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Pizza for Everyone
Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular lesson detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the lesson, ask your pupils to write...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: National Ice Cream Day
In this reading comprehension and vocabulary learning exercise, students read a text about the history of National Ice Cream Day. Students work alone or in partners to complete 144 questions. There are vocabulary matching problems, fill...
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Jazz and Math: Rhythmic Innovations
Students watch a segment of the PBS Ken Burns JAZZ documentary about Buddy Bolden creating the "Big Four." They compare and contrast the rhythms of marches and jazz based on the examples in the film, and explore notation, subdivision of...
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Saint Patrick's Day
In this Saint Patrick's Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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US Policy In Somalia
Students investigate the US policy for the country of Somalia. They conduct research using a variety of resources. They locate the country and then discuss major geographical features of the areas. Students discuss the present US...
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The Travels of Marco Polo
In this social studies reading comprehension activity, students read a page long detailed biography of Marco Polo. Students complete 12 multiple choice questions and one essay.
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Slow Food: A Different Path
Young scholars investigate the slow food movement through a reading and activity. In this slow food lesson, students read about the differences in fast food and slow food and the ties to sustainable agriculture. They nominate a local...
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English Exercises: Countries and Nationalities
In this online interactive English instructional activity, students respond to 19 fill in the blank questions that require them to use English vocabulary appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Pizza Portions
Students explore mathematics by participating in a pizza pie activity. In this nutrition lesson, students identify the caloric intake in a piece of pizza and estimate the average number of slices eaten by a person. Students utilize...
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GREEK MYTH IN PAINTING
Second graders look closely at a Renaissance painting depicting an ancient Greek myth, review the term renaissance, hear a Greek myth that tells how the peacock got its tail, sequence the story, and identify the actions of the myth in...
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Let's Spice It With Pepper
Students identify and locate the areas in which pepper and spices orginated. On a map, they locate the areas and write the name of the spice that is found there. They use historical events to trace its route to the Americas. They...
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Mapping the War
Students work in pairs to draw their own maps as specified of World War II areas. When all projects have been completed let one group at a time share their assignments with the rest of the class. Compile all the maps into a classroom...
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My Culture
For this culture worksheet, students answer ten short-answer questions about their own culture then write about the major cultural influences in their lives.
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Singular to Plural
In this singular and plural nouns activity, students read the sentences with singular nouns. Students then rewrite the sentences, changing the singular nouns to plural nouns and correcting other grammatical elements.
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Growing Into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home
Pupils research the role that education, family values, and respect for civic duty played in forming the leadership skills of the Taft family. They list and examine jobs held by William Howard Taft before he became president.
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American Thanksgiving Through Time
Students explore five web sites in order to identify the various ways Thanksgiving has been celebrated in the past and how it is celebrated today. They consider the diversity of United States and this affects celebrations of the day.
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Electric Light Tower
Students examine the San Jose Light Tower as an example of the development of urban lighting circa 1900. They view a slideshow, conduct research and write newspapers to chronicle the lighting ceremony from a variety of perspectives.
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Can, Be Able To Worksheet
In this ESL vocabulary instructional activity, students read 12 sentences in which there is a missing phrase. Students fill each space with "can," "could," or "be able to."
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Nouns and Adjectives
Using this activity on nouns and adjectives, learners can solidify their knowledge of grammar. This 14 question activity has students put words in columns based on whether it is an adjective, noun used as an adjective or a noun.
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Quiz: 3B: using-ed
In this grammar worksheet on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb, [simple present or simple past].
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Culture Clash: New World Meets Old
Sixth graders explore the history of Christopher Columbus. In this World History lesson, 6th graders research facts about Christopher Columbus. Students write their own opinion about Columbus's background focusing on three piecesof...
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Quiz: Using -ed
In this using "ed" worksheet, learners complete a set of 10 sentences using the simple present or simple past tense of give verbs. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz, but may be used for practice also.
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Nouns and Adjectives
In this nouns and adjectives worksheet, students read six sentences and identify the nouns and adjectives. Students categorize the words in a chart under the headings: nouns, adjectives, nouns used as adjectives.
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Archaeology For Kids Quiz 78
In this archaeology for kids quiz 78 activity, learners interactively answer 4 questions about housing in history, as part of an online magazine.