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Money Management
Pupils explore money management skills and economics thru a creative project where students earn "money" for their assigned "jobs." They keep track of their income and expenses in a transaction record and explore the Excel money...
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
Students view the film "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and analyze it for stereotypes of mountain and hillbilly communities. They identify and discuss Appalachian values represented in the film and write a report on their observations.
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Muddled Up Answers
In this answering questions worksheet, learners practice unscrambling five answers in an answer box in order to write the correct answer on the lines provided for five questions.
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Cleaning Up
Students demonstrate how to be a philanthropist. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the story The Wartville Wizard and discuss ways to become a philanthropist. Students participate in a good deed by volunteering to clean up trash.
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Students watch a portion of "The Wizard of Oz" and discuss how a map could be useful to Dorothy. They identify key components of maps and design a map of their classroom, including a key.
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101 Dalmations and Counting
Fourth graders use numbers from 1-101 in Spanish or French after viewing a video of "101 Dalmations".
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Disco - Voices of a New Generation
Students analyze lyrics of selected Disco songs for content, theme and vocabulary. They write an extended response citing specific lyrics in response to three general themes.
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Time Lines: Connecting Your Life to History
Students, who are adult learners, examine time increments in history. The create their own timelines, and write a compare and contrast essay.
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Walk and Talk Health and PE Activity
Young scholars practice concepts they are studying while exercising. In this health and fitness lesson, studnets walk and job while discussing current classroom lessons.
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Pet Training
There are lots of pet owners who would probably like their pets to behave a little better. In this activity, students will learn how to train a pet and create a pet training guide that anyone can use.
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POP! Goes the Popcorn!
Students complete a variety of activities based on examining corn and popcorn as one of the major crops of Kansas. They journal the results of the multidisciplinary activities in this unit.
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Copyright Ethics
Students examine the issues surrounding intellectual copyrights. They research the examples of DVD and CD piracy and participate in a class discussion about the related ethics.
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End & Finish
In this noun/verb worksheet, students choose the appropriate noun, end or finish, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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The Journey of the Magi
Students create storyboards. In this pre-Christmas special lesson, students produce a storyboard for a TV version of the poem, "The Journey of the Magi". Options to complete with or without technology are included.
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Self-Portrait Shields
Students listen to the story, The Shield of Athena, and examine the original context of the sculptural fragment of a fallen warrior. They list important events and people in their lives, then create shields that depict their personal...
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Civil Rights Memorial
Students discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the key events that ended segregation in the United States.
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Mystery State #50
In this mystery state worksheet, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.
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Sentence Parts: Quiz
In this sentence parts worksheet, students determine the "problem" in a set of sentences: punctuation, pronoun-antecedent agreement, spelling, or subject verb agreement.
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"Fantastic Mr. Fox" Lesson Plans
With "Fantastic Mr. Fox" lesson plans students can learn about foxes and read some great literature.
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"The Princess and the Frog" Lesson Plans
"The Princess and the Frog" lesson plans can lead students on an exploration of fairy tales, frogs, and friendship.
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Tracking the Monster: Ashley Judd and Indie.Arie Confront AIDS in Africa - Lesson 3
Students see how music and theatre deals with contemporary problems and issues. The sight-read new music and examine the musical, 'RENT.'
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Creative Book Reports Make Reading Fun
Giving students a variety of options for reporting on chapter books is simple to do.
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"Twilight" Music Provides Link Between Past And Present
Music appreciation lessons can use modern phenomena like "Twilight" to motivate students.
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The Kentucky Derby and Horse Racing Provide Literature and Math Connections
The Kentucky Derby can provide a means to discuss literature, math, and history.