Students examine why it is important to study American history. In this American history instructional activity, students discuss why it is necessary to study history, arrange an outline of American history events in chronological...

In this letter d words learning exercise, students match letter d words with their definitions. Students complete 10 letter d word matches.

Students consider building design. In this architecture activity, students read an article titled, "MAXXI." The reading is not provided with the activity. Students discuss the reading and design their own buildings, with attention to...

High schoolers examine opinions regarding the American policy of containment. In this Cold War lesson, students read articles by George F. Kennan and Walter Lippmann. High schoolers compare the perspectives of the 2 men on U.S....

In this dictation worksheet, young scholars take dictation from a passage about male and female roles.

In this time capsule instructional activity, students follow the directions to make index cards and write draft ideas on paper about tips to think about when studying a particular unit. Students complete 3 sets of directions for the...

Sixth graders analyze dialogue tags. In this synonyms lesson students work in groups analyzing a personal narrative. They enter the words onto a classroom chart as well as their notes or journal. The students replace tags with more...

Young scholars write directions for completing everyday activities.  In this writing instructions lesson students exchange their set of written directions with a partner and follow their partners directions.  If the directions...

Students examine the basic concepts of advertising.  In this media awareness lesson, students discuss target audience, art, and purpose in advertising to determine what makes an advertisement effective or ineffective. ...

In this interdependency activity, middle schoolers respond to 6 short answer questions about water resource sharing after they read assigned textbook pages.

In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the changing newspaper industry and respond to 3 talking point questions.

Pupils discuss irony. In this language arts lesson, students identify irony and give examples of irony from their lives, a book, and current events. Pupils classify types of irony.

Students explore different perspectives dealing with race and politics.

Students solve problems based on sharing scenarios. In this sharing lesson plan, students listen to a book on sharing and answer questions. Then the teacher presents different scenarios to the class and they have to problem solve to come...

Fourth graders read selections from library books and summarize what they read. They listen to a summary and guess which paragraph the student is summarizing.

In this Skellig worksheet, students read to understand the works of David Almond and learn about his life. Students read eleven passages and then answer ten questions related to reading for meaning and understanding the author's craft.

Students examine the availability of mammoth ivory. For this environmental issues lesson, students read a selection (the selection is not included) regarding mammoth ivory and discuss the content of the reading selection.

Students research information on owls using the Internet and Kidspiration. They work in groups to create a poster which includes habitat, diet and life cycle and present to the class.

Sixth graders study the various landmarks of the world.  In this Geography lesson plan, 6th graders write about these landmarks. 

Students explain the concept of Birkat Hamazon and the ideas contained therein. They describe the themes that they feel belong to Birkat Hamazon.

High schoolers define terms related to the World Wide Web and Netscape. They identify the key components of the Netscape browser and evaluate web sites after determining which characteristics make up a well-designed website.

Students present their groups reports and use a visual to help with this.

Learners discuss what they know about the country of Africa. They examine the transportation infrastructure on the continent. They practice using new vocabulary words. They also read articles and answer questions.

Students reorganize sentence strips into paragraphs to learn about seagrasses. They learn vocabulary and facts about sea grasses using the paragraphs once they are reconstructed. They continue their study with a number of associated...