Students explore the Great Wall of China. They participate in three activities to become familiar with the geography of China and Chinese names. Students explore the size of the wall by examining an interactive web site. They write a...

Students form a classroom cooperative. For this service learning lesson, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Students use funds raised from the cooperative's...

Students study the chemical elements in a computer generated cartoon format. In this computer animation and chemistry lesson plan, students learn how to animate using computer programs. Students use animation to learn about the Periodic...

Students create presentations of digital sonnet illuminations along with sonnet research. For this Sonnet lesson, students view  images, colors, and listen to sounds of their own choice to illuminate Shakespeare...

Students travel to Rome. For this geography skills lesson, students explore famous places in Rome with Google Earth tools. Students research the city of Rome and create touring brochures of the city from the perspectives of past emperors...

Students use Heron's formula to calculate the area of a triangle. In this geometry lesson, students use three different methods to solve the area of a triangle. They find and construct the incentor and angle bisector of a triangle.

Students identify different types of special right triangles. In this geometry lesson plan, students differentiate between right triangles and isosceles triangles. they construct the triangles using geometry software and make conjectures...

Pupils watch a demonstration of wet on wet, dry on wet and dry on dry watercolor painting. They create an underdrawing, fill in washes of color and create a foreground, middleground and background once the washes dry. They add final...

Students answer questions about families and what they do together. Students discuss different types of families and draw a picture of their family, discussing similarities and differences in the pictures and in families in general.

Pupils watch a video and answer questions based on wildlife jobs. In this wildlife lesson plan, students learn that biologists don't just play with animals but that there is a lot of study involved.

Students examine American humor and character through analysis of works by Mark Twain. In this cross curricular lesson, students develop a definition of American humor and determine how and why some consider Twain the 'first truly...

Middle schoolers develop photo essays on Madagascar's environmental challenges. In groups, students research and develop photo essay slide shows to explore the issues of balancing the needs of Madagascar's human population with those of...

Students identify different underwater creatures, explain the importance of recycling in the community, plan preliminary sketches on paper, and construct and sculpt with chosen materials to create creature in paper mache.

Students use the element of line to create a composition, then apply a printmaking technique to create a composition.

Students use images and lettering style to communicate the meaning of a specific word chosen for the composition. They make rich, smooth, layered areas of color using colored pencils.

Students explore the extreme between the distance to the moon in comparison to the size of a particle of moon dust and solve problems related to the Apollo space missions.

Learners identify their own individual resources in the categories of financial, emotional, mental, physical, role models, knowledge of hidden rules, and support systems.

Students are introduced to the realm and power of inventions, and help them to better recognize their impact on people and society.

Students explore the Bill of Rights, which rights have limitations on them, and how these rights apply to their personal lives. They write their own Bill of Rights for the class community.

Third graders, in groups, choose a research topic and generate questions to narrow their focus. They research the answers to their questions and develop correctly cited source cards that display appropriate bibliographic format.

Students explore the different techniques for solving Word Problems.

Students create three tint and three shade strips which depict a gradual gradation from color to white and from color to black.

Students learn skills in mixing and applying paint while enhancing understanding of complementary colors.

Students create a collage using cut black and white construction paper and utilize positive and negative space.