Before graphing and finding distances, learners investigate the coordinate plane and look at patterns related to plotted points. Points are plotted and the goal is to look at the horizontal and vertical distances between coordinates and...

Students access prior knowledge of coordinates. In this coordinates instructional activity, students graph coordinate points to create a symmetrical figure and of a straight line. Students complete several practice examples.

Class groups bring feeling words alive by creating a poster that illustrates with images and colors, but not words, the feeling conjured by the word. The posters are then combined into a mural for the classroom wall.

Students determine how a stop animation movie is created. They compare the similarities of a stop animation movie to a flip book and construct a flip book showing fluid motion. They examine the different theories about why when a series...

Fourth graders complete activities to increase their understanding of coordinates. They listen to Julie Glass' book, The Fly on the Ceiling, before playing fly tic-tac-toe and Swat the Flies, in which they use ordered pairs to state the...

Students read a book and recite the days of the week in a story. In this lesson about the days of the week, students which become familiar with the parts of the day. Students read Today is Monday, and situate the days of the week on 8...

Tenth graders recognize, perform and derive rules for basic transformations including translation, reflection and rotation. They also consider compositions, a combination of two or more basic transformations. Students explore both...

In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders use the concept of midpoint of a line segment to solve problems in which they determine the length of the indicated segments.  The one page worksheet...

Students share the difficulties they have in determining what to write or draw for a project. In groups, they view examples from three different artists and discuss how their personal experiences affected their art. They brainstorm a...

Students create and decorate paper mache maracas.

Pupils practice the days of the week. For this week lesson, students listen to the story "Today is Monday" and discuss what food matches with each day of the week. The pupils put food cards out to match the story and draw these on a...

Students look at fabrics. They discuss how to print/contrast. They demonstrate cutting center. Students are shown how to trim the block accurately. Students sew in blocks. They discuss how to finish, including tying, machine...