Advanced Placement Teaching Resources :: 265

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Life in Extreme Environments - Lakes Under Ice

For Teachers 9th - 12th

Students collect chemical, physical, and biological data from a local lake throughout the year. In addition, students discuss the design of an experimental structure for water collection at several specific depths as well as assess the...

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Toilet Paper Solar System

For Teachers 6th - 12th

Learners create a model of the distances of the planets in the solar system using sheets of toilet paper and markers. Generally accepted orbital parameters are applied.

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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?

For Teachers 6th - 8th

Learners refine their usage of past simple or present perfect. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs and utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them gain practice with time signifiers.

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Bad to Good Singing

For Teachers 4th

Fourth graders view videos and identify good singing and bad singing. In this singing lesson plan, 4th graders recognize that pitch, tone quality and breathing are important to good singing.

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Keyboard centers with Music You Can Read

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Students play the letters provided in the format "Keyboard/Xylophone/Tone Bells" with the intention of using the "Music Only" format as skills progress. They study fingerings and chords when appropriate to skills.

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Philanthropy in History Lesson 1: We the People Hall of Fame

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Students examine the lives of people who contributed to the common good, and democracy. They investigate grievances that lead to the call for American independence and look at the costs that are incurred as a result of personal acts of...

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Respiration

For Teachers 11th - 12th

Students study the gas exchanges that occur during cellular respiration. They observe what happens as a result of a number of variables on the rate of respiration. They use microrespirometers to measure the oxygen consumption of...

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Zones of the Rocky Intertidal Zones

For Teachers 6th

Sixth graders predict intertidal zones for organisms. In this intertidal zones lesson, 6th graders analyze an illustration of an organism and a class diagram of the intertidal zones. Students research to locate the zone the organism is...

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Showing Depth

For Teachers 4th

Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...

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Integrated Social Studies and Music Lesson

For Teachers 4th

Fourth graders study the Civil War. They listen to and study the songs, 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home.' They play 'Yankee Doodle' on their recorders and write in their reflection journals about their...

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Teaching Handball

For Teachers 3rd - 12th

Learners participate in a number of different lessons with the intention of improving skills to play handball. Each instructional activity focuses on a certain skill like strokes and serves. The skills have a progression of difficulty...

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Making Formal Requests

For Teachers 9th - 12th

High schoolers investigate the concept of making formal requests and examples are included in the lesson for teacher presentation. They practice using the phrases in a variety of situations and then make presentations for others to hear.

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Easy & Elegant Lone Star Quilts

For Teachers 4th - 6th

Students watch a demonstration on making a quilt. Using that information, they practice making their own lone star quilt. They share their creation with the class to end the lesson and can make more quilts with different types of...

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A New Way of Looking

For Teachers 7th - 9th

Students compare and contrast works of art. In this art analysis lesson, students complete art analysis discussion activities and then journal activities.

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Students Become Mapmakers

For Teachers 4th - 8th

Students practice making a map of a continent and correctly plotting five cities on that map. They place latitude and longitude lines on a map, determine the need for various map projections and explain why map scales are necessary.

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Drawing -Scratchboard

For Teachers 9th - 12th

Students choose subject of composition and do sketches in computer lab of flora and fauna contained within their environment.

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Theatre Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd

Second graders complete pantomime and improvisational theatre activities. In this theatre lesson, 2nd graders play a 'sound ball' game and recreate sounds as they toss the ball. Students discuss projection for an actor and practice the...

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