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Chapter 5: Socializing the Individual
In this socializing the individual worksheet, students respond to 6 multiple choice questions and 14 fill in the blank questions pertaining to how one learns to live within their culture.
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Water Filtering
Young scholars investigate how polluted water is filtered so people can use this recycled resource. They conduct an experiment in which they put "polluted" water through a filtering system. They investigate what happens at a water...
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An Academic, Economic, Cultural, and Political Lesson Plan
Students reflect on how many board games they've played have African Americans, their culture or history incorporated within. They identify four street games and three card games that appeal to African Americans. They play the...
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Badminton
Ninth graders, after exploring the concept that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction, assess the rules of badminton. They study how to keep score in a match,...
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Entrepreneurship: How to Begin
Students examine and identify the rudiments of a business plan. They locate and use resources about business plans on Internet.
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Entrepreneurship: What Business Am I In?
To better understand entrepreneurship, learners examine the goals and mission statements in actual business plans, then outline a mission/vision statement for their own company. They develop objectives for the first three months of their...
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Understanding Waves
Students examine the physical properties of waves to explore the word crest and trough. They use toys to study waves in air, water and light.
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Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program
First graders, in groups, discover which colors absorb heat and which colors best reflect heat. They do this using the scientific method.
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 7 - Exercise 2c
For this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Physical Features
Students draw physical land features using ClarisWorks or Kid Pix, write their definitions, create slideshow, and create class geography book.
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MICROBES 1: WHAT'S BUGGIN YOU?
Students use existing knowledge of microbes, focusing on the relationship between microorganisms and foodborne illness, as well as the implications that foodborne illness has on human health.
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What Happened to the Water? Designing Ways to Get and Clean Water
Learners design ways to clean a water source or find a new water source depending on various hypothetical family scenarios. They draw and write about how to provide water to a community facing a water crisis, and present their solutions...
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Entrepreneurship: Is it for me?
High schoolers get an introduction to entrepreneurship and business plans in the first lesson plan of this series. They attempt to determine what personal factors to consider in deciding if the time is right to become an entrepreneur.
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Civil Rights/Segregation
Sixth graders investigate Civil Rights by participating in role-playing activities. In this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the history of slavery in order to portray a story through their debating and acting abilities. ...
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Do You Have a Prayer?
Students review the 1st Amendment and the clauses which deal with prayer/religion in schools. They discuss, in groups, the Equal Access Act, which gives students the right to practice/express their religion at school and take a quiz on...
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Plastics by the Numbers
High schoolers investigate plastic resins and their uses. In this plastics lesson plan, students describe major plastic resins and what they are used for, they compare and contrast the properties of plastic resins and they list products...
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Human Rights Day
In this Human Rights Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Communism and Containment
High schoolers "discover" top secret documents that describe the "Patriot" program. They are assigned the task of educating the American people about the threat of Soviets taking over America, including the key points of the Truman...
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Photo Safari
Students take photographs of people and things that impact their lives. In this photojournalism lesson plan, students learn how to use a photo to tell a story and present their project.
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Greenhouse Gases: The Chemistry Behind the Culprits
Ninth graders investigate the effect of different gases in the atmosphere. In this chemistry lesson, 9th graders explain how these gases contribute to global warming. They suggest possible solutions to this growing problem.
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Creating 3-D Shapes in Art
By learning techniques for drawing 3-D shapes, students can create realistic drawings.
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The Peppermint Beetle
Students describe various ways insects use their sense of smell, and examine why some insects use scent marking. They conduct a scent hunt, searching for a particular scent on the trees on school grounds.
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Domestic Violence
Students Recognize the signs and symptoms of domestic violence. They
Explain why victim stays in domestic violence relationship
and identify the victims of domestic violence
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Creative Insects
Third graders examine insects that are common around the school. They write a creative story about being an insect for a day and include scientific data that they learned.