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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars
Students use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.
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Where's My Dot?
Students explore the five basic elements of Monart, dot, curved line, straightline, and angle line to create a book about their home address. The concept of "big" is explored in this lesson.
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Affirmative Action Debate
Pupils recognize that there are class and school activities that can cause for their exclusion. They defend and dispute an issue in preparing for a debate and determine how a survey can tell you how other classes fell about issues.
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Reading Aloud
High schoolers practice their reading aloud skills. They examine different careers that focus on public speaking. They also gather new tips to practice when speaking aloud.
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Probability Lesson Plan
Your learners will examine probability through experiments and dice games. Using a computer, your class will perform simple experiments to collect and analyze data to determine the probability of different experimental results. Students...
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Design a CD Cover
Students encounter a unique way to design their own personal CD covers. Students research on how others have designed similar covers. Students produce an original CD cover. Students correlate various singers to their CD covers.
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Bar Graphs
Seventh graders visually represent and analyze data using a frequency table. They recognize what values in a data set are bigger by looking at a bar graph and answer questions about certain bar graphs and what they represent. Students...
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Unknown Vocabulary
Students develop the vocabulary necessary to make their reading meaningful. After creating pre-reading activities, students a list of unknown vocabulary related to their reading selection. They complete vocabulary and context...
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Single Step Operations
In this single step operations activity, students solve word problems. In his short answer activity, students write answers to eight problems.
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All Shook Up
Students measure movements in the Earth's crust due to seismic activity. Students calculate the amount of displacement in horizontal and vertical direction due to an earthquake.
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Freckle Juice
Students analyze a chapter from the assigned book they are reading. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read chapter four from Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and discuss the main character, Andrew. Students complete...
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All Shook Up
Young scholars calculate the amount of displacement after an earthquake. In this seismic event lesson students research the Internet, and fill out a CORS data sheet.
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Reading Graphs
Young scholars read graphs and charts to interpret results. In this algebra lesson plan, students interpret bar, line and pictographs. They draw conclusions and make predicitons based on these charts.
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Candle-Wax Fossils: Casts, Molds, and Impressions
Students examine and define fossils. They create their own impressions and molds in clay and candle wax, making external and internal molds.
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Women: Stride Toward Freedom
Young scholars read facts about women'ts suffrage and research topics related to women's rights. Optional films for viewing and books to read.
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Invasive Species
Students study exotic and native species, and examine how exotic species can impact native ones. They study how the mute swan effects native species.
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So You Want to Be A Poet?
Fourth graders study different types of poetry and then write examples in this unit. They write, among others, free verse, Diamante, Clerihew, and color poems.
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Genes and Inheritance
Students explore genes and inheritance. After listening to a story describing a rare genetic disease, students discuss inheritance and how living things pass on traits to their children. In groups students, students decipher code...
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Food From Trees
Student use online resources to describe and compare food from trees. They take a nature walk, look for trees that give animals or people food and place foods found on a chart. In addition, they visit related sites for information.
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Let's Roam Together
Students collect information about buffalo and transform their classroom into a wildlife park. In this conservation lesson, students work in groups to research a question pertaining to buffalo populations and habitat...
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Looking into Careers: Doing What I Like and Liking What I Do
Students explore careers. For this service learning lesson, students consider the value of job satisfaction and explore non-traditional jobs related to animal welfare.
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Take the Energy Action Challenge
Learners take an energy challenge and implement it in their lives. In this energy conservation activity students read a handout and complete an energy activity.
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The Secret School: chapters 2 and 3
Second graders read chapters 2 and 3 of The Secret School and answer discussion questions as they read. For this reading lesson plan, 2nd graders also read aloud in pairs and complete a worksheet.
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Meat, Poultry, Fish, Eggs: Constructing and Maintaining
Students investigate meat as a source that provides protein, iron and nutrients in the diet. They identify types of meat and their sources, complete a market survey, conduct a fried egg experiment, and prepare various recipes that...