In this lesson plan, students learn their personal responsibilities within the classroom, school, and community. Students understand that there are diverse views within a community and respect the opinions, backgrounds, and cultures of others.

In this 14 day unit plan students read, research, draw conclusions, and write beginning level argumentative essays comparing/contrasting major world religions.

In this 28 day unit, students will gain background information on historic wars, compare different genres, presentations of events, recognize different points of view, research an essential question, compile evidence, create warrants that lead to a claim which answers the essential question, and write an argumentative essay.

In this lesson, students will discover a policy within their school or district that is important to them and that they'd like to change. They will conduct an investigation of the policy in question and write a letter with their claim, results, and recommendation to the appropriate audience.

In this lesson plan, students will use protractors to measure angles and draw angles of a specific measure. Students will also use an angle wheel as a way to measure the degrees of an angle. Finally students will study artistic prints and find an angle within the picture to measure and then discuss why they used the measure in the artwork.

This resource discusses using a barometer to measure the air pressure and predict weather conditions.

This resource is an article that answers the question, "Why is the Earth the only known planet to have life?"

This resource is an article that discusses the different things that cause the earth's weather.

With this resource, students will play 20 questions using the periodic table and a list of common molecules.

With this resource, students will use what they know about atoms and molecules to decide whether an example is an atom or a molecule.

With this resource, students will use a knowledge check table to analyze their background knowledge about atoms.

In this lesson, students will read many of Patricia Polacco’s books and other books written about families from other authors. Students will make connections from their own family experiences to some of Patricia Polacco's family experiences. Students will pay close attention to the characters, setting, problem, and solution in the text and make their own family book.

Students will view a presentation that covers types of computers, hardware/software, input/output/storage devices, and more. Students will be able to identify and give examples of computer hardware/software and different types of computers.

Students will reflect on workplace ethics and learn about how ethics are not always a black and white proposition.

Students will use the three spreadsheet activities to demonstrate a basic understanding of excel spreadsheets. Students will also use the data in the spreadsheets to create charts. The zip file must be downloaded to access student instructions and data files needed for the excel spreadsheet activities.

Students will read a presentation about real job scenarios and determine what skills and abilities employees possess to be considered good employees. The assignment addresses ethics on the job and behaviors required to maintain employment.

Students in small groups will determine the density of various balls and predict their ability to float or sink.