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Picture This

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars create a descriptive paragraph conveying ideas utilizing a personal photograph as a prompt for their writing. This concept includes the writers emotions, personal issues, education, art and photography. They share insights...
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All The Way to Timbuktu

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the concept of historic preservation and relate it to their own families and communities. After reading an article, they discuss the efforts of Mali to preserve their history. Using the internet, they research...
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Charting the Weather

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students research and conduct non-experimental research, such as journals, the weather channel and the internet, to collect and record data for analysis on weather conditions in the United States and abroad. They identify, pronounce and...
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Underground Vault Protects World's Seeds

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students share ideas about keeping things safe, then read a news article about a huge vault built to store billions of seeds. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity,...
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Electronics: Wants or Needs?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine how electronics negatively impact the environment. In this environmental lesson plan, 3rd graders read the article "Earth Friendly Waste Management", and identify how recycling impacts our environment. Students...
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A Moment in Time

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a year in history. In this research lesson, 5th graders choose a year between 1801 and 1999 and write three research questions to answer about their year. Students must include three major events and investigate...
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Welcome to Our School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build a friendly environment for future students by creating a PowerPoint presentation.  In this middle school introduction lesson, students utilize a camera to record important moments throughout the school year....
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AP Chemistry Video Lab Book

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners develop a video lab book. In this web-based activity, students use flip cameras and the Web to create a video lab book of the labs they conducted through out the year. This will enable them to be better prepared for the AP exam...
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Bringing Peace to the Balkans, Piece by Piece

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine how the bond of traditions became the binding force of nationalism for which the Serbian forces now fight at the cost of the lives and livelihoods of ethnic Albanians. explore human rights issues surrounding the conflict...
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Paper Making

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create and design paper as an exploration of the history in making paper from pulp. Students will work in pairs or alone to create a piece of paper from raw materials.
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Drawing on Terror

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars assess the ways in which editorial cartoons offer insight into events that shape our world, specifically focusing on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
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Know Your Local Government

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore their local govenment structure and the people who hold various positions of power.
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A Trip to Sully Plantation

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders have a better understanding of life in colonial Virginia. The students compare and contrast their life today with the life of colonial Students. Each child or small group of students design a project comparing the two time...
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Career Connections

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students research information to create a career projects where technological skills will be utilized. In this career projects lesson, students create a project relating to a selected career of personal interest.
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Drink It Up???

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and record facts about well, lake, and tap water. They increase their computer skills for research, creating a spreadsheet, and word processing.
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.
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Design Technology- Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a protective cover for outdoor plants. In this agricultural lesson, students use chicken wire, plastic sheeting, and empty bottles to construct a cover for lettuce leaves. Students take digital photos of their project.
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Make Your Own Sketchbook

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create and assemble a sketchbook from assorted materials. They use various media to create the cover design of the sketchbook, then create sketch ideas for the weekly sketches.
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Ariann's Nutrition Expedition Adventures Remembered

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders respond in their nutrition journals to a prompt about the importance of the five food groups.
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People of the Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars study the importance of caring for desert water sources. In this desert instructional activity, students investigate water resources that are available in deserts. They listen to a read aloud about the Sonoran Desert...
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Science Safari: Energy Resources

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick a topic that is related to energy and power companies, tools, and careers. They organize information, photos, illustrations, video, or other graphics into a presentation.
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Progressive Story Using the Internet for Research

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore Internet sites about Egypt and use them as background for a progressive story using Kid Pix, import grafics from the Internet to include in their story, and collect sites visited into group of "Hot Links" using...
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Surfin' the U.S.A. with Road Rabbit

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students take virtual field trips to places in the U.S.A. in conjunction with the stops made by the class mascot, Road Rabbit. As Road Rabbit travels to his destination(s) via snail mail, so do the students via the Internet.
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Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Books

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a board book from a blank template. Using a specific theme, they decorate their book to show an idea. They share their creations with the class and receive constructive criticism.

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