Fifth graders imagine an aquarium filled with 1,000 fish on a math worksheet. They express each species as a fraction of the total number of fish in the tank. Students reduce each fraction to lowest terms and then express them as...

Students explore abbreviations and acronyms. Students examine the difference between the two types. Students complete a worksheet, sorting words. They write a creative script containing abbreviations and acronyms.

Students observe and discuss a picture of Curious George building a bridge and discuss what it means to build, plan and design a project. As a class, they list things they need to do in oder to build something and explore how a compass...

In this solar system worksheet, students explore a web site called The Nine Planets, to refresh their knowledge of the solar system, and to research new facts about Uranus. They answer three questions about Uranus, write an essay about...

Students study people who are peacemakers. For this peacemaker lesson, students examine and identify everyday peacemakers. They imagine what peace is in a visualization exercise and interview a community adult about peace and peacemakers.

Young scholars create a "legend" about an animal.  In this Native American legends lesson, students define the purpose and importance of Native American legends.  Young scholars read "Why the Possum's Tail is Bare" and...

Eleventh graders analyze primary source cartoons depicting discrimination against immigrants. They study the historical relationship Dominican Republic has had with the United States. They assess how this relationship is linked to...

In this trustworthiness worksheet, students answer a set of true/false questions about whether or not they can be trusted, answer a set of questions about a referenced video and complete writing assignments and students activities as...

Students create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an...

Students complete a series of interactive activities to explore their beliefs about heroes and heroism. In this hero analysis lesson, students define the meaning of the words hero and heroic. Students research U.S. heroes and everyday...

In this uncovering evidence about objects worksheet, students read When Clay Sings, then use the data retrieval sheet to record their own research data and write a short summary.

Students discover the history of the United States by examining the Great Migration.  In this U.S. History activity, students research the immigration movement on the Internet and complete a worksheet about the large population...

In this reading artifacts instructional activity, students imagine they have arrived on earth from another galaxy and write a description of an object they have found. Function, form , and meaning of the object are revealed when...

Eleventh graders as a class create and write a constitution for an anti-slavery society. They investigate demographics of slavery, treatment of slaves, the colonization movement, and women in the abolition movement, and present their...

In this mathematics instructional activity, students circle the dots to form a complete ten and compare their problem to the one with just ones' digits. Then they add each problem and write down the corresponding problem with just the...

In this physics worksheet, students determine whether the current flows through the resistor after the switch is closed and explain why. Then they determine whether the capacitor will discharge faster or slower if there is an increase in...

In this ESL question formation worksheet, students read about subject and object questions, then read statement and write questions for words underlined and match pictures with words from text.

Six pages prepare you to introduce your math stars to the addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers. They drive a robot back and forth on an actual number line to represent the operations. If you don't have access to a...

Students create a Christmas list and design a Christmas card.

Students take part in several guided discussions to determine the organization of the information required in a business letter.

High schoolers identify a key line from a Shakespearean play and create a poem based on the imagery evoked by the dialogue.

Ninth graders interpret historic images to develop empathy with individuals who lived in the past. They imagine what life in coastal Alabama was like at the beginning of the twentieth century and work on writing skills.

Students fill out a graphic organizer to prewrite about additions they would make to a school building. In this writing lesson plan, students do this as a start to a persuasive paper.

In this Chinese writing activity, students identify what and how to write Chinese pictograms. They explain in what ways each pictogram represents and how the combinations of symbols create a word or idea represented. Then students...