Fourth graders learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle and identify household hazardous products. Students learn about less hazardous alternatives and complete an inventory of hazardous materials in a typical household.

Learners explore the Israeli elections for Prime Minister and the potential impact that newly-elected Premier Ehud Barak may have on the peace process in the Middle East.

Tenth graders view women's lives in a north Indian village around 1970 with pictures.

Students discuss the benefits of spending time with family members. Then they make posters to share their ideas with others.

Students discuss the sounds that different animals make. Then they play a listening game, using the animal sounds they've discussed.

Second graders review map keys, symbols, and the purpose of maps, then students design a poster size map of their classroom.

Fourth graders focus on the use of main and helping verbs in written communication.

Ninth graders research the Bill of Rights and consider which freedoms are the most important for them. They consider the Bill in detail and then write to their Congressperson about something they would like to see done or changed.

Pupils research the meaning of their names and write an essay about their findings.

Students think and talk about the ways in which they use math throughout the day. They add each way to a "math in real life" bulletin board and reflect in writing on the ways they use math.

Learners investigate issues of race in the military by examining current and historic examples.

Students prepare an ad for an element, including properties and uses, in an attention getting format such as that used in the advertising business.

Students explain that molecules are in everything living and nonliving. They explain that molecules are too small to see but we can watch their movement.

Students watch a video about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and discuss her work. They draw flowers plants and fish and use collage techniques imitating O'Keeffe's style.

Students practice working with the metric system. Students use a metric ruler to measure and record lengths of group member's smiles, and graph their results. Students find the sum of all the smiles.

Students use the dictionary and thesaurus and are able to explain a definition in their own words.

Students play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.

Students listen to a story "My Crazy Dream" with an intent to identify shapes in ordinary objects. They raise their hands when they've heard an object whose shape they can identify. They discuss their findings.

Second graders explore how musical instruments h ave varying geometric shape, and how those geometric shapes correspond to three-dimenaional shapes that students have studied.

Learners reflect on their learning by writing a letter to "Geo George." They state what they've learned, what was their favorite and hardest parts and what they thought of their performance.

Fourth graders explore why the United States rejected the League of Nations.

Eighth graders determine food that they would need to survive in the wild. They graph the best foods for their environments and rate the survivability rate for each member of their group.

Seventh graders organize a 20 x 17 room with a given set of furniture pieces. Arrangement is to be based on maximum comfort and practicality. This lesson is a good way to teach and reinforce the mathematical concept of area.

Learners practice sorting lids in different ways so that each group determines a sorting pattern. They examine how to work in groups while sharing ideas. They establish group work relationships that become apparent to the teacher in this...