PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Worm Turns Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali
This lesson, based on the animated story "The Worm Turns" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children use several types of informational texts to gather facts. In the video, Molly and her friends are frightened after hearing...
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Write Me a Picture
In this lesson plan, 3rd through 5th graders select related pictures from magazines and newspapers, write captions for each, glue them in sequence on a poster board, and use the pictures to tell a story.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Grapes of Wrath: Voices From the Great Depression
By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, students create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker, providing...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
PBS
Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio
Young scholars will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Civil War: The Nation Moves Toward War
Examine the causes of the Civil War using primary source documents. This lesson plan gives background on the Civil War, includes a timeline, and a bibliography for further reading. Primary source documents include music, newspapers,...