Apply food selection and preparation guidelines related to quick breads, rice, grains, and pasta. National Standard 14.3.3 Identify basic cooking techniques related rice, grains, and pasta Identify examples of quick breads: muffins,...

Learners create a standard outline, using a word processing tool, while they are learning about the basic writing device of the 5 paragraph essay.

Third graders explore different combinations of coins that can be used for specified amounts of money using paper money and tree diagrams. They write money amounts in different forms. Groups utilize a tree diagram imbedded in this lesson...

Students draw a picture. In this favorite foods lesson, students list the foods they like to eat and form each like into a complete sentence. Students cut the word in the sentences apart and then arrange them in the correct order with a...

Students read the story "Weslandia" by Paul Fleischman, define the term microclimate, gather and record data in various places on school grounds to establish the presence of difference microclimates, analyze and compare microclimates,...

Many of your class members will have heard of Executive Order 9066 and the Japanese internment camps of World War II. Some may even recognize the terms “Issei” and “Nisei,” but few will have heard of Enemy Alien Hearing Boards, of the...

Ninth graders conduct an experiment demonstrating what happens when a train hits a car using easily accessible materials. They calculate momentum, velocity, and distance using the appropriate formulas. Then they write an incident report...

Students investigate the force of gravity and how it effects different objects that are put into acceleration when applied the experiment of free falling. They drop different objects that have a variety of masses and some that cause air...

Ninth graders solve problems involving exponential functions. In this algebra lesson, 9th graders apply their knowledge of exponential properties to add, multiply, divide and subtract exponential functions. They perform these operations...

Young scholars explore the differences between food webs and food chains.  In this wetland lesson plan students play a food web game and go on a scavenger hunt. 

Students collect and record data. In this early data analysis lesson, students gather data about their partners face. As a class, the students use tally marks and pictographs to record the data and answer question about the information...

Prompt scholars to complete a magic square using only variables. Then they can attempt to solve a numerical magic square using algebra. 

Young scholars see that artists make many different kinds of lines. They discuss how artists use line to show ideas such as motion, mood, or emphasis. They geet a "scribble" to transform into a picture using Colorific markers or erasable...

Here is a straight-forward problem of multiplying two binomials with a twist. It is up to algebra learners to decide how to turn this product of sums into a sum of products. However, it is not the quadratic that is the answer; it is the...

Students demonstrate their knowledge of panthers by writing a play on the subject.  In this animal life instructional activity, students view a slide-show on school computers of a veterinary exam of a panther.  Students...

Practice converting decimals between standard form and expanded form. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Given the expanded equation of a circle, graph the circle. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Find the center and radius of a circle given the equation in expanded form. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Students can practice converting whole numbers from expanded form to standard form in a series of self-check exercises and timed learning games.

This interactive web lesson reviews how to write numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded notation.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students with place value and decimal fractions.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value, counting, and comparison of numbers to 1000.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in place value, rounding, and algorithms for addition and subtraction.

In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage students to represent decimals in different forms. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding how to...