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Ride on a Slide

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate gravity and engineering by participating in a slide building experiment.  In this early physics instructional activity, students utilize cardboard boxes to create a model of a children's slide.  Students...
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Government and Community Resources

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how to communicate using past tense and present perfect tense verbs. They discuss words related to postal activities and the procedures to follow when mailing letters and packages, registering mail, and buying money orders.
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What Is That Bubblin¿¿¿ In My Back Yard?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a map plotting local sites the Environmental Protection Agency has on its EPA Regulated Sites list. They discuss the need for citizens to, at a minimum, be aware of potential pollution hazards in their community.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: More Buying!

For Students 7th - 9th
In this passive voice review worksheet, students examine 8 sentences and rewrite them using passive voice. Students also write a letter of complaint.
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Create a Garden Goddess

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils construct a Garden Goddess. In this gardening lesson, students recall why farmers used scarecrows and discover the history of a Garden Goddess. Pupils construct their own Garden Goddess from old clothes, paint, and branches.
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Reading and Correcting Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this proofreading worksheet, students read a paragraph about the great builders of ancient civilizations. Students answer 10 multiple choice grammar and vocabulary questions about the text.
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Philanthropy and Philanthropists' Qualities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the meaning of the term "philanthropy" and the qualities that philanthropists share, especially good character and personal virtue. They list and describe how three volunteer groups act for the common good and...
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Teaching Handball

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students participate in a number of different lessons with the intention of improving skills to play handball. Each lesson plan focuses on a certain skill like strokes and serves. The skills have a progression of difficulty until the...
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Choosing a Career in Health

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the role of hand washing in prevention of disease transmission, explore various careers in the health field, and describe a health career that is of interest to them, and explain why.
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Asking For Help At Local Agencies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and explore the ways in which businesses, government, and community organizations provided helpful information. A list of local agencies is comprised and students list questions which are appropriate to ask at these...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Literacy Foundations--LCP A

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms, examine the proper ways to give accurate personal information orally and in writing. In addition, they practice writing with possessive adjectives.
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Pronoun Party

For Students 5th - 7th
In this parts of speech worksheet, students replace the nouns in 10 sentences with the appropriate pronouns from the word bank. Students also write 2 original sentences using pronouns appropriately.
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ESOL Personal Information

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils view different vocabulary cards with personal information words. They match pairs of cards with personal information vocabulary. They complete an information form and read their information to the class.
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Informational Questioning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils practice writing basic questions to gain information. Working as a class, they identify questions they would ask to gain information about locations, time, and events. After writing their questions, they practice asking and...
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Common Two-Word Verbs Exercise 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students define and discuss a list of two-word verbs: call off, hang up, think over, cut out, start off, look over, bring about, think up and put off. Students use a variety of these two-word verbs to answer...
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Power of Speech

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice giving compliments and using words of praise. In this vocabulary lesson, students listen to the parable Yettle's Feathers and determine ways to use speech in positive ways instead of through rumors, tattling and insults.
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Power of Speech (Private-Religious)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a story. In this speech lesson, students read Yettle's Feathers and discuss what they learned from this parable. Students discuss how the words we say have an affect on other people.
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Common Two-Word Verbs Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students change five questions into answers utilizing the two-word verbs call off, hang up, thing over, cut out, start off, look over, bring about, think up and put off.
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Inside Information

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students research and write reports about inventions and inventors. They develop graphic organizers to organize their information, and create reports on the impact of inventors and inventions.
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An Atlas of Health Care

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use educational software to create an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community's health care facilities.
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Provide His/Her Gender

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners write, speak and read his/her gender and the stress the importance of communicating this information accurately especially when completing forms or n various kinds of interviews. Included is a Gender Pre-Test, Gender Grammar...
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Prairie Voices: Where People Come From

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine the human experience. In this migration lesson plan, students determine reasons for migration, discover the traits of cultural groups, and explore how groups of people come to share their experiences despite language,...
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Hispanic World - South America Field Trip

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research a South American Spanish speaking country, analyze and organize the information that they collect and present their findings to the class.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Safety and Security

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after reviewing and drilling on a unique vocabulary list of terms, analyze the proper procedures for fire, crime or medical emergencies. They examine how to stay calm and collected during such emergencies and why its important...