Students participate in team building activity. In this physical education lesson, students are divided into two teams. One team is assigned to knock down the bowling pins and the other team is assigned the job of picking them back up....

Young scholars explore the concept of adding integers.  In this adding integers instructional activity, students simulate the battle of the 300 spartans at Thermopylae.  Young scholars use colored game pieces to represent...

Students work in teams to perform a relay race. In this relay lesson plan, students throw a bean bag to one another after they are done racing, and the first team to have all 8 players done wins the relay.

Sixth graders demonstrate operations with decimal numbers. In this computation lesson, 6th graders play the game "Diabolical Decimals." The objects of this game is to construct the largest number after rolling a die five times. The...

Students research a candidate in an election and discuss how the media portrays that candidate and how the media influences voters. In this candidate lesson plan, students also distinguish fact from opinion, look at political cartoons,...

Fourth graders explore patterns by participating in a class math activity. In this early algebra lesson, 4th graders utilize a die and chart to keep record of a snake game in which students must utilize a math function to solve a problem...

Students explore word fluency by participating in a language arts game. In this vocabulary identification activity, students collaborate in two small teams, each armed with a fly swatter, in order to swat vocabulary words spoken by their...

Students explore word structures by participating in a group activity. In this word segment lesson, students collaborate in small groups and pass out cards with certain letters that can form words when put together. Students win the game...

ESL learners practice saying and spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture and say then spell the word pictured. The first student to the...

Students practice saying and spelling long vowel "bossy E" words. In this spelling lesson, students play a board game that requires them to look at a picture, say and spell the word. The first person to the end wins.

Students participate in a game while naming the parts of a sentence. In this silly sentence lesson plan, students are divided into teams they must identify specific cards related to the parts of the sentence the teacher is asking them...

Students explain the way in which a candidate wins an electorial race and the number of votes necessary to win in the electoral college through movement.

Pupils examine the probability of the various findings in a game and determine the odds of winning. They differentiate between the facts of odds versus probability. Students use higher order thinking skills to explain how a problem is...

Pupils play a game with coins and then use reasoning skills to develop a strategy for winning the game.

Students participate in an experiment dealing with kinetic energy. They predict which cans they believe will win the can race and why. They answer questions based on the experiment.

Fourth graders play a game clarifying when a game is "fair". They play in pairs stressing that the idea that they work out a winning strategy for the first player. They look for patterns to suggest that they start with a smaller number...

Students explore their own attitudes and practices regarding energy use, and then examine the perspectives of others in order to develop their knowledge of the current political debate on energy policy. Students reflect on their own...

Students practice multiplication by playing war. In this multiplication lesson plan, students multiply their two cards and the person that says the product first, wins those cards. The person with the most cards is the winner.

Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win. 

Eighth graders use Newton's Laws of Motion to assist a troop in making a winning car in the Pine Wood Derby.

Students study World Press Photo prize-winning photos in small groups and compare them with memorable personal photos.

Fifth graders determine what the Newbery Award is and why it is importance. They examine a number of Newbery Award winning books and listen to a book talk about William Pene DuBois', Twenty-One Balloons while watching a PowerPoint...

Students work with a partner to answer any unanswer questions on their review sheet. They work in groups of 4 to make flash cards as study aides. Students play a review game for the remaining of the class period. The winning team...

Second graders make predictions, copy cheers, and make inferences as they read a story about an odd bird and his awkward attempts to help his fellow penguins win a cheering contest.