Students use technology to visit websites where they play interactive games, gather information to complete activity sheets, and complete online projects. One lesson using 'Inch By Inch' by Leo Lionni, takes students to an interactive...

Students access the Global Sun Temperature Project website and research the relationship between the location and climate of a participating school to its building structure. They consider how climate affects the type of structures...

Third graders investigate how to use e-mail for communication and the Internet for a source of information. They establish e-pals and conduct an author's study using the Internet.

Young scholars listen to and discuss story of Jesus calming storm, write script containing interview questions, create background with props, make video of newscast, and illustrate memory verse or symbol of peace using KidPix software.

In this Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt learning exercise, students read the book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.

Third graders search TDC database for images of immigration from other countries, maps, and diaries. They identify the challenges that immigrants had to endure to reach the United States.

Students read Mildred Pitts Walter's, Justin and the World's Best Biscuits and answer associated questions.

Third graders examine different types of disasters occurring in our world. They research an assigned disaster on the Internet then create a newspaper to display their information including clipart and digital pictures.

In this The Bracelet worksheet, learners read the book The Bracelet and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 12 questions total.

Students engage in a lesson plan to find out more information about insects. They collect and observe different insects found on school property. They research the insects once they have been classified. Also a video is used to create a...

Pupils practice identifying the subject and verbs in sentences. In this verb activity, students can explain the difference between active and passive verbs. Pupils complete a grade appropriate work sheet.

Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.

Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.

Pupils create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.

Students explore the parts of a sentence through analysis, design, and drawing in this nine lessons unit on Grammar. The diagramming of sentences comprises the main thrust of this unit through the utilization of higher cognitive skill...

Students gradually develop fine-motor movement skills with the mouse, while building on the gross-motor movements they are already able to make with the mouse. It encourages students to look at the same painting different ways, and...

Students investigate the lives of pets by videotaping them.  In this animal life lesson, students videotape a cat and other pets using school cameras in a computer lab.  Students review the footage from the cat and other...

Third graders illustrate a favorite poem with images, title, author's name and words of the poem on a clay pot.

Young scholars read and examine various books and websites on farm animals and farm life, then create a class farm ABC book. Each student is responsible for one page in the book.

Students review what they already know about birds. Using the internet, they discover major issues involved with birds in Illinois. In groups, they determine what they can do to help them and contact a local agency.

Students produce elongated self-portraits on paper approximately 8 x 36 inches.

Students explore Japanese folk tales and create a performance that tells one of the Japanese folk stories.

Third graders illustrate a fiction novel by painting a depiction of the book on a tee shirt and then sharing it with the class.

Students investigate key local and national nonprofit organizations by researching their histories, services, and target populations. Student pairs present their information to the rest of the class. Each student will be responsible for...