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Naturalist's Notebook
Students observe and record the behavior of a San Diego wetland animal and the characteristics of its environment. The amount of time that each animal spends resting, grooming, eating, flying, and social or individual play becomes the...
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Ozone
Students locate the ozone layer of the atmosphere. They explain natural formation of ozone. They list chemicals that react with ozone. They explain how CFC's destroy ozone.
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Help! I Need Five Minutes
Pupils practice ways to better manage their time. They keep track of their current use of time. Students prioritize and schedule events and use a daily planning calendar to schedule their time.
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ou are the Researcher!
Students conduct a census at school. They collect data, tally it, and create a frequency table. Students display their data in three different types of graphs. They write complete sentences describing the graph.
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What is Soil?
Third graders examine what makes soil by creating a Venn Diagram. In this Earth environment lesson, 3rd graders identify the different components that soil is made from. Students bring soil from their homes to examine and create a Venn...
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A Look at Individual Federal Income Tax
High schoolers investigate the concept of a personal federal income tax. They conduct research and participate in class discussion in order to deal some of the issues. They include why there is an individual income tax and how the money...
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Divisibility Checks: Paired Activity
For this division game worksheet, students will work in small groups to play a game about dividing numbers. A teacher's guide with game instructions is included.
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Mental Methods
In this mental methods worksheet, students determine the correct answer when multiplying fractions, percents and decimals. They use mental math to solve problems.
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Vitamins and Minerals
In this vitamins and minerals worksheet, students review how these are measured and determine what minerals the body needs. Students determine how different vitamins help the body to function properly. This worksheet has 22 short answer...
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Paws in Jobland: Lesson Plan 35 - Catch of the Day
Learners study information for fish farm workers given in the form of a chart, in order to practice interpreting data while learning about the career of a fisherman. In this data interpretation instructional activity, students read the...
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The Statistics of M&Ms
Students explore the topic of statistics with M and Ms. In this math lesson plan, students use candy pieces to sort and gather information needed to create a bar graph. This instructional activity can be adapted to accommodate students...
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Tony's Tiger BITES
Students work with the concept of equivalent fractions. In this equivalent fraction worksheet, students double a recipe, triple a recipe, and reduce a recipe for Tiger BITES by one-half and one-quarter. They apply multiplication and...
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Where Is Away?
Students explore ways to dispose of trash. In this lesson, students discuss where trash goes when it leaves their house and other inappropriate ways to dispose of trash. Students brainstorm ways to produce less waste.
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There Is No Away
Students identify how trash is disposed of. In this environmental lesson, students read and discuss the poem "Sarah Sylvia Stout" by Shel Silverstein and discuss the ways people treated the items in the poem. Students discuss how trash...
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Undercounting Unemployment
Learners examine what defines unemployment numbers in the United States. In this economic data lesson, students complete worksheets, watch a video, and have a class debate in order to understand how the U.S. defines and comes up with...
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LitterFlotsam and Jetsam: A Little Litter Goes a Long Way
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this science lesson, students investigate data from the International Coastal Cleanup, identify sources of marine debris, and discover the impacts of this debris on wildlife.
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Catastrophes of Apostrophic Proportions
For this online interactive grammar worksheet, students respond to 6 fill in the blank questions regarding the appropriate use of apostrophes. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Ratios and Proportions
In this ratios and proportions worksheet, young scholars complete a series of short answer questions based on different charts and word problems dealing with ratios and proportions. Students complete 9 problems.
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My Test Book: Percents
In this online interactive math skills activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding percents. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Tracking Your Favorite Web Sites
Ninth graders track the hit count on their favorite web sites. In this Algebra I lesson, 9th graders record the number of hits on their favorite web site for twenty days. Students explore the data to determine if the relation defines a...
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Price Elasticity of Demand
In this economics activity, students respond to 15 fill and the blank and multiple choice questions about price elasticity of demand.
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Precalculus: Unit 3 Test 2
In this Pre-calculus worksheet, students solve advanced logarithmic and exponential equations. The seven page worksheet contains thirty-two problems. Answers are not provided.
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Ratios, Proportions, and Cross-multiplication
Middle schoolers use cross-multiplication to find the unknown respiration rate of an astronaut. In this multiplication lesson plan, students also use the same process to find missing values in proportions.
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Escape The Hangman
Seventh graders investigate the concept of probability. They use the game of hangman to create engagement and context for conducting the lesson. They create a spreadsheet with data that is given. Students make predictions based on data.