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Hand Made Clay Molds & Hand Made Paper Casts

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils create hand made clay molds and paper casts. They carve their picture into the clay, then fire and paint and then press semi wet sheets onto their ceramic molds to create embossed type paper.
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The Impact

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the impact inventions have on society. In this technology lesson, students review the facts they learned about famous inventors and brainstorm an invention that can improve people's lives. Students use a graphic...
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Comprehensive Examination in English Session One (2006)

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this Regents High School English Examination worksheet, students write an essay explaining the use of propaganda by the biotechnology industry.  Students also use notes to answer multiple choice questions based on the passage.
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Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create oil pastel landscape paintings in this middle-level Art activity on perspective, horizons, foreground, background, and middle ground. The activity includes resource links to books on teaching art and perspective.
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Exploring the FTC using the TI

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to solve problems. In this calculus lesson, students use the TI to solve the graphing porting of the problem. They practice graphing functions and discuss their place in the real world.
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Empowering "Crack Is Wack" Mural

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Learners create an anti drug mural inspired by the work of Keith Haring. In this mural lesson plan, students use line, color, and Haring people.
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Easter Bunny Baskets

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create Easter bunny baskets using cardboard half-gallon milk or juice containers, cotton balls, felt, pipe cleaners, and basic art supplies in this holiday Art lesson for the K-8 classroom. This can be adapted and made into a...
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Preferences

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this oral language worksheet, students work in pairs to ask and answer questions. The first student asks 6 questions about the preferences of Leonardo di Caprio and Cameron Diaz. When the partner answers, it is checked and marked as...
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Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" by Franz Schubert

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students review vocabulary words and look at a piece of art work with one subject and play any or all of the familiar musical examples listed. They then identify the melody of each example and make a comparison between the art subject...
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Cut-Glass Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students design and create a mosaic glass collage. For this mosaic art lesson, students complete lessons to learn about mosaic art and design. Students watch their teacher demonstrate the project and then create their own mosaic glass art.
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Retell A Story Through Dance

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students tell stories through dance. In this ballet activity, students learn pantomime dance skills and examine "The Nutcracker" ballet performances as they examine ballet as storytelling.
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Ocean Exploration: How Doea you Data Grow? (Grades 7-8)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore fieldwork.  In this seventh or eighth grade mathematics lesson plan, students watch a video on data collection in the field.  Students use fieldwork to gather data about their school environment. ...
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How Often? Where is it?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by completing vocabulary worksheets. In this directions lesson plan, students identify terms and vocabulary words which assist in finding locations and giving directions. Students complete a worksheet about...
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Count Your Pennies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils analyze and compare imagery and symbolism in ancient Greek and contemporary U.S. coins.
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Using Capital Letters 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze a list of 30 mixed common and proper nouns. Students mark which words should start with a capital letter and write them out correctly.
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Shamrock Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create small shamrock replicas using green and white paints, paper, bubble wrap, and gold glitter. This lesson intended for the early-elementary classroom is ideal for celebrating St. Patrick's Day or spring-time in general.
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Reading Comprehension Review for Grade 5

For Teachers 5th
In this reading comprehension review for grade 5 worksheet, 5th graders read 4 passages and answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format.
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Effects of Parameter Changes

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students define properties of a quadratic equation. In this algebra lesson plan, students graph and factor quadratic functions. They write equations for polynomials, given a graph.
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Information Gap 1: Looking for a Job

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this ESL looking for a job worksheet, students work in pairs to ask questions that will elicit information that is missing from their page.  Each page contains ten gaps in job advertisments from a local paper.
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Schoolhouses

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research life in a one- room schoolhouse. They plan and carry out a mock day in a one-room schoolhouse. They make slates on a prior day by painting small boards with chalkboard paint.
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An Introduction to Mathematica and the "Birthday Problem"

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders determine the probability of two people in their class sharing the same birthday.  In this determining the probability of two people in their class sharing the same birthday problem lesson, 12th graders use...
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Storytelling in the Classroom

For Teachers K - 2nd
What makes story telling special? Young readers demonstrate how to tell a story to others. Kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders read biographies of "Building Blocks" characters and tell a story about a character to their...
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New Number Now

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students stand on the poly spots hiding the number. They wait for the teacher to roll the dice to see what number comes up. Students are given the rules and an example of the game, if, the number 5 comes up then the other students who...
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Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore school history by documenting daily life. In this time capsule lesson, students discuss the impact a fire had on their school during the previous year and identify ways to preserve information about their school by...