Fifth graders read a historical novel. In groups they reenact chapters of the novel.

Fifth graders explore the following questions: What is it? What is it like? What is an example?

Students write songs about something incredible they have experienced or know about. They consider topics of events, dreams, ideas, feelings, or animals. They accompany themselves with small musical instruments while performing the songs...

In this activity, students in groups will assemble a story bag, which contains objects that represent some type of story to them. Students will then practice sharing these stories in a dramatic fashion.

Students read a visual image very much like they would read words in a story. They write about portraits using new portrait vocabulary. They, in groups, use their written analysis to hypothesize about the story of the sitters in the...

Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.

The American Psychological Association discusses whether facial expressions accurately reveal emotions and other details about the personality.

Are facial expressions learned or innate? [2:58]

Gestures carry much meaning and some have universal meaning, i.e.emblem or illustrate. The site gives details about many gestures.

In this activity, students will play the game of "Telephone" in two different ways. Students will first play "Telephone" with the traditional version of the the game and then only communicate via their body language.

This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.

This lesson plan focuses on effective visual delivery including appropriate dress and open posture, eye contact and facial expressions, body movements and gestures, and effective visual aids.

This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.

This article dicusses many aspects of nonverbal communication - eye contact, facial expressions, distance, paralanguage, and more. This is a very good introduction to the subject.

This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.

This resource provides several examples of different meanings of various types of body language.

The viewing goals for this instructional activity were for students to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use...