Learners complete a self-analysis exercise and choose a career to research based on the results. Students research their career using various resources including interview and internet research. They use the information gathered to...

Scholars of all ages can use the various tools of technology to construct and illustrate a story. Utilizing this resource, learners work with a partner to brainstorm and draft a story based on personal experience. They use computer...

A great way to determine if a career is right for you is to try it out. Learners explore the marketing career cluster by interviewing a person working in the marketing field and by developing a marketing-related service learning project....

Touchdown is a tag game built around stealth and deception. One team is given a small object that fits inside the palm of a hand. Players start at one end of the field and try to get the hidden object across the field to the other...

Twelfth graders complete activities to explore life goals. For this career goals lesson, 12th graders write a list of their community activities and write a statement of their life goals. Students discuss their life goals with a peer.

Learners develop an awareness of emerging employment trends and benefits of preparing for change. They describe the imporatnce of flexibility and its role in the workplace. Students talk and write about their personal reactions to...

Seventh graders explore different forms of sacrifice.  For this World History lesson, 7th graders determine the reasons why people make sacrifices.  Students write a personal goal to make a small sacrifice. 

Learners have an important historical figure on a card on their back and by giving them clues, students have to determine who they are. For this historical figure lesson plan, learners compete to find out who they are first. 

Fifth graders be asked to write down information about themselves from questions on the board. They take this information and type it in a program from the computer lab. The resume will be kept in their expandable file for future reference.

Students investigate personal culture. They go throughout the community taking pictures and saving the images to create a personal photo book. The information can be displayed in either a digital or hard copy. The goal of the lesson is...

Quick! Can your mathematicians recall multiples of six in these timed exercises? There are 26 equations here, split into five distinct sections. Learners fill in products and factors, dealing with number sentences in both numeral and...

Do you really need that new laptop/phone/dress/jacket/etc.? Financial decisions require us to distinguish between our wants and our needs. Through discussion and the evaluation of scenarios on provided worksheets, this resource...

Middle schoolers study about the Renaissance Period. Then, they choose one person: Michelangelo, Galileo, Martin Luther, and Leonardo da Vinci and write a paper about that person.

Students identify the parts of a dragonfly that they drew. They write a very short non-fiction story (mainly with pictures) about the adventure of a dragonfly. They interview a person dressed as a dragonfly to find out some things about...

Students explore immigrants and immigration to the United States. They define and explain their definition of the term pilgrim. Students evaluate the goals of their ancestors as they arrived in America. Students research and design a...

Tenth graders define the term slang, explaining its various social, historical, and racial contexts, so as to articulate when it can be appropriately used as a means of effective communication. They use their own personal slang lexicon,...

After a class discussion that reviews the concept of antonyms, learners get into groups of four. Their first task is to come up with as many antonyms as they can. One person writes an antonym pair and passes the paper to the next...

Eighth graders interview a person who explains the lifestyles of people who lived on the prairies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They examine how today's lifestyles impact the environment and write up what they learned.

Tenth graders study the role that places like the Joliet Arsenal played in how women were view in American society during and after World War II. They interview a person from the World War II era about the job they performed and how...

Students develop skills in making nutritionally-sound food choices. Keeping a food diary, they analyze their food intake using the food pyramid as a guide. Students identify and explain the relationship of nutrition to personal health...

Students run and try to tag a classmate as "Black Bear, Black Bear" is yelled by another student. In this P.E. lesson plan, students try to get to the opposite side of a playing area without being tagged or being tricked by the person...

Students create a venn diagram about the job they currently have and if they think it is what they should be doing. In this job lesson plan, students list education and job duties in a venn diagram and analyze if it is the correct job...

Fourth graders explore the concept of conflict mediation. In this coping skills lesson, 4th graders discover conflict mediation skills that may be used to resolve conflict. Students also learn techniques to reduce stress.

Ninth graders analyze lifestyle factors that affect health and demonstrate an awareness of key lifestyle practices associated with prevention of disease.