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Friendly Letter Format
In this Westward Ho worksheet, students write a friendly letter and fill out a cause and effect chart for the story Westward Ho. Students complete 7 rows in the chart.
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Dry Forest: Flowers
Students explore botany by examining diagrams. In this plant reproduction instructional activity, students define a list of plant vocabulary terms and identify plant anatomy from a diagram. Students complete several plant activity...
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Rosie's Roses Lesson Idea: Practice Hearing the R
Students focus on the sound of the letter /r/ after listening to Rosie's Roses by Pamela Duncan Edwards. In this letter /r/ lesson, students identify animals in the book that contain the /r/ sound. They sort /r/ words into groups by the...
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What A Woman...The Silver Queen
Fourth graders realize that women have played a strong role in the history of Utah. They explain that the study of individuals can give glimpses of the life and times of the era. They experience their personal histories.
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Naming Ourselves
Twelfth graders get to know each other in an energetic, interactive learning space.
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"You Gotta Believe"
Students identify the steps involved in starting a band and promoting an album. They work in small groups to create a band and market it to their designated audience.
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Name Squares
Students examine the sounds the letters of their name make. They read Dr. Seuss' ABC Book and Mary Engelbreit's Put Em All Together. They practice writing the individual letters of their names in squares.
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Try to See It My Way
Students participate in a game to identify with other people's points of view. They complete a worksheet about minefields and locate them on a map. They work together in groups to identify why the landmines were placed where they were.
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Live Paintings
Students research various works of art, write essays, and create live performance art pieces in this 2-day Art, History, and/or Language Arts lesson for 7th and 8th grade. The use of a digital camera to capture the "live" performance is...
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #5
In this paragraph correction instructional activity, students read a paragraph about a man giving a speech. Students correct 8 errors by choosing the proper answer from 6 choices.
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First Graders, Fluency and FUN!
First graders develop their reading fluency during the school year. For this language arts lesson, 1st graders discover what skilled readers do when they are reading, such as chunking text or thinking about the meaning of the sentence...
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Breaking News English: Kate Moss Best Dressed and Undressed
In this English instructional activity, learners read "Kate Moss Best Dressed and Undressed," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.