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Around the World With Geometry
Students identify shapes, create shapes, and make a pyramid, a drum, and a sail using their shapes. In this shapes lesson plan, students also identify plane and space shapes.
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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars
Learners use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.
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The World's Ten Greatest Inventions
Students review a list of important inventions from the last century and a half. They order the top ten inventions with an explanation accompanying their choices and then write a report on a selected invention.
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Manners Matter
Students demonstrate proper behavior in the classroom and in other social situations. They write journal entries, create posters, invitations, and or multimedia presentations depiciting good manners. Pupils pair up with another students...
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Food and Nutrition
Third graders discuss the benefits for maintaining good nutrition and a well balanced diet. They categorize foods into the correct food group, decide if a meal is balanced, and create a full day menu which demonstrates what they have...
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All About Poe
Learners use an online database to research the life and words of Edgar Allan Poe. Using the information they collect, they write a newspaper article or obituary about the famous writer. In groups, they work together to develop a radio...
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Snowman Sentences
Second graders will describe and illustrate how to build a snowman. In this sequencing lesson plan, 2nd graders will create a KidPix slideshow, with each page showing a picture and a sentence of how to build a snowman.
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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...
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Examining Women's roles in education through images from the Appalachian State University Historical Photograph Collection
Eleventh graders analyze images from ASU's Historical Photograph Collection. In this American History lesson, 11th graders examine the achievements of the women's movement.
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A Multimedia Science Project: Minorities and Women in Science
Eighth graders create a multimedia presenttation written presentation, and oral presentation detailing the contributions of three minority or female scientists throughout history.
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Hoaxes, Scams, Chain Letters and Urban Legends
Students explore the evacuation of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Using the internet, they research stories they may have heard and verify a story's authenticity. Students discuss rumors and urban legends. Given a worksheet,...
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Around the World
Young scholars explore ways people from around the world are like them. They discuss how geography affects the way people live and work and how culture affects a person's day to day life. Students give a presentation over a chosen...
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Properties of Matter
Third graders explore forms of matter through reading, hands-on science activities, and research using the Internet. Students create a booklet, directions given, that they title and decorate, to later serve as a review visualization...
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All About My School
Students construct a website with several links to pages they create. The site weaves logo titles, photos, animation, and textured backgrounds created and edited in PhotoShop into pages created using Dreamweaver software. The project...
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Publishing an Alphabet Book
Students research, write and publish an A,B,C book based on research of their own.
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Black History Month Newsletter
Learners become familiar with the process of creating all of the elements of a newsletter. They input stored articles about famous black Americans in which they insert photos with captions and add finishing touches.
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Max Knows Mexicao, United States and Canada
Students utilize their map skills to explore the regions of North America. They explore the physical characteristics and climates of the regions. Students label their map and prepare a presentation of their findings.
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Short Stories Through Multimedia Presentations
Ninth graders summarize and paraphrase a short story read in class. They identify the six story elements of character, setting, plot, conflict, solution, and tone/mood. Students create a PowePoint presentation that illustrates the...
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Hoosier Biographies
Fourth graders engage in a lesson to find information about a famous Hoosiers. The teacher provides a list for them to choose from. The students conduct the research using the internet. They use the information to create an oral...
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The First Thanksgiving
Students research the first Thanksgiving. In this first Thanksgiving lesson plan, students research the Internet about how the first Thanksgiving came about between the Native Americans and the Pilgrims. They complete a KWL chart, and...
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Aquaculture Science
Young scholars research the different careers in aquaculture. In this aquaculture instructional activity students complete activities that include a PowerPoint presentation.
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How Does Sound Travel As Waves?
Seventh graders participate in a number of activities designed to increase their understanding of how sound is generated and how it travels.
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Library Scavenger Hunt
Learners work together to locate and identify resources in the library. They use the internet to answer research questions. They share the information they gathered with the class.
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A Travel Journal for Homer's Odyssey
High schoolers identify their favorite excerpts from "The Odyssey". They add graphics and music they find on the internet to the words. They share their creation with the class.