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Westward Expansion
Students locate California and New York on a map and explore available means of travel in the 19th century. Students explore the role of trade in pioneer America and simulate various barter transactions.
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Relative Humidity of Your School
Pupils predict the location where the relative humidity the highest and lowest in and around their school. They use a sling psychrometer to measure the relative humidity of the various locations.
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Let's Relate It
Students relate pirate history to present day locations. They stimulate background knowledge established through the research project. Students exercise communication skills as a means of discovery. They create their own trading cards...
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Science Vocabulary
In this biology activity, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms relating to types of cells. There are 13 biology terms located in the word search.
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Effect of Daylight Hours on Human Activity
Students determine the average hours of daily sunlight for each month of the year by constructing a bar graph. They develop a understanding of how the amount of daylight hours varies by month and how that affects both temperature and...
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Court Documents Related to
Students use the National Archives to researcj cout coduments related to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Object Grids For Pre-Entry Activities
In this Language Arts worksheet, students analyze symbols from Wingdings font. Students answer questions about the symbols and locate specific ones.
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Graph Related Linear Inequalities
Students explore the concept of linear inequalities. In this linear inequality lesson, students graph linear inequalities using Microsoft Excel.
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What do Maps Show?
Eighth graders practice the skill of reading maps. For this geography lesson, 8th graders participate in a classroom lecture on how to read a map.
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Autumn Words
In this word search worksheet, 3rd graders locate twenty words related to Autumn in the word puzzle. Students also answer two short-answer questions about this time of year.
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Word Search: Volcano
For this word search worksheet, students are given 15 challenging words related to volcanoes. Students locate these words in a puzzle which is shaped to resemble an exploding volcano.
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Halloween Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students read over the 18 words that relate to Halloween. Students then locate the words within the word search puzzle.
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Hanukkah Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students read the 12 words that relate to Hanukkah. Students then locate the words within the word search puzzle.
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Word Search: Easter
For this word search worksheet, students read the 15 words related to Easter. Students then locate the words within the word search puzzle.
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Terror in Space
Students view a video clip about the role of satellites in space. They examine the concept of center of mass. They participate in an experiment showing how altering the location of an object's center of mass can change its motion.
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Energy Detectives at Work
Students are "Energy Detectives" working for an engineering firm that does energy evaluations at schools. In teams, they locate energy sources around the school, and record their findings on an Energy Detective Worksheet.
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The Quest for Roots of Higher Order Equations
Young mathematicians explore the concept of solutions to higher order equations as they find roots of polynomials of degree three or higher. They also use the zero function on the Ti-83 to locate zeros of polynomials on a graph.
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Mycenaean Trade in the Mediterranean
Students role play as scientists working for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey. They locate Bodrum on a map and study the Mycenaean trade around the Mediterranean Sea. They discover what goods were traded during the...
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Storm That Drowned a City
Students use a map to locate New Orleans and watch a video on the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how a wetland can reduce the impact of a hurricane. In groups, they perform their own...
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Mexican American Labor in the U.S.
Ninth graders examine how the United States historically shifts policies toward Mexican and Mexican American laborers to acquire cheap, temporary labor. In this US History lesson, 9th graders research the history of immigration from...
Space Awareness
History of the Universe
Your pupils may believe that you and their parents are the oldest things in the universe, but surprise! There are elements of the universe that are even older. Elementary scientists create a class timeline to demonstrate the...
Teach Engineering
A New Angle on PV Efficiency
Let me get an angle on this! Investigate the orientation of a photovoltaic panel and its effect on efficiency. By using a light source, learners collect and plot current output to determine the ultimate orientation. The resource includes...
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T3 Lesson Plan: Number 3
Sixth graders investigate local water. In this water cycle lesson, 6th graders take samples from surrounding water sources. Students record data from the samples, compare and graph the results.
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Reading the Play
Do figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...