Geometry.... sweet! Using sugar cubes, learners build rectangular prisms of different sizes and shapes. They glue them together and assess volume. Then they color the outer sides to visualize and compute surface area. To make a visceral...

How do sugar and salt affect celery's mass, width, and flexibility? Using simple household ingredients, young scientists will perform a controlled experiment to find out. The lab is scaffolded through a worksheet, but there are no other...

In this carrot cake recipe worksheet, students receive the recipe to make a whole carrot cake and determine the amount of each ingredient that would be needed to make half of the recipe. They determine half of the amount for flour,...

Assist your pupils in making healthy food choices with this lesson. First, have them bring in different kinds of food labels, and put a list of key words on the board (list is not included, but can be nutrition or health-related words)....

What is the probability that a random customer at Mom's Diner will put both cream and sugar in his coffee? Use the addition rule to find out! Use this worksheet to assess understanding, for skills practice, or during a lesson.

Students create original works of "sunflower" art using Van Gogh's paintings and the book "Camille and the Sunflowers" as a basis. Pastels and sugar paper are the suggested medium for this creative project.

This presentation reviews some of the reasons that led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the start of the Revolutionary War. It provides a brief overview and images for events like the French and Indian War, the...

Which of these tools would work best? As scholars learn about measuring, be sure they know the proper tool for the job. There are three multiple-choice questions here prompting pupils to determine proper tool-measurement pairs. Would...

Students graph glucose test results to compare between people with and without diabetes.  For this investigative lesson students participate in activities that allow them to better understand diabetes and how to graph results. 

Students make their own recipe. In this art lesson, students mix dry ingredients with a little water and see the changes made.

Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the consumption of soft drinks by children. They examine the statistics about the consumption and determine the increase or decrease in individual servings consumed over time. They...

Students research human health by identifying fatty and sugary foods. For this food choices lesson, students discuss the five food groups and examine the healthiest choices from each group. Students utilize the web to complete a health...

Fifth graders examine how good health depends upon many things, including heredity, lifestyle, personality traits, mental health, attitudes, and the environment.

Fifth graders practice addition, subtraction,and conversion of fractions by making cookies from a recipe. Students convert mixed number into compound fractions and combine fractions using addition in order to make a certain amount of...

Students identify photosynthesis as the mechanism by which plants convert sunlight energy into a usable energy source for plant processes. They identify photosynthesis as the mechanism by which plants create a molecule that can be used...

Twelfth graders explore historical events that created conflict between Dominican Republic and Haiti, examine how need for cheap source of labor has led to exploitation of Haitian workers, and discuss how topography of island of...

Students play a guessing game. In this performing art lesson, students guess what each ingredient is by touching each while being blind folded.

Young scholars investigate dietary guidelines and the food guide pyramid. They prepare various versions of pasta and muffins, and compare the taste, calories, fat, and cholesterol content.

Students investigate the relationship between micronutrients and proper metabolic function. The lesson plan should serve as an introduction to the subject. The subject of the function includes the study of plants, animals, and humans....

Students investigate various substances to determine the perpetrator of a crime. In this biology lesson, students test for the presence of organic compounds in various samples. They identify an unknown substance based on its physical and...

There is a solvent called aqua regis that can dissolve gold! After observing a solubility demonstration, groups receive four known crystals and one unknown. Based on the demo, they design an experiment to determine the identity of the...

Infuse your AP biologists with the details of the endocrine system. This six-page worksheet queries learners thoroughly about gland structure and hormone function. Ms. Foglia, the author, has not left anything out of this resource,...

The many images and labeled diagrams in this PowerPoint will help learners understand different areas of the endocrine system. The slide show starts with information about the absorption of lipid and protein based hormones, and then...

What factors affect the creation of glass? Youngsters work with sugar crystals as a simulation of glass-making. First, they melt some crystals, then they add water and stirring action as a modifier, they melt sugar in water without...