I Am Golden

Discuss nutrition and identify components of a healthy diet, view a Food Guide Pyramid, and create a Personal Food Pyramid, listing all foods eaten in the past 24 hours. Compare food lists with the standard Food Guide and determine where...

Students classify organisms into one of five categories: producer, consumer, decomposer, predator, or prey. Students play a "Who Am I" game. Signs are hung on the backs of fellow students They must ask questions to determine what...

Help your sixth graders reach their Common Core math standards by providing them with a checklist of "I can" statements for each standard. As each concept is covered, kids can check it off, as long as they can do what it states. 

What did the cloned sheep say to its mother? I am EWE! A lesson about cloning is presented uniquely as an individual and then collaborative activity. Pupils each read a different article, without a date, about something that has happened...

Learners apply properties of the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems with missing sides and angles. In this geometry lesson, pupils calculate the distance between two point on a line using the Pythagorean Theorem. They identify...

Help your classes feel like they can walk on water! An engaging inquiry-based lesson has young scholars experiment with different surface coatings. They make observations about their properties and how they relate to the surface tension...

Students create a working radio by soldering circuit components supplied from an AM radio kit. They demonstrate an efficient soldering technique, identify the circuit components used to construct their radio, and explain how their radio...

I'm a fish, and you're a fish. Sixth graders role-play as fish as they conduct research into an ecological issue that would affect the future life of that fish. They research ocean pollution, clean up costs, and logical solutions. They...

Students examine the basic concepts of radio waves and magnetic fields. They study how the AM radios are built and demonstrate the concepts of amplitude and frequency.

Students work with the place value of given digits. In this place value lesson, students use a deck of number cards to find the greatest number when they draw three cards from the deck. They arrange the the digit from greatest to least.