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Food Needs, Food Wants

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore wants and needs. In this family budgeting lesson, students play the Food Money game to help them distinguish between food wants and needs. Students discuss their impressions of the game and food budgets.
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Good Foods to Have on Hand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners consider the type of foods that should stock a pantry. In this nutrition instructional activity, students complete worksheet activities regarding stocking the pantry and preparing one-dish meals.
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Weather Observation Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research weather patterns. In this weather lesson plan, students read Chester Noongwook's Rules of Weather Observation and keep a weather journal for one month. Students observe the weather patterns throughout the month.
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Language, Communication, and Successful Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider how communication skills may diffuse conflict. In this conflict resolution activity, students play a word game and discuss how vocabulary may contribute to creating conflict of diffusing it.
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Meter Reading Using Place Value

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch a video about reading a gas meter and discuss what they saw in the clip.  In this place value lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing dials on the meters. 
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Character Value

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars discuss their value systems. In this value lesson plan, students read a book and fill in a chart describing the values of the characters and examples that prove these values. They compare the character's values to their own. 
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Blue Mud Shrimp Mystery

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore invasive species on an environment.  In this exploratory lesson students hypothesize why shrimp are on the decline and make a brochure or poster showing their results. 
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Pooling Common Knowledge

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine Native American cultures. In this diversity lesson, 5th graders prepare oral reports based on the research they conduct regarding Native American clothing, holidays, and sports.
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Communicating My Ideas; Developing Self-Expression in Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify new vocabulary. In this vocabulary lesson, 5th graders predict the meaning of unfamiliar words. Next they find them in a dictionary and use them in a sentence.  
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Nunavut - Flag and Coat of Arms

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the symbolism of flags and coats of arms. In this community activity, students discuss the meaning behind the Nunavut flag and coat of arms. Students then design flags and coats of arms that represent their communities.
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Lesson Two: Discover a purpose for keywords

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research a topic in nature. In this research lesson, 2nd graders pick a nature topic and discuss the keywords needed to find more information about that topic. They fill their information out on a organizer.
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Breaking News: OMG, LOL, FYI Now in Oxford English Dictionary (26th March, 2011)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore vocabulary by analyzing the current events. In this dictionary addition lesson, students discuss a news topic about word additions into the Oxford Dictionary. Students complete a list of activities about the story...
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Patterns That Grow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate growing patterns. In this additive patterns activity, students analyze the core of growing patterns. Students extend additive patterns based on the core.
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Two Ways to Write Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete activities to learn about money and how to write money. In this money lesson, 2nd graders watch a video about ways to write money. Students work in groups with play money and come up with two ways to write money....
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Citizenship and Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss why they believe exploring the topic of citizenship in school is important. They rank citizenship topics according to their importance. They examine the possibility of citizenship bringing communities closer together.
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September 11-How Do You Feel?: Terrorism, US History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers have the opportunity to express their feelings and discuss their perceptions of the events of September 11, 2001. This could also be adapted to other crisis and disasters.
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Narrative Procedure

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils identify narrative procedure. In this narrative procedure instructional activity, students analyze a recipe and visit the website www.ehow.com. Pupils discuss narrative procedures and answer questions. students make a list of the...
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Business writing--Responding to Requests for Information

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students take part in several guided discussions to determine the organization of the information required in a business letter.
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Waldseemuller's Map: World 1507

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders analyze various maps.  In this Geography instructional activity, 7th graders create a large map as a whole class.  Students write a letter to Mr. Waldseemuller. 
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Science, Sounds And Hearing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest...
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What Makes Us Free?: Maine's Declaration of Rights

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students analyze Maine's Declaration of Rights. They review state constitutions and declaration of rights and their importance. They analyze a section of Maine's Declaration of Rights and crete their own declarations of rights. They...
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How We Use Rocks: Part 2

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the uses of rocks.
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Diabetes

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify community cultural practices that enrich or challenge health behaviors. Students evaluate television commercials for their effects on health and initiate a survey of cultural and media influences that might affect health.

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