Learners write a story using their journey to school as the setting. In groups, they discuss their experiences and browse through books to get ideas for their story. They practice using a thesaurus to find new verbs or adjectives they...

Students read the article, American Robins: Territory Study, discussing the vocabulary, underlining key words, and taking notes. They write journal entries, and develop various writer's workshop assignments.

Students create an effective classification and counter argument.  In this counter-argument lesson, students decide upon a label for at least three types of people and then describe their groups.  Students describe three types...

Students participate in kindness and good citizenship activities in this lesson. Each month of the school year, they are assigned a different activity. For example, in August the theme is "Getting to Know You!" The students hand out...

Students investigate past and present verb tenses. In this grammar lesson, students identify past and present verbs in sentences written on the board. Students complete a worksheet to reinforce the concepts learned.

In this ESL reading comprehension activity, students read or listen to the passage, then complete a wide variety of warm-up activities, as well as before listening/reading, while listening/reading, after listening/reading, discussion,...

Students create a multimedia project using PowerPoint. They retell factual information and create a report using PowerPoint. Afterward, they invite parents and other classes in for a PowerPoint theater.

In this ESL conversation activity, students collaborate to interview classmates about the 7 topics illustrated by a picture. All questions will be answered yes/no.

In this universe research instructional activity, students read the sentence and then use a library or the Internet to find the answer and write it on the blue line. Students then write a short report about this topic: a device for...

Students investigate the properties of plastic eggs filled with solids, liquids, and gases and use these observations to hypothesize whether a chicken egg is hard-boiled or raw.

In this My State Report Booklet worksheet, students complete 25 pages about a state. Example pages include state animal, bird, flag, flower, and insect.

After viewing a map of lights at night over a variety of geographic formations, young topographers connect the location of light clusters to geographic features that encourage human settlement. They list causes and effects of large...

In this English skills worksheet, learners complete 60 exercises in grammar, spelling and language. Included on this page are: onomatopoeia, word endings, root words, word chess, missing vowels and consonants, parts of speech, spelling,...

Students identify local birds and their habitats. In this wildlife lesson, students list various birds that live in their area and match the descriptions of the birds to the photos. Students build a diorama of a birds nest.

Learners demonstrate array models to illustrate division as sharing and grouping. They demonstrate the array models to compare division as sharing with division as grouping. Pupils explore division problems are typically seen as either...

Interested in learning ASL? Lesson 12 in this ASL series gets you ready to identify the days of the week, ask question, and modify time signs. Note: If you are a special eduction teacher, use the vocabulary list to teach your non-verbal...

Pupils learn the characteristics of arachnids by researching the arachnid of their choice and producing a 4 to 5 paragraph research paper.

Students explore Earth science by completing several graphic organizer activities in class. In this oceanography instructional activity, students research ocean inhabitants such as blue crab and oysters. Students complete graphic...

Pupils identify parts and functions of microscope. Students watch video, Cells and Life about cell parts with actual pictures and actual cells. Pupils discuss video and identify parts of the cells that animals and plants have in common....

Students observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...

In this English skills review learning exercise, students complete 60 questions pertaining to vowels, word endings, anagrams, parts of speech, proofreading, root words, onomatopoeia and spelling. There is no instruction on the page.

In this language practice worksheet, learners complete a total of 25 multiple choice questions that use a variety of 4th grade language concepts. An answer key is provided.

Students, after listening to book called People, by Peter Spier, discuss what are some things that make people different.