+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Human Origins: The Prehistoric Human Race

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When it comes to the origin of the human species students are full of misconceptions. Clear up the hominid confusion with this evolutionary activity focused on assisting students in understanding prehistoric man and his family tree....
+
Lesson Plan
ARKive

Turtle Life Cycle

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Explore the wonders of the life cycle by first focusing on the growth and development of the green turtle. The class will discuss the life cycle of different plants and animals, then turn their attention to the green turtle. They view a...
+
Lesson Plan
BBC

The Cream Cake Mystery - Seeing Patterns

For Teachers K - 6th
A great language arts lesson designed for emerging readers awaits your class. Rhyming words are the focus. Learners play an interactive learning game on the computer that helps them to understand words that rhyme. As with all of these...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Product of the Future Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners predict what computers, games, or products be like in 2030. They think about and design futuristic products.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Olympic Games Snowboard Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find travel destinations and information on countries around the world, and use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represent the country they pick. They explore maps, weather, geography, languages, in their quest.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
The best way to teach learners how to compare fractions is using visual means. This instructional activity suggests a variety of ways to help learners understand this concept using a SMART Board, Kidspiration, videos, computer games, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Play Scrabble!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
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,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Risky Business

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technical Merits

For Teachers 5th - 12th
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...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lessons: Food Web

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars use an interactive web-based food web game to gain familiarity with tropic levels and interactions. They already understand that in an ecosystem there are four basic tropic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Power of Words in "Charlotte's Web"

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students analyze the text in Charlotte's Web. For this language arts lesson, students dissect the passages from Charlotte's Web, specifically the adjectives Charlotte used to describe Wilbur. Finally, students play a game using "word...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

PUPPETRY

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore world cultures through their puppetry. Your students explore puppets that are used in various cultures and create their own. The Internet experiences in this lesson are designed to be teacher-directed whole class...
+
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

My Book of Seasons

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners research the assigned Internet sites to explore facts about the four seasons. They design and create a book about the relationship between the four seasons and everyday life. They work on a teacher created PowerPoint template to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Binary and Communication Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in an activity that introduces them to the concept of binary coding as a language. They decode messages using special boards that has its own code for different letters. They create new codes by rearranging wires...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Africa Unite!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners work in pairs to research assigned African countries. They compile their research to label a continent map of Africa, present their research to the class and design a game of trivia using their findings.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability Fun

For Teachers 1st
First graders use probability terminology to describe all possible outcomes of certain events. For this probability lesson, 1st graders use counters to create a pretend "purse" of objects. Students create their own probability drawings...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Labyrinth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils analyze a basic logic maze based on the Greek myth about Theseus and the Minotaur. Through simulation they determine a winning strategy. At the conclusion of the activity, they design their own mazes for each other to try to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tasty Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create an edible map. In this civics and geography lesson, students research their town's features and local government. Students work in groups to design and create a physical map of their town based on research.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Upcycled Garment or Art Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the importance of recycling waste products. In this art lesson, students research different upcycled fashion designs and accessories. They design their own product and present it in class.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Going with the Flow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students survey each other and determine their common interests. They examine the use of algorithms by various websites that are used to develop networks of interest groups among users. They then design proposals for a social networking...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Wind-Up and the Pitch

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider how sound affects one's experience at a ballpark and the ways that the acoustics at a baseball stadium might be improved. Students then recommend their own designs for a "soundly built" baseball stadium.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

West Virginia Quarter Reverse: Over, Under, In, and Out

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the images on the West Virginia quarter reverse. Using the quarter design as a model, the discover the meaning of directional terms. They play a game where they have to listen to and follow directions and complete a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Volunteering as Good Work

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the various jobs at a school. In this school jobs lesson, students recognize the way people in the school are helped by others. Students are assigned a job and write about the help of others. Students pages are put...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyzing characters from a story by creating an article about one.  In this story analysis lesson, students read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and pick one character to write descriptively about.  Students...