Students examine British voting rights. In this current events instructional activity, students listen to a lecture about the proposal to drop the British voting age to 16. Students create and distribute surveys about the proposal and...

Students locate and analyze clues about ancient Greek life. In this ancient Greece lesson, students look at art, architecture, and artifacts to determine what was important to the Greeks and discover details about their culture. Students...

In this science activity, students examine the list of possible science projects. They look for the characteristics that set apart these ideas as humane.

Students investigate how hurricanes impact a stream flow.  In this floods lesson students predict the impact of storms on animals and interpret data.

Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...

Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.

Tenth graders review the Iowa Agriculturist, retell the annual and seasonal cycle of farming and describe pioneer farming practices.

Students take strips of a poem on paper and put them into the correct sequence. There are many ways the poem can go together and students are surveyed on which one they like best.

Students are introduced to the role of the Federal Reserve. In groups, they discover the three functions of money and discuss the most common forms of payment used in society today. They develop a survery to give to the local community...

Students review the key points of fire safety referring back to the results of their fire safety surveys and other areas that people need to be better informed. They work in small groups to observe TV advertisements as well as posters...

Students, after briefly discussing spending and saving habits, take a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.

Students understand some of the problems faced by the uninsured through data collection and explore possible sollutions for those problems.

Students investigate the meaning of regional differences as they study a survey written about the different ways people like to eat chips and design and make a poster to show what makes their area unique.

Learners create a graph showing which students in the class collect coins.

Students discuss how Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey (not the bald eagle) to be our national bird and then graph their preferences and discuss the survey results.

Young scholars in an ESL classroom identify and locate the states on a United States map. Using the internet, they research to compare the holidays in their home country and the United States. They share their findings in an email to...

Students raise public awareness of a specified organization. They discuss their favorite jingles slogans or sayings associated with a company. In groups, students create and perform an advertisement for the entire class. Students...

Students explore the life and art of Giotto and his use of perspective in his drawings. They then write a short paper about how political support needs to be generated for community action to save objects of art. They investigate what...

Students complete activities to study volcanic activities. In this volcanic activities lesson, students read an article about violent volcanoes. Students complete discuss questions and volcano projects for the lesson. students also take...

High schoolers identify Korean products sold in the US and become aware of Korea's importance in international trade.

Fourth graders interpret a graph and make correlations using data. After taking a class survey, 4th graders create a class graph of their favorite planets. Working in small groups, they interpret the information and create at least ten...

Students begin their examination on the conflict in the Middle East. Before beginning, they complete a survey and discuss their answers to hopefully reduce their bias about the region. They examine the problem in the Middle East from the...

Pupils research a website to look for potential topics for a research paper. They develop a narrowed prioritized subject list on an index card (3X5) using word processing program.

Students identify products in their community which are imported from other countries. After conducting a personal household survey, students research the product's country of origin. They discover the role imports have upon their...