing
Middle schoolers analyze graphs to determine relationships between variables and rates of change. They determine the basic concepts about static reaction forces. They determine the slope and equation of a line.
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Insects
Third graders research an insect and creates a brochure on that selected insect. Each student develops a Venn Diagram comparing similarities and differences between moths and butterflies.
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- Making Metaphors with Munchies
Students brainstorm independently first, then ask their best friend on the team, or seat partners, depending on the year & student mix, to add to their list of personal characteristics and/or to name three words they think of...
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Falling Into Geometry Through Paper Art
Students explore geometric shapes. In this kindergarten geometry lesson, students create a fall quilt consisting of three different paper geometric quilt squares that when assembled form a scarecrow, a pumpkin, and a crow.
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Angles: Angles, Angles, Everywhere
Students practice estiminating and measuring angles. After watching a short video, they identify angles in objects in the classroom and their homes. In groups, they participate in activities in which they are given a scenerio and are...
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Heaven or Ground Hog Day?
Students discover the ideas of enlightenment by reading historical poetry. In this philosophical lesson, students read poems by Sir Walter Scott and Sergeant Joyce Kilmer while discussing the themes of the writing with classmates....
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The AME Church in U.S. History
Ninth graders explore the history of the African Methodist Church in the United States. In this African American history lesson, 9th graders discover why the church was founded and research its history and noteworthy members. Students...
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Healthy Eating Improves Learning
Students recognize that healthy food gives you better ability to concentrate and makes you more willing to learn. In this healthy food lesson, students choose food from Canada's food guide to create a healthy lunch and healthy snack.
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Direct Object Pronouns
Learners work together to identify parts of a sentence, and decide where the direct object pronoun should go and what it should replace.
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Classroom Management Using Gandhian and Kingian Principles of Nonviolence
Tenth graders study the concept of civil disobedience. For this Current Events lesson, 10th graders participate in a survey that nominates students for hard work and exemplifies nonviolence.
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How High Are the Clouds?
Students analyze height and collect data to create a graph. For this statistics lesson, students use central tendencies to analyze their data and make predictions. They apply concept of statistics to other areas of academics to make a...
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All About Me
Students examine their own personality traits and preferences. They use this information to write an autobiography.
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How Does A Seed Become A Plant?
First graders evaluate what it takes for a seed to become a plant. They brainstorm what they know, discuss what they want to know and interact with a Plant WebQuest that indicates what they have learned. They also examine how we get the...