Students will create two models of the digestive system and determine the correct placement of various organs of the digestive system. Students will use the model to compare mechanical and chemical digestion. Students will use information provided by the model to explain why food spends various amounts of time in a particular organ. To extend the learning of this module, students will design an experiment to determine the effect of introducing new foods to a baby's diet. The module also includes a presentation, a word search puzzle, and a bingo game emphasizing vocabulary words related to the digestive tract.

This is an online exploration poetry lesson. Students will navigate through aninteractive PowerPoint presentation and complete different tasks while acquiring knowledge on the various aspects of poetry.

This activity will introduce students to the topic of banking. It is a hands-on lesson in which the students will be writing checks and deposit slips and keeping up with a check register. It is a technology-based lesson that uses interactive websites as well as a presentation to enhance the lesson.

Literary terms, author information and activating prior knowledge will begin a unit comparing The Princess Bride to a fairy tale. Students will also be able to identify the fantasy genre after viewing a chart.

In this lesson, students will work in small groups to experience friction in action as they investigate the movement of toy cars. Students use the scientific process to hypothesize and then test how toy cars travel down ramps using differing variables such as mass and types of materials. They also review and share their results with the class.

Using a 'news report' approach, students investigate the slope of various stairways on the school campus and report on wheelchair accessibility and adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students investigate the relationships of the lengths of the sides of a triangle in order to discover the three triangle inequality theorems. Students will learn how to draw valid conclusions from the information obtained from the activity and apply those conclusions to real world geometry problems. This serves as an introduction into more advanced geometric theorems.

Students lesson compare and contrast the traditional Three Little Pigs, by Golden Books to The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Students will discover how an author’s point of view can influence how a reader feels.

In this lesson, eighth grade students will collect data. They will use this data to analyze the relationship between the height of an individual and the length of his/her foot. Students will use a line of fit to make predictions for people of different heights.

In this lesson, students will take a trip back in time and look at the lifestyles and classes of people in the late 1800s. Using a WedQuest, text, and graphic organizers, students will learn about the class systems in the 1800s and how the use of symbolism increased the point of interest within the story.

Students order the events of their morning using relative and absolute dating techniques. Students will also write a personal definition of the terms absolute age and relative age. Next, students will work with collaborative groups to order events in Earth's geologic history by relative age, then order those same events by absolute age in a scaled model timeline. Lastly, students will use the time-scale model created with their group members to analyze events in Earth's geologic history.

Students will construct 3-dimensional representations of each known element of the periodic table using cereal-sized boxes as their mediums. By creating these models, students will gain an in-depth understanding of their chosen element's discovery, history, unique properties, and place on the Modern Periodic Table. Students will also be able to identify and describe basic periodic trends.

Through multiple lessons, students will explore career choices, set educational goals, and create a media project in which they share information about their chosen career.

Often students are confused about where to start when solving a multi-step equation. In this lesson the equation is labeled as a party. The 'host' is labeled (x) with remaining operations being labeled according to their relationship to the host (friends, family, acquaintances, etc...). Technology assignments are used as one method to assess student understanding.

Students will use the microscope for observing live specimens of paramecium, amoeba, Euglena, and Spirogyra to discover the differences between algae and protozoans. After documenting their observations in their science journals, they will use the computer to create a brochure or slideshow presentation that compares the characteristics of the three groups of protozoans. A rubric is provided for assessment of student work.

In this lesson, students explore how a bank pays interest to people who deposit money into it and charges interest to people who borrow money from it.

Students explore their surroundings to locate and prove the presence of perpendicular lines. Students will use the corner of a ruler as a tester to determine right angles contained in classroom items. It can be included in a unit on geometry and measurement.

This lesson will help students visualize the Earth's crust (lithosphere), mantle, and core. The students will work in groups to research and design a model of the Earth's layers.

Students will learn what an adjective is and how to categorize adjectives using an interactive sorting game. Students will compete with each other by categorizing adjectives by color, shape, size, and kind. Students will have to read and sort the adjective word cards. Furthermore, students will use magazine photographs to describe nouns and write sentences.