Young scholars practice estimating distances by analyzing a map. In this length measurement lesson, students view a map with a distance key and use their measurement skills to estimate the distance between two cities. Young scholars...

Students investigate the wilderness by reading magazine articles and discussing with their peers.  In this wild life instructional activity, students read a page from the Natural Inquirer magazine and examine photographs online of...

Looking for a fresh approach to an end-of-unit project for The Odyssey? Check out a resource that has class members write their own hero's journey short story and then craft an illustration that depicts their tale. Apollonio di...

Engage your kindergarteners in a center-based lesson which provides experience and exposure to the connecting and symbolic levels of subtraction. This excellent lesson has many wonderful activities and handouts included for each of the...

How do artists create the illusion of depth and distance on a flat surface? Young landscape painters explore techniques like color saturation and detail placement that create atmospheric perspective.

Aspiring aeronautical engineers demonstrate different forces as they construct and test paper airplanes. This lesson plan links you to a website that models the most effective paper airplane design, an animation describing the forces...

Explore American Federal design as it pertains to furniture, architecture, and influences on modern style. By the end of this lesson, learners should be able to recognize Federal design, its place in history, and how it has influenced...

Make your learners aware of the advantages and disadvantages of using different media in presentations. This straightforward resource evaluates media formations such as print, digital text, and videos. Although the subject of ballet is...

Here is a well-designed science lesson plan that shows learners that everything that organisms do in ecosystems, including running, breathing, burrowing, growing, requires energy. After a thorough discussion of their own eating and...

Learners explore geography by participating in a mapping activity. In this concentric ring activity, students utilize a poster board, string and markers to identify their current location within the entire world. Learners write about...

Play with clay while building finger dexterity and important sculpting techniques. Learners make camel containers while they practice throwing and molding clay. Fun camel facts make this an interdisciplinary art lesson plan.

Students review the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Using magazines and fabrics, they create a color wheel to show the correct order of colors. To end the lesson, they share their color wheels to the class and discuss why they...

Students identify the impact of the social injustices and Civil Rights movement on Cooke's life and career. They create lyrics to a familiar song that express a personal struggle or concern.

Understanding how visual codes such as long-shots, close-ups, and camera angles affect meaning helps prepare young filmmakers to plan their own productions. The concepts embedded could also be used to analyze photographs and paintings.

Sometimes you need to play a game in order to reinforce learning. Use Bingo cards to review the equivalents for both dry and liquid portions. Playing Bingo helps learners to practice recognizing measurement units, abbreviations, and...

The Anasazi Indians of Mesa Verde are the focus of this art and social studies instructional activity. Working in pairs or groups of three, students utilize computers and go online to search for websites about the Anasazi. Students will...

Student examine the theme of man versus nature in art. In this man versus nature lesson, students examine various pieces of art and discuss the theme as it is depicted. They discuss whether the themes shown in the artwork are relevant...

Students use the design process to investigate physical science.  In this force and motion lesson, design a track to achieve a specified outcome. Students complete additional experiments with speed and distance.  Students...

Young scholars focus on a force and motion problem, explore it, reflect on it and apply it while completing experiments.  In this motion lesson, students experiment with force and motion by creating a track for testing cars.  

Students view a video and discuss what illustrations in a book show and don't show.  In this observation lesson, students look at the details on a page in Alice in Wonderland and create an illustration.

Students explore the art of shadow puppetry. In this performing arts instructional activity, students study the functions of lighting in the puppet theater as they examine the transmission, absorption, and reflection of light. As a...

First graders discuss different kinds of music they have heard. They listen to a short selection of folk music and discuss where they think it is from. Using a globe, the teacher shows students where the music is from. They spread out on...

Fifth graders explore how people handle remainders in real life. In this remainders math lesson, 5th graders participate in skits to show what to do with remainders. Students complete worksheets with word problems.

Students explore how to use the color wheel in selecting fabric colors for a quilt. They define and demonstrate monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Lesson plan and worksheets are attached in .pdf and .doc formats.