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• ¿Que'Ttiempo Hace Allí? (Authored by Rosalind Mathews.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students complete a chart by using Spanish to obtain weather information on cities around the world and report their findings to the class using Spanish phrases. Students may convert temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit and locate cities on wall map if


• 1, 2, 3 Hooray for Number Equivalency! (Authored by Liz West.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use concrete materials, number symbols, and number words to represent equivalent amounts.


• 10 by 10 Tessellations (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students will work cooperatively to create tessellation patterns by playing 10" by 10" Tessellations. They need to use critical thinking skills to decide if pattern block plane figures will tessellate and how each block will best fit into the


• 100 Years...100 Movies (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After students choose one of the top 100 movies to view, they research critical reviews and then write their own reviews.


• 100s of Ants! (Authored by Desiree Senter.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: What does 100 look like? What is the best way for 100 Ants to move on? Students will have fun counting to 100 orally as they use grids to display the 100 raisins they counted.


• 101 Dalmations and Counting (Authored by Mary Montcalm.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students recognize and use numbers from 1-101 in Spanish or French when heard randomly and in context other than in the classroom. Students recognize cognates and basic vocabulary related to counting and topics in the classroom.


• 101 Equals Five (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity (with a twist) on the binary system. The lesson begins with an intriguing roll playing to gain interest.


• 12 Days of Christmas (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)
  Subject(s): Music, Theater (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It’s also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become” the 12 Days of Christmas. Composit


• 2004 Summer Olympics Internet Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Elana Collins.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? Have you ever been on one using the Internet? In this activity, students will participate in an Internet scavenger hunt as they search for the answers to questions about the 2004 Summer Olympics.


• 3-2-1 Blast Off! (Authored by Denise Russell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson in motion offers students the opportunity to work cooperatively in groups to assemble and launch a rocket.


• 30 Days Hath September (Authored by MAdele Carson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn the poem -Thirty Days Hath September- in preparing for learning about the number of days in the months and year. Once memorized, they practice using the calendar to count the number of days in different problems.


• 30-60-90 Right Triangles and Algebra (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson covers right triangle relationships of the 30-60-90 triangle.


• 3rd Rock from the Sun’s Baby Rock (Authored by Nicole Micheau.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students have a chance to actively see each phase of the moon and make connections to what they see in the sky when you show how the moon goes through each of the phases.


• 4 X 4 (Not a Jeep!) (Authored by Lisa Glenn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students working in groups of 4, complete a puzzle by matching terms and definitions.


• 50:50 Chances (Authored by Suzan Smith.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Where We Come From. Students reinforce the probability of gender by using a coin toss, as they continue to search for the answers to genetics questions by using mathematical expectations of probability.


• A Bar of Many Colors (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use colored candies to collect data, construct double bar graphs, and find averages.


• A Book a Day Will Keep the Teacher Away (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL, ESE - SE (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Want your students to read a book in a day? In this lesson, students work in cooperative groups to read a book in a day. Each group is assigned a portion of the book to read and uses the jigsaw learning strategy to review the book as a whole class.


• A Bubble Full of Math (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a fun way for students to compare estimated lengths with actual lengths.


• A Busy Pump (Authored by Diane Schmidt.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students demonstrate how the human heart works with a written summary and labeled illustrations.


• A Closer Look (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using literature to stimulate recall, students and Curious George learn that objects are composed of many parts. Students group objects by their physical characteristics and various compositions. Magnifying glasses will be used.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 1: Hull of a Ship (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the introductory lesson to the Unit Plan: A Colony Is Born. In this lesson, a bulletin board for the unit will be started, Colonial Notebooks will be presented to each student, and a pre-test on colonization will be administered.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 11: Group Presentations and Summatives (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Group presentations will be for the next three days. Classroom students take notes on the presentations and play a card game for content review. On day four, the short answer summative assessment is given, and notebooks are turned in.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 2: Sez Who? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the second lesson in a unit on colonization. It establishes baseline knowledge of students' understanding of primary and secondary sources and the likenesses and differences of them with regard to a selected historical event.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 3: Marking Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson swiftly travels through time from 1492 to 1607. Significant events are marked on a timeline, note taking is modeled, and a focus on reasons for leaving England for the New World is clarified with the use of a graphic organizer.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 4: What Went Wrong? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Lesson 4 focus is on Roanoke and Jamestown. Students examine what worked well, what did not, and significant events of the two colonies. Students emulate modeled note taking, use a T-chart for organizing the information, and make additions to timelines.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 5: Dear Mem (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The primary informational source of journal writing is the focus. Journal entry traits and rubric expectations are established. Identified and charted by students, they'll be used to assess examples and be a guide for students' required journal w


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 6: To Leave or Not to Leave (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: A pivotal point of the unit. Students, assigned a reason for coming to the New World, will utilize the resources in their notebook to establish an identity. Three regions settled will be identified, and students will associate with a particular region.


• A Colony is Born - Lesson 7 - 10: What's My Line? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: These four lessons represent the guided resource time that groups need to research their assigned regions, complete the regional guide, and prepare their group presentations.


• A Couch or a Potato (Authored by Kelley Harvey.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students classify objects/organisms seen on the Wakulla Springs icam website as living or nonliving.


• A Courtin’ We Will Go (Authored by Joy Rowell.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students read a poem full of Southern dialect. Groups research and share with the class an assigned literary device, create a list of current words which may one day be considered dialect, and construct a poem about dating today.


• A Day for Our Presidents (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: No school on Monday! It is a national holiday. Do students understand the meaning and history of our national holidays? Students are invited to listen to, view, and discuss Presidents' Day, the national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in


• A Day in the Park (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create written proposals that will accompany an architectural bid for the construction of a recreation center.


• A Dog Eat Dog World (Authored by Rhonda Traweek.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students label animals as producers, consumers and/or decomposers and explain the basis of that designation. They distinguish between aquatic and terrestrial organisms.


• A Fair Peace? (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be given information on the Versailles Treaty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. They will be asked to evaluate whether it was fair or not and asked to examine the treaty from the Germans' and Allies' points of view.


• A Field Guide for Student Identification (Authored by Kathryn Clark.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Dr. M.N. Stair needs help identifying monsters he has collected in the field! Students have fun learning how to use and create a dichotomous guide by identifying cartoon monsters. Students then apply what they have learned to create a dichotomous guide to


• A Geographic Study of Florida’s Diverse Community (Authored by Kathy Corder.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use an outline map of Florida and the Internet to identify major population centers and their demographic features.


• A Geopoem about Alaska (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students gather information on the physical and human characteristics of Alaska (geographic theme PLACE).They organize this information on a concept map to be transformed into a geopoem about Alaska.


• A Goldfish is the Best Pet (Authored by Cheryl Stanley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A goldfish is the best pet. What facts support this thesis? What facts oppose it? Use graphic organizers to help students select facts which must be considered in order to persuade an audience to agree with a given point of view.


• A Graphic Scene (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using collected information, students compare and contrast characters from various texts within a Venn Diagram.


• A Growing Vocabulary (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Watch your intermediate students’ vocabulary and critical thinking skills grow with this reading activity that also provides many opportunities for extensions.


• A Hungry Cat Searches (Authored by Carole Gooden.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to the story [Panther: Shadow of the Swamp] to learn about the variety of plant and animal life in the Everglades and how loss of habitat impacts panthers. Students will alphabetize the names of the plants and animals by initial and secon


• A Hymn for the Classroom (Authored by Tisa Craig.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson introduces students to hymn singing and allows them to participate as singers in the choir and as accompanists in the bell choir.


• A Latin Square Deal (Authored by Cindy Beckham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use four squares of geometric design to create a pattern.


• A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My! (Authored by Michele Ludick.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students identify parts of a plant using a graphic organizer.


• A Lesson From Some Well Known Pigs (Authored by Linda Adams.)
  Subject(s): ESE - SE (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson gives students opportunities to use social skills to cooperate together in groups. The students listen to a familiar short story, participate in group discussion and work in groups to put together a puzzle.


• A Look Through Time, Final Project (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the final lesson in a three-part series seeking to answer the question, -How do we know about history?- Students will use previously gathered research to produce tourist pamphlets that highlight historical county events.


• A Love Design (Authored by Sandra McCreary.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This activity is used to critically analyze the students' understanding of one of the body's structures, the heart, and how it is specifically designed and adapted for each of its functions.


• A Message From Your Heart (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn about the importance of the heart and show what they know about positive health behaviors that enhance wellness by completing a KWL chart. This is the first lesson, first day in the Happy, Healthy Me unit.


• A Model Project (Authored by Cynthia Spear.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a concrete way to introduce students to equivalent forms of fractions and decimals. The student constructs models to represent a fraction or a decimal.


• A Moment in Time (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: A moment in time before shooting a foul shot or the moment right before a runner steals a base can make for a fascinating poem. Students study poems to see how punctuation, line length, rhythm and word choice can be used to create a memorable moment.


• A Mysterious Roll-Back Can (Authored by Louise Kent.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Amaze students with a can that rolls away a few feet, mysteriously stops, hesitates, and then rolls back to where it started. Then introduce Newton and his Second Law.


• A Pair of Anything (Authored by Brian Rowland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students utilize a Venn diagram as a prewriting strategy.


• A Parable on Populism (Authored by Clark Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is designed to show the symbolism between Populism of the 1890's and the story of [The Wizard of Oz].


• A Penny for Abe (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln? Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tribute to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a penny.


• A Penny for Your Thoughts (Elementary) (Authored by Barbara Brown.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Math (mentalor written, addition and division) and letter writing (narrativeor expository) are utilized in a real-world problem to assist other children.


• A Penny for Your Thoughts (High School) (Authored by Elizabeth Russell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work cooperatively in small groups to form hypotheses. They will then form theories that can explain their hypotheses and will test these theories and evaluate the results.


• A Perpendicular Pilgrimage (Authored by Mason Clark.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students examine the concept of perpendicularity both geometrically and algebraically. Students apply their knowledge by designing safe passage through a two-dimensional obstacle course using only perpendicular line segments.


• A Picture is Worth a Fantastic Story (Authored by Elaine Padgett.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students select one of the photographs they have taken of friends, pets, parents or objects and write a story. The photos provide visual prompts and a supportive framework for their writing.


• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students compare and contrast characters from various texts and compile the collected information into several graphic organizers.


• A Place for Me in the Field of Music (Authored by Tisa Craig.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students listen to interviews with career musicians. Students work in groups to present to classmates the life, music, inspiration, and goals of a favorite composer, performer, or group.


• A Play on Words (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students make predictions about the story Verdi, based on the cover. After hearing the story they will make a new list of descriptions, personality traits, etc. Students will select an animal and write a narrative story about the animal.


• A Press Conference With Abraham Lincoln (Authored by Francis Sicius.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Abraham Lincoln (teacher) will deliver his First Inaugural Adress and then accept questions from the Press. (Students) This lesson should be used after a study of the Civil War, including the leaders.


• A Rocky Situation (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Days 4 and 5 of the unit Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials to explore how rocks can be broken down to form soil, the processes of weathering and erosion, and how landforms change over time.


• A Short, Short Story (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.


• A Sneaky Poem (Authored by Julia Balukin.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using poetry to share their ideas, students incorporate a subject and its synonym, and the parts of speech to create a Sneaky Poem.


• A String of Beads (Authored by Cheryl Stanley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson will allow students to visualize (through constructing a necklace) a plan for including the central idea, supporting facts, and a clincher sentence in a paragraph.


• A Sweet Twist on Mean, Mode, and Range (Authored by M Dennis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson helps the student collect, organize, and analyze data to model concepts of mode, median, and range.


• A Tacky Cheer (Authored by Donna Rugg.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Would you make a good cheerleader? In this lesson, students make predictions, copy cheers, and make inferences as they read a story about an odd bird and his awkward attempts to help his fellow penguins win a cheering contest.


• A Taste of Blackberries (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: [A Taste of Blackberries] provides a wonderful shared reading experience for fourth graders. The main character in the story helps the reader understand ways to manage grief in the loss of a best friend and identify skills of a responsible family member.


• A Trip to the Toy Store (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Common Cents. This is a fun, entertaining lesson where students are given the opportunity to practice skills they have learned during the week about money and spend money saved on a toy of their choice.


• A Visit to the Rain Forest (Authored by Carole Gooden.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to [The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest] to learn the names of animals and people found in the Amazon Rain Forest. They play a card game to arrange the animals in the sequence that they appeared in the story.


• A Wall of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore line(s) of symmetry in polygons during a hands-on activity and a Student Web Lesson. Information learned is used to build a wall of symmetrical shapes designed and drawn by students.


• A Whale of a Tale (Authored by Kelly Allen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will research and gather facts about whales and use this information to create a narrative (story) with interesting and realistic elaborations.


• A Whole New World (Authored by Susan Klement.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students learn about significant people, events, vocabulary and ideas regarding the hardships settlers faced including how and why some new American colonies became successful.


• A Wing and a Prayer (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students improvise missing harmony accompaniment for a soloist performing -The Star Spangled Banner.-


• A World of Cooperation and Exchange (Authored by Renee Flowers.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Description Using a student-made advertisement, students play an exchange game to reinforce the understanding that people in different places around the world depend on each other for the exchange of goods and services.


• A-maizing Facts (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit [Native Americans]. It focuses on using informational text to locate the Northeast Woodlands region and understanding how the climate, location, and physical surroundings of the region affected the way of life.


• ABAB Patterns PLEASE (Authored by Jamie Baeten.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity introduces the concept of ABAB patterns in a variety of fun ways. Using illustrations, unifix cubes, construction paper and even humans, students have opportunities to practice and demonstrate their understanding of patterns.


• ABC Beat the Clock Adventures (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is an interesting lesson on putting letters and words in alphabetical order that involves games and cooperative learning to solve problems.


• ABC Bingo (Authored by Deborah Ford.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson reinforces the alphabet through a homemade ABC bingo game.


• ABC Detectives (Authored by Heidi Tilton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will alphabetize words according to the first letter while pretending to be detectives with magnifying glasses. Your students will also be working on their social skills and character development when working with their teams and partners.


• ABC Rhyme Time (Authored by Christine Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After producing a word family list, students will put the list in ABC order.


• ABC's Transformer (Authored by Sherri Hampton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This activity allows students to design their own letter graph, and then produce the resulting graphs after a translation, reflection, and rotation.


• ABC’s of Ramona (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students list words in alphabetical order according to initial and second letter. Various lists of words may be used for practice; however, initiate using proper nouns for assessment in capitalization.


• Abraham Lincoln (Authored by Ann Lyons.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to [Young Abraham Lincoln, Log-Cabin President] to learn the facts and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln. The students will work cooperatively to decide whether the index card that contains the pre-written fact or accomplishment is


• Accenting the Negative Space in Ceramics (Authored by Deborah Walther.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students apply knowledge of the elements of design and hand building techniques in clay to illustrate the concept of negative space by cutting shapes out of the form to create an intricate pattern.


• Acrostic Poetry (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using newspapers or magazines, students create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.


• Action Counting to Ten (Authored by Patricia Hope.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Children kinesthetically learn numbers by using interactive verses that describe how to write numbers from 1 – 10.


• Action Reaction: A Crushing Experience (Authored by Lois Walsh.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A dynamic laboratory activity in which students crush a cola can as 2 forces equalize. It is a demonstration of wind, weather fronts, action/reaction, or Charles' Gas Law.


• Actions Speak Louder than Words (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: No matter how good a written speech is, the delivery is what the audience remembers. Learning about and practicing volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation helps students to deliver an oral presentation effectively.


• Adding and Subtracting Fractions (Authored by Yunling Zhang.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn addition and subtraction of common fractions by incorporating the use of hands-on manipulatives and diagrams.


• Adding Jumping Lima Beans (Authored by Cynthia Santana.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity is for a first grade class. It allows the students to relate to a real world experience, as they count off with real lima beans at the beginning of the lesson. This lesson is completely hands on, as students use their own plastic lima beans


• Addition Relay (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will add two digit numbers by renaming ones.


• Adopt a Manatee (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this writing activity, students will learn about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues.


• Africa's Geographic Features (Authored by Jillian Eriksson.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The students will learn of Africa's geographic diversity after answering the questions and locating its geographic features. The students will have a visual picture of these features by viewing them on the Internet.


• Age Is Relative (Authored by Lynda Penry.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students calculate how old they are in three units: months, weeks, and days. Then, they write about how they solved the problems.


• Alaska the Elephant (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The global location of Alaska is established when the shape of a map of Alaska is identified as a silhouette of an elephant that moves to reach for contiguous (or nearby) geographic neighbors--and, indeed, to overlay a part of Canada.


• Algebra Wizards (Authored by Jesica Goodman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Hey! Are you an Algebra wizard? It is as easy as one, two, three to be the greatest wizard in all the land. So take out your magic wand and put on your magical thinking hats to see if you too know the magic equation to be an Algebra Wizard.


• Alien Behaviors (Authored by Lisa Capon.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work in cooperative groups to list and classify which human characteristics are learned and which are inherited. Each student then writes a letter identifying and explaining learned and inherited human characteristics.


• Alien Pen Pals (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write a friendly letter to an alien informing it about the planet Earth. Students use editing skills and brainstorming skills to produce a final product.


• Alike or Different – You Be the Judge! (Authored by Patricia Morres.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students write an expository paragraph after comparing and contrasting items of texture, taste, odor, and visual appearance.


• Alike, Different, or Both? (Authored by Christy Simms.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students compare and contrast two characters from the play [The Diary of Anne Frank] on a Venn diagram and write a paragraph showing similarities and differences.


• All Aboard for Protein Synthesis (Authored by Lisa Davis.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students walk through the process of transcription and translation to demonstrate and understand protein synthesis.


• All Aboard the Peace Train (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Through a literature-based lesson, students identify perserverance and problem-solving strategies. This could also be utilized as a behavior management technique.


• All Aboard! All Aboard! The Essay Train (Authored by Brenda Lewis-Williams.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: All aboard! All aboard! Ride the English Trax! Come and enjoy a train ride with [The Little Engline That Could] and learn how to create a five-paragraph essay train.


• All About Me (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows students to learn about each other and their cultural backgrounds and provides an opportunity for students to have a long-distance relationship with students in another state/country .


• All About Me - A Poem (Authored by Beth Hilton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create a free verse poem about themselves. This lesson can be used to introduce students to one another at the beginning of the school year, or during the school year when studying famous Americans.


• All About Me-I'm My Own Research Project (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is an introduction to teaching students how to do a research project. Students learn how to categorize information about themselves and relate to categorizing information on sea animals for a future research project.


• All Ears for Ecology (Authored by Melicia Charleston.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Do industries in your area contribute to pollution? Students research the effects of pollution in their area from an ecological and economic perspective which will be orally presented to the class.


• All Fractions Are Created Equal (Authored by Dawn Dantowitz.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is introducing students to equivalent fractions using concrete materials.


• All I Want for Christmas (Authored by Stacy Durham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work in pairs to use real life interests to create a wish list from catalogues and sale ads based on a given budget. This lesson gives the students math practice in the areas of addition, subtraction, and estimation with money.


• All Mixed Up (Authored by Colleen Habhab-Strickland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Oh no! I dropped the color and number word cards! How will I ever get them sorted? This activity actively engages students in identifying and sorting words into the basic categories of color and number.


• All's Well That Ends Well (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Beginning and ending are two of the most important parts of a speech! The middle is rather important also. Students check out the importance of organizing a speech.


• Alliance Systems (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process information on the alliance systems that developed during the early phases of the Cold War. They will be asked to evaluate the value of each alliance and to complete a set of short-answer questions.


• Alliterations Allowed (Authored by Mary Borges.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students recognize and create alliterative language in both literary and commercial use.


• Allowance Time (Authored by Janet Harrigan.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to show different ways to reach the same three digit total. Students use coin values to record data and to apply knowledge.


• Almond Magi (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Almond Magi involves students in calculating the ingredients needed in a multiple recipe and testing their calculations prior to the cooking adventure.


• Aloha Symmetry (Authored by Tara Ply.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Inspired by the story "Luka's Quilt," second graders use scissors and contrasting paper to create a handcrafted paper Hawaiian quilt square demonstrating their understanding of the concept of symmetry across two lines of reflection. Students


• Alphabet Animals (Authored by Elisabeth Coogle.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students create an encyclopedia of unusual animals, using a variety of resources to collect their information. Each student illustrates an animal and provides a brief description for each letter of the alphabet.


• Altogether Now, The Five Senses (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Popping popcorn is a fun way to summarize the end of the five senses unit. It is easy to involve all the senses.


• Amazing Adjectives (Authored by Andrea Austing.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson students will compose sentences that use descriptive adjectives to describe a specific food and day that they both like and dislike.


• Amazing Americans (Authored by Larissa Hardesty.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Who were the most Amazing Americans during the first 100 years of U.S. History? Discover the answer to that question in this research-based lesson. The students research an American with a partner(s) and present the information to the class.


• Amazing Animals (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Amazing Animals gives students an opportunity to use their estimation skills as they compare amazing animal facts to their human world.


• Ambient Pressure: Three in One (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson explains the differences in the three confusing terms used to describe pressure and their measurement.


• America Doubled (Authored by Andrea Raley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What could you do with 15 million dollars? The US doubled in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Students learn about Lewis and Clark and experience traveling through the land like them rationing out what items they would need and their importance.


• America's First Pictures (Authored by Francis Sicius.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will search on-line early photo archives from the Smithsonian located at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem in order to draw conclusions about life in the mid-nineteenth century.


• American History Research with Visual Timeline (Authored by Carter Hannah.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write a three page research paper choosing their topics from a Washington, D. C. landmark and create a project depicting their topics to go on a time-line.


• Ample Apples (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students make observations about the growing process of an apple tree. They complete expository writing and draw illustrations in a student writing book. This lesson includes a cooking activity.


• An American Spy with Money To Spend (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Teachers can teach across the curriculum as students use imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!


• An Atlas of Health Care (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Partner teams utilize programs such as Street Atlas USA and Student Writing Center software packages to research and publicize an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community’s health care facilities.


• An Emerald Place (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is designed to invite first graders to discover the four layers of the rain forest and to help them identify the life of animals at each level.


• An Explication of Death (Authored by Cheree Brown.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In groups of three, the students will explicate 'Thanatopsis.' During this explication they will identify poetic elements as well as sound effects in the poetry.


• An Interview with a View (Authored by Martha Salter.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Get your students involved in the interview process using this fun activity. The students participate in role-playing, group discussions and self-evaluations. In addition, they view and evaluate their classmates.


• An Invitation to Simple Machines (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The principal with a hurt foot needs our help! Students are challenged to devise ways to move the principal around the school by exploring simple machines. They then write an invitation for parents to come view the simple machines and web page reports th


• An Odd Pair of Eyes (Authored by Dena Reid.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson creates an enthusiastic environment for learning about odd and even numbers through chants, actions, manipulatives, and drawings. Students are guaranteed to be all smiles by the end of the lesson.


• An Overview of the Civil War (Authored by Diane Krapf.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Examine the history of slavery in the U.S. and how it contributed to the Civil War. Students will use available technology to research and present information in response to a series of student-generated questions.


• An UnCOMFORTable Situation (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore the relationship between the area of square units and their perimeters in a hands-on activity. Observations are recorded, and students begin to recognize that shapes with the same area can sometimes have different perimeters.


• Analogies (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn about relationships between words and then are expected to figure out the missing word for a list of analogies. This lesson is a good lesson to use with ESOL students or students who are having difficulty with word relationships.


• Analogies in Foreign Language Classes (Authored by Joanna Lowe.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students decipher and create analogies in the target language.


• Analyzing a Science Fiction Movie (Authored by Robert Rosen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students observe and predict how technology and scientific knowledge interact. They then discuss the societal ramifications of this interaction and watch the movie CONTACT.


• Analyzing Persuasion (Authored by Sherry Czupryk.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students identify and explain the persuasive devices used in -I Have a Dream.- This is the culminating lesson of a unit on analyzing persuasion. See lessons with -Persuasion- in the title.


• Ancient Africa's Connection to Today (Authored by Wilma Horton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Ancient Africa's Historical Contributions are told though the eyes of a spider, Anansi and his search calabash game. Fabric art is optional.


• Ancient Egypt (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students present a report about ancient Egypt through group work devoted to structured research. Comprehension is assessed through a Jeopardy game format.


• And the Number Is (2nd Grade) (Authored by Kathy Peters.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create their own Mystery Numbers by giving clues about the name, value, and multiples of the digits which comprise the number.


• And the Number Is (Kindergarten) (Authored by Nancy Bernath.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through the use of music and the manipulation of numeral cards and counting objects, the children learn to read numerals 1-10.


• And Your Point Is . . .? Part I (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is Part I of a two-part series. Part I introduces students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. Part II (See Weblinks) extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.


• And Your Point Is . . .? Part II (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is Part II of a two-part series. Part I introduced students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. (See WebLinks.) Part II extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.


• Angels of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson uses ANGEL CHILD, DRAGON CHILD by Surat to identify generous actions. Students will keep a generosity journal reflecting acts of kindness they performed each week.


• Angle Aerobics (Authored by Amy Gunn.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson introduces students to names of angles. It provides an action activity and then a follow up worksheet to assess.


• Angles and Algebra (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson covers angle measure for triangles and complementary/supplementary angles.


• Animal Homes Near and Far (Authored by Renee Benefield.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students work in cooperative groups to list animal habitats. They conclude the lesson by selecting one of the habitats and writing about some of its characteristics and listing a few animals that live in that environment.


• Animalopedia Poetry (Authored by Prudence Mason.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work in groups to research animals and write poems for an Animalopedia classroom book.


• Animals and Their Biomes (Authored by Mary Lirette.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using biome and animal flashcards, the learner will categorize the animals according to the biome in which they naturally live in with 100% accuracy.


• Animals Galore (Authored by Kay Davis.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students classify and sort animals into groups according to the structural characteristics.


• Animals in Research - Right or Wrong? (Authored by Carol Houck.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students research and discuss a sensitive or controversial issue and attempt to make a decision based on group findings.


• Ants in Your Pants (Authored by Diana Dome.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students investigate different ways numbers can be expressed as a sum and use a chart to record and analyze their findings. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet are incorporated.


• Any Way You Slice It (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, ESE - CL (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using real-world text, students learn about the history of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while using a graphic organizer to clarify meaning of text. Following the activity, students write directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Students then exchange directions and follow their classmate’s recipe to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.


• Anyone for Lunch? (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student will use statistical methods to record and make inferences about real-world situations using graphs.


• Apple Eaters (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is an entertaining, cooperative learning lesson where students have the opportunity to taste a variety of apples and to graph which apple is the most favorite. Students practice their speaking skills by explaining the results of the group graph.


• Applemania (Authored by Debra Barbosa.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Lesson Description- Children will practice using the mathematical concepts of sorting, patterns, classifying, counting, and recording by participating in an authentic classroom survey and experiment.


• Appropriate Responses (Authored by Brian Rowland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work in pairs to practice listening and speaking to each other. Students offer input, make clarifying remarks, and demonstrate that they understand what they hear.


• Architecture Makes an Imprint (Authored by Kim Salesses.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will explore architecture of the world, uses of buildings and discuss architecture as a career. Students will work in cooperative groups and present their findings to the class.


• Are They the Same or Different? (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information.


• Are U.S. Presidents Leaders or Figureheads? (Authored by Irving Kohn.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students analyze three presidents. They create a graphic organizer explaining how three influences for each president affected the development of the New Nation.


• Are We Sure They Are Parallel? (Authored by Xiuqing Li.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is designed to explore the definition and properties of parallel lines.


• Are We the Same? (Authored by Mary Ann Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students identify and make symmetrical figures.


• Are We There Yet? (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the review lesson for the unit, Going to Grandma’s. Using the Formative Assessment Checklist and all completed summative assessments, the teacher reinforces skills and concepts using the activities from this lesson.


• Are You a Good Sumerian? (Authored by Eric Miles.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: After students have studied life in Mesopotamia, students construct a Sumerian brick. The brick is supposed to represent material used to build a home in Sumer.


• Are You a Liberal or a Conservative? (Authored by Jenny Collier.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use a web-based quiz to determine their own placement on the political spectrum, and then work cooperatively to define the liberal and conservative viewpoints.


• Are You a Peacemaker or a Man-Eating Shark? (Authored by Teri Grunden.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work on the concept of "fairness" through a group activity, discussion, and written responses with conflicts/resolutions from a short story, and then produce a page on the computer (or on paper) for a class book.


• Are You a Radical or Just a Square Root? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The inverse of squaring is finding a “square root.” Square roots are found in many formulas used in many disciplines.


• Are you a Sexual Harasser? (Authored by Sandra Sicbaldi.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students gain insight into forms of sexual harassment, and learn techniques to avoid threatening situations, unwanted effects, dating violence, myths and school and state laws governing sexual harassment.


• Are You Charged? (Authored by Rosemary Wilson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is a teacher-directed study of the charges on ions with an easy method of remembering charges based on elements' locations on the periodic table.


• Are You Coordinated? (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn how to locate coordinate points on a grid. They create a graph during the lesson and identify the coordinate points.


• Are You for Real? (Authored by Stacy Durham.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students review newspaper articles, magazine articles and advertisements to determine if they are informative or persuasive. They identify the methods that the writers use to persuade or inform the audience.


• Are You Listening to Me? (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students identify differences between listening and not listening skills. Students learn how to use good listening skills when trying to solve a conflict. Students role-play using listening skills to resolve conflicts.


• Are You Moody? (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Are you moody? Is a novel? Students continue their study of the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved] and their examination of literary techniques the author uses to grab their attention.


• Are You My Mother? (Authored by Lee Strain.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will discover baby animals look similar to their parents.


• Are You Ready for Personal Independence? (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Through class discussion and self evaluation, students will discover what independence means to different individuals.


• Are You Sure They Lived Happily Ever After? (Authored by Diane Goodson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Have you ever wondered whether some of the fairy tales would have truly ended “happily ever after” if the story had continued? Predict what will happen after the frog prince marries the princess in the [The Frog Prince Continued].


• Are You Sure You've Got the Right Answer? (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The student selects a problem to answer in the content area. Through the use of strategic questioning, planning, searching and information-compacting skills the student effectively uses the Internet to find the answer to his question.


• Are You Talking About Me? (Authored by Susan LosHuertos.)
  Subject(s): (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Student creates a beginning level Power Point presentation using facts about themselves. Lesson focuses on Power Point tasks: outlining, inserting clip art and images from Internet, customizing presentation with transitions and animation.


• Area Adventure (Authored by Teri Grunden.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use manipulatives (paper squares, geoboards) to figure out the area and learn that area = length x width. Students learn how to solve real-world problems involving area.


• Arithmetic Artistry (Authored by Stacy Durham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will create a classroom quilt that illustrates the many unique ways that children use math skills.


• Arithmetic Sequence (Authored by Xiuqing Li.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will examine the concept of arithmetic sequence and learn to find the sum of arithmetic sequence.


• Around and Around We Go (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A POLYGON is a closed figure formed by line segments. The PERIMETER of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides.


• Around the Room Short Story (Authored by Laura Childers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Once students are taught the elements of a short story, they will demonstrate their understanding by collectively creating stories within a group. This lesson will develop/ solve conflicts and show short story elements through listening skills.


• Around the World in 5 Days (Authored by Georgia Roberts.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is an introductory lesson on the seven continents. Students learn the continents, draw a map, discuss cultures, use research to learn geography, and investigate cultures. The purpose is to help students understand that we live in a global world.


• Around the World with Multiplication (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is a fun and exciting game that reviews the multiplication facts.


• Arranging Numbers from 1 to 5 (Authored by Tammy Hales.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students are expected to explore arrangements of numbers up to 5 and explore conservation of numbers.


• Art in the Sky (Authored by Linda Pentiuk.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students become familiar with four types of clouds by experimenting with cameras and exploring the web. Students observe illustrator’s renderings of clouds and draw their own representation of clouds.


• Artfully Speaking (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 12 of the unit [Native Americans]. It is to be done after [The Seminoles] lesson plan on the same day. Students will complete a My Favorite Artwork form and use it to practice speaking to small groups.


• As the Earth Turns (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Why do the sun and moon seem to disappear and reappear making day and night? This lesson demonstrates the rotation of the earth.


• Ask the Antlion (Authored by Jack Petersen.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn about basic biological principles through using the scientific processes of observation and recording as they examine live insects (antlions).


• At the Corral (Authored by Sandra Rosengren.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: "Down at the ranch" students learn dotted eighth/sixteenth note rhythm pattern using percussion instruments and alternating from "corral to corral" in groups of 4-6. They play the pattern while listening to selected American wester


• At the Governor's Mansion (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: -At the Governor's Mansion- is a mock visit to -talk with- our state governor and his family while -touring- the lovely mansion facility. Students report interesting facts that they learn about the governor in the class-made boo


• At War With Multiplication (Authored by Shannon Safriet.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Many children may have played War with cards before, but this lesson adds a little twist. The children will be practicing their recall of the multiplication facts while playing cards!


• Atom and Eve (Authored by Rebecca Renfro.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will use a concept map to define and share their information about the Hydrogen atom. They will construct a model of a Hydrogen atom using simple, low-cost materials.


• Atomic War: Just the Facts (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process a variety of information on the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Only the FACTS will be covered in this lesson.


• Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Authored by Rae Harrelson.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students hear a story about the atomic bombing of Japan and write an editorial about the event from the perspective of either a Japanese or an American.


• Attracting an Audience with Purpose (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Making sure that the purpose of an oral presentation or speech, and the intended audience are compatible will help students become good speakers.


• Attractive Adjectives (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This ESOL lesson, that is part 3 of a unit, reviews nouns and verbs, then introduces adjectives. Students learn to identify and use adjectives in sentences, identify them in listening activities, and review all three in a commercial.


• Autumn Leaves: Where does the color come from? (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In Autumn most people enjoy colorful leaves, brought about by external stimuli. In this lesson students explore leaf pigmentation through chromatography.


• Aviator Timeline (Authored by Stuart Brannon.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students choose five famous aviators to research and present the information in a timeline format. The students use a variety of sources for their information.


• Awesome Alliterations (Authored by Regina Letizia.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The learner will build an interest and appreciate poetry through writing alliterative poems.


• Awesome Audio Book (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students select and record a poem, article, or short story that incorporates images and sounds within the text to elicit emotions in the listener. They write an explanation of how sounds and images are used to elicit the emotional response.


• Baby Cell “Facts of Life” (Authored by Elizabeth Russell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The students, by taking on the rolls of an animal cell's parts, will relate the structures of the animal cell parts to their purposes.


• Back Up (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 10 of the unit [Inventions and Inventors]. Students have fun participating in a review game by identifying significant people who have made contributions in the fields of communication, technology, and science.


• Bag It (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using a paper bag or a gift bag, students create a book report providing information on the elements of the book.


• Bags of Numbers (Authored by Todd Hauser.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a hands on activity designed to allow the child to use manipulatives to count orally with a one to one correspondence.


• Bah Humbug (Authored by Nicole Briggle.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After listening to Charles Dickens’ [A Christmas Carol] and Dr. Seuss’ [How the Grinch stole Christmas], students create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two main characters.


• Balanced Equations (Authored by Judy Fox.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: If your students have a hard time understanding variables, this lesson is for you. It is wonderful for the visual student. In the lesson students will use weights and a balance scale to show how the sides of an equation are equal.


• Balanced Students (Authored by Albert Baggott.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use a hands-on activity to investigate the relationships between weights and the distance of the weights from the fulcrum in a balanced 1st class lever.


• Balloon Bustin' Biographies (Authored by Idella Kruger.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using balloons as inspiration, students choose a famous person to research. Students view videos, read electronic encyclopedia summaries, and/or biographies of a famous person from the past, then create a one to three page report.


• Bang, You're Dead! (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: By participating in this indoor/outdoor activity, students work to understand the pattern of events to learn about ultimate understanding.


• Bargain Hunter (Authored by Kelly Allen.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will engage in a classroom shopping adventure to search for the best bargains.


• Bargain Town, USA (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Designed to follow your instructions about converting number forms, this lesson is a real-world application of the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.


• Barge Building…What Floats Your Boat? (Authored by Glenn Rutland.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using aluminum foil, pennies, and water, students build a barge that will float while holding the largest number of pennies. Students will learn problem solving, estimation, weight and balance, and the causes and effects of water displacement.


• Bark/Meow, Purr/Snort - Oh, What a Voice! (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will do teacher directed experiences to understand voice in writing. Students will complete a narrative writing depicting two animals/things that are opposite by focusing on different voices.


• Barnacles: Harder than Cement (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be fascinated watching the movements of the complex animal hidden inside the tiny barnacle shells. This lesson allows students to study the behavior, adaptation, and larval stage of the barnacle.


• Base It (Authored by Melanie Malone.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: To expose students to number systems other than the decimal system and explain why we need to know these systems (binary: electronics and computers; octal and hexadecimal: flight test, computers)


• Basic Features of a Civilization (Authored by Jamie Berry.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work in groups answering questions about what they would need for their civilizations to survive on a deserted island. They then have to relate their findings to the basic features of a civilization in essay form.


• Batty Facts (Authored by Carol Cline.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Go batty! Students use a KWL chart as a prereading strategy to organize and display their knowledge of bats, nocturnal animals.


• Be a “Source”erer’s Apprentice (Authored by Jan Curtis.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students sharpen research skills by studying primary and secondary sources. When students know what kind of sources are available, they can find exciting stories, facts, and photographs which can make history come alive.


• Be a Celebrity and Share Your Life with Us (Authored by Patricia Morres.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students become class celebrities by writing their own autobiographies and by sharing them with the public, the class.


• Be a Responsible Citizen: Vote! (Authored by Lisa Whildin.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Explore American citizens' rights and responsibilities through group research on the Internet and presentation of content to the class.


• Be A Star Reporter!!! (Authored by Hazel McCormack.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students become a Star Reporter when they write a paragraph and orally present the who, what, when, where and why of cut out pictures from magazines.


• Be An Expert (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is for Days 5-7 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will read informational texts to become “experts” on a Native American culture group. They will record notes and make a project to inform the class about their culture group.


• Be Impulsive! (Authored by Abby Hill.)
  Subject(s): Science, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work as a -nerve cell relay team-, each having a specific part (order) in the race. A secret (written) message is sent, in relay fashion, until it reaches the final team member. The first team to finish, and relay the correct message, wi


• Beams and Bones (Authored by Joyce Dowlatram.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The human body is like a house. Students use this analogy to learn how some parts in the human body interact.


• Bean Sort (Authored by Mark Howell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create dichotomous keys, classify items, and practice writing scientific names.


• Bearly There (Authored by Judith McCormick.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce measurement. After reading How Long Is A Foot? the students use nonstandard measuring devises to measure different items and place them in order from longest to shortest.


• Bears in a Box (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students enjoy using counting bears to predict the missing addends. Using these concrete materials they are able to see and understand the concept of missing addends. An added plus is the students cannot wait to see how many bears are really hiding in the box.


• Bears Odd Bears Even (Authored by Karen Beck.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use counters and cubes to classify and model numbers as even or odd.


• Beary Good Problem Solvers (Authored by Dena Reid.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity is a “beary” fun way to practice adding and subtracting operations. Students act out problems using teddy bears, write and solve number sentences.


• Beat the Wheel (Authored by Kaye Maddox.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to practice multiplication facts in a large group setting.


• Because I’m Big and Bad! (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use -The Three Little Pigs- and -The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig- to identify cause-effect relationships.


• Become a Detective (Authored by Shannon Flynn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Everyone loves a mystery and now your students can be the detectives! In this lesson, students read a mystery story while searching for clues to help predict the outcome. They record the outcome then finish the story to see how well they predicted.


• Behavior and the Adolescent (Authored by James Buchannon.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is a class discussion to cause students to think about controlling anger in the classroom.


• Benefits Are All Around (Authored by Brent Johns.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students explore the potential fitness benefits of various activities and the places in the community that they can experience these benefits.


• Benjamin Franklin and Electricity (Authored by Paul Baldauf PhD.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is an interdisciplinary lesson combining exercises in Language Arts and Science, and includes discussions and written assignments on one of the seminal figures in science, Benjamin Franklin, and continues with simple experiments in electricity.


• Better than Average (Authored by MAdele Carson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use baseball cards to understand averages, decimals to thousandths, and the real-world use of math.


• Better to Tell the Truth (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to distinguish between emotional and logical arguments in advertising.


• Bicycle Safety (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn how to operate and practice safe behavior on bicycles.


• Big Brain Central (Authored by Shelley Mann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students set up Editing Centers and become trained specialists in certain components of editing. Peers come to specialists for editing needs.


• Big Business Monkey Business (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work in cooperative groups to provide presentations on business organization and “Big Business” during the second part of the Industrial Revolution (1860-1910) in the United States.


• Big Dog and String-bean (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students read a story and identify the pronouns. They determine what noun from the story these pronouns stand for. They then enhance their knowledge of pronouns by completing an assignment that practices this language skill.


• Big on Biography (Authored by Lorinda Luther.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students select a person to research for biographical information. Utilizing resources in the Media Center, students record information on note cards; students then interpret and categorize information for appropriate placement on a graphic organizer.


• Big, Bigger, Biggest (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students demonstrate keyboarding skills to illustrate big, bigger, biggest and small, smaller, smallest in a transportation picture. (NETS for Students: 1.1 and 3.1)


• Bio-Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students write a biographical poem about themselves using an easy formula.


• Biographical Research Paper (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using resource materials, students write a biographical research paper.


• Bird's Eye View (Authored by Linda Pentiuk.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students become familiar with different types of maps by exploring books. Students create their own representation of a map.


• Birthday Blast (Authored by Amy Brown.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: -Birthday Blast- will allow students to become familiar with their classmates birthdays as they gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a pictograph and a bar graph.


• Bits and Pieces! (Authored by Priscilla Boan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to the story [Winter Fun] written by Rita Schlachter. They listen for information throughout the story that relates to the characters, setting, problem, and solution.


• Blind Alley (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work together to gather communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this indoor/outdoor activity.


• Block Heads (Authored by Carolyn Francis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Block Heads gives students the opportunity to work hands-on, using base ten blocks to model whole numbers through one thousand.


• Blooming with Self-Confidence (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Many children worry about not being able to do what other children can do. This lesson will help them understand and respect differences in readiness and abilities, as they read the book [Leo the Late Bloomer] and make flowers of their own.


• Blooms Connection II (Authored by Marshall Thomas.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will apply the Bloom's Connection strategy in their social studies or science class. This is a second lesson applying Bloom's principles.


• Blowing Kisses (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Fifth Grade students thank their mothers (grandmothers, aunts, god-mothers, etc.) for their first breath of life. Activities are pre-writing, designing a poem form, and making a card.


• Boarding of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students use geoboards to model polygons and to practice finding lines of symmetry.


• Bodaciously Beautiful Butterflies Take Flight (Authored by Heather Watson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is for K-1 students. The students complete a study on butterflies using real caterpillars. Each student keeps a personal daily journal of observations and completes a timeline for their caterpillar/butterfly.


• Body Buddies (Authored by Jennifer Ryan.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is an interactive way to introduce body parts to first graders. After students are introduced to new vocabulary, they work in pairs to construct and label twenty body parts on a life-size outline of their bodies.


• Body Parts (Authored by Mary Montcalm.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Using Total Physical Response strategies, students learn body parts in the target language (Spanish).


• Body Systems in Action (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the last lesson, days 13-16, of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am? Students research the body systems. Cooperative groups create and present a short skit demonstrating how systems work together.


• Body Systems, Part I (Authored by Candace Parker.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work with the systems of the body through research.


• Body Systems, Part II (Authored by Candace Parker.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the second of a two-part lesson. Students create a multimedia presentation to reinforce the knowledge they gained from the lesson, -Body Systems, Part I-.


• Boo-ographies (Authored by Kathy Peters.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: During the month of October, students are encouraged to read biographies of famous individuals from the past. Students pretend to be the character and give a short video-taped presentation.


• Book Jeopardy (Authored by Megan Siska.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students participate in a fun, educational game of -Book Jeopardy- which can be used to review material before a comprehensive test on any novel.


• Book Selling Project (Authored by Megan Siska.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create an oral presentation that uses a visual aid to sell their books to their classmates with the goal of trying to get their classmates interested in reading the book.


• Book Share (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students meet in small groups to reflect on and share their thoughts after reading a short story, poem, chapter in a novel, etc.


• Boom and Fizz (Authored by Cheryle Borsos.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Boom and Fizz is a thrilling discovery of physical and chemical changes. It combines an engaging teacher demonstration with a hands-on student lab experience.


• Boston Spies' Report on the Redcoats (Authored by Francis Sicius.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students collect information about British actions in Boston and send it by secret message to leaders in Philadelphia.


• Bounce & Sing Introduction (Authored by Tisa Craig.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is performed at the beginning of the school to introduce students to classmates and the teacher.


• Bouncing Balloon Volley (Authored by Rhonda Gibbons.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn to volley, consistently striking a balloon with their hands using a two-handed underhand pattern, proper stance and an appropriate amount of force in order to keep the balloon in their self-space.


• Bountiful Biomes (Authored by Linda Webb.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work in groups to research five different biomes (arctic tundra, tropical rain forest, North American desert, African grasslands, deciduous forest) and complete a graphic organizer.


• Bountiful Butterflies (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After creating a symmetrical design resembling a butterfly, the students describe symmetry. Using their pictures students then write a story about the butterfly while focusing on creative ideas.


• Bowling Over the Order of Operations (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After learning how to solve equations using the order of operations, students will use their skills to create equations that will -knock down bowling pins-.


• Brain Game (Authored by Katherine Leftwich.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a fun lesson that challenges the student’s ability to respond to stimuli that are mixed word/color messages. (Responses to changes in the environment/stimuli)


• Brainstorm This! (Authored by Jena Lewis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn about brainstorming, and how to effectively use this prewriting tool for four different writing tasks - persuasive writing, expository writing, character development, and the development of vivid and precise details for any subject.


• Branches of Government (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Are the different parts of government confusing to you? Students will use graphic organizers to assist them in learning about the three branches of government.


• Branching Out (Authored by Carolyn Calloway.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, students work in pairs to research the structure, function and primary responsibilities of each office of the Executive branch. After researching, students come together in pairs and create a chart displaying their research.


• Break Down (Authored by Mary Borges.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products.


• Break It Down (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This engaging game may be used as a group activity for the reinforcement of identifying word parts. It could be modified to be used as individual assessment of the same skill.


• Bright Sky, Night Sky (Authored by cheryl martinez.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through this activity students will apply information known about the differences found in the sky.


• Broadcasting World War II (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create and perform radio broadcasts relating to events and situations that affected American society in World War II. They test their listening skills during these broadcasts. They practice by responding to tasks like those found on the FCAT.


• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (Authored by Martha Simmons.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is an introductory lesson on the Great Depression. Students discuss the Great Depression and the impact that it had on American Society and teens during that era.


• Brown Bag It (Authored by Deborah Walther.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students draw an object relying only on their sense of touch and imagination and then draw it again using their powers of observation to create a detailed study of the object. Comparisons are then made of the two drawings.


• Bubbles Everywhere! (Authored by Annette Nixon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The lesson is a fun way to practice measurement, and circle and sphere formulas. It can easily be adapted to fit any level of circle exploration.


• Buddy Stories (Authored by Kim Forgione.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will write and illustrate short stories to share with a younger class of -Buddy Readers-.


• Budget Hungry (Authored by Donna Allen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, ESE - CL, ESE - CO (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create an expense budget for a meal at a restaurant. They learn the basic communication and etiquette skills needed to successfully go on a field trip to implement the budgets they created.


• Buggy Beats (Authored by Deborah Supe.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students have an opportunity to use both creative and logical sides of the brain by developing an understanding that ALL words have a logical, patterned rhythm of their own, and by being able to create and perform their own unique musical compositions.


• Buggy Patterns (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This literature-based lesson is the second lesson from the unit plan Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Students learn to identify, create, predict, extend, and use patterns.


• Building a Dichotomous Key (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A dichotomous key helps us understand diversity and identify unknown organisms. In a laboratory/classroom setting students design a dichotomous key.


• Building Blueprints (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students demonstrate the use of mouse skills to design and print a created blueprint of a building. (NETS for Students: 3.2)


• Building With Blends (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students learn how to blend sound components into words by completing a whole group activity with the teacher. They then use this knowledge in a station activity game where they match word parts with blends to form complete words.


• But That's Not FAIR! (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students solve problems using fractions through hands-on activities and appropriate literature.


• Butterflies and Frogs (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit plan, Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Included in this lesson are activities for days 6 and 7. Students identify patterns found in nature.


• Butterfly Bonanza (Authored by Becky Peltonen.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: How do butterflies change and grow over time? After looking at butterflies, reading about butterflies and singing about butterflies, students will be able to describe the life cycle of the butterfly.


• Button Bonanza (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a small group activity in which students sort, classify, and write about how they sort buttons.


• Buttons R Us (Authored by Randy Bowne.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students compare buttons by attributes. Using their data, the students create different types of graphs demonstrating what they have learned.


• Buying and Budgets (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: How do you decide if you can afford to buy something new? Using a budget lets you know where your money is being spent as well as how much money you have left to spend. In this lesson, students use tables to solve budget problems. Addition and subtr


• Buying Power (Authored by Kecia Hills.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: As students become informed consumers with a basic understanding of financial and non-financial factors that influence spending, they will make decisions that reflect adequate allocation of funds for their wants and needs.


• By Dawn's Early Light (Authored by Edward Blackwell, Jr..)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students have the opportunity to explore the history of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” In the process, they explore how the lyrics of a song can be a form of poetry and the principles of cause and effect.


• C is for Cookie-A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students work in groups to dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. Students create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information


• C.M. Beg (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is an interesting lesson about the concept of living things. Students will be introduced to a pretend boy named C.M. Beg. The initials of the boy will be a mnemonic device to help students understand the basic characteristics of living things. C stands for change. M stands for move. Be stands for breath. E stands for eat. G stands for grow.


• Calculate the Answer (Authored by Katherine Sparks.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: "Calculate the Answer" allows students to practice independently multiplication and/or addition skills. (This activity is appropriate for a learning center/station).


• Calculating Cats (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Come along with the “Calculating Cats” and learn all about calculators and how to add and subtract whole numbers less than 1,000.


• Calling All Cartographers (Authored by Jane Cunningham.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a map lesson. The class participates in a discussion and completes the class K-W-L chart. This allows for review of terminology, symbols, types of maps, etc. Students assist in instruction by drawing symbols they remember on the board.


• Can Bacteria Arise from Non-living Things? (Authored by Hala Bessyoune.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is a lab activity in which students work in groups to solve the problem, 'Can bacteria arise from non-living things?'


• Can I Be Your Friend? (Authored by Ann Lyons.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After reading, [Charlie, the Caterpillar] to the class, students write one paragraph about how they can be a good friend.


• Can I Put You in Your Place? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students play a game that allows them to place number cards in an order to make the least three digit number possible using place value. Students compare these numbers with a partner to see who has the least three digit number.


• Can We Live Without Government? (Authored by Clifford Snipe.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson helps students understand the role that government plays in the lives of its citizens and how the government protects individual rights.


• Can You Calculate the Speed of Your Pet? (Authored by Edward Williams.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: What is the fastest wind up toy pet? In this lesson students will explore how to calculate the speed of wind up toy pets, average the speeds and identify the correct units of measure of speed.


• Can You Figure Language? (Authored by Robin Ziel.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Everyone always compares themselves to someone else, however, can they understand figurative language or compare two dissimilar objects? This lesson teaches similes and metaphors and how to understand and create them.


• Can You Hear Me Now? (Authored by Miriam Buchanan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will explain steps to guide another student to reproduce a drawing. Students will also do peer evaluations critiquing articulation abilities.


• Can You Picture This? (Authored by Joel Beck.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The students create a Web page using an appropriate picture format, which they determine by analyzing size and download time.


• Can You See it, Touch it, Hear it? (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through this lab activity, students are helped with development of their observational skills. (This lesson may be used with students at any grade level.)


• Can You See the Music? (Authored by Warren Bell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The students learn the makeup of the electromagnetic spectrum and how the various forms of EMRs are similar and different from each other.


• Can You Sense Scents? (Authored by Becky Peltonen.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: During this hands-on lesson, students will use their sense of smell to identify familiar scents.


• Cancer Public Service Announcement (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students explore the causes and treatments of cancer by developing a Public Service Announcement to share with others.


• Candy Cane Chemistry (Authored by Jo Ann Parsons.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students in this laboratory activity work cooperatively to produce a desired product, make observations, and examine the effect of heat on bonding forces. They complete a written handout relating the effect of heat on bonding and have lots of fun.


• Candy Fractions (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Candy Fractions is quite the treat for Fraction Fridays. Families donate bags of seasonal treats that the class estimates, counts, sorts on tree diagrams, names, and then graphs. Oh yeah, then they get to eat the treats!


• Capitalization and Washington, D.C. (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this unit, students learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C.


• Captain’s Quest (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work together to gather communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this indoor/outdoor activity.


• Career Recruiter (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Multimedia and technology are integrated into a classroom presentation on a health-related career. NETS for Students: 3.2, 4.2 and 5.1)


• Careers in Criminal Justice (Authored by Bill Chapman.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Identify and describe the career opportunities and prerequisites in the criminal justice system using multimedia and technology.


• Cars on the Curve (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students predict which car will -win- and then play a car-race game to test their predictions. Their results are analyzed to recognize patterns of central tendency.


• Cars, Trucks and Things That Go Sorting Fun! (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a small group activity in which students have fun sorting, classifying and writing about how they sort transportation vehicles.


• Cartesian Classroom (Authored by Annette Nixon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The classroom is turned into a human Cartesian coordinate plane, thereby introducing students to the characteristics of the coordinate system.


• Cartoon Vocabulary (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: A student’s comprehension of a vocabulary word is tested by having the student draw a picture to illustrate the meaning of the word.


• Cat's Meow One Through Ten (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through the use of classroom activities, role-play and cooperative learning, students practice counting and reading numerals 1-10.


• Catch Me! (Authored by Jeanette Robaldo.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This read-aloud activity gives students basic ideas and vocabulary to speak about a leprechaun trap.


• Catching a Balanced Diet (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn the importance of balanced meals and select foods that make up a balanced meal by playing a fishing game.


• Cause or Effect (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students develop relationships among ideas by recognizing cause and effect in sentences. They complete a whole-group activity then play a station activity game where they determine if part of a sentence is the cause or effect.


• Cause-and-Effect Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Kim Forgione.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students go on a scavenger hunt to locate and identify cause-and-effect relationships in a reading selection.


• Cave Paintings, Leaving a Message for the Future (Authored by Jamie Berry.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create cave paintings to leave behind a message for the future civilizations about how they live today.


• Cave Paintings, Studying the Past (Authored by Patricia Barry Holbert.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students study prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain. The students form their own -clans- and draw cave paintings about their culture.


• Celebrate You (Authored by Beverly Stanley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity reinforces the uniqueness of each student on his/her birthday. The students learn through a pictorial graphing activity about the months of the year. Students write about their special birthday traditions.


• Cell Cookies (Authored by Dawn Pack.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create a plant or animal cell they can eat! A cookie, frosting, and candy pieces serve as the cell's parts. Class discussion will lead to the understanding of the cell's parts and the role the cell plays in tissues, organs, and body syst


• Cell Cycle Movie (Authored by Mark Howell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students draw on previous knowledge and create hand-held flip books that show a cell going through the motions of the cell cycle.


• Cell Factory (Authored by Emily Durney.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a fun way for the students to demonstrate their understanding of the basic structures of cells and the essential functions in cells. Students build a model of a factory where each factory part is compared to a cell part via the function.


• Cell Types (Authored by J.P. Hamilton.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create cartoon characters which compare and contrast two types of cells: nerve and muscle. Cartoon characters show how these two cells are similar, how they are different, and the relationship between the two cell types. Cartoons are presented in


• Cell-a-bration (Authored by Kelly Toomey.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students compare and contrast the structures of a plant cell and an animal cell by creating a graphic organizer and a food model in preparation for writing an essay comparing and contrasting the two kinds of cells.


• Cells in the Making (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: How do cells keep us alive? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about parts of a cell, and their functions in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.


• Cells, Building Blocks of Life (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What is the basic unit of all living things? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about cells, and their function in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks


• Cellular Cellebrities (Authored by Susan Goodman.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students work in cooperative groups to learn the morphology and function of organelles within plant and animal cells.


• Celsius Tells Temperature, Too (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the sixth lesson in the Unit Weather Watchers. Students become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them. Concept of telling the temperature on a Celsius thermometer is introduced as students identify and recor


• Cemetery of Famous Americans (Authored by Kathy Corder.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students conduct research on a famous American and create a tombstone for a class bulletin board.


• Centimeter Slinkies (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to investigate measuring in centimeters. The student estimates & measures the length of a whole color-segmented, candy gummy worm. Then, as students bite off each segment, they estimate, measure and record findings in an activity log.


• Central Tendencies and Normal Distribution Curve (Authored by Dan Schmidt.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be given data (class test scores) to determine central tendencies, and will find information needed to construct a normal distribution curve.


• Central Tendency (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson provides students with activities to assist them in determining the mean, mode, and median of given data.


• Chairs That Speak Rhythm (Authored by Marguerite Schmitzer.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using chairs to visualize beats, this lesson introduces the concepts of whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes to second graders.


• Challenging the Human Spirit (Authored by Colleen Starr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students select a theme-related essay topic from [Night], by Elie Wiesel, or [The Metamorphosis], by Franz Kafka, and develop an essay that relates the theme to modern day personal experiences. The essay follows a preset rubric.


• Change Agents (Authored by Karen Marler.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students conduct experiments and complete observation logs about three erosive change agents and their effects on a variety of surfaces. They present their log information to others through a song, poem or skit.


• Changes All Around Us (Authored by Sherri Barber.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After students observe various physical and chemical changes demonstrated in class, they work in groups to create a collage of pictures to illustrate how changes occur all around us.


• Changes in Matter (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is developed to enhance student understanding of physical and chemical changes. It will also review knowledge of the states of matter.


• Changes in the Copper Penny (Authored by Patricia Davison.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a unique and fun way to introduce the difference between a physical change in a substance and a chemical change. The student studies the volume, density, altering shape, and chemistry of a copper penny.


• Changing Twines: Exploring Area and Perimeter (Authored by Jessica McDonald.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this fun, hands-on activity, students actively engage to determine the relationships between area and perimeter measurements! Students are challenged to discover, prove, and write mathematical conjectures.


• Changing Ways (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 8 of the unit Bedlam in Bedrock. Students use reference materials, sketches, diagrams, and models to understand scientific ideas about ways landforms change over time.


• Character and Choices: Dickens' A Christmas Carol (Authored by Jeff Gillard.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this three week lesson, the teacher provides instruction in the basic elements of literature. By reading Dickens' novel students are provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior.


• Character and Plot Development Through Comics (Authored by Monica McManus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students identify these four attributes in the comic strip and present their findings to the class.


• Character Comparison (Authored by Terri Griffin.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows students to practice comparing characters from two stories, focusing on actions, motives, emotions, and traits. The Venn diagram is used to display the similarities and differences.


• Character Traits and People in Black History (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students read a one-page biographical essay and write in paragraph form how an African American has demonstrated a certain character trait.


• Character, You Say? Prove It! (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students complete a Character Map and a Venn diagram for selected characters in any text.


• Characters in the Chocolate Factory (Authored by Beth Brewington.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Books are more interesting when the characters come to life! Students will make creative guesses and compare information about selected characters from the book [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory].


• Charting the Discovery of the Americas (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Charting the Discovery of the Americas teaches students how to use Microsoft Word to create a chart depicting how trade led to the exploration of different regions of the world.


• Chasing Peter's Wolf (Authored by Sharon Hardy.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to Prokoviev's Peter and the Wolf, relate the story to the music and identify instruments and their representative characters. Students learn that music communicates events and images that help the listener to better understand a story.


• Cheerios Number Patterns (Authored by Jean Mozell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity provides an opportunity for students to use Cheerios to describe, extend and create numerical patterns.


• Cheerios- Not Just for Breakfast Anymore (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, students practice measurement of surface area and perimeter with estimation by completing activities using Cheerios breakfast cereal.


• Cheesy Math (Authored by Peggy Christian.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Entice students to investigate perimeter with one of their favorite foods. Students use a variety of methods to measure the perimeter of a piece of cheese, infer the change in perimeter before slicing it and recalculate the perimeter.


• Cherries Are Positive, Lemons Are Negative (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students discover the rules for adding integers. This lesson should be conducted after students have been introduced to the definition of an integer.


• Cherries Are Positive, Lemons Are Negative - Part 2 (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Designed to follow Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative, this lesson has students discover the rules for subtracting integers.


• Cherries Still Positive, Lemons Still Negative (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Designed to follow the lesson -Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative,- this is an introductory lesson on solving simple addition equations with positive and negative integers.


• Chessboard Challenge (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson has been created for use with the book [The Kings's Chessboard] by David Birch. The students predict and extend the numerical pattern of twice the day before's total (multiplying by 2 or doubling). They search for other patterns within


• Chip Off the Old Block (Authored by J Drag.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use cards showing pictures of adult and baby animals to identify similar characteristics shared by parents and their offspring.


• Chips Ahoy A Thousand Chips In Every Bag (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Nabisco claims to sell 1000 chocolate chips in every 1 pound bag of Chips Ahoy! Students use their problem solving skills and data collection to determine if the claim is true.


• Choice Not Chance (Authored by Rosa Banks.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Fact or fiction: Do the foods we choose affect our health? The student researches diets in a country other than the USA, and compares it to the Food Guide Pyramid analyzing the affect it has on an individual’s health.


• Choose a Book You’ll Like (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After a class discussion of how to choose a book, students complete class and personal charts which will be used to help select books to read.


• Choosing a Summer Job (Authored by Dan Schmidt.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Given two summer job opportunities, the student must determine when each job will earn the same amount and what that amount will be. This will be done by solving systems of equations.


• Chris' Culture Club Cruise (Authored by Christine Broyles.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities. Follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and make local connections.


• Christmas Around the World (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Every country has its own customs for the celebration of Christmas. This is a look at the customs used in Czecholslovakia and Mexico. Students may have customs from other countries to share.


• Christmas Counting 1 - 25 (Authored by Karen Minks.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students count 25 M&M's in correct order.


• Christmas Shoppers (Authored by anne brandon.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Children use a parachute and shopping bags to play a Christmas shopping game.


• Christmas Shopping (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will pretend to buy age/gender appropriate Christmas presents using a given budget for a specified number of people.


• Chronic Conics (Authored by Steve Friedlander.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The students will use two activities to be able to draw four different conic sections. One of the activities is of a physical nature while the second activity is a more traditional pencil and paper activity.


• Chunking Huck Finn (Authored by Lisa Glenn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students read a designated chapter of [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]. In small groups, students discuss chapter summary and answer specific questions related to the chapter. Groups will present summaries, addressing answers to specific questions,


• Cinderella Around the World (Authored by Monica McManus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.


• Cinderella Stories (Authored by Judy Albero.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: While doing this lesson, students will be able to remember, compare, and contrast two different Cinderella stories of their choice.


• Circle Up Your M & Ms (Authored by Rhonda Bajalia.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Have you ever noticed that the colors of M & M's aren’t evenly distributed in each package? This is a fun way to show your students how to construct a circle graph using percentages based on the colors of 100 M & M's.


• Circular Motion and Introduction to Relativity (Authored by Robert Rosen.)
  Subject(s): Science, Theater (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work cooperatively to view, demonstrate, and understand the importance of frame of reference. They present a short skit, based on the information from their research, that describes a trip to a nearby solar system.


• Cite Your Sites (Authored by Stacy Durham.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students get exposure to a variety of resources by working in a cooperative group to complete a literary scavenger hunt.


• Citizenship (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What is citizenship? Using the preambles from the US Constitution and the Florida State Constitution as references, students determine rights and responsibilities of citizenship. This introductory lesson for the unit, We the People, introduces stude


• Citizenship for All (Authored by Tashika Hiers.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Do you know your rights? This lesson will help students demonstrate their knowledge of the rights, responsibilities, and privileges as United States citizens. Students will show examples by completing a graphic organizer and writing persuasive essays


• Civil War Battle Map (Authored by James Humphrey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to report geographic information. The student illustrates a blank map to identify 5 Civil War battles.


• Class Act (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Theater (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students in small groups prepare a short videotaped presentation dramatizing a poem.


• Class President (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Have you wondered what kind of person makes a good president? Students learn strategies to develop reading vocabulary and learn to identify comparison and contrast as an aid to comprehension as they follow Julio and his secret desire to become class p


• Class Quilt (Authored by Joy Whithaus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity will promote acceptance of diversity within the classroom through the creation of a class quilt. Students will evaluate the final product to find commonalities with other students.


• Class-I-fy (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students classify pre-selected art class items to see how classification methods are created and used. This activity gives students a greater understanding of why and how classification methods are used in science. The scientific method of categorizin


• Classified Clues (Authored by Deborah Shaw.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using classified advertisements, students work in groups to draw conclusions and make inferences about the writer of the ad and to whom the ad may appeal.


• Classifying and Constructing Corners (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore, classify, and define the various types of angles (acute, right, obtuse, and straight) that occur in the world around them. This lesson plan is the second lesson in a series on geometry.


• Classroom Behavior Role Play (Authored by Jennifer Marshall.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students analyze appropriate and inappropriate classroom behavior after listening to and discussing MISS NELSON IS MISSING by Harry Allard and James Marshall.


• Clean Air (Authored by Mary LaLane.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create a graphic organizer to clarify information for a presentation.


• Climate and Topography, What Is the Connection? (Authored by Scott Neumann.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson deals only with the Earth’s climatic patterns as they relate to the interplay of topographic features of Earth.


• Clips, Cards, Rocks and Rulers (Authored by Lara Weeks.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students work in pairs to use standard and non-standard tools to measure classroom objects. Partners compare data and respond to a journal prompt that provides application to real-world situations.


• Close Your Math (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students complete a roll playing activity to build understanding of number concepts. Students use 'Algebraic Closure' throughout six operations to better comprehend and review basic number theory.


• Closing the Case (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students review the steps for data collection and how to prepare data displays using statistical information from a survey.


• Cloud Watcher (Authored by Pamela Hoover.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Who wants to be a cloud watcher? Students will learn the names of clouds and the patterns of weather they may bring. Students will spend 2 adventurous weeks predicting the weather by watching the clouds.


• Cloud Watchers (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the third lesson in the second grade unit on weather called Weather Trackers. Students identify the main types of clouds and the type of weather they typically bring as far as rain is concerned. The concept of matter as a gas and liquid will be ob


• Clouds of Spelling Words (Authored by Deborah Ford.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students receive a folded piece of paper and copy the spelling words onto the paper with a word in each block. They then trace the spelling words four times with four different colored crayons. This is a kinesthetic way to practice writing the spelling words.


• Cognate Detectives (Authored by Marta Encarnacion.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will learn that there are words in English and Spanish that share the same root. These words are visibly and audibly very similar and have the same meaning. Students will become detectives exploring the many cognates in Spanish and English.


• Coin Probability (Authored by Cary Cooley.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students develop an understanding of probablility by tallying the coins they choose from different bags with different amounts of coins within them. They then predict the amount of coins within each bag according to their tallied results.


• Cold Sea Waters (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Cold sea waters affected the local and state area during the summer of 1998. Studying a detailed web-site map helps students gain an understanding of sea temperatures.


• Collaborative Compositions (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the final lesson in an expository writing unit. Students are set loose to develop, draft, and elucidate information for a research topic. Students work collaboratively to write a paper as practice for the final task of writing their own papers.


• Colonial American Villages (Authored by Patti Corley.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students construct a model of a colonial village. An understanding of why the New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies were settled in regions, will be shown through the students' visual and oral presentations.


• Colonization Specialization (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson demonstrates how various people in the southern colonies had specialized societal roles. It also provides a simulation of plantation owners' attittudes.


• Color Me Green if I Am a Five (Authored by Deborah Ford.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by fives? Here is a quick, sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by fives, the students will color the number and only the number with a green crayon.


• Color Me Red if I Am a Ten (Authored by Deborah Ford.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by tens? Here is a quick sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by tens, the students will color the number and only the number with red.


• Color My World (Authored by Donna Woods.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write poems using color to describe their feelings and environment.


• Colored Clouds (Authored by Melissa Lee Herring.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson learners will observe particles that make up warm water move around faster than particles that make up cold water. This will be demonstrated by observing clouds made of food coloring mixed with different temperatures of water.


• Colorful Solutions (Authored by Sharla Shults.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Fractions? Who needs them? Students complete a coloring activity and practice where like fractions are actually used in real-life situations. Problem solving involves using fractions with common denominators utilizing Think, Solve, and Explain f


• Colors that Melt in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand (Authored by Lindsay Bryan.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will sort balls according to their color, and then record their answers on an activity sheet. Students will also sort colored candies into different color groups.


• Combustion or Lack of Oxygen (Authored by Rosemary Wilson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students are able to see the combustion of ethanol and then write a report regarding the inability for the ethanol to ignite a second time.


• Come On, You Can Trust Me (Authored by Colleen Starr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students learn to define and then recognize a variety of propaganda techniques at work in their everyday world. Choosing one technique, they creatively demonstrate a thorough understanding from real world experiences.


• Come Work Out (Authored by Becky West.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn how to correctly devise warm-up, conditioning and cool-down techniques. Then they are split into groups and work together to come up with correct techniques for an exercise of their choosing.


• Common Commas (Authored by April Smith.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students identify where to place commas in a word series sentence and is appropriate for ESOL students.


• Common Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots (Authored by Deborah Jackson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a fun way for students to identify word parts, such as prefixes, suffixes, and root words by cutting and pasting.


• Common Sense Cookie Shop (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Children count and add money to “shop” for cookies. The lesson involves role-play, graphing results and cooperative learning.


• Community Helpers Wheel (Authored by Beth McArthur.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using a hand-made spinner, students play a game to reinforce the understanding that some community helpers are producers of goods and some provide a service.


• Community Brochures (Authored by Kim Forgione.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure.


• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 1) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Advertisements promoting the campaign are created with Student Writing Center.


• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 2) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Students become involved in a graph-keeping adventure as they encourage the school to collect many canned foods.


• Community Quilt (Authored by Manuel Bustamante.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson helps build communication between students, teachers, administrators, and parents. This is a wonderful lesson to promote English language learning in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner.


• Comparatively Speaking (Authored by Sharon West.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn to identify and use the literary terms simile and metaphor. Their knowledge will be reinforced as they are engaged in creating and illustrating two examples of each.


• Comparing and Ordering Fractions (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students are introduced to the comparison of fractions and the ordering of fractions.


• Complaint Department (Authored by Kim Forgione.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write business letters describing a problem with a purchased product and offering a possible solution to the problem.


• Complexity (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Student will perform mathematical operations on complex numbers


• Composer of the Month (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In order to keep music alive in the schools, we need to validate our class. What better way to do that than to intergrate social studies and writing into the Music Class?


• Computing Costs (Authored by Robert Pauley.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are expected to calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.


• Confusing Colors! (Authored by Kevin Holland.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is a neat data analysis project in which students collect data, graph their data, and then make predictions based upon their findings. The student’s interest is maintained by the interesting way the data is collected.


• Congruent and Similar Figures (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This learning activity introduces students to the concept of congruent and similar figures. The class will identify, classify, and describe the similarities and differences among these figures.


• Congruent Triangles Postulates (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity in discovering three lettered postulates that prove triangles congruent. Students have a great insight to the workings and reasoning behind ASA, SAS, SSS, and AAS.


• Connect the Species (Authored by Daric White.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is a lesson designed to test student knowledge of energy transfer and species interrelationships.


• Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar (Authored by Pat Mixon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This pre-writing assignment prepares the students for the literary analysis. Writing one body paragraph gives the students the flavor of the analysis. The students locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the t


• Conservation Critters Anonymous, Etcetera (Authored by Wilma Horton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students access one of the designated Everglades National Park Websites to understand the intricacies of conservation and relationship balance of flora to fauna.


• Conservation of Mass (Authored by J Keener.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students observe a chemical reaction, determine that a gas has mass, and confirm the law of conservation of mass and energy.


• Conservation Station (Authored by Jennifer Carter.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Don't let your eyes mislead you. Size does not always matter. Students will be amazed once they've measured the volume of four containers that vary in size and shape.


• Consider This! (Authored by Julie Thompson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students draft a simulated email to the governor of Florida that includes their recommendation for the -heart of Florida- capital and provides support based upon research and established criteria.


• Constellation Creations (Authored by Mark Howell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create visual aids that show common constellations. The creations are then used as study guides.


• Constitutional Amendments Survey (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students conduct a Constitutional Amendments Survey to create an opinion poll forum for the upcoming Florida vote.


• Constructing a Cell (Authored by Carl Rogers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students construct a model of a plant or animal cell, using the materials provided to represent each of the different organelles within the cell.


• Constructing a Protein Sentence (Authored by Barry Anderson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will utilize their knowledge of RNA transcription, and translation in order to make a protein. They will use a DNA template (portion of the DNA that will code for the protein) to determine the m-RNA and t-RNA sequences for that protein.


• Constructing Contractions (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This game was developed to reinforce the skill of making contractions and the use of the apostrophe in contractions.


• Construction and Use of an Accelerometer (Authored by Lisa Locklin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: What is acceleration? The students investigate the concept of acceleration by building and using an accelerometer.


• Continuation of the Revolution (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is Lesson 2 in the Industrial Times unit. Students research information on inventions that occurred during the second part of the Industrial Revolution. They write and publish articles on a selected invention.


• Contour Drawing (Authored by Becky Hill.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will be introduced to Contour Drawing. They will view examples and non-examples of student contour drawings. After a demonstration of correct technique, the students will produce contour drawings of the top side of their hand.


• Converting Metric Measurements (Authored by Dale Peterson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Converting metric measurements is an essential skill for science students. This lesson offers a formula for helping students learn the process.


• Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this activity, students learn about the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class. Then students publish a class cookbook with their recipes.


• Cool School Poetry (Authored by Barbara Hirst.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students draw ideas from words supplied by the entire class on fifteen subjects of school life, and compose a four line poem using AABB, ABAB or AAAA rhyme, in the same manner as Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky


• Cool Words to Share (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use teacher-selected vocabulary (can be from reading textbook) to present a written story to a first grade student. The book will include a glossary of terms and illustrations of the terms.


• Coordinate Crunch (Authored by Lee Strain.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will play a game using their knowledge of how to identify plots on a graph.


• Coping with Verbs (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This ESOL lesson that is week 2 of a unit, gives a review of nouns, introduces verbs, helps students understand how verbs function in sentences, explains verb tenses, and gives visual/verbal/written practice with verbs.


• Copy Me If You Can (Authored by Carolyn Rosier.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Learning to recognize symmetry in the environment is fun as children try to copy each other as they take turns creating a butterfly symmetrically decorated with colors and shapes.


• Could You Elaborate on That? (Authored by Donna Woods.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson teaches the parts of an expository essay and how to organize and write an expository piece from a given topic.


• Could You Repeat That? (Authored by Colleen Starr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students gain an understanding of the Oral Language Tradition of Anglo Saxon Poetry and identify how existing lines were affected by this tradition.


• Count by Fives (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Counting by fives can be a challenge. This lesson gives students an opportunity to explore counting by fives in a variety of activities including using a hundreds chart and manipulatives.


• Counting by Fives for an Hour (Authored by MAdele Carson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn that counting by fives will help them to tell time.


• Counting Creatures (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Counting Creatures gives students an opportunity to use the base three number system as they learn more about place value.


• Counting Down to Christmas Vacation (Authored by Jane Seevers.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students write numerals on a snowman and count off the days until Christmas vacation, using cotton balls to mark the days.


• Counting Money (Authored by Denise Simonson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.


• Counting to One Hundred (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Counting to one hundred is a major achievement for kindergarteners. In this lesson, students refine their oral counting skills using a hundreds chart and pennies as manipluatives.


• Crabby Mystery (Authored by Barbara Bloodworth.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce nonstandard measuring to students. Students will measure the length of a molting hard shell crab and estimate if the new shell will be longer or shorter after molting.


• Crazy Classifications (Authored by Shannon Snow.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This classification idea provides ESE students with some much needed practice to show knowledge of characteristics of vertebrate groups. They cutout pictures of animals and identify which grouping that animal belongs in.


• Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The -Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic- lesson uses creatures created from student’s imaginations to teach hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and alliteration in association with creative writing.


• Crazy Critters Creative Writing Assignment (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: During the Crazy Critters creative writing assignment, students develop characters that take part in a narrative involving creatures that reside in a student’s imagination.


• Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: During -Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech,- students examine a paragraph they have written to determine the individual strengths and weaknesses of their writing. Included is a specific study of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, nouns, and verbs.


• Crazy Putty Ratio (Authored by Georgia White.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students mix various ratios of liquid starch and glue to make craxy Putty (their variation of Silly Putty) using knowledge of measurements and ratios. They chart their ratios, make observations, and write summary of activity.


• Create A Map! (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students are independently and actively involved in creating their own school campus maps and they also review two- and three- dimensional shapes.


• Create A Park Map (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students design the ultimate park experience for Florida families as they demonstrate their knowledge of map legend skills.


• Create Your Island Paradise (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Create a descriptive essay and map describing your island paradise.


• Create Your Own Kaleidoscopes (Authored by Louise Kent.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students research Sir David Brewster and his ideas on light. They put into practice one of his ideas by creating an inexpensive kaleidoscope using film canisters, microscope slides and beads, that teaches properties of optics.


• Create Your Personal Shield (Authored by Patricia Morres.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: For the purpose of presenting a one - minute personal introduction speech, students create a poster in the shape of a shield , which represents their individual lives by using art, photographs, magazine and newspaper graphics


• Create Your Save And Rave Box (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Create Your Save And Rave Box engages students in creating a design from pattern block shapes that incorporates the principles of symmetry, congruency, and similarity, as well as flips, slides, and turns of some of the shapes used.


• Creating and Interpreting Graphs (Authored by Debra Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use data collected at the beginning of the lesson, such as their favorite brand of sneakers or favorite soft drinks, to create graphs and to interpret the results shown by each graph. Note: This lesson assesses only the creation and interpretat


• Creating Circle Graphs using Excel (Authored by Mary Kay Bacallao.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students evaluate data from a circle graph that compares time spent on various activities. They use the computer to manipulate their own data as they compare, examine, create and evaluate data using circle graphs.


• Creating Food for Thought (Authored by Cindy Listowski.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After listening to a selection of poems from William Cole's [Poem Stew], the students practice poem writing and later develop a poem on the topic of food. The poems are then compiled into a class book.


• Creating Graphs from Tables (Authored by Rhonda Bray.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: “I don’t care what other people think!” Or do you? Statistical data recorded in a table is interpreted and displayed in an appropriate graph format demonstrating how opinion polls and other types of data can be easily read and interpreted.


• Creating My Personal Animal ABC Book. (Authored by Louise Kent.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create an Animal ABC book to present to a young child. Along the way they research specific information about animals.


• Creating Tessellations (Authored by Diane Bates.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Explore the history of tessellations; then use art and geometry to create an original tessellation.


• Creative Cats (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use cat counters, pictures and numbers to solve joining problems.


• Creatively Creating Expository Essays (Authored by Kara Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In groups, students create inventions using common objects such as pipe cleaners that could have been in FAHRENHEIT 451. Students share how their inventions work, then draft expository essays explaining their purpose or how they were built.


• Creature Features (Early Grades) (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students select an animal and simple reference books to choose and share pictures and facts about their selected animals through the construction of story boards. As a culminating activity, students make a video of animal facts to share with the class.


• Creature Features (Intermediate Grades) (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Paired children are to complete their own “creature and habitat” designs on construction paper. Writing a four paragraph narrative is the final step. Benchmarks include the writing process. Previous studies of animals and their habitats are needed.


• Creatures From the Black Lagoon (Authored by Joe Brock.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are taken to an aquatic area such as a small beach zone, bayou, drainage ditch or wetland near the school in an open inquiry lesson to evoke questions from the students regarding their observations. They learn how to use scientific processes in designing experiements that answer the raised questions.


• Creatures that Are Just So (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students listen to Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories read aloud. After observing an animal, students create their own "Just So" stories and publish them on Beacon's SiteMaker.


• Critic’s Choice (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students read three to five genres and choose one as his or her favorite. Students write an essay persuading the class to read the genre.


• Critter Counting (Authored by Anne Hargrove.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In Critter Counting, students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze data using a graphical presentation.


• Cruising Cars (Authored by Stephanie Martinez.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Middle school students love cars. They will have the opportunity to analyze, compare and contrast tables/charts, based on given car data. While working in groups students will generate a list of desired car features and create their own table/charts.


• Cruising the Caribbean (Authored by Kevyn Brown.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create 4 postcards by illustrating an island in the Caribbean that they will visit. Each postcard will focus on a different feature (historic landmark, mountains, people). The postcards incorporate photos/pictures with concepts and vocabulary.


• Cruising Through Clouds (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will be able to name the three major types of clouds and describe the characteristics of each cloud.


• Cube Combinations (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Cube Combinations gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of place value as they create 5 digit numbers from the roll of five number cubes.


• Cubed Containers (Authored by Renee Black.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows for cooperative groups to explore volume in relation to centimeter cubes and other nonstandard units of measurement using small containers.


• Cubes, Sums and a Little Fun (Authored by Liz West.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this lesson,students work with partners to make and solve additon problems using number cubes and unifix cubes.


• Cuisenaire Chefs (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students become Cuisenaire Chefs as they mix and toss Cuisenaire rods to recreate recipes. This hands-on acivity gives students a chance to identify the value of fractions at an introductory level.


• Cultural Effects of The Great Wall of China for the Chinese (Authored by Kathy Easom.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Upon viewing a power point presentation or a video on China, and reading the lesson in the textbook, the students will show their understanding of how the Great Wall influenced Chinese culture by writing a 3 paragraph essay. Each paragraph will relate t


• Cultural Exposure (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson explains why and how colonist attitudes towards the Native Americans and African Americans changed over time.


• Current Events - Attack on America (Authored by Amy Osborne.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Explore and discuss the significance of what happened to the world on 9-11-01.


• Cut It Out (Authored by Tonja Fitzgerald.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using a graphic model, students are asked to derive an original formula for calculating the area of an irregular figure. This lesson requires that students use critical thinking, visual perception, and mathematical computation.


• Cutting Up in Class, Fractal Style (Authored by Richard Angelini Sr..)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: A simple to make, hands-on manipulative, three dimensional, model of fractions, mirror images, tiling, fractals, tessellations, multiplying fractions, dividing fractions, and exponents; created from a single sheet of paper.


• Cylinder Surface Discovery (Authored by Carol Spice.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Help your students understand the surface area of a cylinder with this simple lesson where students create their own cylinders.


• Dance with Me (Authored by Diane Weiner.)
  Subject(s): Dance, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create a simple dance that illustrates the changes in rhythm in a song.


• Dangerous Storms (Authored by Debra Giambo PhD.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The lesson promotes awareness of media language for dangerous storms. It stresses preparation, evacuation, and emergency assistance, and problem-solving techniques for emergency situations. Use in a second or third grade classroom with ESOL.


• Dare to be [Punnett] Square (Authored by Dale Peterson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson familiarizes the students with Punnett squares, specifically: purpose, application and interpretation. Key terms from previous lessons (included below) are reviewed/reinforced before data is applied to a Punnett square and interpreted.


• Data Daze (Authored by Ann Campbell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a short introductory activity to teach students how to read and analyze data from bar graphs, pictographs, and stem-and-leaf plots.


• Dateline: 442 B.C. Antigone (Authored by Patti Cogburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work in groups to write, produce, and video tape a newscast based on the events in the play [Antigone]. The students will describe the main events, analyze the main characters, problems, conflicts and resolutions within the play.


• De Colores (Authored by Maria Gyory.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will be able to understand how some Spanish color words change their endings and how other color words remain the same, according to the nouns that they modify.


• Dead or Alive (Authored by Michelle Passeretti.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The lesson is designed to allow students to analyze non-living and living objects by forming a T chart. Students make a collage to demonstrate what they have learned.


• Dead Words Come Alive! (Authored by Shannon Anderson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is an exciting way for second graders to learn about synonyms and increase their vocabulary at a rapid pace. It is designed to be used all year on a daily basis.


• Dealing with Bouts of Depression (Authored by Melissa Westerly.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The purpose of this lesson is to bring out causes and symptoms of depression. Depression causes a tremendous amount of hurt to ourselves and others. This lesson offers an opportunity for hope to those who suffer from this illness.


• Dealing with Data (Authored by Ann Hanson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students collect, organize, and display data using a bar graph, line graph, pie graph, or picture graph.


• Dear FCAT Checker (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After several months of preparation for the FCAT test, students review how to write business letters, and write one to the person who will check their FCAT test.


• Dear Santa Claus (Authored by Carol Swanick.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Santa answers letters. Students write letters to Santa Claus to find answers to their questions. Students then become Santa Claus answering the questions in a response letter.


• Dear Teacher (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After reading [Dear Mr. Blueberry], a book by Simon James that models letter writing, students write their own letters to their teacher.


• Debating Women's Rights (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students debate the issue of -Women's Rights- and compare women of the past to the women of the present.


• Decidedly Different (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this first lesson of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am, students study why scientists need to use observable characteristics, how they sort the characteristics, and why they do so. Journal entries allow students to reflect and make inferences.


• Decimals Make Cents (Authored by Sharla Shults.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Look out real world, here we come! Due to new jobs, pay increases, taxes, money in the bank, and opportunities to spend, spend, spend, students learn there is no way to avoid working with decimals in making life -centsable!-


• Decipher This! (Authored by Eric Miles.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is to be used when studying Ancient Egypt and the Rosetta Stone. The purpose of this lesson is to show students the difficulty of deciphering and determining the importance of a message written in hieroglyphics.


• Decoding DNA (Authored by Suzan Smith.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the sixth and final lesson plan in the unit, Where We Come From and is an extension activity that reflects the standards for Marion County Schools in Florida for eighth grade. Students complete their KWL charts from the first lesson of the unit as


• Deep Blue Sea (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Would you like to live under the sea or on land? Come and explore with us as we take a look at some of our animal friends and the plants that they live with.


• Defending Great Literature (Authored by Laura Childers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Responding to a fictional letter by an upset parent, students defend Mark Twain and the study of [Huck Finn] using persuasive techniques, appropriate word choice, and correct letter format.


• Defining Citizenship in Recent Events (Authored by Chris Black.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Have your students questioned how non-citizens could commit recent acts? Do they know what a legal alien is? This lesson will help define a citizen of the United States and a non-citizen alien of the United States.


• Defining Our Community (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students begin the process of developing a service-learning project by defining their own community and the problems within it.


• Delicious Words (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work together to make simple menus more interesting by adding descriptive words. This plan works well with the Six Traits of Writing as it covers the trait of word choice.


• Demonstrating and Calculating Electrostatic Forces (Authored by Robert Rosen.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A presentation demonstrating electrostatic force focuses on how electrostatic forces exist between charged objects.


• Density and Solubility of Liquids (Authored by Beverly Grim.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students predict and test the densities of common liquids. Solubility is also being observed.


• Density Destiny (Authored by Julie Sear.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Which is more dense, a block of wood or a glass marble? Students will answer this question as they measure and investigate the densities of several objects.


• Density Discoveries (Authored by Cheryle Borsos.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Density Discoveries is a hands-on student learning opportunity for students to find the mass, volume, and density of solid matter.


• Density of a Gas (Authored by Jeri Martin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Gas, like all matter, has mass and volume, therefore, it has a density. Students will investigate the mass, volume, and density of a gas by producing it in a chemical reaction.


• Descriptive Writing (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate.


• Design a Character (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Upon completion of the novel, [The Witch of Blackbird Pond], students write a character sketch about one of the two main characters, Kit or Hannah Tupper.


• Design an Animal (Authored by Hala Bessyoune.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students perform a lab activity in which they design an animal to live in a specific environment taking into account all aspects of that particular environment.


• Designing Detectives (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students explore the idea of formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis. This is an introduction to the Unit Plan: Statistical Sleuths.


• Destination Outer Space (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows students to use effective writing skills, their imagination, and their knowledge of the nine planets. Students use these three items as they create travel pamphlets to the planets in our solar system.


• Detaching and Attaching Computer Components Safely (Authored by Ron Herron.)
  Subject(s): (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using safe practices, students detach and attach the components of a computer system. When the task is completed, the computers should work properly as before (NETS for Students: 1.2 and 2.2).


• Details and Observations IQ or the Eyes Have it (Authored by Colleen Starr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: After studying Chaucer as a master of details, student partners exercise powers of observation to create a short story linking unrelated details into a logical plot with a clear setting and established characters.


• Determing Angle Measure with Parallel Lines (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson discusses parallel lines, transversals, corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles and consecutive angles.


• Determining Mercantile Volume of a Pine Tree (Authored by Lois Walsh.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students determine timber volumes as sawtimber or pulpwood like a forester would for market purposes.


• Determining the President of 1860 (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The learner will determine who won the U.S. Presidential election of 1860. Students will find the information online, create a database, manipulate a spreadsheet and present findings.


• Dia de San Valentin (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen and repeat common phrases associated with Valentine's Day and create a Valentine for someone, using the Spanish phrases they learned.


• Diagonal Lengths (Authored by M Dennis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students collect, organize, and analyze data while studying the Pythagorean Theorem. They measure the length and width of several rectangular objects and compare the measured results to the calculated results


• Diagramming Annabelle Lee (Authored by Susan Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using a Story Diagram Chart and a K-W-L Chart, students examine the parts of the Edgar Allan Poe poem, “Annabelle Lee.”


• Dice Games - How to WIN! (Authored by Wesley Underwood.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to teach Data Analysis and Numerical Occurrence. The student works with a partner to play a game. Each player gets twelve counters to be placed on the numbers on the game board. The players take turns rolling two dice. On eac


• Did We Know? (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students process a variety of information on the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Then they are asked to form an opinion and support it in an essay.


• Different Dimensions (Authored by Kim Adair.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students will utilize graph paper or dot paper to draw all views of a 3 dimensional object in 2 dimensional form. Then partners will work from the 2d drawing to create the actual 3d structure.


• Different Strokes for Different Folks (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students are taken to the media center to review various genre of literature, apply information and concepts to evaluate examples and locate specific genre, and search for materials for reading enjoyment.


• Different Tribes, Different Times (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson plan is for Day 10 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will be actively involved in center activities utilizing informational texts to focus more in depth on Native American culture groups from different regions and times.


• Digan Queso (Authored by Mary Montcalm.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students recognize and respond to commands involving family members and prepositions specifying locations


• Digging Up Words from the Newspaper (Authored by Blanche Peaden.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Can your students recognize and read sight words in print formats other than checklists? In this lesson students demonstrate their current knowledge of sight words by scanning the local newspaper to locate sight words. They then create and read sente


• Digital Autobiographies (Authored by Lynn Riddle.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students apply technical skills to take photos and enhance their picture, which they include in an original word processing autobiography.


• Digital Plants...Alike and Different! (Authored by Shannon Flynn.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Use digital cameras and games to motivate students to learn about plants! Students get to take their own pictures of plants and compose them into a learning game about the similarities and differences of plants.


• Digital Waterworks (Authored by Sharon Schubert.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students add digitally-produced, water sound effects to a song, using electronic keyboards.


• Dino’s Diner (Authored by Susan Mercer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students create a modern day dinosaur menu to generate creative ideas regarding what dinosaurs would eat at an imaginary restaurant.


• Dinosaur Patterns (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will use dinosaur counters to identify, copy, create and extend a pattern that is repeated at least three times.


• Dinosaurs Dancing Counting (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The student counts objects in a group to find out how many.


• Direct Express (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 3 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will explore speaking for different purposes (i.e., to inform, to express ideas, and to entertain).


• Dirty Worms (Authored by April Martin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will learn the actions of earthworms and their effect on soil. The lesson will culminate with an earthworm dissection lab activity.


• Disasters - Where, When, Why (Authored by Irving Kohn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student uses electronic technology to create and develop a database for U.S. disasters in the 20th Century and writes a paragraph.


• Discovering Our Planets (Authored by Elizabeth Elliott.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, the children explore through research and activities our solar system of planets. Using cooperative grouping and interactions, the students will gain an understanding of how the characteristics of the planets differ from one another.


• Disect a Toon (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is an engaging way to introduce students to the literary elements of setting, plot, and character development.


• Distance over Time (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What is velocity and how is it determined? In this lesson plan, students are actively involved in experiments to measure and calculate the magnitude of speed, known as velocity using algebraic terms.


• Divisibility Buzz (Authored by Cindy Beckham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use the divisibility rule for three to compete in the game Divisibility Buzz. This lesson provides enjoyable reinforcement.


• Divisions of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson uses THE DOORBELL RANG, by Pat Hutchins to teach the concepts of generosity and fairness. Students apply the concept of generosity and fairness to a lesson on division.


• Do a Ditty (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work in cooperative groups to create a -ditty- to teach the characteristics that distinguish literary forms to younger students. The ditty is performed before the class.


• Do Be Square (Authored by Sharon Hardy.)
  Subject(s): Dance (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student performs a square dance using proper movements keeping the beat and the rhythm of the song.


• Do Objects Vary Very Much? (Authored by John Fowler.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce standard deviation (SD). Students measure the SD of colors in a collection of objects (e.g. candy)


• Do They Agree? (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students review and practice subject-verb agreement by cutting and pasting (using a computer spreadsheet or a print out), and by writing a simple paragraph in which the subjects and verbs agree. (This lesson only addresses subject-verb agreement)


• Do They Play Sports in Costa Rica? (Authored by Katherine Williamson.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use target language (Spanish) newspapers found on the Internet to compare/contrast sports found in Costa Rica and the United States.


• Do You Haiku? We Do! (Authored by Judith Rose.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Have you ever used Math to write poetry? Try your hand at it, writing Haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. Haiku is usually 17 syllables in three-line form, with a first line of five syllables, the second of seven syllables, and the third of five syl


• Do You Have the Money? (Authored by Maria Ramdas.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using a combination of coins and currency, the students will work in groups and use a menu to estimate if they have enough money to purchase a meal.


• Do You Have the Time? (Authored by Reshecia McNeil.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Do You Have the Time? enables students to learn how to tell time using digital and analog clocks to the hour and half-hour.


• Do You Judge a Book by Its Cover? (Authored by Patti Cogburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Following a class discussion about stereotypes, students cut pictures out of magazines that relate to their lives to glue on bags to share with the class.


• Do You Know the Master Programmer? (Authored by Author Unknown.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students demonstrate DNA replication, RNA transcription, and tRNA translation into protein synthesis by building models of each process using candy as building materials.


• Do You Remember? (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The student demonstrates an awareness of where a melody and melody fragments enter different voice parts, and adjusts dynamically to enable the listener to perceive these events. Each student uses a rubric to make critical evaluations of the performances.


• Do You See What I See? (Authored by Shelia Scofield.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students develop an awareness that a person's perspective affects what they think they see and what they really see.


• Do-deca-he-dron-It’s Greek to Me! (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is great for reinforcing and demonstrating knowledge of the elements of a short story. Students create a “visual” report of the literary elements with a short story. The report is a 12-sided ball called a dodecahedron.


• Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News, I’ve Got a Bad Case of Loving Math (Authored by Becca Childress.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Tired of hearing, “When are we ever going to use this again?” Students will use their knowledge of graphing inequalities to solve this real world problem. Students will have to figure how many doctors and nurses can be hired within budget and buildin


• Does It Match? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows students to identify lines of symmetry of given figures such as shapes, letters, and objects.


• Does One Tree a Forest Make? (Authored by Linda Kitner.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the schoolground.


• Does the Decimal Point Really Make a Difference? (Authored by Sharla Shults.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: What’s the problem with cheeseburgers advertised for .99 cents each or colas for .89 cents each? Students study the decimal dilemma and discover major math mistakes in the real world.


• Does Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will work in groups to rank a list of words from one extreme to the other, such as cold-hot, love-hate, etc. Groups will share their results with the class. After discussion and upon reviewing model descriptive writing, students will app


• Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor? (Authored by Karen Hamilton.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students predict, infer, investigate, compare, and evaluate five different brands of gum of the same flavor to discover how long it takes for the flavor to disappear. The chewing time for each brand of gum is timed and results are recorded in a journa


• Does Your Fitness Compute? (Authored by Jill David et al.)
  Subject(s): Applied Technology, Health, Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students chart and analyze baseline data pertaining to improving and maintaining fitness levels.


• Does Your Rectangle Have Guts? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A rectangle is the shape of a piece of notebook paper. The area is the space inside the rectangle, and it is measured in square units.


• Dog Gone Good Note Cards (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students research a dog breed and create at least three note cards detailing information obtained about the dog breed. This is the first of three lessons that are part of a unit called, "Dog Gone Paw-erful Writing and Presenting with PowerPoint."


• Doggie Delicacies (Authored by Stacey Higginbothem.)
  Subject(s): ESE - SE (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Looking for a real life business brought right into your classroom? If so, Doggie Delicacies is the business for you! Working in cooperative groups, students advertise their business, take orders, organize, create a product, and distribute.


• Doing Battle with Radical Equations (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Equations containing radicals with variables in the radicand are called radical equations. To solve such equations, first isolate the radical on one side of the equation and then square each side of the equation to eliminate the radical.


• Doing Dewey (Authored by Alice Clark.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Doing Dewey reinforces the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students will apply their basic understanding of Dewey decimal classification to the process of book organization.


• Domino Effect (Authored by Lisa Locklin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students investigate a change from potential energy to kinetic energy and discuss the concept of waves carrying energy.


• Domus Romana: A Roman House (Authored by Pierce Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A home can tell a lot about the people that live there. This lesson explores the typical elements of a wealthy Roman politician or businessman’s home and the types of activities that go on there.


• Don't Delete Me (Authored by Elizabeth Burnett.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students identify how a malfunction in a particular chromosome can result in a myriad of genetic disorders that may lead to a person requiring medical care, as a result of a condition caused by the genetic mutation.


• Don't Eat the Crayons: Real-Life Multiplication (Authored by Susan Vinson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use items which come in sets to look for real-life multiples and write multiplication problems. For example: a box of 24 crayons has 3 rows of 8 crayons, so the problem written would be 3 x 8 = 24. A candy bar: 2 rows of 4 segments (2 x 4 =8).


• Don't Eat Your Words (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using different shapes of macaroni dyed various colors, students work in pairs to apply knowledge of punctuation rules to sentences.


• Don't Let Computers Bug You (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use the computer, an Internet encyclopedia, and word processing program to write a paragraph about a bug.


• Don't Open That Door! (Authored by Tammy Hales.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students act out the story THE DOORBELL RANG by Pat Hutchins in a small group setting to learn about parts of a whole.


• Don't Throw Away That Junk Mail! (Authored by Cheree Brown.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will use old junk mail to identify techniques used to attract and hold the reader's attention.


• Doodle Bug Family Web (Authored by Nancy Strong.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this lesson, students doodle to create a web about their family to prepare for writing. All bugs are worked out prior to the final draft.


• Dot Two Dot (Authored by Linda Joyner.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students compare two numbers at a given time. The students then make an educated decision as to which number is larger, which number is smaller, or if the numbers are equal by putting the correct number of dots by each number.


• Double This (Authored by Mary Myers.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Does doubled mean to multiply? Does quotient mean subtraction or division? This activity will provide students practice in changing verbal expression to algebraic equations.


• Down by the Bay (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will engage in a predicting and counting activity through simulated fishing as a way to identify the bluefish of St. Andrew Bay.


• Down the Knoll Without the Water (Authored by Lee Strain.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students revise fairy tales or nursery rhymes using a thesaurus. They give synonyms for a selected word.


• Down to the Root of the Plant (Authored by 2301.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through discussion and activity about roots of plants, students will identify types of roots and their purposes and will observe and document root growth.


• Dragon Math (Authored by Carol Weyrich.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity allows students to master multiplication facts in a fun and competitive manner.


• Draw to Scale the E-Z Way (Authored by Stuart Brannon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, students draw a rough floor plan of a house to scale without using a ruler to determine measurements.


• Drawing Bugs Game (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore probability by predicting the likelihood of rolling any one number on a fair die, graphing data, and analyzing the results of playing a drawing game.


• Drawing Straws (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity by investigating possible lengths to sides of a triangle. Students discover the Triangle Inequality Theorem through hands-on activities with straws.


• Drawing with Scissors like Matisse (Authored by Belinda Brown.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Snip colorful pieces of paper into a cut-work creation that expresses something you love or makes your heart happy. Use the style of drawing with scissors like Matisse to design a colorful cut-work masterpiece that reflects your personality.


• Dream Castles (Authored by Susan Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students construct a medieval castle after studying related vocabulary, listening to a book, and completing a worksheet concerning the parts of a castle.


• Dream House (Authored by Amy Gunn.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson should be used as a culmination to a unit on perimeter and area. . Students use scale drawings to solve real world problems problems involving perimeter and area.


• Dream Killers (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: What is a dream killer? A person? An idea? Students continue their exploration of figurative language and point of view in the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved].


• Dreaming to Come to America (Authored by Diane Krapf.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students examine reasons for immigration to America, including economic, political, and religious considerations and conduct research to determine immigration history of students' families and compare reasons other groups have come to America.


• Dreams, Stars, and Beaches (Authored by Bobbi Shapiro.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this lesson, students compare their own lives with that of a girl in a tenement building in New York City. Through reading -Tar Beach,- a story by Faith Ringgold, students better understand the hopes and dreams of the less fortunate.


• Dressing the Blues (Authored by Dorothy Sheldon.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Dressed for Blues Day, fifth grade students improvise a Blues melody choosing from these notes, G,Bb,B,D,or E, using xylophones and/or block flutes.


• Dynamic Divisibility (Authored by Tina Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn the rules of divisibility for the numbers 2,3,5,6,9 and 10. Students use these rules to check large numbers for their divisibility.


• Dynamics in Concept and in Action (Authored by Paul Dobson.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students perform grade appropriate literature utilizing the specified dynamic indications and respond accurately to the cues of the director.


• Dynamite Data (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students will collect and organize data for tally charts, tables, and pie graphs.


• Dynamite Dimes (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a fun and entertaining lesson on dimes called Dynamite Dimes. Students have the opportunity to explore dimes in a game format. Students learn through teacher instruction, hands-on experiences, group activities and games. (This is the second


• E.T. Write Home (Authored by Susan Mercer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After reading [The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System,] the students will pretend they're E.T. writing letters home describing his adventures through the solar system in a journal format.


• Earth Bags (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will write and illustrate ideas for helping our environment on paper grocery bags that will be distributed at the local grocery store.


• Earth Matters (Authored by Laura Brown.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will understand and be able to identify the Earth's equator, prime meridian, lines of latitude, lines of longitude, parallels, and meridians.


• Easy Essays Step 1 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the first lesson of a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay to students.


• Easy Essays Step 2 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is the second step in the UnitPlan: Easy Essays in Three Steps. Students participate in mini- lessons which will encourage better essay writing.


• Easy Essays Step 3 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the third step in a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, which has been designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay format to students.


• Easy Estimating (Authored by Debbie Funkhouser.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: -Easy Estimating- introduces children to the fun of estimating and graphing while incorporating the concepts of less, more and equal.


• Eating for Two (Authored by Michelle Groce.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students learn how to keep a food diary and prepare a Healthy Meals Chart in order to assist them in making healthy choices regarding the foods they eat while pregnant.


• Eating More or Less? (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students investigate by using the Internet to research the types of eating disorders and summarize their effects on the body by creating a PowerPoint presentation or poster presentation.


• Eco the Gecko and the Story of Economics (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Eco the Gecko, a puppet, leads students on a journey to discover basic concepts of economics.


• Ecology (Authored by Christine Newton.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will research a chosen ecosystem and produce a PowerPoint presentation or booklet titled: My Ecosystem and Its Endangered Species.


• Economics on a SeeSaw (Authored by Al Lewis.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Comparing a playground seesaw to the economy, students define a basic vocabulary of economic terms and place types of goods and wages on a sketch of a playground seesaw.


• Ecosystem Energizers (Authored by Alice Bamberger.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students engage, explore and begin to investigate their knowlege of the flow of energy through an ecosystem by building a concept map.


• Edible Cells (Authored by Lauren Farinas.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will construct edible models of a plant cell and an animal cell and be able to state the functions of the organelles.


• Edible Rock (Authored by Angie Worcester.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students experiment with gelatin Rock Strata to possibly discover fossils and identify the effects of erosion and weathering on the sedimentary rock. They illustrate and summarize their findings.


• Efficiency (Authored by J.P. Hamilton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students work cooperatively to investigate the efficiency of various household appliances. They share their findings in three to five minute oral presentations.


• Efficiency Means Getting More for Less (Authored by Richard Angelini Sr..)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Here is a simple experiment. It costs little, the materials will last for 100 years, and it is safe. It is a study of efficiency in nature. Water is measured and predictions are made.


• Egg Carton Math (Authored by Gina Widener.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students are asked to recognize numbers 1-10 from a flash card held by the teacher and put the amount of beans in an egg cartoon that corresponds to the number the teacher holds up.


• Egg It (Authored by Pamela Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students show understanding of the relationship of multiplication and addition by writing multiplication number sentences.


• EggCELLent Diffusion (Authored by Sherri Barber.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students observe the effects of diffusion on eggs by observing the change in the egg's size and the amount of liquid substance that remains.


• Egyptian Numeration Pyramid (Authored by Frieda Bates.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students construct a 3-D pyramid and decorate it with Egyptian numbers and their equivalent in our numerical system.


• Eight Eighths Make a Roll (Authored by MAdele Carson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Using a bag of individual rolls of Sprees, the students learn about fractions making up a whole. They also make a bar and a circle graph using the results of their Spree rolls.


• Eight Stars in the Night Sky (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Can you count eight stars in the night sky? This eighth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting continues students’ exploration of the day and night skies. A page for the number 8 is added to students’ counting books.


• El Cuarto Loco (Authored by Mary Montcalm.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students draw a complete house plan and then tell another student about a crazy room in their house, while the other student draws the room from the description.


• El Joki Poki (The Hokey Pokey) (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn the Spanish words for prepositions and act them out as they sing and act out the motions to the song, “El Joki Poki” (The Hokey Pokey).


• El Menu (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students make a menu (in Spanish) and present it to the class.


• Elaborate Cupcakes (Authored by Judy Fox.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is a delicious fun way for your students to gain a better understanding of how to use elaboration in their writing. Students use several of their senses in this lesson.


• Elaborate It (Authored by Kelly Allen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students add personal anecdotes to expository responses in order to elaborate on a central idea.


• Electric Generation (Authored by Dennis Bush.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students identify the components that are necessary for the production of electric currents. This will be accomplished by having the students produce electricity by simply turning an electrical extension cord. (THIS IS AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY)


• Electromagnetic Spectrum (Authored by Carol Houck.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students investigate the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum.


• Email Buddies (Authored by Carol Rine.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Teachers set up an e-mail system whereby students in different classes or schools can communicate research-based questions and answers on a given topic. (NETS for Students: 4.1)


• Endangered Species (Authored by Teresa Lowery.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will be able to identify endangered species, identify physical & behavioral characteristics, work in a group for research and presentation, and create a PowerPoint presentation with their findings.


• Endothermic or Exothermic – That Is the Question. (Authored by Jeri Martin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: What happens to the heat energy during a chemical reaction? Students will become familiar with an endothermic reaction by testing a chemical reaction.


• Enforcers of the Law, The Executive Branch (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Have you ever wondered just what a governor does at work? Students learn about the executive branch of government, its structure, function, and basic responsibility, as well as whom their elected officials are for this branch. This lesson focuses on


• Environmenal Detectives at Work (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Environmental Detectives at Work engages students in an investigation of the influence of one human on our natural world.


• Environmental Mathematics (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will explore what food sources are needed to survive in the wild. Then the students will plot on a graph the best food sources for their environments and the survivability rate for each member of their group.


• Environmental Quality in Our Own Backyard (Authored by Daric White.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is a research project designed to increase student and community awareness and participation in local environmental issues.


• Environmentally Friendly (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The focus of this lesson is to practice researching a project and write a formal letter. Students research using computers to gather information on wildlife management and use the information to write a letter to an agency.


• Enzymatic Action (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Enzymes are specialized proteins that regulate chemical activity in the body without themselves being altered in the reaction. In this lab, students observe how a cell uses an enzyme to rid itself of a poisonous substance.


• Escape to Freedom (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students read “They Called Her Moses,” create a “Wanted Poster” for Tubman, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and work in groups to create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time period.


• Escape Velocity (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The ability to use and compute roots is often a necessary tool in physics. For example, square roots are used to compute the minimum velocity a spacecraft must have to escape the gravitational force of a planet.


• Escape! Survival of the Fittest Grasshopper (Authored by Lois Walsh.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Lab Activity: Student teams design a paperclip grasshopper and measure its ability to survive a prey by either jumping high, far, or with a distracting behavior. Students relate the ability to survive to the changing attack of predators. (NETS for Students


• Espresso Your Feelings in Poetry (Authored by Dee Camp-White.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students discover that using descriptive, figurative, and vivid language to write “free verse” can be a fun form of self-expression. Students create poems using online resources and share their creations in a “coffeehouse” setting.


• Estimate a Dinner Plate (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. Estimation strategies are reviewed and practiced to help students determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.


• Estimation in a Jar (Authored by Amanda Ellis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Fill a jar with goodies and guess what happens! Use some of your favorite teacher “stuff” for students to use to estimate, group, count, and journal.


• Ethos, Logos, and Pathos (Authored by Laura Childers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: After teaching ethos, logos, and pathos, students read -Letter From a Birmingham Jail- and -Civil Disobedience- to identify these appeals and write a comparison/contrast paper connecting these two essays, which were written a hundred years


• Euro English (Authored by Peggy Craig.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students read a short essay and cull out the directions. Then the students rewrite the essay using standard English spellings.


• Evaporation Marathon (Authored by Cheryle Borsos.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Runners take your mark! This lesson involves a student experiment to see which container evaporates water the quickest. The lesson invites students to explore independent and dependent variables as part of the experimentation process.


• Even and Odd Numbers (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: First graders use patterns in order to identify and recognize even and odd numbers.


• Every Vote Counts (Authored by Brenda Heath.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is a multi-phase activity designed to increase student awareness and participation in the voting process.


• Everybody Else Has One! (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Commercials have an amazing impact on buyers of all ages. By creating a commercial, students become more aware of the propaganda techniques used to impact the buying power of the consumer.


• Everyday Use (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: While reading a short story, students make notations about characters on small, sticky notes that they will use in a comparison/contrast essay.


• Everything You Wanted to Know About Symmetry (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson introduces and reinforces the concept of symmetry.


• Examining Estimation (Authored by Denise Simonson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students participate in various activities which help them understand and explain the difference between an estimate and an exact amount.


• EXCEL It! (Authored by Sharla Shults.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Let’s go surfing! Students surf the Web gathering information about graphs. The data collected and analyzed in The Math Poet activity is now incorporated into a spreadsheet and graphs of varying nature generated to further enhance student understanding.


• Exercise - The Right Stuff (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn regular exercise keeps the body strong and healthy. They make an exercise chain and practice the activities written on the links.


• Exercise for Health (Authored by Joe Walker.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students chart and analyze data on a physical fitness chart pertaining to assessment, improvement and maintaining cardiovascular fitness.


• Exercise for Life (Authored by Jill David et al.)
  Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students produce a video that demonstrates health risk factors and how the controllable health risk factors can be reduced through regular exercise.


• Exercise Those Statistics! (Authored by Kevin Holland.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This activity is designed to reinforce the statistical concepts of mean, median, mode, and histograms. Students collect data by measuring their pulse rates through different activities.


• Expensive Choices (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students work in pairs to discover how to prioritize expenses in a budget.


• Expert Review (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 13 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will review both social studies and language arts unit concepts.


• Explore Three-Dimensional Shapes (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students are “Shapes” for the day, They are assigned to a shape group and will be exploring three-dimensional shapes. They are continuing to review map skills and two-dimensional shapes while being involved in fun and enriching activities.


• Explorers of the New World (Authored by Pam Kennon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students researchan explorer and learn how his exploration affected the Western Hemisphere. They demonstrate competency in using Encarta, information software and present a Power Point presentation to classmates with two scanned drawings.


• Exploring Ancient Greece (Authored by Rachel Farris.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use play dough to create a relief map of Greece and through personal investigation and class discussion, draw conclusions about the impact of the geography of Greece on daily life and culture in Ancient Greece.


• Exploring Area/Perimeter Through Coordinate Geometry (Authored by Joseph Furner PhD.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn about area and perimeter through coordinate geometry. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet will be incorporated.


• Exploring Personal Responsibility (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students examine themselves to evaluate their own levels of personal and social responsibility.


• Exposing Expository Text Structure in a Rainforest Setting (Authored by Laura Hobbs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson represents the first two days lessons of an expository text structure unit. In this unit students explore expository text structure through the creation of a thematic booklet containing examples of different types of expository text structures.


• Express Yourself (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This language arts lesson is for Days 9-10 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will practice speaking to a small group about their favorite part of a Native American tale. Peer partners will assess each other’s performances.


• Express Yourself! (Authored by Alicia Allen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist.


• Extra Terrestial Excursions (Authored by D Bush.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students calculate the length of time it would take to fly to each of the planets in the solar system if we could do so by conventional jet and with our fastest spacecraft.


• Eye No the Write Won! (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students practice with synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.


• Eye Spy! (Authored by Polly Beebe.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using a Mystery Bag, the What Do You See? game, and an on-campus field trip with Eye-Spy binoculars, students have the opportunity to use descriptive words in many fun ways.


• Fable Writing (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using fables, students determine the moral or -central theme- of a piece of writing. Students create their own personal fables, editing for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.


• Fabulous Alliteration (Authored by Madonna Scime.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, students explore an alliterative tale called [Four Fanished Foxes and Fosdyke]. They listen to the story, then brainstorm their own lists of alliterative words and make their own alliterative tales.


• Fabulously Famous ABC’S (Authored by Christine Broyles.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Surf the Internet, library or even a textbook to find famous individual for a talk show at your school. Write script for an imaginary two-minute radio interview with this famous (past/present) individual.


• Face the Facts to Remember (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use manipulatives, drawings, and story problems to learn the two's multiplication tables. After learning how to find answers,they participate in a memory game to match facts and answers.


• Fact and Opinion Detectives (Authored by Sarah Hebert.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson, students learn to distinguish facts from opinions in a child’s news magazine.


• Fact Family Connection (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore the relationship of multiplication and division using arrays.


• Fact or Fantasy Writing (Authored by Renee Benefield.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This simple lesson introduces fiction and non-fiction writing. Students see that some written text is for pleasure and enjoyment while some is for relaying information. They get to experience both types during the lesson.


• Fact or Fiction - What Is Expository Writing? (Authored by Carol Rine.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the first lesson in a unit on expository writing called Info Expo. Students take a pre-test, compare and contrast various forms of writing with a Venn diagram, and explore the various formats for expository writing.


• Factoring out Disease (Authored by Erin Cramer.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students identify health problems that occur during adulthood and list the related risk factors, as well as ways to delay the onset of or the prevention of the identified health problems.


• Facts of Matter (Authored by Priscilla Boan.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will be involved in making group decisions about matter. They will explore and interpret many types of matter as well as grouping matter.


• Fahrenheit Follies (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Weather Trackers. This is a fun and entertaining lesson on temperature. Students learn about temperature using hands-on activities and games.


• Fair is Fair (Authored by Teri Grunden.)
  Subject(s): Health, Social Studies, Theater (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn more about the concept of -fairness- by being involved in two unfair activities, role-playing three scenarios, and filling in a web about fairness.


• Falling Apart for Plot (Authored by Melissa Layner.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students study the effectiveness of the plot of [Things Fall Apart]. They complete a story diagram and compete in a debate regarding the effectiveness of the plot of the novel.


• Family at Home (Authored by Frieda Bates.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write a family of multiplication and division facts on a piece of paper cut in the shape of a house.


• Family Cookbook (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Family Cookbook is a published collection of recipes emphasizing number names and ingredients in a picture book format.


• Fancy Names (Authored by Christine Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After learning about closed and open figures, students will explore their own names to see if they contain closed figures.


• Fantastic Fraction Fudge (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students sequence a recipe and convert the ingredients into various fractional portions


• Fantastic Fractions (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Do you have only a fraction of time to teach fractions? Well, here is the lesson for you! Fantastic Fractions teaches students the difference between 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. Students will use their imagination and pictures from magazines.


• Fantasy Visualization (Authored by Mary Tomczak.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity provides a unique way of brainstorming to get an idea. A group of artists known as the Surrealists used this game to give them ideas for their artworks.


• Far Out Fact Families (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student explores related multiplication and division facts.


• Farmer 's Barnyard Animals Hungry for Greater Than (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will compare numbers to the thousands place using < and >. Teacher can dress the part of a farmer for a motivational way to teach this concept. Less than and greater than signs will be turned into hungry barnyard animals.


• Farming the Southern Colonies (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The student discovers the basis for farming choices in the early colonies using group research and discussion.


• Fascinating Factors (Authored by Kathy Rigling.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a fun and engaging way to introduce biotic and abiotic factors by the use of nature observation , peer discussion and the production of a collage.


• Fast Food Junkie (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students analyze the nutritional value of their favorite fast food meals and describe alternative choices for these unhealthy foods.


• Favorite Survey (Authored by Jennifer Sansone-Berbert.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a fun and interactive way for students to collect and organize data for charts and bar graphs by questioning their classmates.


• FCAT Writes! Frenzy (Authored by Fran Mallory.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students that are test anxious greatly benefit from this practice run. Using the two most critical features FCAT Writes! places on our students, time constraints and the unknown prompt, students experience a dress rehearsal of timed demand writing.


• Federalism and the Prevention of Abuse of Power in the US Federal Government (Authored by Jim Vierthaler.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This multiple day lesson plan is designed to show the ideas, values, and principles of the United States Constitution and other other writings that helped to shape the government of the United States. Students demonstrate understanding of the federal gove


• Feed Your Cells (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What happens to the food we eat? How does it help our bodies? In this lesson, students learn about the human digestive system through reading and activities. Study skills are taught and modeled.


• Feel the Beat! (Authored by Wes Landen.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will explore the benefits and work towards maintaing a target heart rate by using an aerobic activity. Students will construct a bar graph of their own heart rates after four, three-minute runs. The construction of their graphs will provide


• Feels Like Christmas, Exploring Touch (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The sense of touch helps us learn about our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture, and shape of things. In this activity, students will classify four different sandpaper shapes by using only their sense of touch.


• Fiddlin' Around (Authored by Sandra Rosengren.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this lesson students learn to play open strings on the violin, viola, cello, and bass using proper bow technique while playing "Twelve Bar Blues" in the key of D.


• Figuratively Speaking (Authored by Faith Daigle.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students construct and use vocabulary flipbooks to draw and describe three-dimensional figures.


• Figure This (Authored by Alice Bobe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In this activity, students identify congruent figures and match shapes using transformation.


• Figuring Out Frost (Authored by Margaret Walton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In this lesson, students read “The Runaway” by Robert Frost and analyze it for its literal and symbolic meanings. Students then compare their personal experiences with the poet’s suggestions about youthful attitudes and behaviors and eva


• Figuring Solutions (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Sometimes students express their resistance to learning academic concepts. This lesson avails students opportunities to discuss their attitudes and feelings so they discover possible ways to constructively respond to them.


• Filling in the [Holes] (Authored by Donald Hines.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use graphic organizers and note taking to help gain understanding and clarify meaning from the novel [Holes] and write daily inferences and generalizations about what they have read in that day’s assignment.


• Filling Up Florida (Authored by Shari Rodgers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students study factors controlling Florida's population growth and related environmental impacts. Students research natural community types and construct maps (including a large-sized map of Florida) to be used for role play/simulation activity.


• Film at 11 (Authored by Abby Hill.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students, in a two-person team, research, create, and present a TV news report simulation about a hurricane disaster in their hometown.


• Film Historian (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students determine main concept, details, stereotypes, and bias through movies. After viewing the movie, students write an essay explaining the film's influence on issues presented in the film.


• Find a Character, Tell a Story (Authored by Patricia Morres.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students choose a character from a magazine, complete a character sketch, and develop a short story placing this character in a situation.


• Finding Nice Things to Say (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students have the opportunity to praise all class members in a written form.


• Finding Self-Reliance (Authored by Carla Lovett.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Using Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” students relate what is read to their own experiences and feelings and use active listening to respond to other students’ comments. Students synthesize other responses into their own thoughts about “Self-Reliance”.


• Finding the Acceleration Due to Gravity (Authored by Phil Lee.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is a laboratory exercise which is used to calculate the acceleration due to gravity.


• Finding the Measure of Segments (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson uses the betweenness property, segment addition property, and distance formula to determine segment lengths.


• Finding the Spot (Authored by Rosemary Wilson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use circles to ‘home in’ on particular spots, showing the ability of scientists to locate unseen objects in space. This activity shows how scientists know certain objects exist in space due to the forces exerted by adjacent bodies. The teacher i


• Finding Your Stride Length (Authored by Kevin Holland.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is an estimation project designed to allow students to find the length of their strides. Using this knowledge, students measure the length of a hallway or find out how many people can fit in the school stadium or gym!


• Fire Ecology (Authored by Patrick O Bryan.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students examine the role fire plays in mantaining the physical factors of the scrub ecosystem.


• First Class Mail (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Upon completion of the novel, THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND students write a Friendly Letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.


• First Day at School (Authored by Aida Losada.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: What happens the first day at school? Let's read a story. Students will then role play and retell the story.


• First Things First (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After reviewing the trait of voice through teacher directed experiences, students complete a narrative writing (focusing on voice) and an illustration about their earliest memory.


• Fish Count (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students participate in hands-on activities in which they count and match objects to 10 or more using one-to-one correspondence and make a record of objects counted, which will be kept in a math portfolio.


• Fish Eyes Sort (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a small group instructional lesson in which students sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.


• Fishing for Fun (Authored by Juanita Looper.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students categorize fish crackers into groups by color then compare the 2 groups using the symbols <, =, and >.


• Fishing for Success (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through a literature-based lesson students identify strategies to assist those in need. Problem-solving is discussed. Oral language as well as written will be emphasized.


• Fishing for Tens (Authored by Beth Malone.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students discover how to make ten while engaged in a card game that encourages mathematical thinking.


• Fitness is Fun! (Authored by Joy Grace.)
  Subject(s): ESE - IF (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Fitness is Fun empowers special populations to select activities that appeal to them as well as those that fit their abilities and lifestyle. Self-selection of accessible, individual fitness activities (rather than inaccessible or group sports) res


• Five Fingers for Eating Lunch (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Where in the sky is the sun while you are eating lunch? This fifth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 5.


• Five Little Monkeys (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students act out subtraction situations.


• Five Little Pumpkins (Authored by Jill Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn to play rhythm instruments as part of a rhythm band to accompany the well-known poem, "Five Little Pumpkins." They learn instrument names, playing techniques, and playing at the appropriate time. Students learn how to perform


• Flavorful Graphing (Authored by Jennifer Gompers.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a fun extension to collecting, graphing, and analyzing data. Students work for a fictional advertising company and are looking to find what customers will like in new products.


• Fleece, Feathers, and Fur (Authored by Ann Espersen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The slide-show presentation and colorful website pictures in this lesson will captivate students’ attention. This is a great way to expand interests and vocabulary while teaching prediction and categorizing using the book [Is Your Mama a LLama]?


• Flight Fair (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The teacher seizes the teachable moment to announce The Flight Fair, an opportunity for the students to conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight.


• Flips, Slides, and Turns (Authored by Renee Duncan.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a hands-on way for students to practice manipulating and drawing shapes to demonstrate the concept of flips, slides and turns. This lesson is especially beneficial to tactile and visual learners.


• Float My Boat (Authored by Gail Stukey.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Why will a small piece of wood sink, but a huge boat will float? Is it magic or is it density? In this lesson students will start with the same raw materials and come up with a wide variety of results in the use of density and the displacement of


• Floating Forms Falling! (Authored by Wanda Perkins.)
  Subject(s): Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: The student draws the five basic three-dimensional forms using tools (pencil, ruler, compass, protractor, etc.) and techniques (value application) proficiently and in a safe, responsible manner.


• Floating Plates on the Earth (Authored by Lynn Buchanan.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Science students develop a concept map to help them organize information, on Plate Tectonics, after reading a selection. Students then organize notes into an outline to further demonstrate knowledge of this topic.


• Florida Water Cycle (Authored by Carlos Lopez.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Discover the water cycle process that affects Florida. Students observe the water cycle in both a graphic presentation and a demonstration to learn about the stages and sequencing of the water cycle.


• Florida's Food Webs (Authored by Mark Howell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students research a Florida ecosystem and illustrate a food web based on the organisms that live in that ecosystem.


• Florida: A Paradise for the Written Word (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using the pamphlet, FLORIDA LITERARY HISTORY, students read the article -Paradise for the Written Word: 400 Years of Literary History in Florida- by Kevin McCarthy and then answer FCAT-like questions to assess comprehension of the reading material.


• Florida’s Prize-Winning Authors (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After students study a gazetteer of Florida’s prize-winning authors in a pamphlet entitled Florida Literary Map, they select one of the mentioned authors, research his or her life, take notes, and prepare a brief biographical report.


• Flowers and Rocks (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity by investigating the relationship between area and perimeter while creating and pricing a flower bed for their school name. Students calculate the perimeter and area of block letters, in order to compete in a ‘P


• Flowers Growing Through Music, Rhymes & Movement (Authored by Beth Delmar.)
  Subject(s): Music, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Begin with a traditional singing rhyme, which leads us to "plant" seeds in the ground. From there, we experience the growing process of a seed becoming a flower as it is exposed to the sun, rain, wind, day and night, and "tickling" bees.


• Flying With Mathematics! (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students fly miniature airplanes to discover characteristics related to velocity and average speed. After measuring the time and distance, the students calculate the speed and average velocity.


• Folded Fractions (Authored by Liz West.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use various geometric shapes to represent fractional parts.


• Follow That Graph (Authored by Debbie Lloyd.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Help your students to follow that graph with ease. In this lesson, students investigate, analyze, and discuss the effects of parameter changes on a trigonometric function using a graphing calculator.


• Follow the Clues (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students read a story and predict words that make sense in replacing the nonsense words based on context clues. They choose appropriate words to match the meaning of nonsense words in sentences based on the context clues of the sentences.


• Follow the Leader! (Authored by Colleen Starr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Orwell shows how leaders and followers in a society can act in ways that destroy freedom and equality. Choose a leader and a follower from [Animal Farm] and write an essay explaining how the behavior of each contributes to the loss of freedom and equality


• Follow the Pattern (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students recognize patterns & relationships and use them predict outcomes in real-world situations. (This lesson should be conducted after students have been introduced to patterns.)


• Food for Thought (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 6 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students play a fact and opinion game concerning foods.


• Food Pyramid (Authored by Pam Kennon.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students understand the food pyramid, nutrients provided by each food group,and determine whether they are healthy eaters.


• Food Pyramid Picnic (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Teacher and students discuss the food pyramid and appropriate choices for each food group. Students then plan a nutritional meal for a picnic lunch and make a class book. As a culminating event, the class plans and enjoys a picnic.


• For Sale-Ageless Water (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a two-part lesson in which students research bottled water advertisements on the Internet and printed ads and then create their own magazine advertisement (second lesson) for the spring water in the novel [Tuck Everlasting] by Natalie Babbitt.


• Forces and Balloons (Authored by Paul Scime.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use balloons to investigate and discuss the forces of compression, tension and torque on common birthday balloons.


• Forces of Change (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Days 9 and 10 of the unit [Bedlam in Bedrock]. Students create a class reference book about ways landforms change over time and share their Earth Explorer projects.


• Forget Us Not (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are reminded of the Holocaust and its terrible cost by examining literary selections that deal with the conflict of the Holocaust. They respond in writing using a word processing program.


• Formal or Informal? (Authored by Tresha Layne.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: With this entertaining activity students practice formal and informal English by using teacher-created scenarios. Peers evaluate each other based on a questionnaire and discussion.


• Formation of Fossil Fuels (Authored by Carol Houck.)
  Subject(s): Science, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students investigate the process of fossil fuel formation.


• Foul or Fair Ball? (Authored by Judy Smith.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This culminating activity to the novel , [The Pinballs], by Betsy Byars, reviews common fouls and possible alternative, positive behaviors.


• Foundations of American Government (Authored by Clark Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson is designed to show the Principles and Origins of American Government.


• Four Animal Legs at Sunset (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Did you know that the sun is a star? This fourth lesson of the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in counting and literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 4.


• Four Corners Mystery: Where In The World Are We? (Authored by Gretchen Witherspoon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use the five fundamental themes of geography to research and describe various locations around the world in order to pose and answer the four corners mystery, -Where in the World Are We?-


• Fraction Action (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create fractions using strips of paper and then compare the fractions.


• Fraction and Decimal Garden (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write fractions and decimals using unifix cube models and grid paper. They draw a garden using grid paper and label each section with the correct fraction and decimal to the tenths.


• Fraction and Decimal Ordering (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn to order numbers in fraction and decimal form, in a critical thinking and kinesthetic fashion.


• Fraction Card Shark (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student will understand the relative size of fractions using symbolic and concrete representations.


• Fraction Feast! (Authored by Anne Roundtree.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson introduces the concept of fractions to kindergarten students.


• Fraction Food Frenzy (Middle School) (Authored by Amy Gunn.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is an introductory lesson for adding fractions with like denominators. It allows for illustrations and simple problem solving.


• Fraction Frenzy (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student will identify fractions as part of a set.


• Fraction Fun (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this lesson students learn to identify common fractions. Students should already be familiar with the terms numerator and denominator.


• Fraction Pictures (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use pictures in their math lesson. They become numerical problem solvers as they create fractions from pictures, then write them into sentences.


• Fraction Popsicle Pop-ups (Authored by Stacy Durham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students decorate and use popsicle sticks to use as manipulatives to assist with their learning of fractions.


• Fractions and Equivalents (Authored by Jeannel Lopez.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students uses Lego blocks, drawing paper, and visual aids to understand the meaning of fractions and the concept of equivalent proportions.


• Fractions in Clay (Authored by Rose Keasey.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Engage students in clay-play with a purpose. Students use modeling clay to represent fractions. They create sets of objects as directed by task cards.


• Fragments Wanted (Not) (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using a newspaper employment ad, students work together in pairs or groups of three to rewrite the ad using complete sentences. Then, each student will choose an ad to rewrite.


• Framed (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson allows students to experiment with and calculate perimeter and area of given shapes.


• Frank Oo Berry Mush (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: -Frank Oo Berry Mush- provides students practice in writing, incorporating reasons to support ideas and responding constructively to other’s comments.


• Franklin Roosevelt and the Dime (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: How many terms can a president serve? Franklin Delano Roosevelt served four terms. Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tributes to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a dime.


• Frantically Fragmented (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After instruction on recognizing sentence fragments, students practice changing the fragments into complete sentences. This is an excellent exercise for ESOL students.


• Free Reading Chart (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will read library book daily for ten to fifteen minutes and then log in information on a Free Reading Chart, giving a brief summary of what they just read and then writing a brief reactionary response to the reading.


• Freeze Pops (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students experience problem-based learning as they use prior knowledge of the states of matter to keep a frozen juice bar from melting. This science lesson is literature based.


• Frictionally Speaking (Authored by Dawn Pack.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: All you need to teach your students about the effects of friction on a moving object is a handful of marbles, a paper cup, and string.


• Friends Helping Friends (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Emotional health is a component to the overall health of students. Students are presented with an opportunity to learn problem-solving skills through the lens of helping a friend. They practice effective communication skills by giving a speech.


• Friendships Tied in Knots (Authored by Sherry Spencer.)
  Subject(s): Health, Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This initiative emphasizes what participants perceive as characteristics of healthy friendships and how these characteristics can be utilized to solve the knots in the rope representing an unhappy friend relationship.


• From Different Angles (Authored by Monica McManus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will participate in a Socratic seminar discussing a person's right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.


• From Peanuts to Peanut Butter (Authored by Erika Hall.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is a creative way to introduce young learners to the accomplishments of scientist and inventor George Washington Carver. The students get to experience a variety of products created from peanuts.


• From Pirates to Pilots to Spies (Authored by Mark Peugh.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students enjoy this introduction to the world of map projections, globes, aerial photographs, and satellite images. This lesson instructs the students on the advantages and disadvantages of each earthly representation.


• From the Farm to the Factory (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students practice listening, reading, and writing while focusing on the early part of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. Empathy for the people of this period is shown through a series of letters that relate circumstances from the period.


• Fun Photosynthesis (Authored by Stephanie Callaway.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Give your students a chance to be the sun! Creative dramatics are used to internalize knowledge of the process of photosynthesis. Students analyze and predict the relevance of photosynthesis as it relates to the food chain and survival of all organisms.


• Fun with Form (Authored by Debbie Reynolds.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Your students will successfully identify basic ABA form in a song after this fast-paced lesson, which uses simple activities and appeals to their various learning styles.


• Fun with Fractions (Authored by Michelle Nivison.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Do you have Fractionitis? This lesson plan will help you overcome this condition! Using fraction bars, you will learn to add fractions. You will soon be a Fraction Expert!


• Fun With Symmetry (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will have fun munipulating shapes to discover their multiple lines of symmetry. This activity helps students to see the lines of symmetry through colors. It gives students the ability to manipulate shapes to make their own lines of symmetry.


• Funky Phone Calls (Authored by Debbie Eller.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CO (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students place call, initiate communication and respond effectively. Students become familiar and comfortable with good telephone etiquette skills with real life application of those skills.


• Galaxy Adventure (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students work in groups to create a mnemonic device, give an oral presentation, and create a pictorial representation of the correct sequence of the planets and asteroid belt from the sun.


• Game Creator Extraordinaire (Authored by Michele Rivera.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a way to have students work together in groups to invent new and creative games. Students also get the opportunity to teach others the games they created.


• Game Day Graphing (Authored by Kevin Hall.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students produce data tables and bar graphs from given sets of information and then analyze and explain the data displays.


• Gas Money (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students write, edit and produce resumés and cover letters in final form.


• Gator Pie, Anyone? (Authored by Mary Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This activity introduces children to fractions in an active manner. The students listen to a story, manipulate flannel board figures, and cut soft cookies and paper plates into equal parts.


• Gearing Up (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In mathematics, a ratio is a comparison of two numbers by division. A gear ratio can be expressed as a ratio to solve real-world problems.


• Gee O Me Tree (Authored by Gail Ladd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Gee O Me Tree is a unique way to get acquainted and create a welcoming bulletin board for your classroom as the students follow multiple-step oral directions and review geometric shapes.


• Genre Book (Authored by Farrah Milby.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: In this activity, students work in groups to present a genre to the class. Each group is given the distinguishing features of a genre. The group is to plan a presentation and find one example of their genre in the room.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 1: Gee Quiz! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Geo George, the geometric puppet, introduces the unit to students. The children are drawn into a conversation with George to check for prior knowledge about shapes. Once relaxed and warmed-up, the class participates in taking the diagnostic assessment.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 2: Math Mouth! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Ready for the challenge, Geo George has a wonderful game for teaching children the difficult and unusual mathematically correct vocabulary words encountered on the diagnostic assessment. The game develops student understanding of these difficult terms.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 3: Math Moments on My Mind (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students begin a Math Moments journal in which they freely write about the day’s math immersion, recording personal thoughts about what they learned, something they are wondering about, a response to a lead question, and/or a letter to Geo George.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 4: Sing a Song of Shapes (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn five songs to define and develop understanding of the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures and the meaning of mathematical terms. Through use of the attribute songs, students classify objects as either two- or three-dimensional.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Working in groups of four, students utilize song lyrics, past knowledge, correct mathematical language, and speaking skills, to name, categorize, and describe various two- and three-dimensional shapes and objects.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Practicing purposeful listening during this Shared Reading component, students experience mathematical language as it is enjoyed in the rhyme and reason of poetry.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Entry in the Math Moments journal begins with student reflections on the day, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about. Response to a higher-order thinking question rounds out the writing experience.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 10: Patterned Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through comparing and contrasting related two- and three-dimensional shapes, students complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an attribute poem.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. Oral presentation of design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting lesson that stretches student thinking.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 8: Copy Cat (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students are taught the technology skills of copy and paste as geometric language is introduced. Skills are developed and used to create a computer-generated page defining attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes using the new vocabulary.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This Shared Reading lesson has students participating in vocabulary building through the reading of and interaction with poetry. Each poem presents the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 12: Geo Gee-Hawin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In order to review unit content, with specific focus on geometric vocabulary students are expected to understand and use effectively, Geo George plays a Math Mouth word game with the class giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge with geob


• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Listening for geometric shapes occurring in the natural environment as presented in a student-generated story, students identify each natural object and correctly label it as the geometric shape that it is according to its attributes.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 14: Give It a Whirl (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Exploration of rotating 3-D shapes at varied speeds has students discovering, discussing, and questioning. Personal reflections move students to a hands-on activity that has them transition a two-dimensional square into a three-dimensional pinwheel.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this writing lesson, students investigate musical instruments of varying geometric shapes that correspond with the three-dimensional shapes studied, and write shape pattern tunes, which will be read and played by students on the geometric instruments.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 16: Capturing "Lions" of Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students take to the Author's Chair and share poems written at home for the Capturing “Lions” of Poetry Literacy Link parent page. The class listens with purpose for the correct attributes of the shape for which each poem was written, as w


• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 17: Geo Sakes Alive! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Pleased with students’ knowledge of two- and three-dimensional attributes, Geo George gives students the opportunity to utilize mathematical language. The challenge is to create a geo puppet by following directions given geometrically.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 18: By George! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Taking on the identity of their geometric puppet, students write a script. The script describes the attributes the puppet had as a two-dimensional square and the attributes it has now as a three-dimensional character.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 19: Hey, Hey, Whaddaya Say! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses. Individual student tapes will be sent home to afford further opportunity for recorded practice and parental assistance.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 6, Lesson 20: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Geo George leads students and friends through a review of all targeted standards. Children don their puppets and join their character in chorus, conversation, and choral correspondence.


• Geo Jammin' - Day 7, Lesson 21: Dear George (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In their journals, students write a letter to Geo George reflecting on the unit, activities, and things they learned. Included will be their favorite part of the unit, the hardest part for them, what they learned, and their thoughts on their performance.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 1: Math in Motion (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Swirling, rotating, changing, sliding. . . stimulate interest with shapes in motion to prepare students for entry into the world of geometric design. Analysis and synthesis questions are served as the appetizer before the diagnostic assessment is given.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Teacher and students are a dynamic duo who search a geometry Website to identify geometric vocabulary words, record them on a Quilt Word Wall, and dance them out together. Words are displayed to take on characteristics of different design patterns.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 3: Moo-vin (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Put the meaning of newly introduced vocabulary to the tune of “Hokey Pokey” and children develop an understanding through music and dance. Lyrics are read as a whole group and become a Guided Reading experience where more geometric vocabulary is discovered within.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students predict the outcome of the slide, flip, and turn of a triangle by transforming their thoughts and ideas into informational text. The recorded text is tested for accuracy and through peer feedback is written to perfection.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 5: Do You Hear What I Hear? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Following directions given in poetry fashion, students apply newly learned geometric vocabulary to successfully create an animal. Reading informational text for key words and specific purpose and comprehension of geometric terms is the focus.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 6: Quilt Story (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through literature, discussion, and response to critical thinking questions, students recognize the use of geometric components in quilts, and that quilts are an artistic form that reflect the cultural heritage of the people who design them.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 10: Wanna Trade? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through critical thinking questions, students develop an understanding of the way trade helps meet the basic needs of people, ways people can conserve and replenish their resources, and that quilts are an art form that reflect our cultural heritage.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 11: A Stitch in Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through reading personal size booklets, class discussion, and viewing of historical quilts, students are enlightened to the culturally artistic value of quilts, the importance of trade in meeting basic needs, and the conservation of natural resources.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 7: Start At Square One (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using manipulatives, students explore new shape possibilities by combining two and four triangles. A critical thinking approach is used to guide students’ predictions and discoveries with design.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 8: Can You Please Give Me Directions? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Guided reading strategies are utilized to teach students how to effectively read informational text. Challenged to cut a tangram, students read how-to directions and demonstrate their understanding of geometric terms to complete the task successfully.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 9: Bringing It To A Fine Gloss-ary (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students demonstrate their understanding of geometric vocabulary and informational text by working independently to create their own glossary of terms. Investigative exploration with tangrams creates an arena for critical thinking and problem solving.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 12: Jammin (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Utilizing learning aides, students are guided through a fast-paced review of vocabulary, language arts, geometry, and social studies concepts. Participation in choral reading, performance, and sharing of ideas are the means of concept clarification.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 13: Reflections (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students write predictions for new word meanings. Through small group and classroom discussions, students forge their way to developing an understanding of the line of symmetry, and gear up for an exploration of symmetry.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 14: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Led in exploration by accepting statements and probing questions, students work in small groups with mirrors to discover and identify the characteristics of symmetry, with the intent to write a description of symmetry and to locate the line of symmetry.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 15: The Quiltmaker's Gift (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using observation skills, students develop an eye for symmetry through literature. Class discussion is the arena whereby students hone in on the correct use of content language to enhance understanding and conceptualization of targeted concepts.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 16: The ABC of Symmetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Steps for an art project are used for guided reading. The activity develops a deeper understanding of how to read informational text, symmetry as it pertains to all elements of design, and art as part of history that reflects aspects of daily life.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 17: Granny's Attic (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Take a computer trip through Granny’s attic to see what old quilts can be found. Examine original quilt designs as displayed on large screen monitor. Then use children’s literature and class discussion to develop the social studies connection.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 3, Lesson 18: Coordinated! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: A sequence of drawings performed by the teacher, leads students to make associations with the object being drawn and geometry content learned in prior lessons. Through questioning students unlock Quadrant 1 of a coordinate plane and new vocabulary words.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 19: Geo Junction (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using a geoboard as a coordinate grid and pieces of drinking straws as markers, students locate and mark coordinate points on the geoboard. Located points are transferred to geo dot paper where students identify the point by writing the coordinates.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 20: Listening for Patterns (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Knowledge and understanding of patterns are extended through the use of literature as students make enriched connections to patterns in the real-world and transferring ideas.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 21: The Important Thing (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Criteria are presented for designing a quilt block design. Students demonstrate their depth of understanding of math content by using their knowledge of the concepts and transferring it into a literary pattern to write a class big book.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 22: Authentic Design (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Handmade quilts presented by the local Quilters Guild give students the opportunity to view, first-hand, a menagerie of quilt types, patterns, and themed designs. Students experience the actual size and complexity of handmade quilts and their designs.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 4, Lesson 23: Colors To Dye For (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Experiencing samples and reading about colors in fabric deepen understandings that works of art reflect cultural heritage, that trade helps families meet their basic needs, and that people can use and conserve their natural resources.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The most important thing about this lesson is the class wrote the book themselves. It reviews symmetry, line of symmetry, congruent, slide, flip, turn, shapes within a shape, and patterns. But the important thing is that the class wrote the book themselves.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 25: Geo Jungle (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Knowledge of geometry is taken to the woods as students walk the school grounds in search of symmetry in nature. Their finds are brought back to the classroom, preserved by pressing, and then used as the focus of a student generated narrative.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 26: Tangram Tantrums (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Virtual manipulatives and tangrams give students a lesson in geometric terms they won’t forget. Challenged with odd shaped puzzles, students must effectively see shapes within a shape, and correctly direct piece movement with the terms slide, flip, turn.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 27: DeSigning Coordinates (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Geo dot paper is used as a grid for coordinate geometry, making a familiar arena for performing a most unusual task. Letters are assigned to each dot. The challenge is to decode each word using given coordinates and then to illustrate each with tangrams.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 5, Lesson 28: The Mo-tea-if (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Preparing a fabric swatch for appliquéing begins with reading informational text and directions for tea dying cloth. The task comes full circle as students are given a piece of fabric, and use tea leaves to dye it to the shade of their choosing.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 29: Geo Jabber (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Given a vocabulary word by the teacher, students show what they know by jabbering on their geoboard. Students silently present created illustrations or demonstrations for each word by holding up individual geoboards.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 30: Manipulative Mania (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Explore and experiment with creating designs with specific components is one individual activity that students engage in. As students transfer designs and use a checklist to check for inclusiveness, each is summatively assessed on selected standards.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 31: Ge-0h Boy, Oh Boy (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Through literature, students see an authentic use for stitching that goes beyond the coverlet and quilting as a feminine pastime. The concepts of quilting come full circle and students learn that it is useful for boys, as well as girls.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 6, Lesson 32: Applique-tion of Learning (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Appreciation for quilts as an art form, trade item, and as a way to conserve resources is developed by students reading and applying how-to text to actually hand appliqué a motif design to background fabric using three different styles of stitches.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 33, Unpack My Mind to Make a Design (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Design pumps are primed and creative juices start to flow as students view various quilt pattern designs to identify and label components of each. Students then work independently on creating a quilt block design. (Summative Assessment A)


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 34: Flying Geese (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The Flying Geese quilt pattern is used as a graphic organizer for classifying learned concepts. Using student-generated ideas, the teacher models use of the design for organizing knowledge and writing recorded ideas into paragraphs for a report.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 35: Scatter Brain (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The word is out! Challenge students to decode the message by locating the given coordinate points of letters scattered on a coordinate grid. Then, using letter coordinates from the grid, students write a coded message to parents.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 36: DeSign Sampler (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Using pictures of quilts, student groups follow presented criteria and utilize the role of each student to write quilt reports. This exercise affords students another opportunity to prepare for the summative assessment given the following day.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 37: Summarizing for the Summative (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Purposeful listening and discretionary ears are a must as peers listen to group reports and offer positive and corrective feedback with regards to content criteria. This summarizing activity prepares students for the summative assessment of like design.


• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 7, Lesson 38: Kool Cups (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Caution, fun ahead! Students read informational text and use mathematical language for the specific purpose of making geometric cups! Students proceed through the lesson to make cups per direction specifications. To test for accuracy, fill with Kool-Aid.


• Geo-Folder (Authored by Kathy Peters.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create a Geo-Folder based on geometric terms and concepts.


• Geo-Town (Authored by Kathy Peters.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use a checklist to construct a Geo-Town map including a compass rose, a map key, and a paragraph about a walk around Geo-Town, using appropriate geometric and directional vocabulary to identify the two-dimensional figures encountered on the walk.


• GeoDraw (Authored by Ruth Meinke.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: GeoDraw is a two-part activity to reinforce the student’s ability to recognize and identify three-dimensional figures in a fun way. It includes an art activity and a card game.


• Geometric Glances (Authored by anne brandon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students capture pictures of geometric shapes with cameras and use geometric vocabulary to describe the pictures.


• Geometric Sequence (Authored by Xiuqing Li.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will learn the geometric sequence and find the sum of an geometric sequence.


• Geometric Twins (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson explores the concept of congruency using dot paper so that a student can visualize, draw, and replicate different congruent shapes.


• Geometry Geopardy (Authored by Annette Nixon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: A fun way to practice and review geometry material.


• Geometry in Nature (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will explore how the circumference, diameter, and the relationship of Pi of a circle are related. The students will also determine the age of a tree by counting the summer growth rings.


• Geometry Library (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write and illustrate books to make a class library of math term books. This is an excellent review for the FCAT math test.


• Geometry Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Sandra Pickard.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students find everyday objects that represent geometric figures. The students must then prove the object is in fact the shape. Students also find the perimeter, area, surface area, volume, circumference of selected objects.


• Geometry: Tessellations (Authored by Kathy Peters.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students apply knowledge of reflections, rotations, and translations in creating a tessellation.


• George Gorilla and Gallon Gorp (Authored by Sara Hubbard.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: George Gorilla and Gallon Gorp is an exciting hands-on lesson that enables elementary children to construct a gallon gorilla puzzle. In the process students learn measuring skills, make Gorilla Gorp, and enjoy their edible creation.


• Get Hooked on Conflict Resolution Skills (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After being taught the Peaceworks curriculum for managing conflict, students will participate in a fishing game that encourages the appropriate response when asked questions on conflict resolution skills.


• Get Hungry for Cooperation (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
  Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students, through music, movement, and literature, are taught the meaning and value of cooperation.


• Get in Order (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students practice putting events from a written passage in chronological order, both in groups and individually.


• Get In Shape: Exercise Daily (Authored by Stafford Nairn Jr..)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students begin the lesson with four exercises. Next, the students rest for a few minutes and then run one lap around the physical education field. After resting, students will complete the lesson with a four minute aerobic dance.


• Get Informed About English II (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students read a teacher-made informative pamphlet about tenth grade English class rules and requirements and learn important information about FCAT They answer FCAT-like questions about the pamphlet and write an essay.


• Get into the Groove with Style (Authored by Roberto Gonzalez-Trigo.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Style! Style! Style! Your students will identify four styles of music that are exciting and fun to learn. They will learn Classical, Rock, Jazz, and Caribbean music.


• Get Off the Couch and Get Busy (Authored by Robert Blair.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will perform at 5 fitness stations a day for a week. Each fitness station will be based on a benefit of vigorous physical activity.


• Get Out of the Box (Authored by Nancy Slack.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Are your students stuck in a rut when it comes to writing? Get them to think outside the box with this lesson in organization through webbing.


• Get Physical (Authored by Brian Rowland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students research a physical exercise using primary source information. Students analyze the information and write a report that validates, rejects, or qualifies the information.


• Get Ready for FCAT with Music in Our Schools Month! (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson encourages the integration of writing skills with music during Music in Our Schools Month, which is in March. Afterwards, the smiles on the students' faces when they see their essays displayed around school is reward enough.


• Get the Joke! (Authored by Carole Bennett.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Middle schoolers love jokes! Capitalize on this by using jokes to help them understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.


• Get the Picture with Graphs (Authored by Sharla Shults.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Pictures say a thousand words, so let’s just picture it with graphs! Students examine line, bar and circle graphs in the newspaper and on the Web. Sketches of graphs are completed with emphasis on selecting the best model to depict data collected. (NETS for Students: 5.1)


• Get the Picture? (Authored by Kim Auerbach.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students design a simple coordinate graph picture. Then reflect, translate and rotate the picture according to specific directions.


• Get the Point! (Authored by Stephanie Hans.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use a variety of resources to gather information on the Civil War and then create PowerPoint presentations.


• Getting Down to Business (Authored by Joy Rowell.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use correct business letter format to write a first draft, edit and rewrite a final draft business letter to their choice of vendor with comments of criticism or praise.


• Getting There Socially (Authored by Sharon Wykle.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL, ESE - SE (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: How do your students interact with each other? Students learn social problem solving skills (anger management, interpersonal skills, sharing, etc.) through role-playing, using [Boardmaker] computer-generated pictures.


• Getting to Know My Apple (Authored by Louise Glover.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: By applying each of the 5 senses, students will compare an apple to unlike things in a similie poem. ie: The apple tastes sour like a lemon.


• Getting to Know Our Elected Officials (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Who is your favorite elected official? Students choose an elected official to research, and share their information in a report. The report must be focused, contain supporting details from various sources, and use correct conventions including indenta


• Getting to Know Our School (Authored by Akishna Glasper.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Who works at our school and what do they do? This is a great lesson for the first few weeks of school. In this lesson students explore their school and the various types of people who work there (school nurse, custodian, and principal). The students in


• Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing (Authored by Linda Sheffield.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn to formulate effective questioning techniques and understand the characteristics of the interviewing process.


• Getting to Know You Through Questioning (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students have opportunities to get to know their classmates through 'personalized' sentences that feature one student each day, and offer practice in proofreading and peer-editing related to capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and/or grammar rul


• Getting Your Students Started (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: On alternating days, students will begin class by either doing sentences for editing OR a gratitude journal. This is designed so students have a quiet activity which starts immediately at the beginning of class. The teacher is now free to take roll, etc.


• Gingerbread Genius (Authored by Tammy Hanlon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will sort by different attributes and name the sorting rule they used to sort their gingerbread men.


• Girl Power (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: During a unit on the Renaissance, the class uses notes obtained through previous research to create a mobile that illustrates the contributions of a Renaissance woman and explains how these accomplishments influenced her society.


• Give a Mouse a Cookie (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
  Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students listen to story and record progression of ideas onto a chart.


• Give Me Five at Christmas Time (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students become aware of their senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song. This is the first lesson in A “Sense”sational Christmas unit that also includes a diagnostic assessment.


• Give Me Five! (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Children hear a story about cooperation and identify different ways in which they can use their hands for helping.


• Give Me Five, Cents That Is (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Give Me Five is the third lesson in the unit, Common Cents. It is an interesting lesson on nickels. Students learn money concepts through entertaining games, teacher instruction, hands-on activities, role play and partner work.


• Give Me the Seven Digits (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Using the telephone directory, city directory, and business directory, students practice locating specific information.


• Give Me Your Vital Statistics (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a great -first week of school- activity that allows students to get to know one another while giving them the opportunity to practice their logical thinking skills.


• Glucose Factory (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Plants use chemicals from the environment and energy from the sun to produce their own food. The food they produce is glucose. Students determine through laboratory activity the presence or absence of glucose in a variety of plant leaves and stems.


• Go Far in a Car (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Traveling in a car can take you near or far. Through this literature-based lesson, students learn about rhyming words, that different things move at different speeds, and vocabulary as they explore transportation.


• Go Jump In The Lake! (Authored by Marla Blair.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this real-life science activity, students test local lake waters to determine overall health of the lakes. Students then hypothesize possible human impact on the indicators they are testing in the waters and share these inferences in a scientific report.


• Go-o-o Tooth! (Authored by Pamela Williams.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students identify healthy and unhealthy choices which will help them take proper care of their teeth for a lifetime.


• Gobble Up a Good Story (Authored by Lois Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a yummy way to create a simple story line for an original fairy tale. The students use an edible setting and a planning sheet to help them put all of the story details in the correct order.


• Going Batty (Authored by Donna Nelson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: We are going batty! In this lesson students begin with the word "at" then learn about bats and other things ending with "at."


• Going My Way (High School Math) (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: When an object moves at a constant speed, or rate, it is said to be in uniform motion. The formula d = rt is used to solve uniform motion problems.


• Going My Way? (Authored by Maria Gyory.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students create and utilize a picture graph of the various means of transportation that they use to return home at the end of the school day.


• Going to Grandma's (Authored by Jennifer Marshall.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After listening to and reading [The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's] by Shirley Neitzel, students pack their bags for such a trip.


• Going Whole Hog (Authored by Cindy Beckham.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: To reinforce skills in comparing fractions, students play a game in which they compare fractions and represent the fractions on a graph.


• Goldfish Subtraction (Authored by Sheila Spiddle.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore subtraction and number sentences using Goldfish crackers.


• Goldilocks and the Bears Make Their Pitch (Authored by Elizabeth Roederer.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students listen to the story of [Goldilocks and the Three Bears] and identify the pitch of the bears' voices as high, medium, and low. Students improvise on xylophones a melody to accompany the bears in the telling of the story.


• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Authored by Terri Burns.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is designed to enhance students’ ability to comprehend written text by teaching them how to think about the events in a story as they read.


• Gone to the Dogs (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students learn how to decode words by breaking multi-syllable words into basic syllables and counting those syllables. The children then play a station activity game that builds vocabulary and practices decoding multi-syllable words.


• Good and Bad Grammar (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students collect bad grammar examples from business signs, magazines, and other printed material and then individually teach a mini-grammar lesson on at least one bad example.


• Good Grief! (Authored by Pam Lord.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: GOOD GRIEF! What better way to explain, demonstrate, and explore strategies related to a difficult topics? Through student role playing within family groups, the use of communicating strategies for managing grief will be explored.


• Good Health Care (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn about safety, nutrition, personal hygiene, dental health, and the effects of rest and physical exercise on the human body. Students become aware of the jobs related to each of these health areas.


• Good Snack,Smart Snack (Authored by Carolyn Mannis.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After completing a unit of study on nutrition, students work as company managers to design and advertise healthy snacks to sell. A list of ingredients will be listed for each snack and an advertisement will be designed to promote their product.


• Got Escher? (Tessellation) (Authored by Euconfra Corbit.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create Escher-like tessellations.


• Governor's Garden (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The governor is planning to hire a landscape artist to design six polygonal gardens for the estate. Students create sketches of their plans and write an expository paragraph detailing their designs as part of the interview process for the job.


• Grab a Handful and Count (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students practice counting one-to-one correspondence using Fruit Loops with a partner and then compare them to see who has more or less.


• Grandparents' Day Celebration (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Before Grandparents' Day Celebration, students make a family tree that dates back to their grandparents. They identify names, places, and particular customs and traditions of their family as well.


• Graph Both Crusts (Authored by Lois Walsh.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students calculate the angles and construct a pie graph of the percentages of the elements in the continental and oceanic crusts. Then they analyze the results.


• Graph It (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use real life experiences (school Open House) to learn graphing skills and use technology for creating tables and graphs.


• Graph Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This learning activity is one of six in a station rotation where students go on a scavenger hunt to analyze how graphs are organized and used to solve problems. Students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze their own data using a graph.


• Graphing Valentine Candies (Authored by Mirtha Pineda.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The student will learn to organize and display information in bar graph form using appropiate labels.


• Graphing With Candy (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The purpose of this lesson is to gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.


• Great Britain vs. Europe (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process a variety of information on the reasons for the development of the Industrial Revolution as well as its effects on the population of Europe.


• Great Britain’s Greatest Queen (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process a variety of information on the reign of Queen Victoria.


• Greedy Gator (Authored by Lory Vanpool.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Greedy Gator always wants the pile with more! Fortunately, his mouth looks just like a greater than-less than sign. After practicing with his toothy mouth and little cookies, students can easily begin using the sign like real mathematicians.


• Green Eggs and Purple Bacon (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. The class cooks and eats green eggs and ham. Students imagine a dish and write a recipe using a logical sequence. Students type, illustrate, and compile recipes into a class cookbook.


• Green, Green, Green (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)
  Subject(s): Dance, Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson travels around the world celebrating St. Patty’s Day and all things green! First, we start of in Ireland and travel our way down to Mexico for some green guacamole. Students will learn dances from the two places.


• Gripping Details (Authored by Shelley Mann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students examine literature for examples of paragraphs that are developed with gripping details.


• Group Research and Reports on STDs (Authored by Jeanne Pitts.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students work together in groups to research and gather information on a specific Sexually Transmitted Disease. Working as a team, they write a report and present the information orally to the class.


• Grow a Creature Lab (Authored by Roberta Klawinski.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is an interactive, hands-on lesson to estimate and measure the length of the creatures as they grow when placed in water. Students check the creature assigned to their group and observe, estimate, measure, record, and compare data daily for one week.


• Growing a Literature Tree (Authored by Nancy Adams.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is one in a series of lessons on distinguishing features of literature. The students use prior knowledge of fairy tales and fables to create a literature tree map. They categorize literature as fiction or nonfiction and use bubble maps to show features.


• Growing Old (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is a simulation activity whereby students experience problems the elderly face daily in their lives, such as loss of sight, hearing, taste, smell, mobility/dexterity and touch.


• Growing Pains of the Yearling (Authored by Mary Borges.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Language arts and/or social studies students will study the characters, themes, motivations, and background of pioneer Florida life through video lessons on the novel [The Yearling] by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.


• Growing Patience (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is a wonderful way to incorporate learning the virtue of patience while developing the knowledge of how things grow. Be prepared to spark your students’ interest as they view the growth of a plant.


• Growth of a Revolution - The Industrial Revolution (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is lesson one in the unit, Industrial Tool Time. Students follow a newspaper theme and create headlines for important events of the Agriculture Revolution and illustrations for the newspaper showing how the new inventions led to other inventions.


• Guess What It Is? (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write and present a descriptive 'powergraph' that describes a secret object using prior knowledge of adjectives, clustering graphic organizers, and presentation skills. Authors read powergraphs and classmates 'Guess What It Is.'


• Guess Who? (Authored by Angela Raybon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Guess Who? Students write riddles about each other using descriptive words.


• Guest Performance (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 8 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students use pretend television performances to practice how the media influence thoughts and feelings about health behaviors and distinguishing fact from opinion.


• GUM: More, Less, or the Same? (Authored by Lois Walsh.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: A laboratory activity confirming the law of conservation of matter by weighing chewing gum before and after it is chewed. ‘ Will it weigh more, less or the same? What happens to the matter?’


• Gummy Bear Sorting (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students demonstrate knowledge of sorting and classifying by color as they sort gummy bear candies.


• Gummy Candy Count (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students count up to 10 objects in a group to find out how many.


• Gummy vs. Gum (Authored by Rita Williams.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students discover a number pattern and write an equation that describes it. This lesson should be conducted after students have worked with patterns and one- and two-step equations.


• Habitats and All That (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson plan explores climate characteristics of different environments, adaptations of living things to environments, and adaptations of living things for survival. It is the second lesson of the Unit Plan: Living Things.


• Haiku Fun! (Authored by Yamile Sanchez.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn about haiku poems and develop and illustrate a haiku poem of their own.


• Haiku Leaves (Authored by Michael Cyr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students use prior knowledge and first-hand observations of the natural world around them to create their own Haiku poems. The final draft is put on handmade leaves (from construction paper) to create an autumn-theme classroom display.


• Half of a Half (Authored by Fulton Smedley.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students develop a number line and identify common fractions using the denominators 2, 4, and 8.


• Hands On Essays (Authored by Monica McManus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students relate the concept of individuality of geometric shapes to the individuality of topic sentences. Students write and revise a persuasive argument essay using the Florida Writes Rubric.


• Hands vs. Feet (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use unconventional units of measurement to discover the importance and need for a uniform unit of measurement.


• Hanging Out with Stories (Authored by Elisabeth Coogle.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students respond to a fictional story by creating a story structure mobile illustrating the main characters, setting, plot, problem, story events, and solution.


• Happy Birthday Class (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Birthdays are important events in children’s lives. This lesson integrates graphing and the use of calendars with their special days.


• Happy Birthday to Them! (Authored by Gwen Hafford.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use the Internet to "pop-in" on popular singers. (NETS for Students: 5.1)


• Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students learn why we celebrate Martin Luther King Day by making a Friendship Circle and a Peace Tree for a multicultural bulletin board and by illustrating a timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's life.


• Happy Holidays (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After using Chris Van Allsburg's POLAR EXPRESS as a writing prompt, students create a holiday story while working in cooperative learning groups.


• Harriet's Halloween Sort (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This is a small group instructional activity in which students sort, classify and tell about what characteristics they sort individually wrapped candy.


• Harry Potter Alive and Well In the Sorcerers Stone (Authored by Barbara Nedza.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Want to make learning about an author's purpose more interesting and fun? In this activity the children brainstorm an author's purpose, and then they use their own imagination to draw pictures that illustrate what the purpose is.


• Hatshepsut's Temples and Obelisks (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson focuses on one of the great achievements of the first woman ruler known to history. Students create Hatshepsut's Temples and Obelisks using a variety of materials.


• Hattitude (Authored by Susan Joyner.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students are given the opportunity to choose and manipulate 4 different colored gummy hats (yummy!) and record possible combinations as they're discovered.


• Have a Ball with Poetry (Authored by Lisa Rowe.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students will brainstorm words pertaining to the senses (smell, sight, touch, taste, and sound) about the beach by passing a beach ball marked with the categories. Students will write a free verse poem, using these words and adding a line about their feelings.


• Have I Got a Book for You! (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: On your trips to the library, are you tired of hearing the question, "What’s this book about?" If so, here is an activity to help students discover what books the library has to offer.


• Have You Ever Seen a Sea Monkey? (Authored by Jo Ann Parsons.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use stereo scopes to observe brine shrimp on a daily basis and make scientific drawings of the growth and development of this species. Students learn about Artemia franciscana from research at web sites and from their observations.


• Have You Flipped Your Bic? (Authored by Nancy Guest.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is lesson extends a lesson in probability using one coin. Students flip a dime and a quarter to record and predict the probability of possible outcomes.


• Have You Heard It Through the Grapevine? (Authored by Sheila McKenzie.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students predict which boxes of name brand raisins will have more. Students count, organize, and construct graphs comparing data gathered while working in small groups.


• Having a Great Time - Wish You Were Here (Authored by Nancy McGalliard.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This is an overview of colonial life in America focusing on the social, political, religious, and economic developments of the New England, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies.


• Heads-Up Probability (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: As an introduction to probability, students use tree diagrams to predict the possible outcomes of coin tosses. The data they collect and graph also help them predict the likelihood of getting heads or tails when tossing coins the next time.


• Health Hounds (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the first health lesson for Day 2 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. A problem scenario is read to students. Students are asked to become health experts to solve the problem. Unit Sunshine State Standards and vocabulary are introduced.


• Health Hunt (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Days 5-7 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students listen to speakers to learn about personal health behaviors that influence individual well-being.


• Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil (Authored by Nancy Montague.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Through a video, group discussion, and role-playing, students learn about types of conflicts that occur in the school setting, identify how they escalate, and identify behaviors needed in resolving them.


• Heart Throbs (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Health, Mathematics, Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.


• Heart to Heart (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: After reviewing the use of conventions through teacher directed experiences, students complete a writing using dialogue to tell a narrative story using correct punctuation.


• Hectic Hurricanes! (Authored by Peggy Cook.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is a great way to introduce hurricanes into your curriculum. Students will understand the anatomy of a hurricane, the change in energy that occurs during a hurricane and how to track a hurricane.


• Heeeeere’s Pea O’Vee! (Authored by Susan Teare.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students prepare, present, and perform a panel discussion in talk show format, role-playing the differing points of view of characters from familiar fairy tales.


• Heirloom Chopsticks (Authored by Christy Williamson.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students measure, pattern, and design heirloom chopsticks.


• Hello, Fractions! (Authored by Jane Neale.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students gain an understanding about simple fractions through the use of literature, hands-on manipulatives, as well as an Internet activity.


• Hello, Santa! (Authored by Carol Hansford.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Do you need an exciting lesson to stimulate your kindergartners' thinking and writing skills? Begin this lesson by asking "What would you like to tell Santa?" Students peruse possible requests for Santa. Then the students dictate l


• Hello... I'd Like You to Meet..... (Authored by Dixie Wheelock.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students interview and introduce each other to the class as an opening activity at the beginning of a new class, semester, or school year. This can be adapted to any group meeting for the first time.


• Help Mary Find Her Way Home (Authored by Carol Harris.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are introduced to the coordinate plane by using the coordinates of points to direct a lost girl home. In their directions, students will identify the x and y axes in the coordinate plane and the coordinates of a given point in the first quadrant.


• Help Me Find My Keys (Authored by Vivian Sharp.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students write a five-paragraph essay on the topic: What mistakes have you made and then learned a life lesson from the experience? The teacher provides an example of a life dilemma, such as how to avoid locking keys in the car.


• Help Me Learn About the Holocaust (Authored by Carol Rine.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students work in groups using presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint to create a slide presentation highlighting the elements of literature contained in Holocaust novels. The slide presentation follows preset criteria.


• Help! I Am Lost at Fox Chapel (Authored by Kathleen Buchnowski.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create a map to locate places on campus and share the map with another student. The other students use the map to locate certain places and validate for accuracy via a checklist. The parents use the completed map at open house.


• Help! Help! Someone Is Hurt! (Authored by Rebecca Weston.)
  Subject(s): Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is designed to teach students a programmed response to any emergency situation that they may encounter during physical education classes without pandemonium breaking out.


• Helping Hands (Authored by Christine Davis.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students identify different ways in which they can use their hands for helping.


• Here It Goes Again! (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is designed to encourage first grade students to work on patterns in nature and to recognize how different living things adapt to different environments.


• Here Kitty, Kitty (Authored by Lore Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students count up to ten objects in a group to find out how many.


• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Authored by Sallie Everett.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson is to help students learn the differences between chemical and physical weathering and learn the effects of climate on the weathering process.


• Here's the Answer - Now What Was the Question? (Authored by Glenn Rutland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students write as many statements as possible that could be the answers to a variety of questions. They can follow the topic of study or topics of personal choice.


• Hero Spontaneous Lecture (Authored by Christine Schuyler.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students select and research a real-life hero. They then prepare short lectures for their classmates based upon the research they gain from a variety of primary and secondary sources.


• Hey Good Looking, What You Got Cooking? (Authored by Diane Weiner.)
  Subject(s): Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students perform a song and skit to illustrate how music can be used to communicate movement. .


• Hey Mom, Are We There Yet? (Authored by Farica King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students locate, organize and interpret information from a variety of sources to create a travel brochure for a selected destination of their choice.


• Hey You! Want to Become a Scientist? (Authored by Cheryl Duty.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students prepare and give oral presentations about assigned scientists and the accomplishments of the scientists after completing research and written reports on their subjects. To make this interesting and fun for the students and teacher, each student c


• Hey! What Is Your Angle? (Authored by Lee Strain.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students create and classify straight, right, acute and obtuse angles using pretzel sticks.


• Hey, Cuz! (Authored by Tisa Craig.)
  Subject(s): Music (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn the relationships between rhythm and math, tone color and science, form and geography, melody and art, and harmony and social studies. Why, they are like cousins!


• Hey, I Don't Have Enough Stuff! (Authored by Nina Treadway.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students discover through this simulated activity that resources are unequally distributed throughout the world and that regions use resources differently.


• Hi, Neighbor (Authored by Jennifer Sansone-Berbert.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students participate in an exciting way to greet and meet a fellow classmate and then share the information with others.


• Hide and Seek Vocabulary! (Authored by Linda Gobran.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity uses a unique strategy to build student word recognition. Student partners practice new words using their verbal, visual, and kinesthetic intelligences.


• High Wire Act (Authored by Serena Mirabella.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a follow up writing activity for [Mirette on the High Wire] by Emily Arnold McCully. The students produce a “high wire” time line with yarn and index cards to sequence events and then write an expository paragraph.


• Hinduism vs. Buddhism (Authored by Jamie Berry.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students create Venn diagrams showing the differences and similarities between the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism.


• Historical Limericks (Authored by Jennifer Snekszer.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: As a class, students study an historical period. Then each student will write a limerick about a person, event, place, or artifact from that time period. The class will present the time period and limericks to an audience.


• Historical Timelines (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students learn how to read timelines and make timelines of their own lives by putting special dates of their choice in chronological order.


• History in my Town (Authored by Bill Chapman.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use multimedia and technology to research and present a historical event or period in their hometown.


• History through Poetry (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to analyze the poem -The Charge of the Light Brigade.- Students discuss its meaning and significance to the Crimean War. Students will also understand how war is perceived from a non-military point of view.


• Hitler vs. Mussolini (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process a variety of information on the rise of two of the 20th Century's most notorious dictators. They will be asked to compare and contrast these two despots and complete a chart on the two dictators.


• Holding Leaders Responsible (Authored by Chet Geering.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will be able to process a variety of information on the Nuremberg Trials, including the charges brought against the defendants. They will then answer short-answer questions on the topics discussed in class.


• Holey Story (Authored by Michelle Gordon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Holey Story!! Student groups create story sheets with missing vocabulary words. Students locate context clues, justify their work, and evaluate their responses.


• Holocaust Memorial Service (Authored by Jamie Berry.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students pay tribute to holocaust victims through an art form, showing the students' empathy and victims' suffering.


• Holocaust Nightmare Revisited (Authored by Suzanne Kruger.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Imagine living through the horrors of the Holocaust and having these memories return years later through writing a book! After reading the autobiography [Night], students determine why Elie Wiesel was willing to relive this time of his life through writing


• Home on the Range (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn how to find the range of a set of numbers by analyzing data.


• Home Sweet Home (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students create and implement a schedule of activities designed to help their parents improve their physical conditions.


• Honest Abe's Economy of Words (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students write expository essays using the FCAT writing prompt format and the FCAT scoring method and rubric after reading ACROSS FIVE APRILS and a study of the Gettysburg Address


• Honey I Shrunk the . . . Story (Authored by Sandra Arnolds-Patron.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Talk about making a mole hill out of a mountain! In this lesson, students use critical thinking to decide which story components are important to include in a summary.


• Honk If You Love Writing (... and Bumper Stickers!) (Authored by Jeannie Overby.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this activity, students collect and create bumper stickers and examine how they influence people.


• Hoops! There It Is! (Authored by Dianne Parks.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students will view and discuss the use of voice in writing through the in-your-face, aggressive, powerful messages of the Nike advertisements and the book HOOPS as examples of the intensity words can have and how voice is expressed.


• Hooray for the 100th Day (Authored by Louise McGinnis.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Counting to 100 boring? Have fun on the 100th Day of School with some fun ways to practice counting with the students.


• Hot Time in the Classroom (Authored by Michael Hall.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students use a thermometer and ice to learn that temperature is a measure of the average translational kinetic energy.


• Household Products - Past to Future (Authored by Judy Marburger.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students will research and explore the development of household inventions.


• Hover Above the Earth (Authored by Dawn Gott.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students build a balloon hovercraft, take direct measurements, answer critical questions, and make calculations using the data gathered in order to realize the concept of acceleration as a change in velocity.


• How Big Is Your House? (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will explore geometric formulas involving area by measuring and developing a scale drawing of their own homes. The students will find the area of each room as well as the total area of the house.


• How Body Systems Interact (Authored by Brenda Mason.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students demonstrate learned knowledge that the human body is made up of different systems whose functions are related.


• How Can We Organize Study of a Given Place? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The Five Themes of Geography is an organized way to study any area of the world. It is the adopted method of the National Geographic Society. This is a beginning of the year cooperative group activity where students embark in discovery of basic facts abo


• How Close Can We Get? (Authored by Shannon Nower.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students guide themselves through the traditional outline structure by reassembling papers, which have been cut into separate sentences. Students then see “how close they’ve come” to the original paper and evaluate their achievement.


• How Cool Is It ? (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students will check the outside temperature at 5 different times of the day. The students will use both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scale. The students will then compare their temperatures using a bar graph.


• How Cool Is Your Environment? (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The students calculate heat energy and convert from one temperature scale to another. The students will be able to manipulate formulas need for conversions.


• How Dense Are You? (Authored by Jeri Martin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: How did Archimedes find the gold crown? Students relate how density is a value that describes the material of which the object is made and is not influenced by the object's shape or size in any way.


• How Did We Get to School Today? (Authored by Diane Reinstatler.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: As the class discusses different ways children get to school they draw pictures on a cards showing how they came to school today. They then sort themselves into groups by transportaion such as bus, daycare van, car, walk, bike.


• How Do I Get There From Here? (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use a school map to create a charted course and a corresponding written description of the directions for travel from class to class, beginning with an arrival location in the morning and ending with a departure location in the afternoon.


• How Do I Measure Up? (Early Grades) (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: In this lesson, students find out more about their bodies and what makes them different by tracing each their partners' bodies on butcher paper. They record their heights and weights, then compare them to the others in the class.


• How Do I Measure Up? (Intermediate Grades) (Authored by Tisa Craig.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity allows students to compare the relationship between meter in music and measurement in math.


• How Do Words Feel? - Individually (Authored by Christine Davis.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students discover how spoken words feel by exploring these same words in textured print.


• How Do Words Feel? - Small Group (Authored by Christine Davis.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students place their hands in a cup and decide if the materials inside that cup would describe a word that is harsh or soft.


• How Do You Do? (Authored by Annemarie Hayes.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students research organisms living in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and identify their relationships.


• How Do You Get Home From School? (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use basic computer skills to collect information, generate pictographs, and interpret the results of transportation home from school. Note: Circulate and formatively assess students as they use the technology tools. Provide assistance for stude


• How Do You Get to School? (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: How do your students get to school? Through this literature-based lesson, students learn that different things move at different speeds as they explore basic modes of transportation.


• How Do You Know Where You Are? (Authored by Catherine Dixon.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity introduces students to geographic thinking, setting the stage for the creation of a map showing distance, direction, location and symbols from their residences to school.


• How Do You Measure a Triangle? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Student will discover angles and their relationship to triangles.


• How Do You Pay a Complement to an Angle? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Complementary angles are two angles that form a right angle (90 degrees). Students practice finding the complement of an angle.


• How Do Your Students Measure Up? (Authored by Carol Spice.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Have you ever been frustrated trying to show students how to measure accurately and what the little lines on a ruler represent? I was until I found this simple activity to show students how to properly measure with a standard ruler to 1/16th of an inc


• How Does a Pumpkin Grow and Glow? (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After listening to an informational article that explains the steps needed to grow pumpkins, the group participates in carving a pumpkin, and then writes the sequence of events needed to produce a carved jack-o-lantern.


• How Does Art Feel (Authored by Lynne Locke.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Bristly and rough or soft and smooth, most anything we can feel can be portrayed in a work of art as a texture. Imaginary or real, texture can add excitement and interest to your creation.


• How Does It Move? (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: How do objects move? Through this literature-based lesson, students review using illustrations and phonetic principles to understand words, that different things move at different speeds, and vocabulary as they explore how forms of transportation move.


• How Does It Sound? (Authored by Letashia Betsey.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students will participate in a game that uses the elements of grammar in an inappropriate way. They will transform the inappropriate grammar into grammatically correct statements.


• How Does Your Garden Grow? (Authored by Ann Everett.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson is a fun way to introduce factors that influence the growth of living things. The students read [The Garden] by Arnold Lobel.Then the students plant seeds to discover what makes them grow.


• How Fast Does Your Race Car Go? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students are given average winning speeds for even-number years. The students then graph, determine a line of best fit, interpolate, extrapolate, write an equation in slope-intercept form, and predict winning speeds.


• How Fast Is It Traveling? (Authored by Obed Morales.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students manipulate toy cars and simulate various walking speeds to discover characteristics related to rate of speed, distance and time. After measuring the time and distance, the students calculate the speed.


• How Fast Is that Rocket? (Authored by Lisa Locklin.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson will allow the students to calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket.


• How Fast Is Your Car? (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this lesson, students discover the relationship between speed, distance, and time. They calculate speed and represent their data graphically.


• How Logical Is Garfield? (Authored by Monica McManus.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students analyze the comics found in the newspaper for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal. They write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of logic, emotions, or ethics.


• How Long Is Forever? (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use graphic organizers to predict events that may take place in the novel, [Tuck Everlasting] and make inferences about what is read.


• How Long Is Your Smile? (Authored by Kachanda Silva.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a creative way for students to learn to measure to the nearest centimeter. Students will work together to create a portrait of themselves with an accurate measurement of their smile to the nearest centimeter.


• How Many Bears in the Forest? (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students model the tag and recapture of bears and use proportions to estimate the population of the bears in their forest. This is a statistical sampling method used by scientists and naturalist to determine population numbers.


• How Much Do You Really Weigh? (Authored by Margaret Bogan PhD.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use a computer to analyze how their weights are affected if the students are placed on various planetary bodies. The students will record their findings on a data sheet.


• How Much Gift Wrap Do I Need? (Authored by Pam Kennon.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students estimate measurements in a real world problem situation.


• How Much Is Too Much? (Authored by Dorothy Davis.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students observe the construction and workings of an aquifer. They record and react to the effects of pollution on the aquifer.


• How Old Did You Say? (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: How Old Did You Say? What an interesting way for students to see and develop algebraic formulas based on their own ages as the known variable.


• How Simple Is Your Rational Expression? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Rational expressions are algebraic expressions whose numerator and denominator are polynomials. This lesson simplifies such expressions and identifies values of the variable that must be excluded.


• How Stuff Is Put Together (Chemical Bonding) (Authored by Richard Angelini Sr..)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: All compounds are made of combinations of elements held together by bonds in exact proportion. The demonstration of a simple experiment illustrates the ratio of the elements that make up the common chemical compound of water.


• How Tall in the Fall? (Authored by Tammy Hales.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students use nonstandard measurement to measure. Students estimate to predict the correct length before they measure. Students count the correct number of objects used to measure.


• How Tall is that Billboard? (Authored by Alan Kent.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This lesson covers constructing and using a basic hypsometer to measure the heights of tall objects such as trees, billboards, and buildings.


• How Tall Is That Flag Pole? (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students learn that similar triangles have sides that are proportional. They will use this knowledge to determine the height of a flagpole. This method was used by the ancient Egyptians to determine the height of the great pyramids.


• How the Pig Got a Curl in His Tail (Authored by Ann Nichols.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: The students listen to a retold story from my childhood, They demonstrate comprehension using visual and concrete materials to retell the story.


• How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation (Authored by Sheila Sexton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity is designed to help students become familiar with creating a PowerPoint presentation. After being given a demonstration of how PowerPoint works, students create a PowerPoint slide presention that can be used in another subject area. (NETS fo


• How to Get Rich Slowly (Authored by Brenda Rider.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students learn how to budget in order to live in today's world. Allocating their resources is of prime importance in the monthly budget.


• How To Stay Out of Hot Water (Authored by Beth Brewington.)
  Subject(s): Health, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: What would the world be like today if a conflict that caused the Revolutionary War was resolved peacefully? Students will use their conflict resolution skills to role-play problems associated with the Boston Tea Party.


• How Unique Are You? (Authored by Suzan Smith.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: In this second lesson of the unit, Where We Come From, the students use traits that they each possess to gain further understanding of dominant and recessive traits. In groups, they survey the class for various dominant and recessive physical trait charact


• How Will You Measure Up? (Authored by Debi Vermette.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use the appropriate units of measure when given a list of items to estimate and measure. Students work in cooperative groups to locate, estimate, and measure given items using the correct unit of measurement.


• Hula Hoop Hullabaloo (Authored by Karen Cook.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Students demonstrate the ability to group numbers to 1000 or more using concrete materials. This activity is a unique, engaging way to help your students obtain a more visual understanding of place value.


• Human Body Quiz (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Are your neurons alive? Does your larynx vibrate? Students review the various functions and organs of the human body systems as they participate in “The Human Body Quiz” in preparation for the summative assessment of the body systems.


• Human Fax Machines (Authored by Lilith Reller.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce the technological communication process. The student uses verbal instructions to command another student to duplicate his/her building blocks. ISTE Standards 1 and 4.


• Human Impact on the Everglades Environment (Authored by Cheryl Darbyshire.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students research changes the Army Corps made in Everglades, focus on the human impact on the environment, design graphic organizers, summary statements, develop a Florida map of the Everglades region and give a presentation about what they learned.


• Human Rights (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: During a study of Eleanor Roosevelt, the class examines -The United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights- in order to gain an understanding of the document and to create a list of rights for the classroom.


• Human Sentences (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson allows students a hands-on opportunity to learn grammar. The students will work in groups to create human sentences to demonstrate for the class how to correctly use commas when punctuating dates in sentences.


• Hurricanes … Are They Coming to Your Neighborhood? (Authored by Dale Peterson.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Hurricane season (June-October) may result in large storms on the Gulf Coast. Students learn how weather systems influence hurricanes and tropical storms. This lesson enables students to predict landfall of hurricanes and tropical storms.


• I Am a Book (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students are encouraged to take advantage of their right to read books.


• I Am the Lucky One (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
  Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students explore their birth orders and the stress created from them. Then they identify their birth orders by drawing pictures of themselves and listing their birth orders. They are introduced to the concept of survey and conduct a verbal survey.


• I Can Make a Pattern, You Can Make a Pattern (Authored by Rebecca Brown.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Patterns, patterns everywhere! Can you make a pattern? Students will make a physical pattern using sounds, physical movements, and manipulatives.


• I Can Use a Worm to Count. Can a Worm Count Me? (Authored by Rebecca McCroan.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: A quick and easy way to learn how to count to 100. Lessons include literature that features worms/counting, puppets or props for daily counting practice.


• I Choose Card # . . . (Authored by Glenn Rutland.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students practice problem solving and creative thinking in order to develop an answer/solution for the prompt on a chosen activity card.


• I Dare to Dream (Authored by Cassandra Andrews.)
  Subject(s): ESE - CL (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Dr. King had a dream. Everyone has a dream. What is yours? Students write a one-paragraph speech depicting their own dreams. They orally read their speeches in front of the class and create posters to show the visual effects of their dreams.


• I Hate My Sibling? (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Can you truly hate your sibling? Students explore this controversial question and examine literary techniques used by the author as they begin to read the book [Jacob Have I Loved].


• I Have a Little Pony (Authored by Jill Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Dance, Music (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Primary students will be introduced to barred percussion instruments learning to play simple bordun patterns to express the way a pony moves.


• I Heard It on the Radio (Authored by Terry Gladfelter.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students will create a portfolio that reflects knowledge of present day professional musicians or individuals related to the music industry.


• I Highly Recommend It (Authored by Carmel Monaghan.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After reading "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis, students submit critical reviews via the Internet as a way to publish their personal responses to the novel.


• I Just Want to Say (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: I just want to say- I love you, I hate you, things haven’t been easy for me, and much more. Through the use of poetry, people can relay a powerful message. Students study poetic devices included in conversation poems and explore their eloquent messages.


• I Like Me (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
  Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This lesson celebrates the uniqueness of students and what they like about themselves. Students make collages and display them in the classroom


• I Love Navarre (Authored by Regan Lee.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: The Navarre Beach area (or your area) is growing rapidly. The Chamber of Commerce wants help in creating a brochure for families with middle-school students who may be moving to our area. Students engage in a project-based lesson to provide the n


• I Need a Job (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
  Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn that individual character traits play an important role in their daily lives and could impact their future employment status.


• I Need Air (Authored by Sandi King.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Our cells need oxygen to live, but how do they get the oxygen? In this lesson, students learn about the organs of the respiratory system as they read articles and participate in activities. Study skills are taught and modeled.


• I Need Room to Breathe (Authored by Joe Brock.)
  Subject(s): Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use a ph indicator in a structured inquiry lesson to learn how exercise affects carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air.


• I Nominate My Friend (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students review friendly letter writing skills and the use of descriptive language. Students practice writing persuasive letters, with help from teacher and peers. Letters are then written to nominate his or her friend for Friend of the Year.


• I Think Mom Loves You Best (Authored by Margaret Graham.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is an introductory lesson for teaching the literary element, point of view. Students apply understanding of information from a picture book story to write their own family position paragraphs.


• I Want You! (Authored by Lainie Ferrell.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: This activity is designed to have students show that they understand how political conditions and significant events that led to United States involvement in World War I influenced works of art by applying their ideas to create a war poster.


• I'll Just Charge It (Authored by Beth Santini.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students explore the advantages and disadvantages of credit card use before they fall into the credit trap!


• I'll Take One! (Authored by Laura Childers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students collectively create a product , slogan, and advertisments for different types of media using their senses with different types of appeals.


• I'm a Hundred, You're a Thousand (Authored by Mary Ann Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: Given a place value word problem, students put themselves in the correct place value, write the correct number on paper, and create their own place value problems.


• I'm A Poet and Now I Know It (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This is the final phase of the poetry unit, I’m a Poet and Didn’t Know It! Using ideas generated from other poems and their own inspiration, students create original poetry. A celebration is included as students bind and submit poems for publication.


• I’m a Little Crab Pot (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students delve more deeply into figurative language and conflict/resolution as they complete the novel, Jacob Have I Loved.


• I’m Convinced! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: After learning about the various kinds of persuasive techniques used to sell products, students create and write an advertisement for peanut butter.


• Idea Generator (Authored by Jeanette Robaldo.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: This read aloud activity helps students generate ideas for writing.


• Identifying the Food Groups (Authored by Sendi Palmer.)
  Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
  Description: After reviewing the school's lunch menu, the learner will be able to identify and label the five food groups correctly in a collage.


• If The Shoe Fits (Authored by Alison Hannon.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Shoes, shoes, and more shoes! But [whose] shoes could [these] be? Collect some unwanted shoes of all styles and sizes. Delight as your students “tie-in” detailed descriptions and create vivid images in their writing.


• Illustrated Quotes of Julius Caesar (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students make a booklet of twenty illustrated quotations from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar.


• Imagine That (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Information dangles from the ceiling! That’s the effect when students gather information using a variety of references and create mobiles of inventions or scientific discoveries. This lesson is for Day 5 of the unit [Inventions and Inventors].


• Improving the Quality of Life (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This lesson focuses on contributions made by individuals of diverse backgrounds in medicine, science and technology.


• In a Pickle (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students listen to a story that uses homonyms and figurative language throughout the text. They illustrate the literal and figurative meanings of some figures of speech.


• In Conclusion (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The students are introduced to the reading skill of drawing conclusions from a story. The children then use this skill to draw conclusions of their own from several stories.


• In Line with Time (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit [Inventions and Inventors]. Students participate in constructing timelines of significant contributions in the field of communication. Class interaction follows to provide practice in interpreting the order of events.


• In Search of Food . . . Living Off the Vegetation (Authored by summer zephyr.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
  Description: Students locate information from a variety of sources, to describe what Indians gathered and how they sustained life. Using five sources students select a paragraph from each and state the main idea and supporting details.


• In Summary (Authored by Martha Todd.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students use a text to practice summarizing and matching summaries to the correct text.


• In the Blink of An Eye (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students record data, both in written form and digitized form, on a field trip to Marianna Caverns that is then compiled into an A-to-Z Environmental Book. (NETS for Students 3.1, 3.2, 4.2 and 5.1)


• In the Presence of Oxygen (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Working in groups, students design a poster depicting aerobic and anaerobic exercises or activities. Posters are set up at stations for students to examine and determine which activities are aerobic and which are anaerobic.


• In Your Prime (Authored by Melanie Malone.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: This activity allows students to find prime numbers on their own. They use a method developed a few thousand years ago to discover the primes that are less than 100.


• Inch Around This (Authored by Mary Ann Taylor.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Students learn the concept of perimeter by measuring the perimeter of different shapes and creating shapes to be measured for perimeter.


• Inching Worms (Authored by Karen Ledet.)
  Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: In small groups, students have a blast trying to measure live, wiggly, stretching worms to the nearest ½ inch. Groups record their data onto a class graph and then compare characteristics.


• Income and Outcomes (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
  Subject(s): Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use peer support to reflect on their spending and how it reflects their income and their values.


• Incredible Inventions That Make A Difference (Authored by Beverly Simpkins.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
  Description: Students use reading and research skills to effectively retrieve and synthesize information about inventions that have made an impact in their lives. This is an introductory lesson on developing timelines.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 1, Lesson 1: I Pledge Allegiance! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This is the introductory lesson to the Unit Plan: Independent – To Be or Not To Be? In this lesson, national symbols of freedom and speech strategies are introduced, tokens are distributed, and the unit diagnostic is administered.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 1, Lesson 2: Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: This lesson is designed to have students seek and find and record visually, and in sequential order, thirteen significant events that led to the Americans fight for independence and thus the start of the American Revolution.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 1, Lesson A: View and Re-View (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: The elements of an oral presentation are introduced under the guise of writing a paper and presented in the form of a KWL. Students supply the details for the introduction, body, and conclusion of an oral presentation.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 1, Lesson B: To Arms! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Through the exploration of new vocabulary words and utilizing the KWL chart started in Lesson 2, students are introduced to the verbal and non-verbal components of an oral presentation.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 2, Lesson 3: In the Course of Human Events (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
  Description: Building and scaffolding on scanning techniques, students locate information from teacher-selected text in search of answers and details to leading question(s) for each of thirteen events.


• Independent - Top Be or Not To Be - Day 2, Lesson C: Freedom of Speech (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)
  Subject