In this lesson, students will explore what qualities make a good friend and become aware of positive and inappropriate behaviors. For this lesson, you will need the book Tacky the Penguin, by Helen Leste.
In this lesson, students will define what a myth is and features associated with it. They will identify the myth with one of the seven constellations they read about. Students will write an imaginary myth, based in students' modern culture of today.
This activity gives a fun introduction to two-step equations.
This short web article about inherited traits points out the variation among inherited traits with a measurement activity. Students measure their hands and record the measurement, then compare it with 10 of their classmates to see the variation in sizes. Students then find the range and the mean of their data and create a graph to show it.
On this webpage, students read a brief article that explains the difference between inherited and learned traits. After reading the article, students are invited to study a photograph of a tree and list its traits, particularly those that help it survive near the Grand Canyon. An interactive self checking quiz for students to determine inherited vs. learned traits follows this activity.
For this lesson, students use tiles and grid paper to draw rectangles and record the perimeter and area of each rectangle.
For this lesson, students use the narrative text, "The Old Woman and Her Pig" to introduce comprehension strategies. Students learn to make predictions and check them, along with clarifying and retelling.
In this lesson, students learn to add prefixes and suffixes to root words to create new words.
This activity provides an introduction to composite numbers and prime numbers through factorization.
In this lesson, students learn the six question words: who, what, when, where, why, and how.
This activity uses the book "The Patchwork Quilt", by Valerie Flournoy to give students the sense of family in the classroom community.
On this webpage, students read a short selection about the different types of rocks (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) and make a model of each. For igneous and sedimentary rocks, they use household supplies to mix a model rocks and compare them to a real samples. For metamorphic rocks, students make "metamorphic waffles." At the end of the page, students can take an interactive self checking quiz to see what they have learned about the different types of rocks.
In this interactive activity, students test their knowledge of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks by identifying photographed samples of each kind. The activity contains active links to definitions of each type of rock for students who need help.
In this lesson, students will write a personal narrative about a time they surprised themselves or someone else.
After reading the book "Enemy Pie", by Derek Munson, "How to Make An Apple PIe and See the World" by Marjorie Priceman, students will record the pie making sequencing process (additional sequencing books can be found at: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/sequencing. After, students will pick something they like to do and write a sequencing essay.
students learn that a prefix is a word part that comes at the beginning of a word and that ""re"" means again or back. "
In this lesson, students learn about tallying and collecting data.
This resource reviews the career of forensic-pathology. Healthcare professionals who specialize in forensics serve as a bridge between medical science and the law. The term "forensics" means "pertaining to the law" and forensic experts and medical professionals are important parts of the justice system. Activities are included to introduce students to forensic-pathology.
This resource is a lesson plan in which students will use the internet to construct and use punnett squares of monohybrid crosses to explain how genetic traits are passed to offspring.
In this hands on activity, students investigate the sun's role in the water cycle by setting three cups of water in different locations in the classroom. Students measure the water in the cups and determine in which location the water has evaporated the most (the sunniest.) Students may answer provided questions to analyze their results.