Sixth graders examine the trade routes in the Mediterranean of the Ancient world. In groups, they view slides of artifacts while answering questions on a worksheet. After watching a video, they discuss how each object was found and...

Students collect information about themselves and their favorite things. Each month they add information in the form of reflections demonstrating growth in self esteem and self evaluation. At the end of the sachool year, students...

Students discover how to write to improve their reading skills. In groups, they take pictures of a variety of school events and compile them into a PowerPoint presentation. To end the lesson, they add a narration to the slides and share...

Students use their geometry and trigonometry skills to determine the distance between their school and another school.

Learners participate in methods to become organized and involved in clean-up and set-up of equipment at the beginning and end of each class. After being grouped in teams of colors, students observe their group's duties for the beginning...

Create a list of random acts of kindness and have your class perform them during a designated week. Learners will also participate in a project centered around being kind to others. Each grade chooses their kindness project, and then...

In this suffix worksheet, students read the rules for adding the suffix "er." Students complete 24 exercises in adding suffixes to different base words.

In this capitalization and punctuation learning exercise, students put the missing capital letters and full stops in 12 sentences as well as in 3 paragraphs.

Young scholars use headlines to recall and write about important events in the school day. This activity can be done with the whole class at circle time, at the beginning or end of the school day, individually in daily news journals....

Students examine the type of language they use on the street in the city. In groups, they brainstorm ideas about a topic they decide on from a cluster of words. Using those ideas, they organize them into a written paper using proper...

Students draw a time line on graph paper on a scale of one square to every five years beginning in 1770 and ending at 2000. They place historic events and inventions in their correct time period on the time line, and add their birthday...

Fourth graders explore Philo Farnsworth, a fourteen year old farm boy in 1921, who thought up the idea of television. By the time he was in a high school physics class he drew his concept.

Young scholars participate in activities that help them appreciate the history of their local community as it celebrates its sesquicentennial year. They construct timelines, maps, interview, and writing. They use technology in a number...

Young scholars read and discuss the story "John's Dilemma". As a class, they answer discussion questions related to peer pressure and responsibility. They compare a quote by Anne Frank to the situation John is going through in the...

Third graders examine various structures and people, including the region of Adams and Normandie, in Los Angeles. They conduct Internet research, and identify and locate features in the Adams/Normandie region during the past 60/70 years.

Students and their families visit a pretend bowling alley created in an activity room at school. They help their family members to bowl, set up pins and have fun without keeping score to engage the students and culminate the end of the...

Young scholars exercise on a regular basis outside of the school setting. They discover the FIT principle (Frequency, Intensity,and Time) and build on to the number of days as well as the amount of time they exercise. They exercise at...

Students make end of the year gift bags in the forms of a bag with different materials in it. In this crafts lesson, students put stationary, lollipops, stamps, bookmarks, pencils, and other materials into the bags.

Pupils create displays throughout the year to generate interest in upcoming events. They develop a plan to increase awareness of a variety of physical fitness programs. Students create flyers about local activities and share the...

Students compare and contrast the four main religions of Asia (Buddhism Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto). This lesson is intended for use in the middle school Social Studies classroom.

Students participate in an school-wide walking club. Students choose a destination in Pennsylvania they would like to visit. After plotting the best way to get their using a map, the walk each day and record their distance in miles on...

In this paragraph writing worksheet, students write a paragraph about different places they have lived, using a set of 4 given sample sentences that use verbs with "ed" endings.

Students examine traditional flood cycles. They research floods that have occured between 30 and 100 years. They use a tool known as Climprob to study precipitation patterns that might cause floods.

Students participate in a simulation on a European Council meeting. Using the internet, they must research given topics to prepare for the simulation and organize it before beginning. They follow specific instructions for the...