As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, students will create a map that is labeled with coordinates and contains a number of stops at safehouses. Students will then create a paper map or a technological representation using a program for Dash to start from a specific location and travel along the Underground Railroad.

Students will conduct an activity to identify the effects of solar energy on our planet and its systems by observing how 3 colored soils absorb sunlight differently.

Students will research an African American person based on set questions. The students will present their person in an interview format - Guess Who.

Students will investigate air quality issues by analyzing a map of the United States showing areas of poor air quality.

CK-12 Algebra Explorations is a hands-on series of activities that guides students from Pre-K to Grade 7 through algebraic concepts.

Students will determine the sources of energy that are utilized to power their schools (i.e., conventional and/or alternative). They will then explore the economic and environmental benefits of changing over a portion of this energy to renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric and geothermal. Depending on area-specific factors such as available funding (funding by state) and climate, this can involve the purchase of alternative energy credits and/or the creation of an on-site system such as a wind-turbine or solar panels.

Students will explain the need to reduce the amount of trash they generate, and describe ways in which they can make changes in their actions to support waste reduction.

This is a chart used to document student behavior to determine when the behavior is likely to occur, what might be a trigger, and which method of response works best.

This format can also be used for documentation of behaviours to best manage a classroom.

Students will make a window box or container garden to attract wildlife such as butterflies. Students draw, photograph and record butterfly visitors to their garden.

Google Slides that can be used to have students practice their counting and cardinality skills. KCC1 (count by 1’s) , KCC4 (Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities), KCC5 (count to answer “how many.”

Students will identify the need for alternative energy sources and explain how hydrogen energy might be used to address that need. They will conduct a simple experiment to describe how to use the process of electrolysis to generate hydrogen.

In this lesson, students observe how the Earth spins on its axis to give us night and day by participating in hands-on activities. The first activity takes place outside and help students understand the distance the Earth is from the Sun. The second activity is indoors and uses a globe to model the way the Earth spins on its axis to show day and night.

This video describes the election process and provides and explanation of the federal amendments and laws at the state level that have been implemented to create the current election system.

Students will reuse a variety of paper products to create a collage with an environmental theme.

Introducing the genre of Fantasy to students.  They will gain an understanding of the content and produce their own story for the product.  Modifications can be made on the length of the story the are to write.  There can also be a more in depth conversation on the genre by older groups.  

In this lesson, students will discover the results of force applied to an object using balls of varying weights.

www.storyboardthat.com is a graphic novel style resource that allows the students to create a timeline of the book they are reading. This can be used for various media to create a summary of the lesson.

Students will understand the interdependence between humans and trees. They will read "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein and then students will write on paper leaves ways that people can give to or receive from trees and contribute to a classroom "receiving tree."

Students will research water crisis conditions for one of the following countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, or Kenya and then report their findings to the class.

Students will explain the need to reduce the amount of trash they generate, and describe ways in which they can make changes in their actions to support waste reduction. Students will collect, analyze, and graph data related to the weight of collected trash for several consecutive days. Students will also write letters to communicate their ideas and inform readers about their actions to reduce waste.