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An Introduction to Shamanism
Students investigate Inuit customs. In this cultural traditions lesson, students read about religious customs of the Inuit including Shamanism. Students discuss the role of Shaman and create Inuktitut-English dictionaries with terms...
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GROUP NEWSPAPER PRESENTATIONS
Students in groups are to develop their own newspapers while keeping to a World War I outline.
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Lab Safety
Students are directed by the teacher on how to practice safety in a lab setting.
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How Transportation Transformed America
Eleventh graders focus on the role of transportation. In this transportation instructional activity, 11th graders look at the lives of Americans at the turn of the centuries. They compare and contrast 2000 to 1900.
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One Person CAN Make a Difference
Learners illustrate how the actions of one person can make a difference. They identify school and community issues to address and complete group projects and action plans for making changes in the school or community.
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Flipping Over Our Weather Reports
Students create their own weather report. In this weather lesson, students work in groups to predict the weather for three days and create their own video. They have a director, camera-person, still cameraman, and two weathermen.
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Designing Detectives
Third graders explore the idea of formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis.
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Teen Scene
Students examine what teenagers value most, and discuss the trend of decadent sixteenth birthday parties. They read an article, analyze forms of teen-focused media, and create a visual presentation on their media analysis.
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Early Medieval Europe
Students engage in a host of activities during an examination of early Medieval Europe. They draw coats of arms, make collages of architectural designs, and create posters of knights, serfs, and castles. Students role-play as sons of...
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Group Newspaper Project
Explained as part of a whole-unit, a group newspaper project gives life to any study on WWI. This plan has historians using notes from class to "illustrate" WWI to their classmates through various articles. Not much information is...
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Movie Cloze
In this movie worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with movie vocabulary. Students fill in the blanks for 24 sentences about movies.
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Poetry Explication and Analysis Using "In Her Shoes"
Young scholars explore language arts by viewing movie clips in class. In this poetry analysis lesson, students view scenes from the movie "In Her Shoes" and define what poetry is. Young scholars read the poem "One Art" and identify its...
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Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy
Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be." In this Hamlet lesson, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines. Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive words....
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Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
Students examine global development issues. In this media awareness lesson, students analyze current event issues and create video podcasts based on their research.
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China: How to Put Some "Tang" in Your Medieval Dynasties
Fourth graders label the countries that border China and the physical features of Asia. They discuss the physical features of Asia and label them on the other map.
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The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi
Seventh graders create a simple melody using the Solfedge syllables. For this melody lesson, 7th graders watch the movie The Sound of Music and focus on the "Do Re Mi" clip. Students examine solfege syllables and create a melody...
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Extreme Acceleration
Students explore the concept of acceleration. They determine the acceleration rate of a roller-blader and graph the results.
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A Keen Sense of Smell
Learners investigate their sense of smell by experimenting with smelly objects. In this human senses lesson plan, students examine the length of time it takes to smell a random object that is close to them. Learners record...
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Paradigm Shift: Gandhian Nonviolence and the Concept of Power
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this social justice lesson plan, students examine sources regarding the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi pertaining to nonviolent...
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Motion Capture and Analysis
Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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Scotty T-Rex: Inspiring History All Year Round
Students study changes that occur in geological and historical time. They place themselves in relationship to the universe, the world, Canada, and Saskatchewan.
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #1
Young scholars approach media with a phenomenological criticism. They recongize biases that they have and where they have come from. They also identify biases in professional work.
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Architecture : A Reflection of Our Times
Students explore types of architecture and how it has changed throughout history. They predict what homes of the future may look like. Students investigate a variety of well known architects from around the world and from different...
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Design a Pollinator
Students make a scientific drawing of a pollinator with at least five traits that make them well adapted to a given plant(s). They describe in their science notebook the adaptations that make their pollinator well suited to a given plant.