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Lesson Plans

TEKS aligned and inquiry based to promote critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration

Grades K- 1 (top of page)
Kindergarten, Science & Language Arts
How are animals alike and different?
Kindergarten, Social Studies & Language Arts
How Do We Use Technology at School and at Home?
Kindergarten, Math & Language Arts
What Shapes Do We Have in Our Classroom?
Kindergarten and 1st, Science
What Changes During the Seasons?
Kindergarten and 1st, Social Studies, Language
Why do we need Rules?
1st, Science
How Does a Butterfly Become a Butterfly?
1st, Science / Language Arts
Is it Alive?
1st, Social Studies & Language Arts
How Do Our Thanksgiving Day Celebrations Compare to Those in the Past?
1st, Social Studies & Math
How Does Voting Work?
Grades 2- 3 (top of page)
2nd, Science
Are Bats so Bad?
2nd, Science
Why Should We Save our Water?
2nd, Science & Language Arts
How Do Cacti’s External Characteristics Help Them Survive in the Desert?
2nd, Science & Language Arts
How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other and the Environment?
2nd, Science & Language Arts
How Do a Plant’s Parts Help it Survive?
Grade level; 2nd, Social Studies & Language Arts
How Do People Meet Their Basic Needs?
3rd, Language Arts
Which Word Should you Use?
3rd, Science
What is the Mystery Matter?
3rd, Science & Language Arts
How is Our Solar System Organized?
3rd, Science, Social Studies, & Language Arts
How Do Earthquakes Affect the Surface of the Earth?
3rd, Social Studies & Language Arts
How Can Individuals and Groups Improve Communities?
3rd, Social Studies & Math
How Do Budgets Work?
Grades 4 - 5 (top of page)
4th, Math
Do Numbers Have Nicknames?
4th Science / Language Arts
How Can Turtles Survive on Land and in the Water?
4th, Science & Language Arts
How Do Oceans Affect Coastal Regions and the People Who Reside There?
4th, Science & Language Arts
How Does the Sun Affect the Earth?
4th, Social Studies
How Can I Honor My Texas Ancestors Who Built The Great State of Texas?
4th, Social Studies
How Can We Represent Our Great State of Texas?
4th, Social Studies
How Did Railroads Change Cities in Texas Forever?
4th, Social Studies
How Did Salt Lead a Wildcatter to Oil?
4th, Social Studies
How Does Changing the Land Change Your Life?
4th, Social Studies
How Would You Blog Your Way through Texas?
4th, Social Studies
If There Were No Houses in Texas, Where Would You Live?
4th, Social Studies
What Do Cinco de Mayo and Juneteenth Have in Common?
4th, Social Studies
What do NASA and a Cell Phone have in Common?
4th, Social Studies
What will I invent to have a secure future in Texas?
4th, Social Studies
Why are we so proud to be Texans?
4th and 5th, Language Arts
Does it Ever Rain Cats and Dogs?
4th and 5th, Math
How is Geometry Reflected in Design & in Nature?
4th and 5th, Language Arts
Which Type of Thesaurus Do You Prefer and Why?
5th, Social Studies, Science & Language Arts
How Have Inventors & Scientists Made a Difference in People’s Lives?
5th, Science & Language Arts
Why is the Water Cycle So Important?
5th, Science
How Do Changes in the Arctic Environment Affect Wild Animals?
5th, Language Arts / Health
What Makes Chocolate the Perfect Treat?
Grades 6 - 8 (top of page)
6th, Language Arts / Science
What Happens When There is No Electricity?
6th, Social Studies
What Is It Like to Live in Another Country?
6-8, Technology Applications and Reading/ELA
What are the Advantages of the K-12 Databases VS Google or Wikipedia?
7th, Music and Social Studies
How Does Music Describe Texas?
7th Grade, Science and Language Arts
Should People Be Allowed To Build Homes Areas Prone To Natural Disasters?
7th, Science and Language Arts
What Happens When the Food Chain Is Interrupted?
7th, Science
How Can We Be Green?
7th, Science
If You Wanted To Plan An Exotic Eco-Vacation, Where Would You Go And Why?
7th, Science
How Do Wind Turbines Impact our Lives?
7th,Texas History
Did King Cotton Always Reign in Texas?
7th,Texas History
Do Diversity And Unity Exist In The Cultures Of Texas?
7th,Texas History
How Did Barbed Wire and Windmills Change the Face of Texas?
7th Texas History
How Did Texans Help To Fight A War That Was Worlds Away?
7th,Texas History
How Did the Texas Frontier Change Life Forever for Native Americans, the Cattle Industry and Cowboys?
7th Texas History
How Did the Vietnam Experience Impact Life in Texas?
7th Texas History
How Did Victory Gardens and Rationing Help Texans Support Troops In WWII?
7th,Texas History
How Did Weather Change The Lives Of Thousands of Texans?
7th,Texas History
What Are the Top 5 Technologies From 1800-1999?
7th,Texas History
What Do Vaqueros, Amarillo and the Rio Grande Have In Common?
7th,Texas History
What Does Spindletop Have To Do With OPEC?
7th,Texas History
What Happens To Jobs When Cities Grow?
7th,Texas History
What Is The Relationship Between Humans And The Environment?
7th,Texas History
Why Would A Soldier Fight His Own Country After Fighting In A War?
7th,Texas History
Why Do The American And Texas Constitutions Look Alike?
7th, Social Studies
Why Did Some Texas Towns Become Ghost Towns?
8 -12, Character Education & Technology Applications
How Will Your Online Image Impact Your Future?
7th & 8th, Career Investigation
What Will I Do When I Finish High School?
Grade 8th, Reading / Language Arts
How is the Rainforest Like a Natural Pharmacy?
8th, Science
Why Should We Care About Global Warming?
8th, Social Studies
Was Life Easier in a South Plantation or in a Northern Cotton Mill?
Grades 9-12 (top of page)
9-12, English Language Arts IV, World History
How Does Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Mirror the Social Order of the Middle Ages?
High School, World Geography
Do Too Many People Live on the Planet?
High School, Government
Does Your Vote Really Count?
9-12, Spanish Language, English Language Arts IV
Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills
9-12, Social Studies, Reading Analysis
How Did Political Cartoons Impact Information Americans Received During World War II?
9-12, Mathematics, Cross Curricular World History Studies
How Do Fractal Patterns Found in Primitive Cultures Around the World Act as a Window into the Study of Complex Mathematics?
9-12, Geography, Cross Curricular Connection
How is the World Affected by Immigration and Migration?
9-12, Environmental Science, Integrated Physics and Chemistry
How Sustainable is Sustainability?
8 -12, Character Education & Technology Applications
How Will Your Online Image Impact Your Future?
High School, Environmental Systems
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Pesticides?
9-12, World History, Art History Level III
What Does Ancient Roman Art Tell Us About Cultural Exchanges between the Romans and Other Major Centers of Civilization?
9-12 , Math Models Applications, Banking & Financial Systems
What is the Business of Interest? Finance Video , Academic Notes
9-12, Environmental Systems
What is Coral Reef Bleaching?
9-12, Health Education/Biology
What is the face of the AIDS Pandemic in Africa?
9-12, Geology, Oceanography, World Geography
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
9-12, Integrated Physics, Chemistry, Fine Arts
What Makes A Stronger Crystal… Size Or Shape
9-12, World History, Art & World Geography
What Regions of the World Were Affected by the Silk Road?
High School, U.S. History
What Was it Like to be a U.S. Immigrant at the Turn of the 20th Century?
9-12, English Language Arts English I 110.42.4C
What was the picture of America at the turn of the Twentieth century?
High School, Geometry
Where Do You See Math in Nature?
9-12, English IV and Spanish III & IV
Who is Considered the Spanish Shakespeare?
9-12, World Geography
Who is the Better Navigator. . . You or the Animals?
High School, U.S. History
Why Didn’t Anyone Prevent the Holocaust from Happening?
Templates - Create your own lesson plan (top of page)
Elementary Template (word doc)
Secondary Template (word doc)