Students listen to a book that facilitates a discussion of trade and things that people need. They determine what things might be traded.

Students use shape puppets to review geometry content. They take turns singing songs, reading students poems, reciting class bulletin board notes and choral poems. They prepare for their summative assessments through play and interview...

Second graders, as a whole class, create a calendar of holidays using cards. Afterward, they add their birthdays to the calendar.

Students are introduced to the parts of trees through discussion and participation in learning centers with hands on activities that focus on each part.

Students examine a fairy tale character of their choice in great detail. They create a wanted poster that includes the following: a picture of the character, a written description of his/her appearance, a reward amount, and reasonthe...

Second graders look at the United States often over the next few months. Help them to see how the United States has changed as territories have become states. They may be surprised to know the areas of our country that were territories...

Second graders define the term culture and are exposed to a variety of cultures from around the world. They read books, play Native American games, develop a class book that examines their own culture and, after examining currencies from...

Second graders review the basic elements of a story. Individually, they write their own original story as they use a software program to help them map out their ideas. With a partner, they exchange papers and read them for grammatical...

Students explore the adaptations that are made by polar bears. They discuss the color of polar bears as well as the dominant color that is found in the arctic. Students create a polar bear puppet.

Learners discover how to select a book and determine if it is too difficult to read. They break into groups of two; with one partner spinning the other around several times with their eyes closed and then the other person guides them...

Second graders practice the necessary steps that should be taken in order to create a story from scratch. They brainstorm as a class in order to come up with different ideas. Students write a story that includes a plot, characters, and...

Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. For this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...

For this simple word search worksheet, students search for a total of 12 "toy" words, such as bear, car, doll, game, etc. Link to related pages is given.

Students investigate Woody Guthrie's beliefs. In this citizenship lesson, students research and discuss the beliefs of Woody Guthrie and write down several facts that they learned.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Children of the Village by Mary Russell Mitford, an illustrated collection of children's stories.

A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of The Children's Nonsense Book, a book of stories and poems for children.

A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Jacob & the Raven, with Other Stories for Children by Frances Mary Peard, a fiction book for children.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Nanny's Christmas, A Story for Children by Jasper Green [1870], a children's Christmas novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Very Little Tales for Very Little Children by Bell and Daldy [1870], an illustrated collection of children's stories written in single syllables of three and four...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Children of Haycombe by Annie S. Fenn (1887), an illustrated children's novel.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Bunch of Wild Flowers for the Children by Ida Prentice Whitcomb (c1894), a children's guidebook of wild flowers.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Stories of Colonial Children by Mara L. Pratt (c1894), a collection of illustrated children's stories.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Children on the Plains by Sarah S. Baker, a story of travel and adventure in the Great Prairies of North America.

This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Daisy Chain: A Picture Story Book for Children by A.L.O.E., a collection of children's stories.