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Flipped: Request Strategy
Break your class into groups and have them read certain passages from the text Flipped (included here). After every two paragraphs, the groups stop to answer the questions included. Which questions provided are right there questions?...
Global Oneness Project
Clowning Around
Being a clown is hard work — no joke! Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee's Laugh Clown Laugh, a short film about German clown Reinhard "Filou" Harstkotte, asks viewers to consider the various roles played by clowns and to consider the...
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Fact or Hoax? You Decide.
Students analyze the components of debating and practice what they have learned as they conduct a class debate on the lunar landing. Both sides of the issue are researched and presented to the group.
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Honesty in Writing
Help your class construct an honest and clear writing piece. They explore tactics in advertising and identify deceptive language. They then write a statement about a community issue using honest language.
9/11 Memorial & Museum
Exploring Afghani Culture through Literature
Hosseini Khaled's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are the anchor texts in a semester-long course that explores Afghani culture and traditions.
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Inference Lesson Plan
Students practice assessing graphics to infer and identify an author's implicit and explicit meaning in a piece of text. They evaluate the effectiveness of information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, cutaways and through...
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Gandhi's Life and Guiding Principles
Second graders investigate philosophy by researching the life of Mahatma Gandhi. In this biographical lesson plan, 2nd graders listen to a reading of the book "Gandhi" and make a character map of his actions, feelings and thoughts....
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Continuing Gandhi's Legacy of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Central Asia and the Middle East
Students investigate the lifestyle of Gandhi by creating a Venn Diagram. In this biographical instructional activity, students compare the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi while discussing their teaching methods....
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Character Education: Honesty
Learners explore traits of honest communication. In this character development and communication activity, students are given 6 simple statements and work as a group to alter the meaning of each statement through body language, facial...
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Health: Media and Body Image
Fifth graders examine the influence of advertisements on body image and purchasing. They discuss the psychology behind the ads and working in groups cut out words in magazine advertisements that could entice them to buy the product. ...
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Rebecca Brown's "Forgiveness" and Christine Delea's "CoCo Chanel in the Stairwell"
Students, after reading and analyzing Rebecca Brown's "Forgiveness" and Christine Delea's "CoCo Chanel in the Stairwell," explore and focus on the author's tone and genre analysis. They interpret different rhetorical situations as they...
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Mark Twain and the American West
Learners analyze Mark Twain's "Western" voice. For this literature lesson, students read Roughing It by Twain and watch "The West." Learners examine Twain's history and compare it to the history of America's developing West. Students...
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Energy Generating a Culture: Early American Coal Miners and Coal Mining Culture
Learners calculate how much coal they use based on their electric power usage. In this environmental science lesson, students trace the history of coal mining in US. They write a letter to USPS to encourage them to create coal mining...
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Infinitive Phrase Recognition Practice
In this infinitive phrase practice worksheet, learners read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify the infinitive phrases in the sentences and label them as noun, adjective, or adverb.
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A Healthy Body Image
Fifth graders discuss what is meant by body image. In groups, they view a variety of magazine advertisements and identify how it encourages them to buy a specific product. To end the activity, they group the people in the ads as either...
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The Cleverest Thief
Third graders read the story The Cleverest Thief and complete language art activities to go along with it. Students complete activities including discussion, reading, writing, predicting, drawing, role playing, and sequencing.
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Passing Notes
Students demonstrate how to give compliments. In this character education instructional activity, students are given an envelope with strips of paper to write compliments on. Students are asked to give one compliment to each classmate....
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Pooling Common Knowledge
Fifth graders examine Native American cultures. In this diversity lesson, 5th graders prepare oral reports based on the research they conduct regarding Native American clothing, holidays, and sports.
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Folktales: "The Storytelling Stone"
Students create a folktale after finding out the importance of folktales in different cultures. In this folktales lesson, students determine the definition of a folktale and read a "The Storytelling Stone." Students then...
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Media Views
Students create a collage of images depicting trends in the media. In this media lesson, students watch excerpts from several films, television shows, and commercials. Students compare and contrast media views...
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The Job Application
Learners complete job applications. In this written communication lesson, students discuss the purpose of job applications and then complete job applications in their field.
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Worry Dolls
First graders are read The Worrywarts, by Pamela Duncan Edwards. In this discussing your worries lesson, 1st graders listen to the story and have a class discussion about how they handle their worries. They are introduced to "worry...
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Assertiveness/Self-Confidence
Students explore the concepts of assertiveness and self-confidence. They observe that is is all right to say no. Students discuss what it means to be assertive and how it takes inner strength and self-confidence to be assertive. They...
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Health Education: Earning Respect
Second graders explore how to earn respect. In this health lesson plan, 2nd graders summarize and demonstrate expected standards for behavior such as honesty, trustworthiness, and respect for others.