Students share personal stories and artifacts, creating a community of trust and sharing.

Young scholars explore reasons for the length of the school year in the United States. The pros and cons for extensions of the year are researched and discussed.

Second graders pretend to be company managers who design and advertise healthy snacks to sell.

Students complete activities to relate numbers to each other. In this number connection lesson, students count number sets, count forward and backward, and complete other number recognition activities to learn how numbers are related.

Students research different perspectives and debate environmental issues. They consider different viewpoints when proposing solutions.

Students practice speaking and listening skills by greeting and meeting classmates.

Students will recognize the problem of prejudice and racism in the history of America especially during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. They will also recognize that feelings can be expressed through the written medium of poetry.

In this understanding place value worksheet, students, with a partner, problem solve and calculate the answers to seven place value exercises.

Students explore how scientists examine the past and use rock layers with fossils to understand the past.  In this excavation lesson students divide into groups and complete an activity. 

Students explore the extent to which a person go for his ideals, focusing on one man's pursuit of free speech in Thailand. They, in groups, respond to five questions related to the article and based on the theme of free speech.

Eleventh graders explore arguments surrounding Abraham Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican War. They compare the arguments surrounding Lincoln's opposition to war with those surrounding war protestors during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Students decide which group they would like to be a member of discussing the Tacoma Narrowns Bridge. Each group researches the same questions but have different answers depending on the group they are in.

First graders experiment with fat content by analyzing snack foods. They learn what makes up a nutritious snack.

First graders do an experiment on the rotation of the earth.

Second graders investigate personal family traditions with objects brought to class that represent personal history. The objects are shared with the class during sharing time. The goal of the instructional activity is that students would...

Students explore how television has changed over the last fifty years, focusing on how world events and societal trends affect (and are affected by) television.

Third graders listen as teacher snaps her fingers in a certain pattern and then join in as they become familiar with the pattern and then repeating it. They observe a patterns of shapes and repeat after the teacher has explained it....

Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...

Students research the characteristics of planets in our solar system. In this space science lesson, students create a solar system model with each planet arranged according to their distance from the sun. They solve problems using the...

Fourth graders analyze how people are different.

Fifth graders come up with goals and plan on how to reach them.

Students learn the history of their name, and create a biopoem. Students learn the pronunciation of native language names, cultural identify and pride in home language and culture.

First graders discuss their prior knowledge of The Golden Rule and compare it to their school's Pledge of Excellence. They discuss the five parts to the pledge and discuss how to be a caring friend, how to do their personal best, how to...

Third graders create Hatshepsut's Temples and Obelisks using a variety of materials.