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The John Travolta Syndrome
Students examine the influence of music and film on contemporary fashion. In this popular culture lesson, students research select films featuring John Travolta. Students research selected time periods in American history as well....
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Similarity and Congruence
Students explore the concept of similarity and congruence. In this similarity and congruence lesson plan, students identify and verify whether or not two figures are similar, congruent, or neither. Students use postulates and theorems...
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Similarity and Congruence
High schoolers explore the concept of similarity and congruence. In this similarity and congruence lesson, students cut out strips of paper and form a triangle. High schoolers try to prove that their triangles are congruent using the SSS...
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Percents
Students explore the concept of percents. In this percents lesson, students discuss the prefix cent and words that contain that prefix. Students make bead necklaces and determine the percentages of certain beads in relation to the necklace.
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Narrative Writing
Students complete activities to learn narrative writing. In this narrative writing lesson plan students are given writing prompts in order to better understand how to write in a narrative format.
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Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...
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Shapes
In this shapes learning exercise, students identify shapes according to sentences that describe them. Students identify 8 shapes, but have 14 to choose from.
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Theatre Lesson Plan, Performing a Story
Second graders read the story, The Bundle of Sticks, and discuss the story elements within the story; setting, plot, conflict resolution. In this readers theater lesson, 2nd graders reenact the story in small groups, then reflect on...
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Sorting Gourds
Students discover different types of gourds. In this plant comparison instructional activity, students compare and contrast several types of gourds based on shape, color and texture. Students observe a video clip based on sorting...
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Election Trivia
In this election worksheet, students complete short answer questions having to do with the elections in the United States. Students answer 24 trivia questions.
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Storyboard for Persuasive Text
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the main elements of a story by creating a storyboard. In this persuasive writing lesson students create storyboards that are intended to persuade a director to make a movie out of the short story...
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The Amazing Prefix Race
Learners participate in a competitive game of reviewing prefixes. For this word parts lesson students are given a prefix and one member from each team must race to the white board to write a word that contains the prefix.
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Illumination of a Text
Students create a movie using pictures and words to illustrate the content of a sonnet. In this illumination of a text activity, students choose six to twelve words in the sonnet that are vitally important. Students record their text on...
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Sustainable Living
Students act out various types of transportation. In this transportation instructional activity, students practice speaking using the transportation phrases. Students ask each other question about the transportation. Students discuss...
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Furniture Vocab
For this furniture worksheet, students choose the correct name for furniture and complete a crossword. Students complete 2 activities.
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Comparing Local, National, International Biomes
Students calculate averages of climate sets of data. In this ecology activity, students analyze data to determine identity of a biome and collect meteorological data to understand process. Students also compare data sets.
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Two Column Logic Proofs
Young scholars complete two column proofs. In this geometry lesson plan,students derive the reasons their answers are correct using logic. They write the proof step by step using two columns.
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Show What You Know!
In this earthquakes worksheet, students create a brochure, poster, or other form of presentation to show what they know about earthquakes. Students complete 4 sections.
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Batchelder News Channel Data Mix Up!
Students look at data in graphs with missing labels and use what they know about graphs to label the topics, titles, and axes of the graph. For this graph lesson plan, students pretend they are news reporters and have to fix their stories!
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Graphing Data Brings Understanding
Students collect, graph and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students use circle, pie, bar and lines to represent data. They analyze the data and make predictions bases on the scatter plots created.
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D-Day Student Worksheet
In this World War II worksheet, students read a 1-page selection about D-Day, examine the listed Internet sources on the topic, and then respond to 8 short answer questions about the information presented.
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A Cylinder and Its Net
Young scholars sketch the nets for given polygons and cylinders. In this geometry lesson, students find the measurements that correspond with prisms, cones and cylinders. they identify parts of three-dimensional shapes.
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Describe and Classify 2-D Shapes
In this 2-D shapes worksheet, students match a set of descriptions to shapes given. A reference website for additional resources is given.
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Christiane Amanpour
In this Christiane Amanpour activity, students read about the life of the news reporter, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.