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Teacher Appreciation Week (Elementary)
Primary writers will create a persuasive essay about Teacher Appreciation Week. Additionally, they will select a quote from a famous person and write a persuasive essay about how it relates to one of their favorite teachers. In the end,...
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If My Configurations are Correct
Students write the electron configuration of elements in the ground state. In this chemistry lesson, students draw how subatomic particles are arranged in the atom. They construct Lewis dot diagrams of valence electrons.
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The Awareness of Stereotyping
High schoolers in ESL classes participate in role-playing activities to develop their awareness of stereotyping and understanding other cultures.
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Laughing is Good for You and Your Child: Reading Comprehension
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage pertaining to laughter and then respond to 5 true or false questions regarding the passage.
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Food Web Follies
Seventh graders cut and paste animal pictures to create a food web and trace the path of energy. They write a paragraph explaining the importance of photosynthesis in all food webs.
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Vocabulary Practice: Past Time
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express past time.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: International Day of Non-Violence
For this language skills worksheet, students read an article regarding International Day of Non-Violence. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word ...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: World Down Syndrome Day
In this language skills learning exercise, learners read an article about World Down Syndrome Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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Individual and Environmental Factors Affecting Food Systems and Choices
Students study the environmental factors that affect food systems and choices. In this food systems and health lesson, students study global and national information about obesity. Students study photos and captions about the topic....
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Polar Day: Living in the Canadian North
Students study the Canadian North. In this Canadian North lesson, students study the physical characteristics and the lifestyles of people in that region. Students complete map making and creative activities that help them learn about...
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Get Fit for Yosemite - Nutrition
Students demonstrate an understanding of healthy eating habits and of following a fitness program. They visit Yosemite Institute.
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Walk and Bike Across America
Students learn how to use maps, compute mileage, and be physically active while exploring America's national parks, historical heritage, and nutritional information via key agricultural sites.
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Nutrition (Low Fat/High Fat Foods)
Students explain that a low fat diet, accompanied by being physically active, help them live longer and healthier lives.
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Friendship Poster
Students use WordArt to create a friendship poster. In this friendship lesson plan, students use Microsoft Word to create a friendship poster. Students create phrases using the WordArt program and arrange the phrases on construction...
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Unified Floor Hockey (Special Olympics)
All levels of sports participants can play in a team sport. Working in teams, they participate in Unified Floor Hockey as a part of the Special Olympics sports program. They practice various skills associated with floor hockey and...
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Pumped Up Gas Prices
Students spend one month keeping track of the mileage and gasoline amounts they or their family has used. Information is entered into a spreadsheet to help calculate the average gas prices over time.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, But Were Afraid To Ask
To wrap up your year of general chemistry, have lab groups compete in a tot wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) competition. With their foundation in chemical nomenclature, stoichiometry, and gas laws, each group completes several...
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Solar Kit Lesson #3 Parts of a Solar Panel - Part I
A solar cell is similar to a rechargeable battery in many ways. Science lab groups connect each in a series circuit to run a mini motor and then compare and contrast them by answering questions and completing a Venn diagram. This is an...
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Solar Kit Lesson #9 - Properties of Solar Radiation: Reflection, Transmission, and Absorption
Middle school science stars observe and record data on the solar radiation reflected off or transmitted through various materials. They predict properties for various materials, and test their predictions by touch. This lesson becomes...
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A Lens into the Past
Explore the history of immigration through photographs. Scholars will view and discuss photographs depicting the culture and lifestyle of late 19th and early 20th century immigrants. They take pictures of current examples of culture in...
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Water in the Geosphere
Through a PowerPoint presentation and the embedded animation and video, earth science enthusiasts find out about the moisture in the soil beneath our feet. In the animation, follow a water molecule on its path through the water cycle. As...
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Opium: Use and abuse
Students investigate the issue of opium smoking amongst Chinese communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They examine how opium use was used to create ill-feeling towards Chinese people.
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Important Quotes
Pupils investigate the novel "Pride and Prejudice". They identify themes, learn to analyze works of literature, recognize and identify literary techniques for the benefit of attaining skills of criticizing literature.
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Picture-Perfect Language Arts
Students develop their reading and writing skills in this year long activity. They discuss the physical traits that they have in common and those physical traits that make them unique. Students draw a portrait of their partners and write...