Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Students research Iowa's parks and trails, plan a day trip to one of the places they learn about, and write a fiction story based on the information they find. In this lesson students create slides depicting visual images in a poem. Students learn about women who fought for change and explore the current status of the battles they fought. This lesson is a learning center activity to reinforce lessons on using a thesaurus and on synonyms.
Students find circular objects and then use the objects to find the pattern of pi.
Students will learn about stock car racing while developing skills in language and math. Teacher makes charts labeled with the names of various fruits and vegetables in each square. Students glue real seeds for those fruits and vegetables in the correct squares. Students learn fractions and percentages in real-life applications. This is a lesson I use to introduce fractions to learning disabled students.