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The Joy of the Body
Students participate in a read aloud of the poem, "My Body" then perform several different movement activities such as a finger play, a letter dance, and a body puzzle. They then create a drawing of their body using a prepared outline.
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Word Art with King's Words
Students investigate equality and racism by creating a word art project. In this civil rights lesson, students discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and create a word art project using the Internet site Wordle Web. Students...
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Natural Disaster Blooms Taxonomy
Students complete activities that lead to greater understanding of the variety of natural disasters that occur all over the world.
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It's All About Me
Students engage in a variety of activities to develop the skills they need to answer questions about themselves. They respond to questions relating to their ages, names and favorite colors.
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Ecology: Factors Influencing Animal Populations
Young scholars assess the factors affecting animal populations. Working in groups they define specific vocabulary terms and complete several activities from "Project Wild."
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I Can See and Feel the Change in the Seasons
Students use their senses to investigate changes in the seasons. Identify the seasons and represent each with pictures and songs. Observe and describe typical weather for each of the seasons. Describe the information each of the five...
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The Well of Truth
Students read and explore an Egyptian folktale. In this folktale lesson plan, students read the book The Well of Truth and discuss geographical facts about Egypt. Students complete several reading comprehension activities including a...
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Context Clues II Pretest
For this ESL context clues worksheet, students choose the answer that best defines a word that is given within the context of a sentence.
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. In this news-writing lesson, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and work in groups to...
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Sizing Up Hail
Students participate in an estimation and measurement activity to improve their estimates of the size of hail. They hold several different sized wooden balls and record their guesses of the ball's diameters. They compare their estimates.
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Measuring Rainfall
In this activity, students will make a gauge to measure rainfall and see how much rain falls over several days.
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Using Cause and Effect to Write in Science
Fifth graders brainstorm processes or forces that cause Earth's surface to be changed.
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Hurricanes
Eighth graders gather information on hurricanes that are affecting the world at the time of the instructional activity. They work together in groups to collect the data and record their information in a table. They are asked questions to...
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Changes Close To Home
Middle schoolers interview the senior citizens in their community. While interviewing them, they identify perceptions they have about the local climate. Using the internet, the compare the results of the interview to those of public...
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Why Predict?
Twelfth graders examine the process of predicting. They observe a fine art transparency, discuss their predictions about the artwork, identify the types of predictions made during a weather broadcast, and evaluate headlines from...
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Sky Watching
Learners trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
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Beaufort Wind Speed
Fourth graders investigate temperature, wind speed, humidity, air pressure, and direction. They compare their findings with those of the media. They apply the use of various tools to measure weather factors.
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Franklin Mountains
Middle schoolers review the steps of the rock cycle. In groups, they identify the natural forces that cause weathering and erosion. They describe how sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks might be formed in nature to end the lesson.
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Exploring and Comparing Other Communities
Third graders search TDC database for images of physical geography maps, weather maps, natural resources maps, and old travel brochures. They create a new travel brochure of an area of their choice using the information they gathered.
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Blowing in the Wind
Students compare hurricanes and tornadoes. They write a paragraph explaining how to prepare for a storm. Students give an oral report. They use weather facts to practice math skills. Students record observations of a storm.
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Boundaries
Young scholars identify and analyze the boundaries which exist between urban and rural, wildness and country and among rural areas, country, town, and city. Students actively participate in planning, obtaining materials, setting goals...
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Explorers Stopped in Russia
Students read an article about an explorer attempting to walk around the world. They complete vocabulary exercises and take a quiz. They identify several examples of homographs in English and complete a worksheet.
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Using Imported Data in Excel
Young scholars import atmospheric data from the internet. In this earth science lesson, students graph the data they collected. They complete the worksheet after the activity.
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Exploring Magnetism
Eighth graders study magnetism. In this solar wind lesson students complete several activities on space and weather.