Young scholars examine how artifacts are discovered and explore their significance as it pertains to gathering important information. In this artifacts lesson, students obtain knowledge about the way artifacts are excavated and examine...

Fourth graders play a game. In this vocabulary lesson, 4th graders play the game Charades to help review their vocabulary words. At the end of the lesson students can create their own words to act out.

Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...

students will learn about artifacts-what they are, how they are initially buried and then excavated. They participate in an online game and called "Stratigraphy" and participate in the "If Trash Could Talk" activity page.

Sometimes the best way to understand a concept is to break it down. Young vocabulary pupils work with word parts in a hands-on activity that prompts them to connect flash cards with affixes to their root and base words....

Fourth graders research and present information about Benjamin Franklin's life and accomplishments. In this activity on Benjamin Franklin, 4th graders review idioms and sayings written by Franklin then compare and contrast his various...

Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...

Students participate in a vocabulary exercise at a website dedicated to Prehistoric Native Americans.

Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...

In this game, students read a clue and then click on the letters in the matrix in order to spell the answer to the clue.

In this interactive, "millionaire-style" game, students read passages with idioms in them. Then they will select the correct explanation for each idiom.

This Concentration-style game asks students to match root words with their meanings while remembering the location of the covered pairs of words. Java is required.

During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.

This is an introduction Interactive Spelling Bee; it explains how the game works by grade level: Grades 1-8 listen to three stories separately and spell words from each story; high school students will listen to sentences and spell words...

In this interactive game, students match terms having to do with making inferences to their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent traits.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the growing problem of cyberbullying and what can be done to stop it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Students choose words to complete sentences and try to get three in a row for a vocabulary bingo in this three-leveled game.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to accompany Scott Foresman Reading- 3rd grade- Unit 6- Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg. It covers a variety of reading strategies, including making predictions, context...