Young scientists meet Edward Alexander Bouchet who, in 1876, was the first African American to receive a PhD in Physics. This two-part lesson plan first looks at the debate between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois about the type...

In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter W.

High schoolers consider the plight of African Americans in post-Reconstruction America. In this African American history lesson, students discover the visions of African American leaders Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois,...

Chronicling the events following America's involvement in WWII, this quiz centers on the historical fiction novel Counterattack from W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps series. Ten multiple-choice questions focus mainly on characters from the story.

Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarizing text. As a class they read a paragraph and answer the five W's. Students then read an online paragraph, and complete a chart online, then in small groups write a short summary.

In this printing learning exercise, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter W's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two row of W's on their own.

Eleventh graders take a closer look at the weapons used to fight World War I. In this World War I activity, 11th graders complete a reading assignment, discuss it, and form research groups. Students work in the groups to...

For this printing worksheet, students form the upper and lowercase letter Ww. Students also color in two pictures that begin with the letter W.

In this uppercase W learning exercise, students practice tracing and retracing the cursive uppercase alphabet letter W fifty times on the fifty lines provided.

For this lowercase w worksheet, students practice tracing and retracing lowercase letter w fifty times on the fifty lines provided for mastery.

In this Language Arts worksheet, students cut out an uppercase letter W. Students may add color and their own designs to the letter.

In this letter w worksheet, students study a picture flashcard. Students use the flashcard for mastery of the letter sound with both the letter and a corresponding picture.

In this letter w learning exercise, students trace and write the capital and lowercase letter "w", the words "walrus" and "wagon", and the sentence "Walter has whiskers."

In this states/capitals worksheet, 5th graders match a set of states beginning with the letters O-W with their capital cities. A reference web site for additional resources is given

Considering adding more research to your curriculum? Check out this idea. The assignment example, which connects to the Common Core, is written for a lesson on "The Scarlet Ibis." However, you could adapt the bigger idea to almost any...

Your pupils are beginning their research project and are having a hard time narrowing their topics down. If you’re not sure how to help them, then start here. Provided is a student dialogue that works though the issues of narrowing a...

Although it does not properly address how to use the Common Core standard, this resource does provide a decent writing prompt that explores how minor characters influence Hamlet's decisions throughout the play. The prompt can be used for...

Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.

Young scholars examine narratives of two slaves: iam W. Brown and Frederick Douglas. They produce an essay explaining how Brown's narrative challenged the prejudices of readers in his own time and how it challenges prejudices today.

Readers of Twelfth Night use a KWHL chart to record information about what they know about Shakespeare's play, what they want to find out, how they plan on finding this information, and what they have learned or still want to learn about...

Readers of Neal Shusterman's young adult science fiction novel, Unwind, record what they know, what they want to know, how the will find answers to the questions, on a KWHL chart.

Make note of what readers know, what to know, and have learned during a unit on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. As class members read the book, they jot down their ideas on a KWHL chart, and consider what they have...

To prepare for a reading of Christopher E. Crowe's Mississippi Trial, 1955, class members create a KWHL chart and begin by generating questions they have about the civil rights movement, slavery, and the death of Emmett...

Young historians discover the life of an incredible African American woman who, as an anti-slavery lecturer prior to the Civil War, defied stereotypes of what women could accomplish. Pupils explore the concept of stereotyping, read...