California Department of Education
Transitioning to High School
How do scholars prepare to take their next big step? The second in a series of six career and college readiness activities focuses on making a smooth transition from middle to high school. Groups research the resources available at their...
Virginia Department of Education
Transformational Graphing
Find relationships between the structure of a function and its graph. An engaging instructional activity explores seven parent functions and their graphs. Learners match functions to their graphs and describe transformations.
Curated OER
Mapping Animal Behavior
Students discuss the value of sampling in science. They, in groups, map cricket movement in response to various stimuli and graph their results.
Curated OER
Good Deeds Reap Rewards
Students recognize the good deeds of their classmates. In this self-esteem lesson, students participate in a reward program for doing a good deed. Students get prizes for outstanding behavior.
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Following Written Directions
Learners practice following directions by reading handouts. In this task management instructional activity, students read a handout instructing them to create an art rubbing using paper, pencil, crayons and a leaf. Learners answer study...
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Classroom Management Tips For A Great Year
Classroom management lesson plans can give teachers and students the information they need to kick off the year right.
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Contraception
Just about everything you need to teach a unit on sexual education. Diagrams, charts, factual information all here. This lesson plan is thorough and goes step by step in guiding everyone through the topics providing questions for...
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Rock Solid
Young scholars investigate the three types of material stress related to rocks. They watch a PowerPoint Presentation, view an online animation of the three types of rock stress, identify the various types of rocks, answer true or false...
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Super K Buffet: Lesson for Kindergarten
Students determine healthy food choices. In this healthy food choice lesson plan, students study food vocabulary and complete a worksheet about making good choices. They put together a dinner plate that shows a complete meal using a foam...
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Lesson Plan #2 (Cooperative Group Lesson Plan)
Students define responsibility, list steps of choice making, and solve problems. They create decision making scenarios in cooperative group settings.
Positively Autism
Travis the Train Goes Trick-or-Treating
Travis the Train is on the move again, and this time he and his friends are going trick-or-treating. The story, employing images and concepts introduced in earlier lessons in the series, models behaviors appropriate for the night.
College Board
2017 AP® Psychology Free-Response Questions
How does psychology affect other parts of people's lives? Scholars consider scenarios such as how stress affects a musician's audition or to what extent is a person's eating behavior connected to neurology. Analyzing such questions from...
Curated OER
Growth and Development
Students analyze potentially stressful situations to determine the degree of control and individual has over behaviors. They provide examples of each of the following types of potentially negative thinking such as selective perception,...
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A Memory Strategy to Improve Self-control
Students explore how to monitor their own behavior. They read a book about self-control and respecting others. Students answer questions about the book. They list strategies to assist in behavior improvement.
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Manners
Learners investigate the concept of manners and how they should be exercised at school. This lesson is a foundation of classroom management for Physical Education and is meant to be adapted to other classes if needed. Students focus upon...
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Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How To Deal With Bullies
Students explore human behavior by reading a children's story in class. In this bullying lesson, students read the story Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet by Catherine Depino. Students answer study questions about the story and...
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Injury Management
Students identify and act to protect themselves in threatening situations and describe counter-measures for a variety of potentially dangerous situations. They outline the attitudes and behaviors that cause and prevent accidents...
Michigan State University
What is IPM?
Learners view a plastic cockroach, mouse, or picture of a pest and discuss if they belong inside the house or school. They discuss what a pest is and brainstorm what makes it a pest and ways to get rid of them. They then discover dangers...
Peaceful Playgrounds, Inc.
10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
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Nutrition (Weight Management)
Seventh graders explore nutrition and the effect it has by participating in class discussions. In this diet and exercise lesson, 7th graders analyze print advertisements and discuss how unrealistic their expectations are and how...
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Ancient Greece Lesson
Students explore ancient Greece. In this ancient civilizations activity, students use their Big 6 research skills to complete a Web-Quest about famous people of ancient Greece. Students use their findings to create PowerPoint...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Putting on Armor
Peers can exert tremendous pressure that can lead to positive and negative consequences. To conclude the Risky Business unit, class members create a Personal Safety Plan. They list things or situations that cause stress, things they have...
Facebook
Online Presence
What happens when an online post gets the wrong kind of attention? Learners evaluate the good, the bad, and the occasionally ugly side of social media posting with a instructional activity from a vast digital citizenship series. After...
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Household Conservation/Efficiency
Hook your class up to an online home energy usage calculator so that they can estimate the amount used per month by their families. Then give them Watt meters with which they will measure the power consumption of several small...