Students explore poetry and its meaning. After reading poems, students explore the literary elements such as the setting, character, problem, events and resolution. They compare and contrast descriptions given in poems. Students...

Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...

Students explore Native Americans and the migration of non native people to Montana. They investigate and interpret maps for information such as location of Indian reservations, transportation routes and important communities.

Learners find words that begin with the letters in their own names, using a variety of sources including word banks and online dictionaries. They create an acrostic poem. Pupils revise poems as needed, for meaning and conventions. ...

Students experience how texture is one of the six basic elements of design. It gives an image authenticity and 'flavor'. It invites the audience to enter a piece and encourages each viewer to experience rather than simply observe.

Students complete an Easter Scavenger Hunt by researching Internet sites and discover how different cultures decorate Easter eggs. Students also examine nutritional facts about eggs and additional trivia or fun facts during their...

Students create a scrapbook illustrating the culture of Native Americans that settled in the Kickapoo Valley. Working in groups, students choose a topic related to the Kickapoo Valley Indians. Using traditional and technological...

Students examine and discuss the artistic style and techniques of the artist Ed Paschke. They analyze various works of art by Ed Paschke, then choose an icon from art history and alter a photocopy of it using scissors and collage materials.

Young scholars use the Internet to explore the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle. They make a model of a butterfly using macaroni, sticks and leaves.

Young scholars learn what spam is, the forms it takes, and then identify strategies for dealing with it. They compare junk mail to spam, learn tips for handling spam safely, and use those tips to answer questions on the student handout...

Students learn that children's websites must protect their private information. They learn to identify these secure sites by looking for their privacy policies and privacy seals of approval. They discuss a scenario in which their private...

In this lesson, students will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.

For this lesson, students explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.

This brief activity focuses on the roles that many different people play in the creation of media messages and advertising.

Students learn to recognize five different kinds of online ads prevalent on children's sites. They learn how to distinguish advertising content from other content on a website. Free membership required.

Students explore what it means to take on responsibilities in both their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens. Students sit in circles, which depict the "Rings of Responsibility," in order to...

Support healthy eating by using these resources in the classroom. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge was a nationwide recipe contest for kids ages 8-12 that promotes cooking and healthy eating. Winners attended a "State Dinner" at the White...

A workbook for children on how to save and manage their money, and how to create a budget.

A instructional activity based on The Pickle Patch Bathtub by Frances Kennedy, where students learn about making choices in how to spend money, and how to set goals and develop a savings plan.