Pupils, using their foreign language of study, role-play as two people meeting for the first time. They use courtesy expressions and respond to questions and prompts with correct intonation, pronunciation, and inflection. Students...

Students select a Spanish author, architect, or painter to research. After composing a rough draft for teacher review, the give Powerpoint presentations to the class. Students answer questions from peers.

Students play a math game which assesses their mastery of selecting the appropriate operation to solve specific problems.

Students work together in groups and role play the role of television crews. Using the internet, they research specific events of the Mississippi River flooding and report their findings to the class from different angles. They are to...

Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...

Students participate in a role play with a partner in which they practice interviewing for a job. In the scenario, they must ask or answer questions regarding three different careers in a foreign language. A great instructional activity...

Sixth graders practice using negative numbers by completing number equations.  In this math problem solving lesson, 6th graders discuss the different ways negative numbers can be used in a math problem and practice completing...

Fourth graders explore number values by utilizing a candy bar in class. In this fraction lesson, 4th graders divide pizza and candy amongst each other in order to identify parts of a whole and fractions. Students answer several fraction...

Students present tableaus showing scenes from The Memory Coat,  a book about immigration. In this tableau instructional activity, students examine the cover of the book and make predictions about what is happening and who the people...

Students examine the Jim Crow laws and how they impacted the lives of both African Americans and white Americans. They discuss the Civil Rights Movement and how their lives may have been different had it not occurred. Groups...

Students read the novel, "Skateboard Renegade." Reading pairs read the novel with an eye out for characteristics of responsibility. They add to a responsibility chart as they find examples. They also read to identify vocabulary, cause...

Students are introduced to the story, Mira, and the puppets used to represent the characters in the story. They answer yes/no questions regarding the puppets and the color of clothing they are wearing. They begin a T-chart of various...

Students observe the oil can scene with the tin man from a clip from "The Wizard of Oz" and answer the question, "What can we learn about rust from this scene?". They take 2 tubes and 2 nails, adding 1 salt packet to 2 ml of distilled...

Students examine how to use basic HTML formatting tags. They add tags to a web page created in Notepad, and move the tags around their page, observing the results.

Studens identify the properties of exponents. In this algebra lesson, learners grapha nd solve equaitons of exponential functions. They add, subtract, multiply and divide using exponents.

Students use properties of exponents to solve equations. For this algebra lesson, students add, subtract, multiply and divide exponential functions. They graph and differentiate between exponential growth and decay.

In this saving energy worksheet, students click on the links to learn about saving energy and then answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.

Students investigate inferences. They define inference, view a Powerpoint presentation, answer questions about a picture book, and identify clues throughout the story as examples of inferences.

Students, after a long-term observation of photosynthesis with aquatic plants, assess the benefits of photosynthesis towards all living organisms. They explain in their own words the two cycles within photosynthesis. Guided discussion...

Fifth graders create individual works of art using human hands as the subject. The lesson is for a single 45-minute class. Rubric on student assessment is addressed in this standards-based lesson.

Third graders examine how finding the main ideas and summarizing increases their reading comprehension. They read "The Sea in Danger" while applying the six rules of summarization in a modeled lesson plan. Next, working in small groups,...

In this Room 13 worksheet, students complete nine activities related to each chapter in the book. Students do an activity to practice using the vocabulary in the book and practice letter writing with writing to a character in the story....

Students perform translations on different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students create figures that will be used as an assessment to represent transformation. They perform hands on creation and relate it to the real world.

Students explore parts of a system. In this simple machines lesson, students discover that simple machines are composed of two or more systems. Students examine household tools and assess the parts of the system.