Available Lessons
"Diary of Anne Frank:" A Podcast
Grade: 8
Language Arts
Students create a podcast surrounding historical events of Anne Frank and the Secret Annex.
A Lucky Charm Sort
Grade: K
Science
Students will sort Lucky Charms based on shapes, using a table to record the answers.
Advertising Influence
Grade: 7
Language Arts
Students will view multiple advertisements. After a brief lesson, students will be able to categorize the techniques used to influence consumers to make a purchase. In addition, students will create a magazine advertisement utilizing one of the techniques.
Ain't I a Woman - Sojourner Truth
Grade: 8
Language Arts
This lesson works to compare the struggles of the Abolition movement with those of the Women's Reform movement by studying Ain't I A Woman by the prominant abolitionist of her time - Sojourner Truth.
All About Me: Journalism Ice Breaker
Grade: 7
Language Arts
In the lesson, students are asked to create a presentation (PowerPoint or Keynote) introducing themselves and their roles in the Journalism class to other students. This lesson can be used at the beginning of the course as a culture-building activity.
Alphabet Mystery
Grade: K
Language Arts
In this lesson, the student will prove whether a text is fact or fiction, discuss the main idea in the story Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood and complete a snake alphabet worksheet.
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart:" A different perspective
Grade: 8
Language Arts
After planning using storyboards, students will act out the action of the story from different characters' points of view. Students must be sure to include the element of mood in their actions to show the audience the feeling the story portrays during the action. Students will film their portrayals so that they are viewed by other students.
Florida During the Civil War
Grade: 8
Language Arts
Students will explore the role Florida played during the Civil War. Students will explore a document detailing Florida's role and be able to identify key battles that took place on Florida soil. Students will be able to explain how Florida helped the Confederacy during the war.
Forces-Review Games
Grade: 8
Science
The standard method of completing a chapter is to have the student review 3 ways: Cooperative review questions from text; MindJogger Game DVD from text with winning team participants receiving 5 Extra Credit points; BrainPops subject specific game on Internet.
History Through Words: Frederick Douglass
Grade: 11
Language Arts
Students will perform a picture analysis. Afterwards, a passage will be read from a narrative in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom and then complete the Pick-a-Pair worksheet.
Measure of pH using Vernier Probes
Grade: 9
Science
Students will work in groups of two to measure pH of freshwater system when crayfish are present in water sample. A control will be set-up and the biology of the crayfish will studied. The pH should increase as the crayfish releases ammonia as a waste product. (Ammonia is a base)
Mollie Gabe: A Former Slave's Perspective
Grade: 8
Language Arts
This short, stand-alone lesson seeks to give students a perspective of life as a slave from a former slave's perspective. Although this is but one view, it is a view nonetheless. Students will also be asked to use and improve their reading skills by the associated worksheet.
Push or Pull?
Grade: K
Science
It takes energy to change the motion of objects. Energy change is understood by force- a push or pull. Some forces act through physical contact, while others act at a distance. The student will understand what force, push and pull is.
Reflective Writing: "How I felt on the first day of school"
Grade: K
Health, Language Arts
Students will complete a writing activity based on the prompt: "How I felt on the first day of school" using photos of different emotions.
Understanding Conservation of Mass in Chemical Reactions
Grade: 11
Science
Often students cannot understand from chemical formulas how atoms exist in compounds, and how they are rearranged during reaction. Furthermore, the concept of balancing reactions eludes them when they cannot actually see the individual atoms. To illustrate a reaction for them, They are split into groups and given "bingo" type chips of different colors. They then put them into groups as reactants, representing the compounds that enter the reaction. They will then break the bonds of the reactants and attempt to rebond them as products. In most reactions, they will see that without balancing they do not have enough "chips" to complete the reaction. However, if they add more of one or more of the reactants, they can then complete the reaction because they now have enough "chips". They will then transfer findings to a sheet, written as a balanced formula equation.
Understanding the Law of Conservation of Mass
Grade: 11
Science
Using the COW, students will use either the program FRAMES or the flip camera and movie maker (their choice) to animate a chemical reaction in order to illustrate that all atoms involved are present at the beginning and end of the reaction, and that matter is neither created or destroyed.