Students will be able to list the 5 measures of fitness, describe them, and give at least two examples for each. They will practice/attempt the examples.

Students will be able to identify and explain the importance of muscular strength and endurance. They will attempt and practice the examples.

Students will be reading and writing myths. They will follow the structure of short stories and eventually publish their work.

The 7th grade poetry unit gives an in depth approach to poetry involving the four strands within the core. I've included worksheets, rubrics, and answers keys where applicable. I have also used literature examples from the core.

Students will be creating a variety of poetry as well as analyzing poetry. They will work with Language standards and take a performance assessment at the end of the unit.

In this activity students identify the different relationships that can be found in a community and create a class Community ABC Book.

This is a lesson plan designed to be used in Family & Consumer Sciences adult roles. It can be used as an activity while learning about self concept, but could also be a getting to know you activity for the beginning of a course.

Students will develop an advocacy plan for a local, national or global health problem. Students will write a letter as part of their advocacy plan.This lesson is written as an interdisciplinary unit for both the Health and Language Arts classrooms. It can however, be taught in just one of the classes.

Students will explore literature about Africa and exhibit an interest in learning more about it. This unit will introduce them to the seven continents of the world.

Using a bottle and a hard boiled egg, students will see that air exerts pressure. They will analyze evidence about particles of matter and demonstrate the role of motion in the particulate description of matter.

Students will identify the effects of alcohol on body organs and on performance, as well as identifying reasons for not using alcohol.

Students will create a personal narraitve by generating ideas for writing from their personal experiences, write details of their experience in an organized manner, and revise their draft to add details.

This is a getting to know you activity to use at the beginning of the year.

In this lesson, students analyze the allusions, slang, and literary analogies used in "Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara. To extend understanding, they will then write their own allusions and analogies.

This lesson extends over several class periods. Students analyze the claim, grounds, warrants, qualifiers and counterclaims in three articles about the American Dream. Students conduct research and find two additional articles about the American Dream. Students then analyze the argument in those articles. Finally, students write their own argument essay about the current state of the American Dream.

This lesson is a culmination assessment of the things they have learned in social studies to analyze the ways cultures use, maintian, and preserve the physical enviornment. Identify ways people use their physical enviornment, compare changes in natural resources over time, describe ways to preserve and protect natural resources, compare perspectives of various communities toward their natural enviornment, and make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the natural enviornment.