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- Vessels in Greek art: Museum pre-visit
- This lesson will focus on what vessels are, where we can find them in our everyday world, and the concept that vessels are containers that hold something. This lesson is the first lesson of two.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Katie O'Connor.
- Gingerbread Man Fun
- This lesson will allow students to demonstrate sense of beginning, middle, and end of a story. They will also use various objects to create patterns comparing these objects using appropriate vocabulary (small, medium, large).
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Rebecca Jones.
- Weathering the water cycle: Evaporation
- Students will learn that evaporation is one of the three stages of the water cycle. The other three lessons in this series on condensation, precipitation, and the water cycle will allow the students to explore all stages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Cathie Hill, Jackie Parker, and Karen Neilson.
- Civil War journals
- Integrates creative writing with social studies and enhances knowledge of the effects of the Civil War on people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gwen A. Jones.
- The Earth rotates through days
- The students will be a part of a model showing how the Earth's rotation creates what we see as a sunrise and sunset every twenty-four hours.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Christine Shatto.
- Grocery store matter
- The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Indiana Jennette.
- Sorting seeds
- This lesson will engage students in manipulating, sorting, counting, and graphing seeds. The students will be involved in the creation of a graph using the computer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
- By Mary Jackson.
- An average autumn
- This lesson will be a review of skills for calculating mean, mode, median, and range of a set of numbers to be created by the students. It will result in a seasonal display for the classroom or school-wide bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Scott Counce.
- Getting to know spiders
- This lesson is useful for helping students understand the differences between spiders and insects. They will also learn about a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders will be observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Bree Welmaker.
- Novel study: Lucky Charms and Birthday Wishes
- Although this is a unit developed for instruction in language arts, it has a curriculum focus for healthful living. The unit usually takes about 4–5 weeks to complete. A major piece of this unit focuses on identifying and listing characteristics of people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Michael Miller.
- Comparing & contrasting real & make-believe bears
- Student pairs create a Venn Diagram in their Bear Research Journal listing things that are the same and different about real and make-believe bears.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Money and more money
- Students will use problem solving skills and knowledge to solve a given problem using money. This activity will help enhance the students' self concept, and understanding the importance of learning basic money skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Betty Black.
- Asian action I: Character details
- Students will use drawing and writing to study characters in Asian art, focusing on the potential stories hinted at by the many details depicted in the art examples. This lesson draws on the richly detailed and expressive human and animal characters depicted in the arts of Asia. Is there a reason why Durga has so many arms? What about Ganesha and that elephant head?
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills)
- Using a Venn diagram to compare & contrast two types of bears
- Students use their research on black bears and one other bear (panda, polar or grizzly) to complete a Venn Diagram.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Picture this!
- In this lesson, students will use their imagination and creativity to create an original, five-minute scene from a given picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
- By Cindy Lohr.
- Blogging: an introduction
- Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, have many uses in education, as tools for publication, research, administration, and more.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Inside, outside, and all around
- Students will distinguish between perimeter, area, and volume. They will use tangrams and graph paper to create two-dimensional figures that will be measured for area and perimeter. By creating layers of centimeter cubes, the students will explore the concept of volume.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Angeli Jarman.
- More vivid word choices: Said is dead
- The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonyms for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellogg, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Linda Justice.
- Post-EOG activities: Student products
- In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Geneva Williams.
- Understanding the elements of a story
- Students will read a story, understand the elements of the story, analyze characters, and complete research about good and evil.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Abha Bhatnagar and Meera Madan.
