A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Piranha (Pygocentrus Nattereri)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the piranha. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, diet, predators, behavior, mating and reproduction, and tells a story about a piranha found in a river in England.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Mitten/la Moufle
Storyteller Priscilla Howe tells a story about how a mitten dropped in the snow becomes a temporary home to several animals. The story is available in English and French.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Columbian Exchange
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Little River Canyon's Carnivorous Green Pitcher Plants
A digital slide program introduces the Green Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia oreophila) to the students. Students use a model of the Green Pitcher Plant and plastic insects to role play. They will tell the story of habitat adaptation and...
EL Education
El Education: These Animals Live on My Ranch
Older students create bilingual books for younger students on the Big Island of Hawaii in an effort to preserve Hawaiian native culture and language. Text and illustrations are used to tell stories or teach about the life and culture of...
A&E Television
History.com: What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human Life
Some of the oldest known art may hint at the beginning of language development, while later examples portray narratives with human and animal figures. What does the oldest known art in the world tell us about the people who created it?...
Read Works
Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...