Available Lessons
Acting Styles and Their Practitioners: Research and Presentation
Grade: 12
Theater
The purpose of this project will be for students to research acting styles and their practitioners. Using this research, they will create a video (iMovie or MovieMaker) or traditional presentation (Keynote / PowerPoint) and present this to the class.
Data Analysis of a Survey
Grade: 6
Mathematics
This lesson is a 3.5-day culminating lesson for a chapter on Data Analysis. Students will collect, organize, display, and interpret data in order to solve a problem.
Dream Vacation: A Math Analysis
Grade: 6
Mathematics
Students are given the opportunity to select a dream vacation and are give a set amount of money and must plan and execute their trip without going over their allotted funds.
Geometry Around Your School
Grade: 4
Mathematics
Teacher will read aloud "The Greedy Triangle" by Marilyn Burns. After read aloud the class will create a list of the geometric shapes from the story. Students will add geometric shapes to the list that were not included in the book (e.g., three dimensional objects). Then students will work with a partner to walk around the school campus to find real-life examples of their assigned geometric shape and take digital photographs of the objects. Students will create a class book about the objects and use their digital photographs to illustrate the book.
Reflective Writing: "How I felt on the first day of school"
Grade: K
Health
Students will complete a writing activity based on the prompt: "How I felt on the first day of school" using photos of different emotions.