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Sanctuary: Quail Island Banks Peninsula
Students consider the connection between the past and future landscape of Quail Island. In this visual arts instructional activity, students observe existing artwork, art vocabulary, and connections to the role of social sciences when...
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"Photograph Math" Word Problems
Students create a photograph that illustrates one of the ways in which they use math. In this math and visual arts lesson plan, students write their own real-life word problems to accompany the photo.
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Laundry List of Idioms
Fifth graders think of idioms related to laundry as they create a laundry list of idioms.
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Constant Craving
Students experience the effect of sensory stimulation through a guided visualization. They explore possible genetic relationships between drug addiction and the nervous system by reading and discussing, "Genetic Studies Promise a Path to...
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Communicating Through Pictures
Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...
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The Main Man
Students explore visualizing stories by completing a graphic organizer. In this reading strategy lesson, students read the story Pecos Bill by Steven Kellog and identify the setting, main characters and their interpretations. Students...
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Create Koi Nobori: Carp Kites
Students study the Japanese art of Koi Nabori or carp kites. They create their own carp kites with repeating patterns.
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Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion
Students think about several of the concepts from fractals, including recursion and self similarity. They use mathematical concepts of line segments, perimeter, area and infinity are used, and skill at pattern recognition is practiced.
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Water - Planning for the Future
Middle schoolers explore and examine the increases and/or decreases for water user groups: irrigation, municipal, manufacturing, steam electric power generation cooling, livestock, and mining. They utilize percentage changes during their...
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"Fall"owing Changes in the Season
Students create a whole class A-B-"C"eason Book. Each student is responsible for creating a "letter" page relating to changes, adaptations, or other fall concepts. After hard copies of the class ABC books are created, the teachers using...
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The Name Game
Students are introduced to a song in which they practice echoing. During the song, they sing a song in which they give their name and their classmates say their name back to the original person. They practice singing to each other in...
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Memorable Maps
Students draw an assigned map from memory about the United States or any other region they are studying. In this maps lesson plan, students draw a map from their memory at the beginning of the year, and do the same assignment at the end...
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Wetland Welfare
Young scholars research wetlands in the United States and create visual aids for use in oral presentations that make recommendations on preserving or restoring wetland welfare.
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Shapes Show It
Students use art to express emotion. In this visual arts lesson, students explore the use of various colors and shapes in an effort to express emotions displayed in the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Students use the computer...
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Arthur's Tooth
Students practice their reading comprehension by reading a story in their class. For this story map lesson, students read the Marc Brown book Arthur's Tooth and discuss the story, characters and setting. Students create a story map based...
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Patience
First graders listen to the story New Shoes for Silvia by Johanna Hurwitz. For this literacy lesson, 1st graders do a picture walk and answer who, what, when, where and why questions. Students answer multiple questions focused on...
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Map Memory
Fifth graders, working in a whole class setting, label a United States map with the names of all the states that they know. They transfer the names of the states to an individual map and color it. Next, they receive directions on how to...
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Making Connections
Students identify the main ideas in a passage from literature, and in a painting, and justify their conclusions using logic and language arts skills.
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The Art of Me
Learners study about symbols and reflect on the important things in their lives. They choose symbols to represent some of the things that are most important to them and follow directions to create their works of art.
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Malnutrition
Students attempt to find innovative ways to solve the problem of malnutrition.
They focus on finding workable and reasonable solutions, adoptable by any patient. Students enhance critical thinking to create an avenue by which...
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Cave Art
Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age instructional activity, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD...
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Be a River Pioneer!
Students role-play as pioneers in Illinois river towns. They research and choose a home town and participate in the development of the town. They present their simulation in either a written report or visual presentation.
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Teaching with Timelines
Learners create illustrated timelines to accompany the historical events and people they have studied. In this chronological history lesson, students collaborate to create timelines that are enhanced with each new historical era...
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2002 City of Newark Mayoral Campaign
Students research community issues and develop a consensus of issues they think the next mayor should address and study the candidates' positions they have chosen to track.