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Why Does the Bulb Light When There is Flow?
Students analyze light bulbs and their design. They create filaments and build a circuit for testing the filaments. Through experimentation, students discover how filament wire works. They explore the role of protons, electrons, and...
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Tiny Bites: What Difference Could They Make?
Students explore how small "extra" bites of food can add significant calories to their diet. They estimate how many extra calories they add to their diets by just taking small bites of food throughout the day.
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Gathering Pouch
Students cut out a large rectangle from brown paper with scissors. They fold the narrow end up, leaving room for a flap at the top and have the teacher staple the edges of the pouch together. They then decorate their pouch with markers...
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Where We Buy Food
Second graders investigate how to buy food by going to the store. They use pictures of farming and different types of food to engage in the lesson. It includes key vocabulary that puppets use while telling a story to the students. They...
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Savings
Students investigate the different ways to save money and the reasons for doing so. They use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (with whole numberrs, fractions, decimals, and/or percents, mixed numbers) to solve...
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
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Mathematics Review 3
For this math worksheet, students solve the problems using the four basic operations as part of a review exercise or assessment. The answers are found on page two.
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Multiplication Chart 1 to 10-- No Clues
In this math instructional activity, students will complete a multiplication chart from 1 to 10. There are no hints or clues for students. There is an animal cartoon on the page.
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Odd and Even Numbers
For this mathematics worksheet, students look at each number and circle the correct response. They identify whether the number given for each problem is odd or even.
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Assessment & Evaluation
Seventh graders study elapsed time, radioactive decay and half-life. In this time machine lesson students complete several activities and view a presentation.
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Making Choices
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices lesson plan, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
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Breaking News English: Airports Ban Liquids on Planes
In this English worksheet, students read "Airports Ban Liquids on Planes," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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STS Biology - Teaching Controversial Topics
Each of the three activities submitted presents difficult science topics in the context of the human experience. The activities focus on real-world problems, which have science components, from the students' perspectives.
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Me Gusta
Students draw pictures to illustrate their likes. The pictures are collected and, as a class, students practice talking about the pictures in Spanish.
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Rain Forest
Fourth graders are introduced to three aspects of the rain forest. The three aspects are people, animals, and life. Students further investigate problems that arise as a result of actions by the people and life in the rain forest.
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Venn Diagrams With the Pain And the Great One
Students read the story, The Pain and the Great One, written by Judy Blume, and discuss the characters and the sequence of events. They compare/contrast the two main characters using Venn diagrams.
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Mathematics: It's a Wrap!
Students calculate the amount of wrapping paper needed to wrap boxes. They describe how they determined their answers.
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The AIDS/HIV Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
Young scholars become aware of the level of the impact on the current and future socio-economic structures of sub-Saharan Africa by the AIDS pandemic.
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Why Do People Save?
Learners identify ways in which they can save and spend their money. They discover why people save money and calculate simple interest. They discuss the costs and benefits of saving.
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A Cosmic Cafeteria
Students indentify and differentiate between transit and surface food systems. Students measure energy that is released by various foods. Students compare and contrast cooking with solar energy on earth and what they might have learned...
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Nutrition and the Food Pyramid
First graders examine the food pyramid and how healthy food effects the body. They discuss what they ate for breakfast and identify what makes a food healthy. Students analyze the food pyramid, and cut out magazine pictures of food and...
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Exploring Probability
Fifth graders work in small groups of five or six to conduct a series of investigations. While recording the results using pencils on individual tally worksheets rotating to different stations and comparing results with the other...
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Rights of Non-Citizen Immigrants
Students continue their discussion of if coming to America was the best thing for a group of immigrants. As a class, they complete the citizenship test offered by the INS. They research the benefits and responsibilities of being a...