Students examine the impact of the 1901 World's Fair. In this lesson on invention and politics, students watch a video then conduct Internet research in order to learn about the Pan American Exposition. Students will create a brochure...

Fifth graders examine text features and create a PowerPoint presentation. In this text features lesson, 5th graders go over Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures and text features before they choose one to include in a book and...

First graders design a Powerpoint presentation to reflect information about their community.  In this community lesson, 1st graders create slides to explain the weather, geography and other information about the city.

While a terrific idea, this lesson plan in which learners create a timeline showing the date that a variety of buildings and monuments were built in Ancient Rome, requires resources teachers may not have. It requires the use of a...

A viewing of the documentary War Feels Like War, launches an exploration of the importance of accurate and comprehensive war reporting. Groups investigate various news agencies and assess the factors that influence their stories. A...

Touchdown! This is an exponentially insightful lesson that explores the growth of football games with different video game consoles. Class members discuss whether the increase of mergahertz can be described as linear or exponential....

Students comprehend what makes up the physical community. Read and construct scale drawings and models. Explore the history of infrastructures and how the contributions of science, math and industry have led to the development of their...

Help your young writers use logic in their persuasive writing. Discuss the characteristics of a persuasive paper, and have pupils work together to explore and solve a syllogism. They will write a short persuasive paper which includes a...

Young historians explore the reason American colonists were unhappy under British rule. Class members complete hands-on activities and participate in a group discussions to understand why colonists drafted the Declaration of Independence.

What is happening to our newspapers? In the context of the current trends of media and the ever-declining print news industry, this handout includes two political cartoons for pupils to analyze, both created by artists working for...

"We, the People of the State of Alabama. . ." Did you know that the Alabama State Constitution has 357,157 words while the US Constitution has only 4,400? And that it has 798 amendments while the US Constitution has...

Eighth graders examine the impact of powered flight on the North Carolina coast. After reading news articles, they explain how the first flight affected community pride. They develop a hypothesis about the long-term economic impacts to...

Students write thank-you notes using the writing process. They draft, revise, edit, and publish their thank-you notes and use a computer to view examples of thank-you notes and insert graphics into their own published thank-you notes.

Students experience world adventures through the internet. In this technology instructional activity, students use a suggested internet site and explore each expedition. Students can virtually travel such lands as China.

Students practice their keyboarding skills. For this typing lesson, students use interesting stories to practice their skills. They practice throughout the semester and then monitor their improvement.

Young scholars complete an Excel project on tessellations. In this technology and math lesson, students discuss tessellations and their occurrences in nature. Young scholars use the Excel computer program to create tessellations.

Young scholars create a graphic organizer to study animal characteristics. In this animal characteristics lesson plan, students use a program in Microsoft Word to create a brainstorm about different animal characteristics.

Students develop basic Internet skills. In this lesson introducing the basics of the Internet, students discover how to use toolbars, address bars, how to save a website to revisit later, and how to use the back and forward buttons. This...

Students practice emailing their homework. In this technology lesson plan, students review how to type an email address correctly and how to send it to the correct address. Students complete their homework and send it to their teacher.

Students discover the different terms and parts of a computer's body.  In this computer basics lesson, students become familiar with the parts of the computer, starting in kindergarten and increasing their knowledge through...

Eighth graders research about different types of volcanoes. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders create PowerPoint presentation on the information gathered. They share findings with the class.

Students fill out a timecard of family activities in Microsoft Excel. In this Excel lesson plan, students use the program to fill in times they do various activities with their families.

Young scholars discover racism and slavery by completing a role playing activity. In this U.S. history activity, students analyze documents from the Civil War era and describe the Fugitive Slave Law. Young scholars view a video on...

Young scholars explore the events of the Civil Rights Movement. In this research skills activity, students research the important figures, events, and ideas of the American Civil Rights Movement as they visit suggested websites that...