This lesson will help students identify the moral of the story The Empty Pot by Demi. During this lesson, students will have an opportunity to discuss and write about the character trait honesty. Students will share about a time when they demonstrated this character trait

In this lesson students will explore the steps involved in starting a new business. This will include preparing a ten-page Business Plan, building a model of the business, and presenting the business idea in a role-play situation where students ask for financing for the business.

The student will participate in a hands-on-lesson where they will understand and be able to write equivalent forms of fractions. The students will learn and apply the concept of using fractions in everyday life.

This is a hands-on lesson that engages students in the discovery of prime numbers through the construction of multiplication arrays. Students then extend on their background knowledge of multiples and their new understanding of prime and composite numbers to complete an Eratosthenes’ Sieve.

Students investigate the amount of waste they produce as an individual, family, class, school, community, and society; then investigate how items decompose in a landfill and develop arguments to support a solution to the problem.

Students will be able to recognize characteristics of a personal narrative Students will recognize the traits of good writing and will write, revise, and publish a personal narrative.

Students will work in collaborate groups of four to act out a dinner party where four dinner guests will attend. The students must act out the different ways to arrange four dinner guests.

Students will learn how to use tricks to master multiplication facts. Students will be introduced to only 15 facts they must know to master multiplication facts through 9X11 with the prerequisite that they know the 0's,2's,5's,10's, and 11's.

Students will define density and use the density formula to determine the density, volume, and mass of various items using the correct units for each measurement.

This technology-based lesson will teach students the basic characteristics of different types of butterflies. Students will use approved Internet sites to locate illustrations and facts about various species of butterflies. Students will work together and with teacher assistance to create a slideshow presentation that combines all of the species of butterflies the students locate. A rubric is provided for assessment of student work.

Students will research the ten day weather forecast. They will document the high's for ten days as well as the low's for ten days. Once students document this information, they will find the mean, median, mode, and range of the data collected.

In this lesson, students will use different surfaces to test which will cause less friction on a ball. This will let the students determine how friction affects the distance an object in motion will go. This leson will include cooperative grouping for the activity and whole group discussion of the results.

Students become comfortable with idioms. Students will work closely with idioms to discover meanings and present them to the class. Students will use technology to present the information.

In this lesson, students will represent fractions and add fractions with like and unlike denominators using pieces of Fraction Friend and their own body.

In this lesson, students will explore angles, rays, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and two-dimensional figures through the use of the book “Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons” by David A. Adler. They will also classify quadrilaterals through an interactive website.

Students will review coordinate plane concepts, practice map skills, review shapes, transform geometric figures, and calculate the area and perimeter of figures.

Students will use the Web 2.0 tool at glogster.com to create a book report, or the tool may be used to create a summary poster for a short story.

The following lesson serves as a review surface area activity. Specifically, the students will explore the surface area of a three-dimensional Styrofoam cube using lima beans. To accommodate at-risk or diverse learners, cooperative learning groups will be utilized.