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George Washington's Rules of Civility
Students examine George Washington's belief in etiquette and respect for others, which he achieved by following 110 rules of civility, and create their own rule of civility.
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Persuasive Speech
Tenth graders participate in a lesson that is focused on the concept of writing persuasive speechs. They conduct research from a variety of sources in order to gather information to write well informed speeches.
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Cultural Impact of Jim Crow Laws and Civil Rights Movement
Students compare the cultural customs of people from European descent and African Americans between 1900 and 1940. Next students listen to interviews about life during the time of Jim Crow laws, and determine how life might be different...
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Famous Peacemakers - Creating a Declaration of Peace
Students create written reports about a famous peacemaker. In this peacemaker lesson plan, students use books and the internet to research someone who is famous for creating peace in the world and write a report on it.
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Re-Searching
Students take a closer look at the research cycle. In this journalism activity, students discover and practice Internet searching skills. Students use the search techniques discussed to locate information on selected topics.
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Using Non-Text Features
Second graders examine graphs and charts from their local newspaper. As a class, they discuss what the data means and how it relates to the article. In groups, they are shown two sets of graphs or charts and they practice explaining...
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Drawing Lines of Symmetry
Third graders explore the concept of symmetry using geometric shapes, capital letters and various other shapes. They fold shapes to show symmetry, draw lines of symmetry and create symmetrical designs.
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Multiplication: Building Models, Representations and Explanations
First graders explore multiplication concepts through skip counting, repeated addition and arrays. Using animal characteristics as a context, 1st graders solve problems using mathematical tools such as hundreds charts, number lines, ...
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A Comparison of Indentured Servants and Slaves
Sixth graders examine and compare the lives of slaves and indentured servants using primary sources and the historical fiction books, "Molly Bannaky and Barefoot." They analyze and compare advertisements for runaway slaves. Students...
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My Community
Learners identify how their school has changed. In this local community lesson, students listen to a brief history of their town and school and interview someone that graduated from their school. Learners then create a map of their...
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Revising Character Descriptions
Students effectively revise character descriptions. In this revising character descriptions lesson plan, students work with a partner to give and receive constructive criticism to improve their character descriptions.
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Cupid’s Ambassador: The Cultural Impact of Chocolate
Students review a trip they made to the Hershey Museum. In this history of chocolate lesson, students determine the impact chocolate has made on cultures and create visual projects that feature their findings.
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Parenting 101
Students distinguish and comprehend the focus in a passage. They research websites to explore parenting resources.
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Ratio and Proportion
Young scholars investigate ratio and proportion. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students write ratios and find equal ratios. Young scholars use ratio and proportion to distinguish between healthy and...
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Piggies
First graders listen to the book, Piggies, and act out the events of the story with premade puffball pigs.
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Investigating the Pythagorean Theorem
Students problem solve a series of problems based on the Pythagorean Theorem. They apply the theorem to a number of scenarios.
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Folktale Unit Outline
Seventh graders analyze grammatical structures and identify literary elements in a variety of texts. Through the genre of folktales, ancient or indigenous cultures are studied.
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Ancient China Project
Seventh graders examine and research the political, social, and cultural aspects of China. They conduct Internet research and write and develop a research paper.
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Defining Moments
Seventh graders use context clues to define words. In this language arts lesson plan, 7th graders engage in a class discussion regarding how we determine the meaning of words that we aren't familiar with. Then, students complete a very...
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Creating Stories Using Pictographs
Students participate in diverse cultural activities that lead them to a better understanding of Native American people. They use pictographs to write a story, imagining themselves as tribal members. Students transfer their story to a...
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The "State" of ABC's
Fifth graders apply the ABC format to write books about various states. They identify important people, places, and events and include title. copyright, and dedication pages. They have items for all letters and createcovers and "about...
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Investigating Ocean Life
Sixth graders explore the various forms of ocean life. They research a creature that lives in the ocean. Students use their research information to create a series of HyperStudio stacks about their sea creature.
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Genre Study
Third graders develop an understanding of genre by participating in small- and whole-group activities. In addition, they practice presentation and specific listening skills. This lesson plan assumes students have been regularly exposed...
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A Vocabulary Word a Day
Students research one assigned vocabulary word and prepare a short teaching activity and memory aid to present with the word to the class. They take notes on all the new vocabulary words presented to them by other classmates then they...