Students practice working in groups to brainstorm about what teamwork means to them. They develop their own guidelines to pass along to others about how to work in a group successfully.

Second graders explore Egyptian culture, including mummification, and hieroglyphic writings. They create their own mummy case using paper and a variety of materials. Students use symmetry to create their mummy.

Pupils explore line(s) of symmetry in polygons during a hands-on activity and a Student Web Lesson. They build a wall of symmetrical shapes designed and drawn by students.

In this atomic weight worksheet, students follow directions to complete an experiment with nuts, a scale, and calculator to calculate atomic weight. Students then answer 6 questions.

In this parallels and meridians learning exercise, students read a 2-paragraph review of parallels and meridians and respond to 7 short answer questions.

Third graders prepare for a trip to view marine life. In this science lesson plan, 3rd graders assemble a picture of a Humpback whale on a grid.

Students make a pinhole viewer to demonstrate how it inverts light passing through it which produces inverted images.

Students create different types of stamps using pressed leaves, foam, insulation tape and small plywood pieces. They decorate various fabrics blocks with their stamps and fabric paint. Individual blocks are then sewn together to make a...

Learners study holidays and culture. In this customs and traditions lesson plan, students create their own holiday based on traditions and holidays that different cultures currently practice.

Students experiment with color using tints and shades of at least 2 hues and create a 3-D painting/mobile.

Students review vocabulary shape cards. They match oral words of shapes with flash cards then they make and label their own set of shape flash cards and then review with a classmate.

First graders create a spring egg out of pastels, construction paper and glue, create and continue a pattern, and experience a different type of art media.

Young scholars explore counting by fives up to one hundred using a hundreds chart. They create counting hands that are hung on a clothespin and string, and students orally count by fives to one hundred.

Students practice various math skills by using manipulative activities. In this math manipulative lesson, students sort shapes, build hexagons, and build shapes using manipulatives. These activities would be great for parent ed or...

Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.

Sixth graders demonstrate an understanding of expressionism by creating a portrait of a friend who inspires a mood or feeling.

Students demonstrate how individual pieces of data combine to produce complete images.

Ninth graders construct a weather map. In this meteorology lesson, 9th graders construct a weather map using contour lines and temperature.

Students will practice number recognition by trying to identify three numbers in a row to win Tic Tac Toe. They will also trace the number on their grid to practicing writing numerals. This is a perfect independent game for pairs or...

The teacher will prepare number lines for the young scholars to trace. These number lines can be taped to the desk to be used for number recognition, sequencing, counting, "number forward", and "number backward" activities. An example is...

Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world. [4:07]

This Daily Teaching Tools resource relates to word study. Students will learn the spellings of new words by tracing and copying so that they can recall them.

This article by historian William Hagan, "The Balkans' Lethal Nationalisms," (Foreign Affairs 78, no. 4 (July 1999), traces the background for the then contemporary conditions in Kosovo.

A site featuring the work of Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian, among others, that explores pictorial space in a composition There are lesson plans for ages 4-18, and a great section where works are juxtaposed for comparison. Use the...