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Defining Trustworthiness
Students explore the trait of trustworthiness. In this character education lesson, students discuss the attributes of people they trust. Students create a group definition of trustworthiness.
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The Ocean Floor - Science
Young scholars draw a quick plan of an ocean floor as seen from the side; including the edge of a continent, a continental shelf, a continental slope, a basin, a trench, and a range. They require their definitions to do this.
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Freckle Juice - Lesson 3
Learners complete activities with the book Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. In this literature instructional activity, students read Chapter two and find the definitions for new vocabulary words. They also complete an online activity for...
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The Proof
Students will construct simple curves on graph paper by connecting a series of points between the vertical and horizontal axes. They share their designs and explain the patterns.
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What is Democracy?
Students explore the facets of democracy. In this civic responsibility activity, students create a definition of democracy and discuss the difference between a spectator and a participatory citizen. Students discuss whose...
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Which Witch is Which? (Elementary, Language)
Students define a set of common homonyms, such as mail and male. They use these definitions to write sentences with each word.
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Natural Selection
Students construct a working definition of the word "evolution," and list the key points of Darwin's theory of natural selection. They create paper moths to help them explain the importance of camouflage and how it relates to natural...
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Get Smart
Students discuss the definition of intelligence and the possibility of measuring intelligence. They consider the elements of intelligence by reading and discussing the article "'Jeopardy' Millionaire is Smart, but Is He a Genius?They...
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Color Review Bingo
Students identify, describe and review the definitions of various key terms from the attached word list. Then, they draw a bingo card--5 columns across and 5 rows down and fill in their Bingo sheets with the terms listed. Finally,...
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Meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance/ Dictionary Practice
Third graders determine the meaning of the words in the Pledge of Allegiance. In this dictionary usage lesson, 3rd graders, working in pairs, look up specific words from the Pledge. They make posters of the definitions they obtain by...
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What is Bullying?
Students brainstorm ideas or create a definition of what bullying is. They write their ideas on the board. They then break into cooperative groups giving each group a form of bullying from a list and discussing it among themselves.
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Lyric Poetry Lesson
High schoolers synthesize the "textbook" definition of lyric poetry and discuss various forms (love lyric, complaint lyric, loss lyric, satiric lyric). They discover the relationship of poetry to musical selections.
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The Allegorical Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Students write and discuss the definition of an allegory. They read the story, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and analyze the style and allegorical elements within the story.
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Area and Perimeter Relationships
Sixth graders explore the relationship between area and perimeter. After discovering the definition of perimeter, 6th graders work together to create designs for a flower bed. They observe that the perimeter remains constant even...
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Forest Grump
Pupils consider the definition of an ecosystem, its parts, and how these parts can be affected when the ecosystem is endangered. They examine dangers being faced by the Canadian boreal forest by reading "For Billions of Birds, an...
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Factions
Middle schoolers investigate factions in society. For this factions lesson, students learn the definition of factions before breaking into groups. They listen to a read aloud of The Butter Battle Book and describe what happens to the...
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Seeing Double
Students develop an intuitive definition for symmetry after viewing a PBS video. They examine asymmetrical patterns and demonstrate their knowledge by changing them to symmytrical.
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A Story of Philanthropy
Help your class define philanthropy and recognize philanthropic activities. Ask them to identify examples of philanthropy in literature and explore the philanthropic deeds of themselves and others. To wrap up, create a class display with...
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Vocabulary Building Worksheet
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match words to definitions, solve riddles and complete fill in the blank sentences. Students do the same activities for 4 sets of 20 words.
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Vocabulary of Ancient Rome (Grades 4-6)
Students define and presents definitions of words that relate to ancient Roman cultural life.
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Learning New Words
Students, working in groups, make as many words as possible in a given time, using flash cards that contain prefixes, words, and definitions. They chose group roles and participate in a numbers of time rounds of this activities.
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Spongy Wetlands
Students sort things that absorb and things that do not absorb, They predict, orally or in writing, what happens to houses with or without wetlands. Students build a wetland area in a meat tray to show how wetlands absorb water, and they...
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Studying Species by Examining the Evolution of the Canidae Family
Students examine the definition of species. Students complete a phylogentic tree of the Canidae family. They write an essay justifying why or why not wolves and dogs should be classified as different species.
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Mathematics: Technology and Connections
Sixth graders interpret and replicate patterns. In this patterns lesson, 6th graders are given an item with a definite pattern which they must replicate using a calculator or computer and then justify how they relate. Students listen to...
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