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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Predicting Plant Coverage
Students participate in simulation as they examine vegetation in a square meter land plot. Students construct charts and a key to make predicitons about other land plots.
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Break the Pentomino Code!
Learners read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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Pythagorean Theorem
Students investigate the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem. After conducting independent practice to find the hypotenuse of a triangle, they work with the teacher using examples in the lesson plan. The direct instruction is delivered...
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What is a Plant?
In this plant activity, students will review the origins and adaptations of plants including the alternation of generations. This activity has 8 short answer, 6 fill in the blank, and 4 multiple choice questions.
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Conventions: Hyperbole
Fifth graders discuss hyperbole. In this language arts instructional activity, 5th graders understand that hyperbole enables writers to make a point by describing something in an overly dramatic way. Students create a list of objects...
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Current Spanish History 1900-present
Tenth graders study the Spanish Civil War. In this World History lesson, 10th graders analyze famous paintings. Students compare and contrast the government of the United States with that of Spain.
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Ariann's Nutrition Expedition Adventures Remembered
Fourth graders respond in their nutrition journals to a prompt about the importance of the five food groups.
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Road to Russian Revolution
Students discuss how historians can form a picture of a society based on primary sources such as diaries of people who lived through a period. They are explained that there is no proof that Nicholas II kept a journal at Ekaterinburg,...
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Introduce -s = /s/, -s = /z/ Words
First graders study language. In this plural words lesson, 1st graders discover how words that end in -s are either pronounced with a /s/ sound or a /z/ sound. They work as a group to determine how various words are pronounced. This...
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Lesson Plan Ideas for Preschoolers
Students complete different activities throughout the day in a structured preschool setting. In this preschool day lesson plan, students complete circle time, academic learning, free play, and gross motor time.
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Moral Dilemmas
In this moral dilemmas worksheet, students will cut apart 16 question cards. Then they will take turns reading scenarios about situations involving using one's morals and discuss how they would handle these situations.
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Recycling: Creative Uses for Items
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
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Spending Money
Students complete activities to study the value of money. In this money study lesson plan, students read a story about money and discuss how they earn money at home. Students watch a related video clip and create a class book about the...
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Famous African Americans ABC Book
Students create an ABC book with short biographies of famous African Americans in history. They utilize teacher-selected and/or student-researched library sources about African Americans in history.
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Bullied Girls and Boys
Students study and verbalize positive qualities about themselves and others. They work on interpersonal skills by encouraging others and finally they reflect and evaluate on how their behavior affects others.
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Igga Bigga
Students explore consonant digraphs in written words and use them in their own sentences. They work with /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ digraphs. Students read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything and identify words with the...
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Reporting on WWII in Alaska
Students explain the people and the political, geographic, economic, cultural, social, and environmental events that have shaped the history of the state, the United States, and the world.
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Viewing Bateria
Students use microscopes to observe E. coli bacateria on prepared slides and in a live culture. They use micro-slide viewers to observe the shapes of various bacteria and the structures within the bacterial cell. Students make an...
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Introduction to Little House Books
Third graders identify the main characters in the Ingalls family and describe the relationships between the characters. They locate the setting of the book on a map of the Upper Mid- West. Students understand that the books are set in...
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The Respiratory System
In this respiratory system worksheet, students review how the air passageways and lungs transport oxygen through the respiratory system. Students also review the mechanics of breathing. This worksheet has 6 multiple choice and 6 true or...
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Reduce and Respect!
Students examine how to reduce trash to help the environment. In this environment lesson, students listen to the story, The Wartville Wizard, before thinking about how they can reduce trash. They decide why it is important to reduce...
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Language Arts for Grade 2
In this language arts for grade 2 activity, 2nd graders answer 15 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about punctuation, grammar and parts of speech.
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Spelling Lesson Plan: Shaving Cream Printing
Learners practice their spelling words with shaving cream. For this spelling skills lesson, students practice their spelling words using shaving cream on their desks.
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Spelling Worksheet
In this spelling worksheet, learners read sentences from the book Mystery in the Attic and choose which word is spelled incorrectly and then correct it. Students complete this for 5 sentences.