What happens when your teachers get tired of grading tests and want to use games of chance to determine your grade? How would you decide which game they should play? Learn how to use expected value and standard notation to compare two...

Use these project guidelines as a start to designing your own class PowerPoint project and to consider what elements you would like to assign and assess in your class. While the resource begins with instructions for researching World War...

How can you tell the author's purpose from just a short summary? Kids read three different summaries of books to determine whether the author meant to entertain, persuade, or inform.

Infinitives have multiple purposes. Introduce your Spanish class to the variety of ways to use infinitives other than simply conjugating them. Use the material and presentation included here to inspire and inform a lesson on infinitives....

Students review issues of current and national interest of Australia. They experience Question Time through a role-play activity. Students reflect on the effectiveness of Question Times as a method of public accountability. They...

Learners investigate child care. They practice interviewing potential child-care providers, discuss issues relating to taking time off work to care for a sick child and how to handle family problems at work.

In this rhyming learning exercise, students listen sentences about Valentine's Day. Using their listening and language skills, students identify the rhyming words that belong in 9 blanks. Students may also color the hearts on the...

In this writing prompt activity, students examine Valentine's Day picture and then use the space provided to write a story regarding the picture. Teachers may add details the word list box before they provide copies of the worksheets to...

Historical poetry is lyrical in form and rich with content. After examining the differences between the Northern and Southern states before and during the U.S. Civil War, learners complete a Venn diagram and create an illustration of the...

Fourth graders listen as the teacher reads out loud "A House Is A House for Me". Each day for five days the students choose one activity out of two or three to complete. Conclusion arrives when all the students describe and write about...

Students utilize a Mesonet daily solar radiation to determine the times of sunrise and sunset and the length of the day. They describe how sunrise and sunset change with latitude and longitude and how the length of the day changes with...

Students use a graph of daily solar radiation to determine the times of sunrise and sunset. They also compare how sunrise, sunset, and the length of the day changes with latitude and longitude.

Pupils practice using a different type of measurement each day. They complete data sheets to record their information. They practice estimating the weight of an object as well.

Students record the daily outdoor temperature as well as the number of minutes of sunlight per day over a determined period. They calculate the average temperature and minutes of sunlight per day and post their data on the project website.

Students explore and observe living development using live fertilized chicken eggs. They open the eggs approximately 72 hrs after fertilization and make observations for several days.

Students take turns reading the electric meter six times a day at regularly scheduled intervals. They figure out the amount of electricity used and then determine the total cost of electricity for the week.

Students are introduced to several traditional Japanese sports and games. Students organize an 'Undokai' - a sports day in which they compete in teams.

Second graders recall addition and subtraction facts for the numbers 0-9. They review facts written on pocket-sized cards. Students select an unknown addition or subtraction fact to place in their pocket. They carry this fact with them...

Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.

Eighth graders recognize the some day humans may wish to colonize Mars. They participate in an Internet adventure where they compare and contrast Earth to the other nine planets in the solar system.

Ninth graders illustrate the routes taken by different explorers on a world map. They explain the need for the different exploration voyages. Students explore the web for information that may contain different points of view or...

Students preserve embryos to study embryonic development from day 3 through 21.

Sixth graders utilize their prior knowledge of the Woolly Mammoth to hypothesize what life was like for the Paleoindians. They write a story about a day in the life of a Paleoindian hunter.

Eighth graders examine a picture of a tobacco laborer. Using that information, they write a story describing a typical work day for them. They evaluate the impact of political and technological changes in the area as well as the role...