Students create their own holidays, describing them in booklet form. They develop the holiday's name, symbol, colors, food, and historical significance.

How much does your class know about the history of April Fools Day? They'll use the Internet and five great questions to uncover the history and origin of this very silly holiday. Two web links are included, to make hunting for answers...

Students follow directions to fold a flag properly. They practice on paper flags first and then use a real United States flag. They also examine the history of the flag.

Here is a four-corner debate-style activity specifically geared to election year issues. Learners group themselves according to whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with statements that relate to elections...

Students develop simulated businesses, and identify the ways in which their businesses might use computers. They write job descriptions and help wanted ads for the employees who would be responsible for using computers in their businesses.

Students email students their own age in another country to share information about their cultures and countries.

Learners participate in a game which requires them to complete timed math activities to reinforce basic math concepts.

Students measure the weight of a container of leaves daily to discover how quickly it grows lighter as the foliage dries.

Students create colorful stained-glass Autumn window decorations. They shave crayons with scissors, melt the crayons in wax paper with an iron, and cut out a leaf pattern to display on windows.

Students design theater programs which show their understanding of William Shakespeare's plays. They design original art to include in the programs.

Let the resource stretch the minds of your young scientists with a lesson plan about tensile strength and stiffness of materials. Groups consider how easily materials stretch and relate this property to engineering design.

Torque--a teachable moment? Here's a lesson on torque (or moment) and variables that include size, reinforcement, structural bracing, and material that affect torque.

Students fill in bar graphs to show ten of the best-selling students' books of all time. Students create simple bar graphs to show how many copies of each of the ten books have been sold.

Young scholars explore their creative-thinking and writing skills while writing a sequel to the classic story, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Students work in small groups to complete this activity and share their completed story with...

Give your pupils different Halloween story starters and ask them to complete the tale. They use a word processing program to load, enter, save, and print text, recognize the benefits of word processing, and demonstrate proper keyboarding...

Explore the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss with your class. They will design a pattern for the cat's hat. They will create color pattern designs with candy and frosting. In the end, they will describe their pattern.

For this making a peace wind stock worksheet, young scholars explore and experiment on how to design and create a peace wind stock to symbolize their feelings about peace.

In this social studies worksheet, students examine a state map of Utah and answer 7 questions, using the map as a reference. The map includes freeways and bodies of water. There is no compass rose.

In this multiplication instructional activity, students problem solve and calculate the answers to thirty mathematical multiplication equations for mastery.

In this mystery state worksheet, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.

In this mystery state worksheet, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.

In this mystery state instructional activity, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.

In this United States mystery activity, students determine which state is described by the 5 clues listed on the sheet and then mark it on the outline map of the United States.

For this mystery state worksheet, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.