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...

Young scholars 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 young scholars They must ask questions to determine...

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. 

You and your class will like this instructional activity on using visual models to relate the volume and surface area of solid shapes. Learners construct three-dimensional forms using nets. They calculate the surface area and volume for...

Young scholars 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...

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 describe geographical places through art, music, writing, and math. They compile information in booklets which may be published.

Students expand on and elaborate about the field of genetics.

Elementary or middle schoolers use ratios to discover some nearly constant relationships between measurements of parts of the human body. They find and record pairs of measurements and determine the relationship between the pairs. Pupils...

Students work with the place value of given digits. In this place value instructional activity, 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...