Students explore the concept of efficiency. In this efficiency lesson, students read an article about efficiency in various industries such as health care, retail, and auto repair. Students identify a company that they think could...

In this dividing fractions worksheet, students read about reciprocals and review the process of division, then practice, completing 4 problems. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

Students read a story, watch a video, and interact with a butterfly website to learn about butterfly metamorphosis. In this butterfly lesson plan, students listen, discuss, and participate in activities relating the metamorphosis of a...

In this American History worksheet, 7th graders read and comprehend short answer questions. 

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on themes in All My Sons by Arthur Miller.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer and essay questions based on All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.

Students read the story Quaking by Kathryn Erskine about a girl who moves in with people who clash with her style. In this holocaust lesson plan, students also answer discussion questions.

Students create a tornado in a bottle by using paper towels, a soda bottle, glitter, food dye, and more. In this tornado in a bottle lesson plan, students first read about tornadoes and how they are formed.

In this comprehension worksheet, students read The City of Ember chapters 16 and 17 and answer multiple choice questions about it. Students complete 14 questions.

Students explore the flag. In this social studies lesson, students search for flags in a picture. When students locate a flag, they will read a fact about the flag, how to display it and how to care for the flag.

Third graders locate the states of Main and Kansas on a map. In this state location lesson plan, 3rd graders read the book Sarah, Plain and Tall and discuss what states she traveled through.

Introduce learners to allegorical art with four bronze sculptures by Francesco Bertos. After modeling how to recognize bias and allegory in Bertos' Africa, class groups examine the other three sculptures in the series before creating...

Take a closer look at increasing and decreasing behavior by zooming in on graphs. An AP® Calculus reference document examines how increasing/decreasing behavior should be considered in terms of intervals rather than points. The resource...

Students work with partner to look at and read pen pal letters. Students identify, highlight, and discuss five parts of friendly letter, including heading, salutation, body, closing, and signature, and write their own friendly letters.

The rain forest alliterations activity has students read about alliterations, then complete 4 alliterations about the rain forest and draw an illustration of one of them. The close with an acrositc poem with the words "rain forest."

Fourth graders read numerous examples of fairy tales. Using the text, they identify the organization styles and conventions within them and write their own for a class book. They practice using descriptive language and receive...

Relate literary works and authors to the major themes of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 20th century. Working in groups, high schoolers will evaluate period philosophy, religion, and politics that influenced...

Students closely analyze testimony from the Holocaust. They express, in poetic form, meanings students created in their analysis. They react to written passages from the time period.

Students examine what life in Virginia was like when it was still a colony. In groups, they read a story and complete a graphic organizer. They explain the importance of agriculture in the colonay and its influence on slavery. They...

Learners practice visualizing as they read to aid comprehension. They then read a chapter in their history book and visualize what they read so that they can answer comprehension questions about the chapter.

Learners investigate the nervous system and how physical distractions influence mental performance. They work in pairs as a researcher and subject and memorize a series of words with no distractions. After repeating the list of words,...

Students closely analyze a true event or moments associated with their life, then present the scene, and personal emotions and/or actions generated by that incident in a free verse poem. They learn the difference between words defined...

Students participate in a lesson that is about finding an escape route when faced with an emergency fire situation. They read about the hazards of fire and smoke inhalation. The concept of crawling low under smoke is emphasized and...

High schoolers comprehend how tides can impact shoreline plant communities through the study of a freshwater tidal marsh. They use actual tidal data to show that tidal ranges differ among geographic locations, even those relatively close...