Students compare and contrast fresh and salt water coastal environments. After describing how sea animals adapt to their habitats, they design a variety of sea creatures and explain how the adaptations aid in the animals' survival. ...

Students study the components of a bedrock geology map through a hands-on activity involving a cookie and graph paper.

Students engage in a lesson that concentrates on the use of a lever and fulcrum. They define how a lever is used to lift a load. The lesson has background information to justify it. Students demonstrate how to use the lever while lifting...

In this scatter plot worksheet, students examine tables and write a linear equation that matches the table.  Students graph linear equations.  They read scatter plots, determine the trend line, and write a linear equation to...

Students research opposition and support for World War I from a number of perspectives. They analyze a number of primary and secondary sources, while considering what (if anything) makes a war just and write a letter expressing his/her...

Young scholars enumerate features of their own culture and evaluate how those features have influenced their lives. They explain that many differences are related to culture-beliefs and ways of living that are handed down from one...

Fifth graders interpret line graphs. In this graphing lesson, 5th graders first begin by reviewing the difference in bar and line graphs and what they are used for. Students practice interpreting the data on various line graphs and using...

Young scholars examine a document from the Berlin Airlift in order to research his important event in World History.

Young scholars explain and use verbal directions, recognize the prepositions used in a conversation, explore Italian art, and acquaint themselves with tourist services in Italy.

Students examine features of culture to determine which are visible and which are invisible, and how the invisible affect the visible. They look at both their outline drawing of the iceberg and their Features of Culture worksheet and...

Learners locate the Great Lakes on a US map, then read a news article about a sled being used as a wintertime school bus in Wisconsin. For this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a map and vocabulary activity,...

Learners investigate organs, anatomical planes and transverse sections of the human body using gel people. For this human anatomy lesson plan, students use gel molds, gel and food items to make models of the human body. They create a...

In this topographic map worksheet, students learn how to read a topographic map and create a topographic map of their own using clay or Play-Doh. Students include contour lines by layering the clay. Students answer 6 questions about...

Students explore public opinion of presidential decisions.  In this history lesson plan, students examine various graphs that depict overall American approval of U.S. Presidents and government decisions then answer questions about...

For this trig worksheet, 12th graders identify the angles of a tight triangle using sine, cos and tan combined with the given sides. There are 23 problems broken down in 4 sections.

Fifth graders locate different time zones. In this time zones lesson plan, 5th graders label the different time zones. Students research the different ways man has kept time throughout history. Students also compute the differences in...

Students explore the concept of student press rights. In this case study instructional activity, students read excerpts of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier. Students then complete the provided worksheet activities and determine whether they agree...

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 31 short answer and essay questions based on More's Utopia and other Utopian literature. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using...

Pupils analyze Columbus' rationale for sailing west, and find the latitude and longitude of modern and ancient place names.

Learners explore Ptolemy's world map as an expression of the Renaissance view of the world.

Seventh graders imagine themselves to be one of the characters listed in a simulation setting. In character, and working Students, in groups, simulate a conversation that would be held around the table, in each family setting.

In this map activity, students review latitude, longitude, equator, and prime meridian. This activity has 5 matching and 8 fill in the blank questions.

Students study maps to locate the states and capital on the US map. Students locate continents, major world physical features and historical monuments. Students locate the provinces and territories of Canada.

Students explore the concept of latitude. In this geography lesson, students discover the global grid system and complete a map activity which require them to record the latitude of various cities in the world.