In this lesson, students will look at the distinction between citizens and noncitizens (aliens) and the process by which aliens may become citizens. This lesson will help define a citizen of the United States and a non-citizen alien of the United States.

In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to create a presentation featuring an electrostatics demonstration. The demonstration should deal with some aspect of the three basic principles of electrostatics. Each group will also submit a written descripton of their demonstration.

In this lesson, students work with partners to create a short story lining unrelated details into a logical plot with a clear setting and established characters.

This is a diagnostic test that determines the students' skills at interpreting a timeline.

In this lesson, students read The Diary of Anne Frank and determine whether or not this book should be a classic based on the criteria given.

In this lesson, students cut pictures out of magazines that relate to their lives to glue on bags to share with the class.

In this lesson, the student demonstrates an awareness of where a melody and melody fragments enter different voice parts, and adjusts dynamically to enable the listener to perceive these events. Each student uses a rubric to make critical evaluations of the performance.

In this lesson, students work in cooperative groups to create a "ditty" to teach the characteristics that distinguish literary forms to younger students. The ditty is performed before the class.

This lesson reinforces the elements of a short story including character, plot development, point of view, and tone and has students create a “visual” report of the literary elements with a short story. The report is a 12-sided ball called a dodecahedron.

In this lesson students will work in groups to rank a list of words from one extreme to the other, such as cold-hot, love-hate, etc. Groups will share their results with the class. After discussion and upon reviewing model descriptive writing, students will apply their knowledge by making more specific word choices to complete a descriptive writing assignment.

In this lesson, students develop a message using Morse code and then practice communicating the message to classmates using alternate methods.

In this lesson, students use scale drawings to solve real world problems involving perimeter and area.

In this lesson, students explore figurative language and point of view in the novel "Jacob I Have Loved".

Students will read the story, Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold and compare thier own lives with that of a girl in a tenement builidng in New York City. Through reading the story, students will better understand the hopes and dreams of the less fortunate.

Student will predict ideas or events that may take place in the text, give rationale for predictions, confirm and discuss predictions as the story progresses.

For this lesson, students learn the difference between goods and services, consumers and producers and ways scarcity affects the choices people make in everyday situations.

In this lesson, teachers set up an e-mail system whereby students in different classes or schools can communicate research-based questions and answers on a given topic.

In this lesson, students research using computers to gather information on wildlife management and use the information to write a letter to an agency.