Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...

Young scholars become familiar with dance vocabulary and, with their bodies, create shapes and transitional movements to depict emotions related to the theme of 'courage.' They coordinate their movements to music and critique each...

Third graders write a petition to a school figure, get signatures from other students, share the petition with the appropriate authority, and then work as leaders to carry out the group's solution.

Students explore methods to manage a classroom with one computer. Prospective teachers observe a video of students collecting information on Native American tribes. They discuss the use of white boards and electronically recording...

Young scholars explore uses of the calculator. They explore using reading strategies to solve problems. Students recognize when calculators are useful. They construct real life situations for calculator use.

Students recite the poem, The Frog on the Log, paying particular attention to precise diction, pacing, projection, inflection, volume and rhythm.

Students read and interpret primary source documents regarding historic Jamestown. In small groups, they read the primary documents, answer questions, and view online maps of Jamestown Island and Virginia.

Students are guided through a series of strategies to help them practice using the computer and become better Internet users. They follow steps in an exercise to practice search strategies and begin research on a topic for a research paper.

Students create interpretive drawings and movements based upon the emotion in the poem.

First graders, after generating a list of possible writing topics, begin the writing process and participate in peer-editing and publishing their own works.

Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.

Students record data, make observations, and share in experimentation and discussion of numerical experiments.

Students explore the book "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. They predict what the story is about and predict what will happen in the story. Students write their own endings for the story.

Students use a leading question in order to create context for the lesson plan. The use of media helps to engage students with the integration of technology. Students consider major problems of society.

Fourth graders, while working in the classroom and the computer lab, utilizing supporting facts from previous lessons, write a creative story that imagines a world without forests. They write, type and print their stories and turn them...

Fourth graders write a composition on what they think the world would be like without trees. They brainstorm ideas of what they think the world would be like treeless, and creative a story. A rubric is distributed to the students which...

First graders read their Dr. Cupp Readers and guided reading books with an accuracy of 90%. They apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.

Fourth graders demonstrate improved usage of story telling/conversational skills.

Pupils identify the core democratic values. They explain how the values affect their life in America. They also relate the topic of philantrophy to the core values.

Seventh graders read, "The Witch of Blackbird Pond," and write an expository essay discussing choices they have in society today compared with the character Kit.

Young scholars research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.

Students, in groups, use the Internet to research Abraham Lincoln. They role-play the part of a newspaper journalist and write an article about him.

Third graders examine the Journey of Lewis and Clark and how it relates to Thomas Jefferson and Monticello. They read about, discuss and complete worksheet pertaining to the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Fourth graders identify the characteristics of a good paragraph and find those characteristics in a good paragraph from the books, "One Day in the Woods," by Jean Craighead George and "Why Do Leaves Change Color," by Betsy Maestro.