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Don't Let Pressure Get to You
Middle schoolers study the ways peers can pressure them on a daily basis. They watch video segments on how to better deal with peer pressure.
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Let's Talk Trash
In this solid waste worksheet, students classify the different types of solid wastes found in landfills into given categories. Students predict and tally the total number of each type of item found in the landfill using slips of paper....
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Conflict Resolution and Addressing Bullying Issues
Helpful ways to engage students in anti-bullying exercises
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
Students use information from the U.S. Bureau of the Census to create a bar graph, a picture graph, or a circle graph showing the country of origin of U.S. Hispanics.
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I Am More Than You See
Students discuss the effects of gender bias and stereotyping by identifying personal interests and values. In this sociology activity, students iscuss the forces in society which cause gender discrimination, create poems about...
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Who I Am Collage
Students create a collage about themselves and their interests by using magazines and pictures. In this who I am lesson plan, students present their collage orally to their classmates.
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Understanding and Identifying Individual Resources
Students identify their own individual resources in the categories of financial, emotional, mental, physical, role models, knowledge of hidden rules, and support systems.
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Puberty/Adolescence: Am I Normal?
Students inspect psychology by answering a list of health study questions. In this puberty lesson, students identify the impact teenage years have on boys and girls. Students define a list of scientific terms and answer study questions...
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Photography for Language Use and Awareness
Students make storyboards and take photographs for slides to illustrate stories or "how to" demonstrations and write and recorded scripts to accompany their slides.
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Students read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.
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Gender Equity: Gender Role Assignment
Students analyze and compare personal and societal perception of gender roles. In this gender roles lesson, students record their personal point of view on various tasks such as doing dishes or car maintenance. Students then work in...
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INFUSING EQUITY BY GENDER INTO THE CLASSROOM:A Handbook of Classroom Practices
Students examine how gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination impacts their lives. Students examine behaviors they believe are acceptable for males and females and will compose an essay based on their findings.
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Defining and Discussing Death
Students participate in an imaginary scenarios that involves different ways to confront and talk about issues surrounding death. Students will write a letter expressing their emotions to a pet or person who has died.
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Let's Talk Trash
Learners identify class and types of materials in our environment. In this investigative lesson students work in groups to process information about what actions should be taken concerning solid waste.
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I Am More Than You See
Middle schoolers examine their personal interests in culture/ethnicity and what they value in terms of physical vs. Personal characteristics. They discuss the forces in society that cause gender discrimination.
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Ready, Set, Go for Good Health: My Future
Students recall events from their fast and identify their goals for the future. They brainstorm traits needed to set and reach personal goals. They write a paragraph about what they need to complete their goal.
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Who's in the Bag?
Students express personal characteristics with items from home. They introduce themselves to one another.
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What's in a name?
Students learn the history of their name, and create a biopoem. Students learn the pronunciation of native language names, cultural identify and pride in home language and culture.
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Fort Morgan, Colorado - 100 Years of Progress and Promise
Students discover and practice interviewing skills by role-playing. They utilize these techniques while discussing the history of Fort Morgan with senior citizens who came to the school and with those whom they visited in the local...
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White Bear Lake Fitness Challenge
Students participate in fitness challenge. After choosing a destination they would like to visit, students record their mileage to their destination after riding on bikes and walking on treadmills. Students receive an incentive...