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Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix!
Seventh graders learn about John Kellerman, a youngster who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. They learn how alcohol and pregnancy doesn't mix.
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Exponential Models
Students fit a continuous change exponential model to U.S. population data and use the model to predict future population.
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Make the Connection
Students practice connecting words into phrases. They use the Declaration of Independence to help them connect phrases.
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Wasting Energy at Home?
Students identify ways that energy is wasted. They develop ideas on how to conserve energy in the home. They also categorize appliances found in the home as heavy, moderate, or light users of energy
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Safe In the City
Students read a report about the most dangerous cities in America. Using the internet, they research their own community in regards to how safe it is. They interview local law enforcement and determine the degree of local danger. They...
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Baroque Composer Presentations
Young scholars create an understanding of contemporary artistic styles and genres through an overview of the connection of the arts throughout modern history. Students discussed visual, written and aural artistic mediums, as well as...
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60-30-10
Students use ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships as they investigate the concept of how percentages are used by designers. Students decorate the same room using three different percentages of colors.
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Science and Art Museum
Imagine each one of your learners on task and interested in scientific material. Learners investigate science related art by creating a small museum! Using digital cameras, pupils photograph different scientific actions that look...
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Transportation Fuels: Biodiesel
Students examine biodiesel as a fuel for transportation. In this biodiesel instructional activity students complete activities using their critical thinking.
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Exponential Functions and the Natural Logarithm
Students solve exponential and log functions. In this algebra lesson, students graph natural log and logarithmic functions. They compare and contrast between logs and the exponential graphs.
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MVT for Derivatives
Young scholars find the derivative using the mean value theorem in this calculus lesson. They find the slopes of secant and tangent lines, then analyze the function and identify the slope.
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Money in India: Comparison Shopping
Students are exposed to a monetary system different from their own. They learn to exchange currencies between two monetary systems. Practice the necessary mathematical functions to find comparison. Compare prices of items sold in India...
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Save the Animals!
Students research an endangered animal and share what they learned through the use of technology. In this interdisciplinary lesson on animals, students conduct research on an endangered animal. Then, students create a PowerPoint...
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A Beating Heart
Learners collect and analyze data using percent difference. In this algebra activity, students relate the concepts of algebra to cardiac physiology.
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All About Me!
Students write about themselves. In this descriptive writing lesson, students view a PowerPoint for examples of descriptive writing and then write sentences describing themselves. Students use a computer program to type their sentences...
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Animation Station
Students examine clay animation. In this technology lesson plan, students use the Internet to investigate the history of clay animation. Students use story boards and clay figures to create their own "animation."
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Filling The Urn
High schoolers calculate the area under a curve. In this calculus lesson plan,students calculate the area by integrating the equation. They calculate the volume of cylindrical shapes created between graphs.
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Wonderful World of Dinosaurs
Second graders obtain information about the characteristics of diet, locomotion, behavior, habitat, and anatomy of five dinosaurs by observing the Wonderful World of Dinosaurs HyperStudio presentation. They complete a student worksheet.
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Motion and Forces
Ninth graders create PowerPoint presentations to present Newton's three laws of motion, and make and launch rockets.
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Put the NEW in NEWBERY
Learners read Newbery award books. In this Newbery book lesson, students look online to find all the books that have received this award and look through online reviews to find one they would like to read. After finishing the book, they...
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A Microscopically Enormous Look at Genetic Inheritance
Students use microscopes to examine fly families and analyze their genetic inheritance. In this genes lesson plan, students also use the chi square for comparing genes and compare the class results as a whole.
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Lessons for Beginner Atlatl Users
Ninth graders research weapons of the Aboriginal people and throw a dart with and without the use of an atlatl. In this cross curricular instructional activity, 9th graders research the weapons of the Aboriginal people. They throw darts...
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Exponential vs. Power
Pupils differentiate between exponential and power functions. They identify the base, exponent and properties of exponential functions. They also graph the functions using the TI calculator.
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Spy vs. Spy?
Young scholars consider their beliefs about proper and improper surveillance and then create imaginary neighborhoods featuring surveillance technology in various public and private sites.