Young scholars use digital cameras to document school experiences. Afterwards, they use computer software to manipulate their photos and write poetry, essays or biographies to compliment the pictures. Finally, students create an...

Learners recite a poem and perform motions to the words. In this stretching and moving lesson, groups of students perform the motions by crouching into a ball, getting up, breathing deeply, stretching arms, and leaning forward. An...

Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.

Students explore penny quilts made in the late 1700s through the early 1800s. They identify significant events from their lives and create their own class penny quilt displaying this information.

Students investigate the historical development of human attempts to fly and the practice of keeping recorded data for historical reasons.

Learners create original tales that use animals to portray human behavior.

Tenth graders explore the consequences of not taking responsibility for their own development.

Middle schoolers identify regional climates by using weather maps. They, in groups, locate and mark their city on the small map, then go to the larger map to locate and mark their city when they are called upon by teacher.

Fifth graders are in Literary Circles according to the book they've chosen and choose roles.

Students engage in meaningful dialogues on the issue of gun violence and to explore avenues that could lead to changes in our society.

Third graders read Freckle Juice as a shared literature experience. This lesson plan has many good ideas of extensions you can do as your students go through the story.

Students study the concept of what it means to be an informed voter who makes conscientious voting decisions based on significant information.  For this making informed voting decisions lesson plan, students are introduces...

Students, who are considered delinquent, prepare for the behavioral demands and expectations in society. They develop skills needed for social support networks, friendships and adjusting to social situations.

Third graders examine and apply the relationship between concrete landmarks, abstract written directions, and graphic representations on maps, and then develop their own landmark map for classroom use.

Young scholars designs a unique tissue painting by filling in the sketch with selected colored tissue paper and its placement.

Fourth graders use colored beads in two problems and explore the use of proportional reasoning as a problem solving method. Working Students, in groups, explain their reasoning strategies orally, and through drawings.

Students read stories and articles about protecting the Earth. They collect data for a computer generated graph, and provide a key to show what the symbols represent.

Students learn to write a descriptive friendly letter to a pen pal.

Learners compare and contrast the orbits of Earth and Mars, locate the planet Mars, and diagram its retrograde motion.

Students explore how experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and motives shape history.

Students conduct online research and incorporate graphics and maps into a Powerpoint presentation that details life at the McLean train yard in its heyday.

Students, in groups, choose three countries from which to investigate exchange rates versus the US dollar. Using Internet research they follow daily exchange rates and compute the percentage change. They compile data and prepare and...

Students collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.

Students become part of the solution as they practice figuring percents. The number of men versus women present in the room and their heights can be used to form the basis of this investigation.