First graders use a graph to answer questions about the frequency of words. Using rhymes, they fill in a chart about the data they collected. In groups, they use their word wall words to identify them in a book.

For this cartoon analysis worksheet, students fill out the worksheet to assist in the analysis of cartoons. They consider symbols when determining the message of the cartoon.

Fifth graders use structural analysis to identify root words with prefixes such as dis, sub, re, and pre.

Students examine the use for spreadsheets in analyzing data. They make spreadsheets that display and calculate a given data set such as temperature change.

Sixth graders work to write questions for a class survey. In this survey lesson, 6th graders survey their class members by asking the 4 questions they developed and will record their answers on the culminating assessment...

In this exploring how to collect and organize data worksheet, students, working with a partner, problem solve the answers to seven word problems involving data.

Students graph demographic information. In this graphing lesson, students choose what type of graph to create and what information to display. Links to examples of graphs and statistical data are provided. The graphs are created on the...

Sixth graders practice collecting and organizing data. In groups, 6th graders determine how many times "Happy Birthday" (at a reasonable rate) may be sung in ten seconds. They collect the information and create a graph.

In this compound words instructional activity, students read six different compound words and then draw a line separating the two words that make up the compound word. Parents or guardians must sign the instructional activity.

For this compound word worksheet, students use the compound words listed in the word bank to complete the sentences. Parents and guardians must sign the worksheet.

In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and then complete each sentence with the word loss and lost.

In this poetry worksheet, students select poems, read them, and then respond to 17 questions about the content, response, and history of the poem.

In this dimensional analysis learning exercise, students solve six word problems using dimensional analysis to solve for an unknown. These include finding density, and converting from one unit to another. They also categorize samples as...

Learners critique advertisements in magazines, newspapers and telephone books.  In this advertising lesson, students complete a class activity in which they locate specific advertisements, then answer questions that analyze the...

Young scholars identify 50 States and the major geographic features, regions, and political representation of each. In connection, they investigate the causes and effects of European colonization on North America. They identify the...

Prior to reading Unwind, Neal Shusterman's 2007 young adult science fiction novel, class members research the common definition of words drawn from the novel that will come to have a very different meaning to them as they are...

Explore metric measurement, recording data, and creating an electronic spreadsheet displaying results with your math class. Scholars will measure the length of their smiles, record the measurements, and represent the results on an...

Dinnertime on the African savanna is a highly choreographed event! Introduce young ecologists to the concept of niche partitioning through a hands-on activity. Pupils research animal behaviors and use data to develop an understanding of...

Does the number of calories you eat affect the total time you sleep? Young mathematicians tackle this question by collecting their own data and making comparisons between others in the class through building scatter plots and regression...

"And it's one, two, three...what are we fighting for?" Use music to assess the climate of protest during the Vietnam War, listening to and analyzing Country Joe MacDonald's "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (lyrics included)....

How does energy from the sun make plants grow? Scholars move step by step through the processes that promote plant propagation during a detailed lesson. The resource illustrates ADP production and hydrolysis, then allows learners to...

Improve your young poets' descriptive writing with this lesson on personification. A SMART board and PowerPoint presentation guide your class through the process of identifying human qualities attributed to various non-human objects. A...

Sixth graders interpret linear and nonlinear graphs. They create graphs based on a problem set. Next, they represent quantitive relationships on a graph and write a story related to graphing.

As a class, young writers learn how to develop a strong supporting character. They think and discuss a good friend they know, they use that friend as a basis for a potential supporting character. They create a supporting character as a...