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The Bard: Shakespeare Up Close

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students choose a Shakespearean play to reenact into a modern setting. In this Shakespeare activity, students practice insulting each other using Shakespearean language. Students watch Shakespeare plays and complete online research....
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Body / Kinesthetic & Visual / Spatial

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders produce a multimedia project using HyperStudio. This project is similiar to an "information kiosk", with engaging media to "tell a story" about the Battle of Gettysburg. They have knowledge about the Civil War events that...
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"Photograph Math" Word Problems

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a photograph that illustrates one of the ways in which they use math. In this math and visual arts lesson, students write their own real-life word problems to accompany the photo.
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Food Advertising Tricks

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students recognize techniques used to make food look appealing on television and in advertising, and explore the separate elements that compose media messages and products.
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Law of the Land

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore how the rules and responsibilities are different at school and at home.
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Creating A Classroom Newspaper

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners participate in a culminating project to create a classroom newspaper. They use the skills of prewriting, writing, revising, editing, drawing, and scanning. This is all done so that students can master all the facets of creation...
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The Weekly News, Part 2

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use articles they've previously written to produce a school news broadcast. For this journalism lesson, 6th graders discuss the goals of a news broadcast and use previously written articles to plan a news broadcast....
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Is there a Doctor in the Treehouse?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate the afflictions of trees and compare the health of a human to that tree.  In this tree lesson students complete an activity and create and present a report. 
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Christmas Around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition lesson students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions around the...
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One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab.

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students count by pairs and sets of feet, while reading a story that coincides with this practice. In this math lesson, students use their skills to count by multiples and adding on to numbers when they add up feet from humans, and...
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3A is Going Batty

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students share their knowledge of bats. For this video production lesson, students use Internet and print resources to research information regarding bats. Students prepare bat questions and answers, record them on video, and produce bat...
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Breaking Color Barriers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare brown eggs and white eggs. In this color lesson, students see two different color eggs and predict what they will look like on the inside. They see that both eggs are the same and compare this to people of different...
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Science Simulation: BBC Science Simulations 3

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students perform experiments on a Promethean Board and will identify and use stages of the inquiry process. Students will be in instructed in the use of a Promethean board, will practice and eventually perform experiment on their own.
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Movie Music

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars discover film making by participating in a music performance.  In this performance arts lesson, students perform music and physical acting to convey an already written script for their peers.  Young scholars collaborate...
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Going Greek: A Companion Lesson to Accompany the Percy Jackson Series

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore Greek mythology by researching a specific God or Goddess. In this children's literature activity, students read the Percy Jackson series of books and discuss their favorite characters. Students research a chosen Greek...
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Seeing the World Through the Eyes of a Veteran

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils interview and take pictures of a Veteran and create a short story of their Veteran. In this Veteran lesson plan, students also bring a photograph of the Veteran while they were in service.
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Signs Signs - Everywhere Signs

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine advertising techniques. In this media literacy lesson, students collaborate to create PowerPoint presentations that feature multimedia formats to share advertising that is present in their community.
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Understanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the differences between biotic and abiotic factors, explain the difference between habitat and niche and compare how organisms get their nutritional needs.  In this local environment activity students trace the path of...
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Seeking Shakespeare in Local Communities

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore where Shakespeare exists in local community plays. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a documentary to define the existence of Shakespeare in their community drama activities. Students participate in community...
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Seeing Eye "Buddies"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a variety of sights within their schoolyard habitat and sitting quietly back-to-back with a partner describe what they see. The partner sketches the observations, 3rd graders compare drawings with the object described.
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A Field Guide for Student Identification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create and use a dichotomus guide to identify cartoon monsters and use this skill to further their ability to scientifically classify organisms.
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Transistor Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners locate transistor devices in school. They explain the importance of transistors.
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Flamenco Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore flamenco music through research into the lives and movements of the Gypsies of Andalusia. They adopted th music of Spain and added their own strong rhythmic sense and drama.
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Graphic Editing

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use various hardware and software tools to create and edit files which can be used in a presentation. They use a search engine to find and download an image. Students use computer tools to save the image. Once saved, the image...

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