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Favorite Season Circle Graph
Students create a graph charting their favorite season. They discuss the difference in the four seasons and activities they participate in, in each of the seasons. They can also take a survey of their family members and add them to the...
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Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Students read an article about intermittent explosive disorder and discuss things that make them angry and how they deal with those feelings. They complete vocabulary exercises, take a comprehension quiz and explore the use of...
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Affirmative Action Debate
Learners recognize that there are class and school activities that can cause for their exclusion. They defend and dispute an issue in preparing for a debate and determine how a survey can tell you how other classes fell about issues.
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Design a CD Cover
Students encounter a unique way to design their own personal CD covers. Students research on how others have designed similar covers. Students produce an original CD cover. Students correlate various singers to their CD covers.
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Rural Homelessness
Students read about rural homelessness. In this homelessness lesson, students read about rural homelessness and practice their note taking skills. Students discuss rural homelessness as a group and answer the provided questions.
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Canada Recycles! Do You?: Grades 4-6
In this recycling education instructional activity, students read a table regarding Canadian recycling statistics and respond to 9 questions regarding the data.
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The Circle Graph
In this circle graph worksheet, students complete problems involving many circle graphs including a compass rose, degrees, and more. Students complete 7 activities.
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Reading Graphs
Students read graphs and charts to interpret results. In this algebra lesson, students interpret bar, line and pictographs. They draw conclusions and make predicitons based on these charts.
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The Alternative Fix: What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
Students study the use of alternative and complementary medicines. They research the five categories of CAM therapies and how popular they are. They report their finding to the rest of the class.
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The Impact of History: A Conversation with a Parent
Seventh graders interview parents about certain historical events. In this historical interview lesson, 7th graders create a web of events about historical events. Students interview their parents or grandparents about the event and...
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Freckle Juice
Students analyze a chapter from the assigned book they are reading. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read chapter four from Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and discuss the main character, Andrew. Students complete a...
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Graphing Our Favorite Candy Bars
Students use ClarisWorks to graph class' favorite candy bars on a bar graph.
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Women: Stride Toward Freedom
Students read facts about women'ts suffrage and research topics related to women's rights. Optional films for viewing and books to read.
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So You Want to Be A Poet?
Fourth graders study different types of poetry and then write examples in this unit. They write, among others, free verse, Diamante, Clerihew, and color poems.
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To Cut or Not To Cut
Learners examine the pros and cons of animal dissection and discuss various case studies in animal dissection. They research various perspectives of using animals as learning tools and write a position paper which tells their opinion on...
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Television and Teens
Students discuss the relationship teenagers have with the television. In groups, they watch different excerpts from various television shows and note every instance of violence including children. They also discuss the instances of...
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The Family That Endured An Historical View of African-American Families As Seen Through American Literature and Art
Students identify racial stereotypes in advertisements from the past and survey their sources and implications. They compare advertisements from the past with those of today using similar approaches and create an original advertisement...
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Electronic Surveillance: Unlawful Invasion of Privacy or Justifiable Law Enforcement
Learners state values and analyze them and the values of other students as it relates to the issue of individual privacy. They develop constitutional provisions which address issues relating to privacy with particular reference to item...
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Butterflies
Students will explore the life cycle of the Painted Lady butterfly by raising their own. They will incorporate math, science, and language arts as they graph, pattern, journal, observe, and artistically create.
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Reading Aloud
Students practice their reading aloud skills. They examine different careers that focus on public speaking. They also gather new tips to practice when speaking aloud.
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Design an Island
Students make a map of an imaginary island using the topographic symbols provided from a worksheet. Students place lakes, dwellins, reefs, etc. in areas where they would logically be located from understanding how the topography of an...
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Four Wall Handball
Students explore the sport of handball. After reviewing the rules of handball, they explore how to hit the ball without hurting their hands. Students discuss arm strokes and proper foot alignment and sidearm positions. Using proper...
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Bar Graphs
Seventh graders visually represent and analyze data using a frequency table. They recognize what values in a data set are bigger by looking at a bar graph and answer questions about certain bar graphs and what they represent. Students...
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Unknown Vocabulary
Students develop the vocabulary necessary to make their reading meaningful. After creating pre-reading activities, students a list of unknown vocabulary related to their reading selection. They complete vocabulary and context...