Students explore the concept of the scientific method. In this investigative lesson plan, students investigate which direction the blades will spin on a gyrocopter. Student will practice using the scientific method to complete the...

Students identify significant milestones in the history of flight. In this aviation history lesson, students study various resource materials and construct timelines of significant achievements.

Young scholars explore different size circles to discover the relationship between diameter and circumference. In this circles and Pi lesson, students construct simple parachutes using circle patterns of varying sizes. Young scholars...

Students create an airship that doesn't use fossil fuel. For this flying lesson, students research different types of flying machines that only use wind power. They discuss invention designs by Alexander Graham Bell and Leonardo Da Vinci...

Students observe how bird flight and machine flight are similar. In this aerodynamics lesson, students observe how birds fly and the shapes of their wings, and investigate how observing birds helped develop the concept of machine flight....

Learners investigate the physics of flight by experimenting in class.  In this history of flight instructional activity, students define terms such as gravity, lift, and drag in order to better understand how a plane is able to stay...

Learners investigate air pressure by researching parachutes.  In this physics lesson plan, students participate in three separate experiments utilizing air pressure and paper products to test theories on parachutes.  Learners...

Students make a tree sculpture. In this trees and the environment instructional activity, students learn about the parts of a tree, discuss what a tree needs in order to grow, find images of trees in art and nature, use various materials...

In this graphic organizer worksheet, students answer the five w's in the provided spaces on the worksheet. There are five spaces on the worksheet to fill out. This is ideal to use as a reading comprehension tool.

In this story elements worksheet, students complete a story map graphic organizer that contains four boxes for students to fill in information. The spaces include characters, setting and problem and solution.

In this graphic organizer worksheet, students complete an idea web and write the information in the provided bubbles. The web is similar to a bubble map and has five spaces for students to write information.

Students discuss aspects of the Statue of Liberty and create their own personalized statue. Students use symbols to represent themselves in their own drawings of the Statue of Liberty.

Students explore and describe various kinds of work experiences and skills practicing the regular past tense -ed sounds. They practice pronouncing those sounds with verbs within their reading passages as well. In addition, they repeat...

In this spelling review worksheet, intended for home use, 4th graders copy twenty words from the given and create original rhyming couplets.

Apostrophes as used in plurals, contractions, and possessives are the subject of a short PowerPoint that includes explanations as well as examples of correct and incorrect usage. Consider augmenting the presentation with practice...

Review the rules of capitalization with a short PowerPoint. Although text-heavy, the explanations are concise and followed with a number of examples. Consider following the presentation with a worksheet to provide extra practice.

Coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions are the focus of a short presentation about this part of speech. Terms are defined and models given.

What are the characteristics of a good purpose statement for a speech? Of a thesis statement? After considering the characteristics of good and bad opening statements, viewers identify the best example in a series of models.

Students observe the art of Henri Matisse and discuss the ideas and feelings his art brings about. In this Henri Matisse lesson plan, students look at many of his artistic paintings and discuss and write in a journal the point of view...

Students look at the painting The Red Studio Shows the Way, and critique the art piece. In this critiquing art lesson plan, students discuss how the painting expresses ideas and feelings and history.

Students utilize art analysis skills by examining the work of Henri Matisse. In this painting lesson, students examine L'Atelier Rouge by Henri Matisse and identify the objects in the room and colors used. Students create their own rough...

Students use the real life situation of reading a medicine bottle to increase phonemic awareness and reading comprehension as a result. The oral pronunciation of sounds is the focus of the lesson plan. Reteaching may be needed for some...

Many muralists throughout history have focused on using their art to represent aspects of their culture or community. After thoroughly researching several muralists, budding artists will create a larger than life mural that contains...

The goal of this collection of lessons is to make middle schoolers more aware of the ways in which they are dependent upon water to maintain their standard of living. Learners compare water use in Lesotho to water use in the United...