Students discover how fossils are found and how they help scientists reconstruct the past. They examine how they shed light on what kinds of animals and plants lived over the years, when they lived, and under what environmental conditions.

In this forest planning lesson plan, students visit the 400-acre wood website and work in groups to learn about the specific aspects of forest development. Students create, label and color a forest planning map and present their map...

Third graders complete a unit of study that examines several perspectives of Ireland. They explore how climate shapes Irish culture, reference historical and political maps, compute exchange values for Irish money, complete worksheets,...

Young scholars examine inflation over the years and learn to calculate how it changes over time. For this money management lesson, students learn how price changes affect their purchasing power, how to come up with strategies for dealing...

In this rounding money worksheet, students identify the money amounts in each examples and round to the nearest dollar for the 10 examples.

Students begin the lesson by being introduced to the currency of the Euro. As a class, they must decide which is worth more, the euro or a United States dollar. Using the internet, they determine the current exchange rate and complete...

Students practice counting money. In this consumer math instructional activity, students identify the various U.S. coins and group them in various ways to equal a dollar. Students will use the money they collected for a donation towards...

Second graders develop the skill of place values up to the tens place. They practice identifying the values of 2 digit numbers and writing the correlating values with counting. They use the example of money to make the instructional...

In this Calculus learning exercise, students are provided with practice problems for their exam.  Topics covered include derivatives, area bounded by a curve, local maximum, instantaneous rate of change, and the volume of a solid of...

In this algebra worksheet, 5th graders solve 6 word problems by finding the value of variable in function tables. They use the information to solve the problems.

Third graders examine place value in the hundredths place. They use decimals and money for understanding.

Students, after reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, identify/label food items, how much they cost and the value of using coupons to save money. In addition, they practice reading the labels on the food packaging...

Students study the concept of a market. They determine the different purposes of buyers and sellers. They look at the utility of an item and how the value for money affects the decision making of consumers.

A collection of nine integer worksheets, middle schoolers practice computing the positive and negative values in a variety of problems. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers are the skills conveyed in these resources.

It is so important for English language learners to be able to write for a variety of purposes. Specifically written for an ELD class, this activity provides explicit instruction for teaching learners how to write a poem. First, they...

Do you have financial goals? How will you make them happen? Help your pupils answer these questions through this interactive project. They create goals and a plan for reaching them as one of many high school algebra projects.

Your mathematician's job is to explore the relationship between hours and miles walked during a walk-a-thon. The activity compels your learners to experiment with different means in finding out this proportional relationship. The answer...

Guide young mathematicians through the crazy world of negative numbers with a handy reference document. Offering clear instructions for adding and subtracting positive and negative integers, this resource is a great way to...

How can we decide between candidates on election day? After contemplating various issues and qualities, your learners will go through a step-by-step process of researching and evaluating sample candidates and determining their...

What is stagflation? Have your social studies class examine this political cartoon to define stagflation and understand recession as its defined in a political context. This worksheet would be a great warm up activity, perfect for extra...

Should immigrants who illegally reside in the United States be eligible for citizenship? With information about undocumented immigrant population estimates, sanctuary cities, and unaccompanied immigrant children, pupils consider the pros...

Talk about the importance of goal setting. Financial and personal goal sheets are displayed to show learners various ways that people set goals. After the short presentation the class addresses a writing prompt that asks them to identify...

There are actually several math topics covered by this set of problems. First is the addition of fractions and mixed numbers with both like and unlike denominators. Nine word problems are provided after some whole class practice.There...

Explore the different types of discourse and language with your lecture students in this presentation, which explores "sweet language," "stuffy language," and "poetic language," among others. Helpful for English, Sociology, Semantics, or...