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Brain Booster
In this daily math problem activity, students create a hundreds board template using the online activity format. Students choose their starting number and hit submit to generate the hundreds board activity.
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Let's Play Scrabble!
What do Alfred Mosher Butts, James Brunot, and Jack Straus have in common? They were all instrumental in the development of Scrabble. Class members will discover these facts and many more as they conduct a WebQuest to gather, organize,...
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Monopoly: February 6, 1935
In this calendar dates worksheet, students learn the date of February 6, 1935 as they first day the Monopoly board game went on sale. Students then use a topic they are learning in class and design a board game for it.
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Prime Time
Fifth graders complete activities related to prime and composite numbers. For this prime lesson, 5th graders make a hundreds chart with all the prime numbers. They create their own card game which deals with prime and composite numbers.
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Accounting Monopoly
Students use Monopoly to review the accounting cycle. They create their own transactions while playing Monopoly. Students produce the financial statements that will match the transactions of the game.
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I Think, Therefore I See
Students participate in a memory experiment to discover how the eye works. After reading an article, they analyze a new technique which examines how the brain registers sight. They develop their own memory game and conduct trials using...
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Risky Business
Students consider what risky choices may do to their lives. In this personal health lesson, students watch a Discovery video about personal choices and discuss the content of the video. Students then play a game that that allows them to...
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How Do You Make A Tornado?
Students create a tornado in a bottle. In this climate and weather lesson, students review basic information about tornadoes and thunderstorms. Students make a tornado in a bottle and write about what they learned from the project....
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First Aid Review
Students create and play a game to demonstrate their understanding of the skills, cues, and strategies used in first aid.
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The Real Monopoly: America's Racial Wealth Divide
High schoolers explore America's racial wealth divide. In this Teaching Tolerance instructional activity, students play a "rigger" version of the game Monopoly and reflect on the game and economic injustice in the United States.
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Wonders of Weather
Students investigate weather disasters by creating a virtual tornado. For this wild weather lesson, students define a vortex and describe how a vortex keeps a tornado moving and causing damage. Students utilize salt, detergent, water,...
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Bug-O
Middle school special education young scholars (moderate to severe) learn about insects by playing an entomological version of bingo. They cut out pictures of different bugs and glue them onto a grid. Place the game card inside a sheet...
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Checkerboard
Students create checkerboards using paints, glue, rulers, and masking tape in this upper-elementary/middle level Art lesson. The lesson emphasizes the history of checkerboards, strategies and rules, and the checkerboard as an example of...
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Tyndall Thunderbirds Play
Second graders follow a checklist and work together in groups to design a game. They present their games to the class including rules and safety issues and the class then votes and plays its favorite.
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Charlotte's Web
Students compare the differences in insects and spiders and design a worksheet that teaches the differences. Students record on chart
organizing the information about the pet, its food, habitat, exercise, and other ways to care for...
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BIRTH OF AN EXCEPTIONAL NATION
Young scholars compare the 2 paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Prayer at Valley Forge". Look for similarities, differences and information on the painters. Create a political game board using the events from 1776.
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Pest Populations: A Game of Survival
Learners identify and classify populations of pests in the home, school and community. They recognize the specific conditions needed for the survival of an organism considered a pest and list tactics for control measures.
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Mrs. Perkins Dolch Words: #10 Create a Story
Students write their stories. In this sight words and writing lesson, students examine a list of 20 teacher-provided dolch words and use them to write their own stories. Students share their stories with their classmates.
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Four Corner Fun: A Review Game
Twelfth graders practice academic skills by answering multiple choice questions. They role-play as fibbers or players and respond to questions accordingly, going to the A,B,C, or D corners of the classsroom. Fibbers can go to any corner.
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Pronunciation - IPA Symbol Card Game
Students utilize the IPA system to help them improve their pronunciation. They utilize a set of IPA cards that are imbedded in this plan. They circulate around the room, exchanging cards with their peers and practicing the pronunciations...
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Limiting Factors/ Evolution Game
Students will understand the relationship between limiting factors and evolution. They will be able to hypothesize possible evolutionary pathways for modern day organisms.
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Create Your Own Homophone Worksheets
Students develop their own homophone worksheet. They practice the spelling and using the different homophones. They participate in a homophone bee to end the lesson.
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Carbon Creating Activity
In this carbon worksheet, students follow directions and use marshmallows and toothpicks to made carbon dioxide and glucose molecules. Students do this to see how carbon changes as a result of photosynthesis.
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Technical Merits
What is technical knowledge? The class explores what technical knowledge might mean to an Olympic athlete. They catalog the different types of information that athletes would need to compete in various Winter Olympic sports and develop...