Students in ESL classes participate in role-playing activities to develop their awareness of stereotyping and understanding other cultures.

Students go on a shape walk around the school. They record the shapes they see while the teacher take pictures for review back in the classroom.

Students interpret and create different types of graphs. They analyze data from charts, develop a survey and design appropriate graphic illustrations and make a presentation.

Learners practice cause and effect writing skills on environmental topics.

Learners investigate the solar system and what makes a planet habitable. They complete an online Webquest, simulate a NASA training program online, take an online quiz, answer discussion questions, and locate newspaper articles about the...

Students create science design to be painted on the wall in the hallway of the science area of the school building. They measure space available, make a scale model of the design, and paint different pixels.

Young scholars examine and analyze photographs of other cultures. They answer discussion questions, identify bias and point of view in the images, conduct research on another photo, and compare and contrast two cultural images.

Students, through a series of 4 lessons, explore what it means to revise their written work. They revise a bland story together and then practice revising their own papers by identifying the main action and "exploding" that moment into...

Students use the time-lapse feature of the QX3 Intel Digital Microscope to observe germination of seeds. They use the QX3 Intel Digital microscope to create time lapse video films of seed germination experiments.

Students create a multimedia project to represent their own culture and personal identity. They design a personal Coat of Arms using a computer graphics program and digital camera, write a script and film an interview, and contribute a...

Explore graphical representation of a real-life data set and determine the exponential regression model for the data in your classroom. Students also compare the estimated value to the given value by determining the percent error.

In this science worksheet, students find the words that are related to the finding of terms and information about agriculture for ten questions. The answers are on page 3.

In this fish in the Hudson learning exercise, students read a brief excerpt about what types of fish can be found in the Hudson River in New York. They identify which fish are caught in greatest numbers and those caught in the most...

In this giving change instructional activity, 3rd graders figure out the translation of Bruke money to American money. Students answer 3 word problems related to Bruke money.

In this introductory paragraph worksheet, students learn techniques for writing an attention-catching introductory paragraph. Students then read several introductory paragraphs and determine which strategies were used.

Students examine several types of old photographs and compare them to photography today. Students search for historical photographs and draw conclusions about the time period from the subject matter. Students explain how a camera...

Learners examine the functions of portraiture and create their own portraits. In this portraiture lesson plan, students read an excerpt from Portraiture, by Shearer West, to discover the ways in which portraits can be used. Learners...

Students learn to recite poems and songs that they will recite and sing at their graduation for kindergarten. In this graduation lesson, students memorize and practice 5 poems and songs.

In this averaging and pixel worksheet, students solve 5 problems including finding the average value of 9 images given pixels, distinguishing between background 'noise' and the source and detecting faint sources in bright backgrounds.

Learners create a slogan. In this heroes lesson, students identify traits from hero stories that match traits of real life heroes. They discuss what lessons they can learn from heroes about courage and come up with a one line slogan that...

Students examine and draw landscape maps. In this mapping instructional activity, students investigate what a landscape map is. They draw a map showing objects on a small piece of natural landscape. Students fill in a grid sheet and a...

In this bar graph worksheet, students analyze a graph that show the number of prohibited items intercepted at U.S. airport screening checkpoints. Students answer 3 problem solving questions about the data on the graph.

In this cell phones learning exercise, students study a bar graph of the number of cell phones usage in households. Students answer 5 questions about the graph.

In this data analysis worksheet, students study the information on a data table about the hosts of Saturday Night Live. Students answer 8 problem solving questions about the table.