A picture is worth a thousand words, but a comic strip combines both images and words for the ultimate narrative effect. After reading The Three Little Pigs and deciphering the plot elements, elementary readers work through four...

Young scholars create a visual display that highlights friendship and kindness. They read and discuss a poem, and design and create a large poster or banner that emphasizes kindness, anti-bullying, and friendship.

Pupils help create quilts to be used for students who need to know someone cares for them around the world. They document all of the work on the quilt and write descriptions to be sent on to the person or community receiving the quilt.

Students explore the concept of reusing and recycling everyday materials and make holiday-oriented decorations and gift wrapping. Letters containing environmental issues are composed and sent to political and corporate decision-makers.

Young scholars create journal entries on-line as part of a "Kidlink Day" activity. Entries are compared and evaluated by their peers. The writing process is practiced in this lesson.

Students practice using a digital camera and identify the various parts. As a class, they review recent vocabulary and signs used in their community. In groups, they take pictures of various items and write complete sentences describing...

Young scholars use e-mail to introduce themselves, ask for and receive advice and information on certain school concerns, and share information on activities they enjoy with other students from other schools.

Students create a platform in which they share quotations of well known philosophers. They discuss their own views and ideas about the different quotations.

Students explore the definitions relevant to Karst topography. They develop a Bryant Watershed Dictionary of the special words and terms that are used to talk about the topography and hydrology of the area they live in.

Students, as a class, design a postcard of their school or city with a specific picture and blurb on the back. They work in groups to design a postcard of Nevada. They follow specific directions for their postcards and then their...

Young scholars choose and animal about which to research or compose a riddle. They organize and develop a slide show in which they create a background, import graphics, clip art, kid pix stamps, photos, and type their riddle.

Students complete the activity "Internet Scavenger Hunt of the White House" to become familiar with the White House Web Site. They then answer questions on an activity sheet, analyze information, and form good questions to e-mail.

Students write two haiku poems in appropriate form. Writing haiku allows students to practice in the skills of dividing words into syllables, counting syllables, and searching for words to fit a structure.

Students explore Chinese New Year, complete a cyber hunt, and write a report which includes pictures, using the information they found.

Students examine maps that are designed to give different perspectives. They create mental maps that illustrate their own perspectives and those of people from other parts of the world.

Students explore data on some of the landforms in Nebraska to distinguish between porous and nonpremeable soils. The state's groundwater is investigated.

Students explore the Ogallala Aquifer in the state of Nebraska. The signs of pollution found are examined and the data classified.

Students examine data about the rivers, lakes, and reservoirs in the state of Nebraska. An understanding of the political implications of boundaries is developed.

Learners examine and research the annual rainfall in Nebraska. They create a map of the annual rainfall in Nebraska and use the map to develop explanations of settlement.

Young scholars analyze the parts of the water cycle through research and experimentation. Particular attention is paid to the processes of evaporation and condensation.

Students construct a model of a well to identify how water is brought to the surface. Signs of pollution are investigated.

Learners summarize information taken from the internet about animal character's from the story, "Charlotte's Web." Questions are created, answered, and entered into a book about the animal of their choice.

Students design a calendar that displays time on Mars. They explore the differences between time on Earth and time on Mars while making the calendar.

Learners explore the differences of others. They examine ways in which they can respect the differences between individuals. Students explore the ways in which people are similar and they recognize stereotypes they make.