High schoolers discuss their goals for the short and long term. They develop plans to help them achieve their goals. They bring all of their plans together and publish it in a school newspaper.

Students discuss Alaska's state flower and grow their own flowers in pots. They discover skills needed for gardening and plant care. Once students have researched the state flower, they draw pictures of forget-me-knots and list the...

Students investigate the lives of families in two different centuries. They compare the 1600's to the 1800's. Students write an essay about the differences and how they developed in history. Special attention is paid to the external...

Third graders are introduced to a game in which each card they receive will have half of a book title on it. They find the person who has the other half of the title and they sit down in a circle. Students when whisper what they know...

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...

Fifth graders participate in read aloud activities of three books about life in Colonial times. They compare their life to that of children of Colonial times using a Venn diagram. They draw a picture and write about what a day in the...

For this environment worksheet, students look for the answers to the environmental impact of recycling in Great Britain with the statistics from the pie graph.

This library media PowerPoint introduces the system of nonfiction call numbers. Each slide includes information on what numbers go with each subject, along with colorful illustrations.

Students describe what ways did the motion picture industry influence American lifestyle in the 1920's? They evaluate the role of motion pictures in people's lives leading up to the Great Depression.

In this recipe worksheet, students will rewrite a recipe for making 16 biscuits so that it will only make 12 biscuits. Then students will rewrite the recipe to make only 4 biscuits.

In this recipe learning exercise, students will rewrite a Halloween cakes recipe that makes 12 cakes, so that it will make 16 cakes. Ingredient amounts are in metric units.

In this verbs instructional activity, students complete a 25 question multiple choice on-line interactive practice exercise about verbs ending in "-ed". Students choose the best verb for the sentence from two choices.

Students identify the different areas of imbalance in their lives.  In this personal lifestyle lesson plan students learn different techniques to help them create more balance in their lives. 

In this letter b instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with words that begin with the letter b. Students complete 20 sentences.

High schoolers conduct research into the life of being a person who is Japanese. The lesson uses essential questions in order to guide the research. Classroom activities are used to encourage discussion.

The Library of Congress provides a glimpse into work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915.

Students can use lists of data and the correlation factor of various regressions to determine the best regression line.

Read about how the homesteaders on the American frontier added a little levity to their otherwise harsh frontier life, and in particular how women, how spent much time at home, worked to add variety to their lives. From a companion essay...

Covers skills that may be needed to work in leisure and tourism.

Through a photograph investigation, students examine leisure activities of the twentieth century and answer a list of questions.

A good Trinity University site that examines social institutions. Topics include family, religion, work, school, and leisure. The site has research or for one to familiarize oneself with basic aspects of social institutions.

Text of the short story "Miss Rodney's Leisure" by George Gissing, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Learn how different economic classes in urban centers spent their leisure time in the late 19th century. Includes a good discussion of machine politics and the role it played in the lives of the lower classes, as well as its negative...