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Crime Scenes
In this crime scene worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions on different situations involving crime scenes. Students complete 5 questions.
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Wagons West
Young scholars examine life on westward trails. In this Westward Expansion lesson, students analyze textbook passages about life on the Oregon Trail and the motivations of the people who settled Oregon.
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Evaluate the Main Characters? Problem-Solving Processes
Students read passages from several sources and evaluate the text for various criteria. In this problem solving lesson, students evaluate character problem solving processes after reading passages. They will use a Venn Diagram to compare...
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It's All in the Translation
Learners compare and contrast translations of Greek literature. In this dramatic literature lesson, students read and perform passages from four different translations of Euripides's Hecuba. Learners discuss how the translations impacted...
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Musical Plates
In this earthquakes worksheet, students read about earthquakes by clicking on the links, and answer short answer questions about them. Students complete 3 questions.
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Sundials
Students investigate the different types of sundials and their history. For this shadows and time of day lesson students build their own sundials.
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Soccer Scatter
Students practice dribbling the ball with his/her feet and passing to a partner.
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The Three Little Pigs
Students practice moving safely through a large area (i.e., without bumping into others).
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Heartmines
Students think about danger and resolving conflict. They compare and contrast our lives with those of people in different countries. They access a website imbedded in this plan which leads them through a simulatiojn/roles play.
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Sonic Booms and Logarithms
Young scholars practice working with the symbolic notation for logarithms. They understand various types of patterns and functional relationships. They use symbolic forms to represent and analyze mathematical situations.
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Football Numbers
Students listen carefully and react quickly to the circumstances. While working on these skills, students practice physical skills like throwing, catching and defending.
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Search for Ice and Snow
Students use satellite images to locate areas of ice and snow on the globe. They create a table showing the information they gathered. They present their information to the class.
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Breaking News English
In this ESL worksheet, students read the article entitled "Average Workers Waste Two Hours a Day." Students respond to 51 short answer, matching, true/false, and fill in the blank questions.
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Finding Your Spot in the World
Young scholars investigate a world map, a United States map, a state map, a county map and a city map. They locate each student's house on the city map and put a length of yarn from their house to a country of one of their ancestors.
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Science: Discovering Earth's Air Prressure
Fourth graders discover earth's air pressure through observation of several experiments. In the "Experiment of the Leaky Bottle," they observe how air pressure forces water out of the lowest hole farther than the holes above it. In...
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Lunar Life Support
High schoolers design and build models of nine life support systems which are crucial to our successful settlement of the Moon. Each team must define the requirements of their system, exploring how these requirements are currently being...
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Adding Flags and States to you State Report
Third graders word process, edit text and add images from the Internet to a document. They explore copyright, fair use, how to evaluate web sites and citing sources.
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Homelessness:Key Terms
Students explore the concept of homelessness. In this social issues lesson, students research homelessness through key terms, in order explore the concept in more depth.
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Toad Tag
Students who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Probes, Exploration & Application
Students explore how a surface can be described without seeing it.
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Local Heart Rates
Pupils determine the type of data needed to test their inferences. As homework, they check and record heart rates of fellow students, teachers and family members. During their next class period, pupils enter all data into the database.
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Learning About the Shape of the Earth
Seventh graders investigate ways of telling the shape of the Earth and its position in the Universe both historically and today.