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Response to Literature:

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students write about how the book makes them feel, or they can write about what they think the characters are feeling. They share their personal reactions to this very powerful chapter.
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Seashore Limitations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners listen the the phrase, "have a good day" spoken once with a happy expression and once with no expression and decide which one convinced them that the speaker wanted them to have a good day. They read, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little...
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Stellarium

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the rotation of the planets from various locations on Earth Using planetarium software, they will make observations, and explain how the rotation of the planets varies based on ones location on the Earth. Students...
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Are You Coordinated?

For Teachers 1st
First graders are introduced to a coordinate graph. They are given a graph and follow directions to place stickers in the designated blocks. They write coordinate points to identify the placement of their stickers.
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What Would You Take to Sea? Instructions for Teachers

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, who are teachers, discover the hazards facing sailors hundreds of years ago as they prepare a lesson to use in their classroom. They examine what each group of students will investigate, and how the findings will be discussed.
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Plot and Conflict

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Pupils review the literary elements of plot and conflict. In this plot and conflict lesson, students read a story and answer questions about the plot and conflict within. Pupils create a concept map for the novel to identify the...
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Invasive Species

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore invasive species. In this species analysis instructional activity, students observe invasive species and review the impact the species have on the environment. Students work in groups to investigate the species in...
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Putting Together the Confederation Newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners create a four-page newspaper that represents their assigned region/province of Canada. They assess their individual contribution to the group in the creation of their newspaper.
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Don't Wake Mama

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph...
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If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders take three different photographs representing the beginning, middle and end of their story. They use the Tool Factor program Fresco to add elements to enhance their creativity and make their writing come alive. They then...
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Frozen Film

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the topic of light interference through this hands-on activity. They observe how light reflects off two surfaces and then meets to form an interesting variation of color on a film surface.
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Japanese Festivals and Celebrations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the importnce of celebrations anf festivals in Japanese culture and then create a story based upon an image from the instructional activity. Resource links are provided for images of events.
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Bringing Young Architects to Surface

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners work in pairs to design a building. In this architecture lesson, students take on the role of head architect to design and construct a 3-D scale model a building for a client. Learners' goal is to meet the...
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Underground Travelers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars are introduced to new vocabulary associated with the Underground Railroad. Using primary sources, they evaluate the railroad's impact on society in the past and today. They also make a judgment about the morality of the...
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Borah Peak Earthquake

For Teachers 7th - 12th
pupils use the internet, an atlas map, and other sources to explore a map of Idaho. They locate the Lost River Range and Mt. Borah. Students read the atlas map to locate earthquake faults, find the magnitude, fault, and epicenter of...
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The Guest Investigator Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct a brief astrophysics lab matching the EUVE spectra of various kinds of "mystery" stars with the spectra of known stars taken at Extreme Ultraviolet and optical wavelengths to determine their type.
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An Eclipsing Binary System with a Precessing Accretion Disk

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students work together to complete an experiment over binary sources. They determine values for the orbital period of certain objects and interpret intensity changes. They also calculate a value for the period of precession of an...
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Our Monster Travels...

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners write emails to their parents and locate specific places on a map. In this email lesson, students email their parents from the teacher's account and map locations of their parents.
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Studying Aquifers in Outcrop

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe two or more different rock types found in outcrop. Students look specifically at the hydro-geologic properties of the rocks and complete the lab with a paper explaining a scientific phenomenon in layperson terms.
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Water and Plants...How Dry I Am

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe two similar plants as one gets water and the other does not. They make predictions and chart the growth of each. They draw pictures of the plants after one week.
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Patriotic Symbols

For Teachers K
Students examine the symbols of their state and America. Using the history of the American flag, they identify what each star and stripe symbolizes and why red, white and blue were used. They discuss the use of the bald eagle and...
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Write to Music

For Teachers 4th
Students improve their creative writing skills. In this writing skills lesson, students learn about picture captions, story writing, critiques, poems, reports, letter writing, creative writing, and a rap poem.
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15 Two-Block Quilts

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students create two block quilts after studying about continuity of lines, use of coloring, and highlighting adjacent pieces. Students complete the design into the border. Students cut the required material pieces to create their quilt...

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