Students practice using their estimation skills by utilizing apples.  In this percentage lesson, students utilize a scale and an apple to discover the percentage of each bite they take.  Students share their data with the rest...

Students investigate nets as they relate to volume and area. In this geometry lesson, students use nets as a visual to deepen their understanding of surface area and volume of objects. They make conjectures about different objects and...

Middle schoolers work in groups to show understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals, percentages, and the application of ratios and proportions. For this decimals, fractions, and percents lesson, students use real life...

Middle schoolers find the cost of an outfit. In this percentages lesson, students look at ads, pick out an outfit, and find the sale price. They create a commercial and complete 4 included worksheets. 

Students explore photovoltaic systems. For this alternative energy lesson, students calculate solar panel efficiency and convert devices to solar energy using photovoltaic cells.

Students create a dichotomous key. In this categorizing lesson, students create a dichotomous key for different types of cereal. Students classify the cereal into groups such as flakes and cereal with holes. Students discuss their...

This is an excellent multidisciplinary activity designed by Scientific American. It provides three creative activities--designing a garden, studying hieroglyphics, and writing poetry--relevant to the ancient peoples of the Middle East....

Eighth graders complete a unit of lessons on basic geometry concepts. They participate in a variety of activities, culminating in a project that involves publishing a booklet or a poster that presents the major geometry concepts from the...

Fifth graders interpret data and create graphs. Given Fruit Loops, they sort and classify according to color. Using spreadsheet technology, 5th graders record their data and create bar and circle graphs. Students analyze data and...

Young scholars practice scientific inquiry while learning about bubbles. In this instructional activity about bubbles, students explore characteristics of bubbles. Young scholars move through nine different "bubble" stations following...

Students explore teen entrepreneurs. In this teen entrepreneurship lesson plan, students examine teen entrepreneurs and answer questions about the real-word situations. Students role play and explore the basic characteristics of an...

Students explore the five senses.  In this cross curriculum five senses lesson, students view an "I Can See Colors" PowerPoint presentation and sort items by color and shape. Students mix primary color paints to create secondary...

Tenth graders experiment with gravity and air pressure. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders build their own kits and fly it. They investigate the questions: what keeps a kite in the air and what are some important factors when flying a...

Students identify the quadrants and axis of a coordinate plane. In this algebra lesson, students discover the ocrrect way to graph using the coordinate plane. They discuss the relationship between x and y values, domain and range and...

Learners explore the tools of navigation.  In this shapes lesson, students navigate using direction cues to create a shape.  Learners follow specific steps to create their shapes. Students use compasses to see the directions...

Middle and high schoolers identify and analyze fractals and research information using the Internet to locate information about them. They look at fractals in relation to nature and other real world situations. Pupils create several...

Here is a problem-solving lesson plan that has learners take the role of a packaging expert to design an inexpensive means of packaging a potato chip. It could benefit from having more specific detail about the lesson plan itself, but it...

After a class review on the basics of fractions, learners discuss the importance of integrating technology and mathematics. They then produce a PowerPoint about fractions. The required elements of the presentation are included in the plan.

Students participate in playing online games. For this practice lesson, students play online games to practice skills learned throughout the week.

Young scholars explore the concept of spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes. In this spelling geometric terms and words with number prefixes lesson plan, students play a game of baseball. Young scholars spell words...

Students analyze smoking behavior based on peer pressure.  In this health lesson, students read and complete worksheets on the internet concerning the behaviors associated with smoking.  They summarize what they have learned by...

Learners explore the concept of English units. In this English units lesson plan, students convert from one English unit to another English unit. Learners estimate the size and weight of objects using English units.

Students analyze data on debt and write an equation. For this statistics lesson, students are given data from different time periods, and are asked to graph and analyze the data. They work in groups, and are assigned different parts of...

The interactive lesson featured here calls for the use of a Smartboard for sorting and classifying shapes. Then, pupils discuss the rules they followed for sorting their shapes, particularly focusing on the properties of angles. While...