Curated OER
Adaptable Animals
Students examine the types of adaptations that animals use to survive. They research the animals and report their findings to the class.
Curated OER
Measurement: Caliper Actitivy
Students participate in an investigation of winged organisms. Working with calipers, students measure the wing span of several butterflies from different areas. After recording their measurements, students use their data to explain...
Curated OER
Safety in the Auto Shop/Laboratory Environment
Students evaluate typical auto shop sectons and layout. They identify safety hazards in the auto shop. Students examine measures to prevent common shop accidents. They discuss general safety rules for the auto shop. Students identify...
Curated OER
Funny Money
Students are rewarded for attendance. In this school-wide rewards lesson, students earn "dollars" for attendance and being in class on time. Students use those dollars to bid on everyday items of their choice.
Curated OER
PEOPLE OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
Students evaluate how technology changed life in Mesopotamia. Students summarize the link between agriculture and religion in Sumer. Students classify the Sumerians according to social classes. Students classify the causes and effects...
Curated OER
The Ottoman Empire
Learners compare the basic religious beliefs/and value systems of the three major religions that developed in the Middle East. Each group focuses on one of the religions, then reports to the rest of the class.
Curated OER
Scientific Inquiry
Middle schoolers make inferences about what activities occur at different places in school. They form a hypothesis as to how space is used. They simulate how archeaologists explore past people by designing and conducting a research project.
Curated OER
Sketching Perspectives
Students list perspective types, identify views, list uses for perspectives and correctly define terms associated with perspectives.
Curated OER
GIPSE Lesson Plan
Students participate in a Chemardy game that shows what they recall from the previous year of Chemistry. They use the computer lab and various web sites to explore other areas of chemistry. Students discuss if they think that they...
Curated OER
Artsy Insects
Students identify and describe the elements of art and principles of design by creating several different butterfly pictures that represent color, shape, texture, pattern or symmetry.
Curated OER
Wild Waters Downtown
Fourth graders investigate how wild animals living in urba settings also need sources of clean water. They discuss the open water issues of West Nile Virus and what happens to urba animals as these poolings area are cleaned up. ...
Curated OER
Introducing Models to Elementary School Students
Students explore the concept of creating models. In this model representation instructional activity, students are introduced to the idea of a model and discuss the differences between models and the actual object.
Curated OER
Texas Estuary Project
Students practice the proper lab techniques of coring, seining, taking temperatures, and salinity. Students analyze and graph data. Students write a 3 part essay and correctly draw and label a food web of their field site.
Curated OER
Ceramics: A Vessel into History
Students create a personal clay vessel that has a specific use or meaning in their contemporary culture, which could be discerned through study by future archeologists and art historians.
Curated OER
A Look At The Current Court
Pupils examine the characteristics of Supreme Court Justices. Using the interent, they research current effects effecting the Court. They complete a worksheet after examine the biographies of the justices. As a class, they discuss the...
Curated OER
ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Students explain how England's Glorious Revolution affected the colonies and investigate how the Great Awakening and Enlightenment affected the colonies. Students determine how the outcome of the French and Indian war affected N. America...
Curated OER
Observing and Drawing Structures of Guppies and Goldfish
Students observe fish and focus on their structures. In this life science lesson, students work in a group and observe guppies and gold fish.
Curated OER
Making a Battery
Fifth graders make a battery. In this physical science lesson, 5th graders word in pairs make the battery. Students follow 4 steps to create the battery.
Curated OER
What Animals Live in the Rice Paddy?
Students listen to a story about turtles leaving a rice field to go to sea. In this literacy and social science lesson plan, students discuss the story, write a sentence describing each turtle, and draw a picture of the turtle's home in...
Other
Vocaboly: Vocabulary Test: Multiple Choice
This is an index of vocabulary tests designed for SAT, TOEL, GRE, GMAT, or VOA Special English prep. They come in three levels based on the number of questions: Quick, 10; Medium, 20; and Thorough, 40. For each test, the student may...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade: Isat Science: Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 7 matching, 7 multiple-choice, and 6 true/false question over ISAT science terms with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 6th Grade Vocabulary Test
Choose the correct definition for each vocabulary word in this six-question multiple choice quiz. Words include: analyze, compose, engage, relevant, implicit, and explicit.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 7th Grade Science: Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 7 matching, 7 multiple-choice, and 6 true/false questions over the 99 vocabulary words.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 6th Grade: Earth Science Vocabulary: Test
This interactive assessment features 7 matching, 7 multiple-choice, and 6 true/false questions over 102 terms relating to Earth Science and their definitions.