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Budget Mania
Students examine examples of budgets and explore the difficulties of living on a budget. The hands-on activity offers an opportunity to experience a real life application.
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Farmer Boy Days
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Farmer Boy Days. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions,...
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Million Dollar Project
Students calculate how they will spend a million dollars. For this millionaire math lesson, students complete a worksheet and then make a poster of how they would spend a million dollars. Each item and its cost must be shown....
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Consumer Education
Students, while examining an intense list of vocabulary terms on types of money, change and simple foods, name and state the cost of food items in supermarkets, grocery stores and flea markets with flash cards and newspaper ads.
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Teaching and Learning Through Objects
Students identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...
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Learning Opportunities around the World
Students discover how education effects them and their community in a positive way. In this community lesson, students engage in a class discussion about the benefits of public education and play "community I-Spy."
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Sliding Along
Third graders explore the concept of linear measurements and how they work. Coins are used to reinforce the process.
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Ireland: the Emerald Isle
Third graders complete a unit of study that examines several perspectives of Ireland. They explore how climate shapes Irish culture, reference historical and political maps, compute exchange values for Irish money, complete worksheets,...
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Wants Vs. Needs: The Pilgrims sail to America
Students work in groups to create a list of the items needed by the Pilgrims to bring to America. For this wants vs. needs lesson, students must agree on what should be on the list. Students create their list by order of...
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Advisory in Action
Middle schoolers recognize that there are many ways to contribute to the community and the common good. In this importance of philanthropy lesson, students complete a worksheet to understand the community needs, how it is affected and...
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Doing the Honours
Students investigate the actions of British political parties. In this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites that include information about political party fundraising and peerage. Students also report on honors...
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Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter
Students study coral reefs and the controversy over coral bleaching. They role-play a debate over the issue and come up with a compromise to protect the reefs and the economies that depend on them.
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Readers Who Struggle Can Learn From Wonderful Teacher/Student Created On-Level Reading Projects
Learners create their own books. In this book making lesson, students pick a subject and take photographs of it. They use these photographs to write their own story using their sight words.
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Serfs and Lords
Students determine what the roles of serfs and lords were in feudal society. In this feudalism instructional activity, students examine what life was like for the different classes by looking at farm and manor life. They listen to Till...
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Connection to the Past
Students learn basic interviewing and biography writing skills. They first identify a senior citizen in their community who remembers the Great Depression.
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Imaginary Wealth and a Magazine Article
Young scholars explore economics by writing a fictitious news article. In this personal wealth lesson, students participate in a role-playing activity in which the year is 2025 and they must write an article about their extremely wealthy...
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Percents: What's the Use?
Students explore percentages in real world situations. In this percents instructional activity, students determine the final sales price after discounts. Students interview community members and determine how percentages are used in the...
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Percents: What's the Use
Students research percentages in real world situations. In this percents lesson plan, students demonstrate their ability to apply percents to everyday situations. Students communicate mathematically by conducting interviews about...
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U.S. Set to Celebrate Lincoln Bicentennial
Students use a news article about the celebration of the Lincoln Bicentennial to answer questions about Abraham Lincoln and the celebration. In this current events and US history lesson based on a news article, students participate in a...
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Making Cookies- How many per hour?
Fifth graders measure how long it takes to make cookies. In this measuring time lesson, 5th graders explore how to manage time. Students decide when to start making breakfast on time, how to calculate playing time into their lunch time,...
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Countries of South America
Young scholars focus on the geography of the countries of South America. Using a map, they identify the European countries who claimed the South American countries and research the influences they had on South America. To end the...
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Echo, Echo, Echo, Each can help others
Young scholars discuss and research arguments about philanthropy. In this persuasive speech writing lesson, students choose a needed project for the community and present the reasons for the project through an original persuasive speech....
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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others
Learners use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups. Learners participate in cross curricular activities...
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Setting Up Shop
Seventh graders investigate what goes in to starting a retail store. In this business economics lesson, 7th graders brainstorm products they would like to sell and use magazines, newspapers and real estate listings to bring their store...