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Fantastic Fractions
Fourth graders explore and examine through hands-on experience and reasoning the concept of fractions. They solve problems involving multiplication and division of whole numbers and addition and subtraction of simple fractions and decimals.
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Cultural Differences: Using Remember and Try To
In this ESL activity worksheet, students consider cultural differences as they read a paragraph and find its text in the word maze.
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Communication and Listening Skills
Students explore the attributes of effective communication. In this communication instructional activity, students determine how to effectively send and receive messages as they role-play the process.
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Body Language
Students practice communication skills. In this body language instructional activity, students compare verbal and nonverbal communication as they analyze body language and learn how it conveys emotions.
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Asking for Help
Learners consider calls for help. In this personal health lesson, students design advertisements meant to motivate reluctant people who need help to go ahead and ask for it.
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Compliments
Students practice giving and receiving compliments. For this classroom community lesson, students discuss their feelings and what causes them to change. They list reasons their classroom is a good place to be. Students define what a...
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Communication - An Introduction
Students define communication and identify its components. In this communication lesson, students read, discuss, and internalize the four pages of communication elements that include charts, vocabulary, and methods.
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Role Playing the Plague
Students investigate the impact of the plague. In this European history lesson, students listen to their instructors present information regarding the black death and then write letters regarding the plague from the perspective of 14th...
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Defusing School Violence
Students practice problem-solving skills as they listen to a scenario in which students defuse violence and tension at their own school. In this defusing school violence lesson, students discuss hate-based violence and brainstorm ways to...
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Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor
Young scholars discover details regarding the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In this civics lesson, students read mini-biographies of some of the signers of the document. Young scholars then create a model of one of the 10...
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Identifying potential target markets
Students analyze data. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students identify the demographic, geographic, and socio-economic characteristics of potential target markets for planned goods and services. Students identify and compare...
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The Journey of the Magi
Students create storyboards. In this pre-Christmas special lesson, students produce a storyboard for a TV version of the poem, "The Journey of the Magi". Options to complete with or without technology are included.
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Diversity - Grade 8
Eighth graders consider the diversity of the First Nations cultures in Canada. In this cultural diversity instructional activity, 8th graders research the cultural groups of the First Nations as well as their contributions to Canadian...
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Diversity - Grade 7
Seventh graders consider the diversity of the First Nations cultures in Canada. In this cultural diversity lesson, 7th graders research the cultural groups of the First Nations as well as their contributions to Canadian society. Students...
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Diversity - Grade 9
Ninth graders consider the diversity of the First Nations cultures in Canada. In this cultural diversity lesson, 9th graders research the cultural groups of the First Nations and share their findings with their classmates.
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Intelligence
For this psychology worksheet, students complete a 5 short answer quiz on intelligence. They identify evidence on hereditary influences on intelligence.
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Southern Puritanism and Tennessee Williams
Students write an essay comparing Arthur Mille's The Crucible and one of Tennessee Williams' plays. For this Tennessee Williams lesson, students discuss the influence of Puritanism on modern American drama. Lesson includes a vocabulary...
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Sine and Cosine
Students solve problems using sine and cosine. In this precalculus lesson, students solve word problems using sine and cosine. They identify where it is appropriate to laws of sine and cosine and where to use the Pythagorean Theorem.
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The Oblate Sisters of Providence and Early African American Education in Baltimore
Eighth graders examine the educational system for free African-Americans in Baltimore in the early 19th century. In this American History lesson, 8th graders read a handout and answer focus questions. Students analyze photographs.
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So You Would Like a Wind Farm, Eh?
Learners collect and analyze data correctly. In this statistics lesson, students use central tendencies to analyze collected data. They calculate where a wind farm will be placed, based on the data.
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The Testing of the Feebleminded Immigrants
Students examine the intelligence testing of Henry Goddard during the early 1900s. They discover criticisms that are still occuring today. They analyze how science and technology is contributing to this practice.
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Lippmann vs. The Testers: Can Intelligence Be Measured?
Pupils examine the ideas of Walter Lippman and standardized testing. They discover the ideas and beliefs behind using standarized tests. They examine a copy of an IQ test and discuss.
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Negro Leagues Baseball
Students think critically and creatively while researching Negro Leagues baseball vocabulary terms and producing a political cartoon defining those terms. The research for this lesson plan is done on the internet.
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Utopia
Students explore suburbia, whose long history of development is grounded in utopian notions.