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Map Making
Learners examine a variety of strategies to identify the structure of a story. They listen to the book Where the Wild Things Are and, as a class, complete a story element chart. Students independently read a passage from Charlotte's...
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Characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Stories
Students read literature by Nathaniel Hawthorne and write an essay comparing the main characters in the two stories. In this character analysis lesson, students read the stories Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil. Students...
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Look, I Can Build a Sentence
First graders practice writing colorful sentences. In this writing mechanics instructional activity, 1st graders use the SmartBoard to write sentences and draw illustrations next to their sentences. Students develop a rubric to help them...
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Language Arts: Two Specific Documents
Students are able to read and analyze the essential parts of two specific types of documents, the informed consent document and the position paper, used by scientists to communicate information about their research to two different kinds...
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Telling a Story
Learners create a story about a picture. In this writing lesson, students select a picture and write a story about what happened in the picture. Learners are encouraged to write a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
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Subjects and Predicates
Sixth graders explore writing techniques by reviewing sample sentences. In this writing subject lesson, 6th graders examine a list of sentences in which they identify both the subject and predicate. Students complete a subject and...
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GMOs: Should We Grow Them?
Students examine the ethics of biotechnology and genetically modifying various organisms. They complete various activities and labs on GMOs and then write a position paper regarding their individual opinions on the subject.
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New York City Water Quality Assessment Project
Students investigate the chemistry of water and how its molecular structure supports life through its biochemcial, physical, and environmental roles. They investigate the quality of water as it interacts with the environment. Students...
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Chemical Compounds
In this chemical compounds worksheet, students determine the mechanism for chemical reactions, predict the products for given reactions, and write in the structure for compounds. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
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Organic Naming
In this organic compounds worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by writing the complete structural formula, line formula, and molecular formula for the given compounds.
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Kinds of Sentences
In this sentence structure learning exercise, students respond to 22 short answer questions that require them to write and identify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory.
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Introduce: The Suffix -y
Students explore language arts by participating in a word structure activity. For this suffix lesson, students identify what a suffix is and discuss the common uses for the "y" suffix. Students add the specific suffix to many words and...
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Homework Master (Grammar Review)
In this sentence creation worksheet, students practice putting together sentences. Students match the beginning and the end of a sentence and write sentences. There are twelve in all.
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Chemistry First Marking Period Review
In this chemistry review worksheet, students review terms and concepts covered. Students practice metric conversions, factor labeling, temperature conversions, heat calculations, atomic structure, and gas laws. This worksheet has 3...
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Predicting and Naming Polyatomic Ionic Compounds Worksheet
In this compounds worksheet, students write the polyatomic ionic compound formulas or the compound names. This worksheet has 29 problems to solve.
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Which Way is Up? The Tree of Life in Africa
Students read a book titled This is the Tree about a baobab tree and draw a picture and label the tree. In this tree lesson plan, students also write a paragraph explaining why they drew that tree.
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Assignment .11 Sentence Construction
In this sentence structure worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions that require them to follow the the provided instructions to create original sentences with the listed parts of speech.
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, parts of speech, dictionary work, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Silly Sentences
Students read and illustrate silly sentences. In this sentence structure lesson, students draw illustrations to reflect the parts of one of the silly sentences. Students pictures should show all the parts of their silly sentence.
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Musical Chairs
Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. In this phonics lesson, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...
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Organizing Ideas
Eighth graders investigate varous writing skills as part of larger course of study. The instructional activity is essentially a rough guide for conducting a class for writing. The main focus of the plan is organizing ideas using various...
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Details, Details, Details
Students review paragraph development, use of adjectives and grammar requirements. They incorporate various details in a written paragraph describing a visual image used as a writing prompt.
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Personal Timeline
Seventh graders review the stages of the writing process. In this writing process lesson, 7th graders review the writing process steps by creating a personal timeline. Students complete graphic organizers for the lesson and present their...
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Neighborhood Rubrics
Students use a rubric to analyze their neighborhood and write a persuasive essay about changes that should be made. In this writing lesson, students use a rubric to grade their neighborhood and brainstorm improvements. Students write a...