Introduce scenic designers to stage-space awareness with three fun activities that demonstrate how placement on the nine stage areas convey emphasis and clarify relationships.

For this adding and subtracting decimals instructional activity, students add and subtract numbers with decimals in word problems. Students complete 12 word problems.

Learners do various activities and research on the history of Colorado water rights and local ditches and evaluate current situations in terms of water rights, water sources, ditches,as well as how different groups have been affected by...

Readers explore East Asian culture and literature with a book folder project. Before beginning the project, learners record three beliefs they have about East Asian culture. They then select two books to read and create a display for the...

Who knew the lowercase letters u and y could be so artistic? Learners get creative as they trace and print these letters, working from left to right. Each letter has examples, both traceable and solid. Learners follow the...

Scholars practice vector direction notation in multiple formats. After mastering each individually, they work to convert from one to another as one part in a series of lessons on vectors and projectiles.

Teenagers face many temptations, and just saying "No!" can be very difficult. Here's a lesson plan that provides some help. Learners use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast excerpts from The Odyssey, Tennyson's "The Lotus-Eaters," and...

How can you incorporate drawing a dinosaur with printing practice? Here's how! Budding printers trace and write lowercase letters c and o, following guidelines to trace one set before trying another on their own. Then,...

Give printing practice a creative spin as young writers become familiar with the lowercase letters g and q. They trace each letter four times before printing a set on their own in the space provided. The fun twist is that...

Young printers focus on lowercase letters l and j in a creative way, starting with tracing and printing each letter several times. Next, they apply these skills by tracing the letters to complete an image. These...

As emerging printers learn the letters of the alphabet, make it more fun by giving them creative worksheets like this one focused on the lowercase letters i and t. They follow arrows to trace each letter several times...

Have fun with lowercase letters v and w as scholars get some printing practice. They use dotted lines and arrows to get some printing practice before writing a set on their own for each letter. Then, they complete an image of...

Here is some kid-friendly practice with the letters r and n that will ignite your scholars' artistic sides. They connect the dots to trace the lowercase letters before copying them in the space provided. There are two...

For this position of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by following the coloring directions for the items in each of 6 boxes.

Many university professors complain incoming scholars struggle with interpreting graphs. A skill builder offers three different types of exercises including calculating slope, interpreting graphs, and extrapolating outside the plotted...

Look up! Turn left! This activity on giving and following verbal directions will excite your learners. A "finder" leaves the room while you and the class hides an object. When they return, students must use words on the cue cards...

Simple lists of anatomical terms fill the slides in this collection. It begins by explaining the general anatomic position and then goes into directional, body plane, and body cavity terms. The separate regions are categorized as head,...

Student practice giving directions. In this giving oral directions lesson, 2nd graders play Simon Says, identify differences between clear and unclear directions, and practice giving someone else directions in the room. Students use a...

Make your own number line ... using a compass. The first installment of a 21-part series has scholars investigate positive and negative integers on a number line by using a compass to construct points that are the same distance from zero...

Match words to their synonyms and antonyms with a card flip game. Kids turn over two cards on their turn and determine if they are synonyms or antonyms; if not, they replace the cards and try again.

On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his speech "Beyond Vietnam." The controversy that followed is the focus of a three-instructional activity unit that asks class members to consider the political and social implications...

Have you ever listened to a song that had a deeper political meaning to it? Every examined a work of art with layers of meaning? Pupils analyze the drawings of Arthur Szyk. They research the deeper meaning of several artistic cartoons...

One of these words is not like the other! Test grammarians' knowledge of synonyms and antonyms with an activity that challenges scholars to locate three synonyms, an antonym, and record their findings on a worksheet. 

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” Ah, the central question of Lord of the Flies. As part of their study of William Golding's riveting novel, readers complete an anticipation guide and respond to a series of survey...