A list of 11 books about paleontology offers titles, authors, and a brief description of the tale.

Students create and analyze a weather-related data table and a thematic map based upon information provided.

An amazing set of resources! Found here are several lessons that work in conjunction to help learners better understand the juvenile court system. Learners review the judicial process, discuss how juveniles are tried, and hold a class...

Students examine political cartoons from 1774 through today, determine their meanings through analysis and discussion, and create their own political cartoons focusing on historical issues studied in class.

Students research the impact of European voyages of discovery and colonial influence on different aspects of American culture. They access a number of online sources and reference maps to trace the influences of England, France, Holland,...

Students study what occurs in the division process, rather than just following prescribed steps. They expand number sense to include integers and perform operations with whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals. They write a word...

For this science worksheet, students follow directions for dissecting a flower. Students tape the parts of the flower in the corresponding boxes. Students also read about how flowers reproduce and analyze a related diagram.

The first in a series of three resources designed to accompany a reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening provides readers with background information about Chopin, Creole culture, literary realism, and women's suffrage.

Students listen to the book "Henry Builds a Cabin." They design a cabin using Lego pieces based on information from the story.

Students work together to build lego cars. They make predictions about how fast they believe the cars will go. They record their observations and discuss their results.

Students graph ordered pairs to model the relationship between numbers. After observing the patterns in ordered pairs, they describe the relationship, and create graphs from a data table. Students describe intervals in the graph, and...

Students analyze the events of September 11. They read news stories and discuss the events of September 2001. Students explore the meaning of symblism. They design a memorial to commemorate the event.

Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read sentences with and without expression and discuss the type of punctuation that is needed. Students then listen to the...

Fourth graders complete math problems through rounding and estimating. They visit a given website where students select answers to increasingly harder problems. Students complete quizzes to estimation problems. Afterwards, they...

Pupils submit their newsletter articles and a newsletter team proofreads them. Revisions are suggested. Writers revise their articles. Using a template from a word processing program, articles are typed in final form.

Students write paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details. In this paragraph writing lesson plan, students fix sentences and paragraphs. Students also write a paragraph that includes an introduction, supporting details, and a...

Pupils listen to a read aloud of Flat Stanley. They draw flat self-portraits, e-mail themselves, along with a letter to a buddy.

The anticipatory set is clever: give groups five minutes to work on the puzzle and then discuss what strategies they used to match the few that connected. This introduces middle schoolers to the concept of continental drift. A portion of...

Sixth and seventh graders investigate the concept of negative numbers. The lesson begins with a review of positive numbers and progresses to the various operations with negative numbers. The lesson includes dialogue for the teacher to...

Upper graders examine all angles. In this angle lesson plan, pupils practice measuring, drawing, and naming angles. They create posters regarding angle vocabulary.

Learners recognize bullying behavior. They learn strategies for dealing with bullying behavior

Students explore how water moves through soil. They experiment with different soil types and record their findings.

Engage the class in researching oral histories and historical revision, in order to gain a greater understanding and appreciation for the sacrifices made by Americans in the Korean War. The inquiry process is scheduled to take one week....

Biology aces analyze restriction maps to determine the relationships among different primate species and then complete a cladogram. Preface this lesson with an explanation of how restriction enzymes are used to create the DNA maps....