Learners are provided an avenue to express his/her understanding of the life skills being taught and connect the life and times of Harry Truman to the life skills being taught for the purpose of adding relevance for each student.

Students participate in an archaeological excavation to determine how archeologists make inferences about various cultures. They reconstruct the site using layers of drawings. They discuss the kinds of information they learned.

High schoolers experiment with being a dictator and sorting students into "desirable" and "undesirable" groups. They discuss freedoms and contrast U.S. government to dictatorships.

Students use census data to analyze the racial and economic diversity of their community. They discuss the role of diversity within communities and the impact that land use decisions can have on the composition of a community.

Students gain practical experience in how sewing factories are run. They experience job possibilities by running a sewing factory simulation.

First graders predict, observe and record strategies to overcome them using discussions, role play, and charts. Over a three or four day period, they examine obstacles that humans and insects encounter.

Students discuss the way vertical convection transports heat from the surface upwards, and associated pressure and temperature profiles of the atmosphere.

Pupils observe and compare a variety of living things and pictures of living things to note their similarities and differences.

Students observe life stages in flour beetles and graph the results. They write a summary report.

Second graders are introduced to geometry by a teacher made puppet called Geo George.

Students research how Christmas trees became part of the American Christmas tradition.

Seventh graders, using a magnifying glass, observe mealworms in a cup.

Fourth graders experiment and see the combustion of ethanol, then write a report about why ethanol didn't ignite a second time.

Pupils practice using graphic organizers to summarize The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat.

Students survey home energy use and develop an energy conservation plan.

Fourth graders draw a set of blueprints and record measurements on them. They add, subtract and multiply to work within their house-building budget.

Middle schoolers calculate the rates of feeding for the average baleen whale, and compare the energy requirements of whales with humans.

Young scholars analyze elements unique to the Chicano art form of the teatro (theater) and examine history connected to the form, namely the farm workers' movement of the 1960's.

Students listen to the book, Not So Fast Songololo, and locate South Africa on a map. They identify similarities between the daily life of a child in South Africa and America, and write a letter and draw a picture to a child in South...

Students demonstrate fractions and mixed numbers using concrete pictorial models of pizza. They relate symbols to the models.

Students create technology based portfolios for others to use as a pattern for assessment. They make a "Personal Autobiography Page" to start the portfolio.

Young scholars discover how to convert fractions to decimals and percents. They play the role of a shopper to complete this activity.

Third graders identify the phases of the moon. They use technology to access websites on the Internet dealing with the moon.

Fifth graders search into animal and cell characteristics and their functions in this seven lesson unit. Replicas of the cell are constructed out of Jell-O as students probe the internet for details of the concepts.