Students understand how their food moves through the digestive system. In this digestion lesson, students measure the length of the digestive system from a projection of it. Students draw their own pictures of the digestive system.

Students create a map. In this direction and distance lesson, students come up with familiar places in the community and calculate the distances from these places to the school. Students create a map that displays these places and their...

Learners calculate bowling scores by using math skills. In this bowling instructional activity, students take a trip to a bowling alley and use a worksheet to figure out bowling scores. Learners use prior math skills such as addition to...

Students read a reprinted article from USA Today. For this metacognition lesson, students complete a worksheet about their thoughts while they are reading.

Students explore organisms that are part of interconnected food webs.  In this food web lesson, students choose an animal and research what the animal eats.  Students begin with the food chain and branch out into the...

Students investigate maxima and minima by finding the shortest distance. In this calculus lesson, students calculate the shortest distance a bug travels to get to the other side of the tv. They analyze their findings discussing...

Students draw diagrams to help them solve word problems. In this geometry lesson, students follow step by step directions to set up a word problem and solve it. They write a paper on their prefer rules or strategies.

Students practice measurement using real world objects. In this scavenger hunt for lengths lesson plan, students collaborate to measure with rulers, yardsticks, trundle wheels, and tape measures.  Students must estimate the length...

In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students determine the number of sets of consecutive positive integers who have a sum of 100.  The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution. 

Second graders investigate the different living and nonliving things they can find on Earth. For this life science lesson, 2nd graders record their observations as they dig into the soil. They examine them under the magnifying glass and...

Students will demonstrate their understanding that different games reflect local resources by creating a type of ball.

Eighth graders investigate the relationship between force, distance and time.  In this physical science instructional activity students compute the work done, graph and find the relationship between work and power. 

Students get involved in growing veggies so they may start eating them more!

Students explain note values and relationships, especially dotted rhythms and tied notes by giving them a visual, hands on representation

Students experience problem-based learning as they use prior knowledge of the states of matter to keep a frozen juice bar from melting.

Third graders work in groups of two to three with measuring tapes, finding the circumference and diameter of teacher-selected circular items. They relate circumference and diameter measurements to find pi.

Students listen to the story Toad, then the story is reread without any adjectives. The class discusses the importance of details in a story. Then the class creates a collaborative book following the same story pattern.

Second graders create balancing mobiles using 5 labeled items that represent them and different time periods of their lives.

Fifth graders pull a paper clip sitting on paper with a magnet beneath the paper. They experiment to see what happens if they substitute the paper with thicker paper and other materials (plywood, glass, foil, etc.)

Students are introduced to classical music. They listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. They interview each other in regards to their feelings about the music and the paintings they produced while listening to the piece.

Young scholars investigate osmosis as they determine how carrot cells respond to two different environments. They conduct the experiment, record the data, and answer discussion questions.

Eighth graders create a survey, gather data and describe the data using measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and spread (range, quartiles, and interquartile range). Students use these measures to interpret, compare and...

Students calculate pi using data on the circumference and diameter of various objects. They define key vocabulary terms, measure the circumference and diameter of various circular objects, organize the data on a table or chart, and...