Students participate in an investigation of winged organisms. Working with calipers, students measure the wing span of several butterflies from different areas. After recording their measurements, students use their data to explain...

Students complete word study activities, read a story and write a descriptive paragraph about the setting of Goo Goo Avenue in Lawton 1901.

Learners examine the structure of paragraphs. In this writing skills instructional activity, students examine a scrambled paragraph with no formatting or punctuation. Learners rearrange the text to create a well-developed paragraph.

Students participate in a cultural exchange program with a Native American school in Winnebago, Nebraska. They conduct research on a variety of Native American tribes, prepare a presentation that represents the culture of their school...

Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow six steps in finding and highlighting important information from an article, while deleting information that is not...

Young scholars read articles and summarize the main points in this lesson. Students read a provided article from National Geographic Kids and create a web detailing the main points. They then use a six step process to write a summary...

Students discover how the land and people we develop relationships with in Nebraska affect our survival--past, present, and future. They write about and interview their grandparents, parents and peers and compare them with people on the...

Young scholars investigate their personal heritage. They research and record iand organize nformation in journal notes. Students create folk art using a variety of techniques and media.

Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore four steps/rules of summarizing. In groups, they read a short passage and then, by applying the summarization rules and skills, write an effective summary of it.

Students practice a summarizing strategy in this lesson. They are given a copy of a "National Geographic Kids" article and are encouraged to read it silently. They then use the steps provided to write an individual summary of the article.

Young scholars practice the strategy of summarization in order to comprehend a text. They drill on how to delete unimportant information, repeated information and substitute easy terms for lists of items. Each student receives a copy of...

Students explore the rotation of the earth. In this science instructional activity, students view photos of various places around the world. Students conduct an experiment in which they can see how the earth's rotation creates shadows on...

For this lesson, you will need access to "Notes from the Trail." Your learners will read the day's text, and identify the most important or significant event in the journal entry. Not many prompting questions are provided, and some of...

Young readers apply decoding strategies to identify unknown words. In this reading lesson plan, they read the Preamble and practice using decoding strategies. Small groups rotate to five charts that have questions regarding the...

Walk young writers through the process of creating an initial writing sample for their portfolio. They determine their purpose, organize their ideas, and then create a draft. The lesson includes worksheets and online resources to...

Students choose a paragraph from a book of their choice, identify the main idea, and draw an illustration of the main idea. They write original paragraphs, illustrate them, and trade with a partner, identifying the main idea of the...

Learners observe and demonstrate the steps to identifying the main ideas of a text. They listen to the teacher read a paragraph and model the steps of summarizing the main idea. Students then independently read a different paragraph...

In this verb review worksheet, students respond to 27 multiple choice questions. Students should be sure to use the correct tense of the verbs in their answers.

In this classification of living things worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer, 10 true or false, 4 multiple choice, and 4 graphic organizer questions regarding how living things are grouped.

Fifth graders solve career word problems using math.

Fifth graders analyze a nursery rhyme to explore the writing process. In this writing process lesson, 5th graders recite Humpty Dumpty and chart the plot of the story. Students select their own nursery rhyme and write a creative story...

In this living and non living things learning exercise, students fill in a mixed review that has them answering questions in the true and false, short answer, and classification formats. Students answer 59 questions.

In this narrative essay peer editing instructional activity, students share their narrative essays with 4 classmates who read the essays and comment regarding the 3 questions listed on the sheet.

In this subtracting integers worksheet, students complete problems and fill in charts that require them to subtract integers. Students complete 8 problems.