Welcome! Sign In or Try it Free!
Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
- Rating
Students identify the role of the weather vane in colonial America, and determine the accuracy of almanacs in predicting the weather. students create an 18th century weathervane design. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
- Rating
Students practice using a World Almanac by completing the provided worksheet on animals. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
- Rating
Students explore using almancs for research purposes. They use the almanac to look up a variety of information including the presidents of the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
- Rating
Students gather geographic information about their community. They work together to create a community almanac. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
- Rating
Students discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac, glossary, thesaurus, and/or telephone book, practice finding and exploring listed Internet sites for reference materials, and correct ready-made paper using Spellcheck, Thesaurus, and print functions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
- Rating
Students work cooperatively in order to identify specific situations in which an almanac is the best choice for locating information. They answer specific questions, record the page on which the answer was found, and the key words used to find the answer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
- Rating
Students define an almanac and list reasons why they would use an almanac. They select a topic of interest in the almanac and create a "Did You Know?" poster. They creatively display the facts they compiled on their topic. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
- Rating
Students examine the World Almanac for Kids and how it can be used as an information source. They study the almanac and its contents and focus on how to use the almanac and most effectively access the information you may be looking for. They Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating
Students engage in a study of the states as part of the United States while conducting research using a variety of resources. The focus of the study is the states that were part of the Union by 1890. Students create an almanac about those states. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
- Rating
Students discuss the meaning of the word, almanac and then decide which statistics about the World Series they think should be included in the almanac, browsing some websites to get some idea of what statistics are available. They then are divided into five groups to research and record statistics about the World Series. Full Review »
Link to This
Email This
Share