Fifth graders evaluate data from a circle graph that compares time spent on various activities. They use the computer to manipulate their own data as they compare, examine, create and evaluate data using circle graphs.

Students fill out job applications for openings as sales clerk and stocker. They role play being the "Boss" to critique job applications.

Eighth graders work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.

Students process a variety of information on the reasons for different interpretations of history.

First graders experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and -tickling- bees as they move creatively to music.

Learners research an environmental issue and decide on a course of action. They write a reseach paper and present an oral presentation based on the research.

Students discover the formula for writing limericks and use it to write their own poems.

Fourth graders create a poster in the shape of a shield, which represents their individual lives by using art, photographs, magazine and newspaper graphics.

Students write a newspaper based on events in the year 1898 using Yellow Journalism, the exaggeration of facts or events.

Eleventh graders read The Great Gatsby and explain the jazz age. They use jazz age terms to create their own short story, scene, or letter.

Fourth graders, in groups, examine the effect of heat on bonding forces by doing laboratory work.

First graders study changes in daily weather conditions. They explore weather pattern consistency.

In groups, write persuasive essays telling people whether or not they should be eating vegetables.

Seventh graders modernize a fairy tale, then compare their version with he original version and determine whether or not they've changed the author's original intent.

Students review geometry unit content through a vocabulary/word game. They demonstrate understanding using geoboards to answer questions. They work in groups and it's a race to the correct answer.

Students examine and identify polyhedron shapes on a math website. They write journal reflections about two- and three-dimensional shapes, and transform a square into a pinwheel.

Fourth graders create their own personal timelines.

First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.

Practice listening skills with the novel Max Malone Makes a Million written by Charlotte Herman. Read a chapter a day and answer daily questions such as predicting how Max makes his money.

Fourth graders study the Agriculture Revolution and create a newspaper entitled Industrial Times. They follow a newspaper theme and create headlines for important events.

Third graders read the book Jacob Have I Loved, then ask themselves whether they can truly hate their siblings.

Students practice their oral counting skills using a hundreds chart and pennies as manipulatives.

Seventh graders explore how to compare and contrast characters.

Learners are introduced to the Rosetta Stone and asked to consider the difficulties of translating ancient texts. They write a message in hieroglyphics and translate each other's work. They evaluate their translations.