Participate in the 100th anniversary of the first flight. In groups, learners use the internet to research the roles the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart played in promoting the use of flight. They use the information to write and...

Guide your class through reading various versions of The Three Little Pigs. Talk about the traditional story line and then discuss a different point of view: Maybe the wolf was just an innocent bystander! This lesson plan, which has...

Upper graders play the voting game to help them understand voting patterns, political movements, and build a content specific vocabulary. Each student creats a chart to determine if his or her political view veers liberal or...

Students consider the role of women in the food industry. In this gender exploitation instructional activity, students work in groups to examine unfair labor practices. Students watch a video and write a fictional letter from a female...

Here is a lesson designed for middle schoolers which helps them recognize stereotypes one way or another against a particular group of people. They also determine what may have motivated the author to use a stereotype in the first place....

Students examine the ways that populations become diverse and how mutation changes the diversity of a population.  In this exploratory instructional activity students study natural selection by completing a lab activity and...

Learners examine the roles of different types of financial institutions. They also identify the basic accounts found at the institutions. They ask questions to representatives that come and speak to the class.

Middle schoolers interview veterans at a local homeless shelter. They publish their interviews in a class newspaper. They also present their information in different forums.

Sixth graders set up an ecosystem, investigate conservation techniques, develop an action plan for conservation, and various other activities to explore the ecosystem.