Students investigate the concept of a hurricane by using the cartoon series "The Magic Schoolbus" to simulate the fantasy of traveling through a hurricane. The lesson uses a KWL graphic organizer in order to guide student inquiry and as...

For this multiplication practice worksheet, students solve multiplication problems and then follow the steps to finish a drawing that has already been started.

In this TV cartoon word search, students read 9 names of characters from the children's cartoon series called "Hey Arnold." Students find these names in a word search.

In this TV cartoon word search worksheet, learners read the names of 10 characters. All are from the classic cartoon series "The Jetsons." Students find these in a word search puzzle.

In this children's cartoon and book word search activity, students read the names of 7 characters in the book and TV cartoon Arthur. Students find these in a word search puzzle.

In this cartoon word search worksheet, students read the names of 9 characters from "The Flintstones." Students find these in a word search puzzle.

Fifth graders explore cool jazz and how it reflected American culture in the 1940's and 1950's.

Fifth graders explore the current jazz scene and how it reflects American culture. They listen to jazz recordings of current artists and speculate on which direction jazz is likely heading.

Students investigate the process of making a newspaper using children's literature to create context for the lesson. The readers are asked to predict the events of the story as it is read to them. Then the teacher uses guided questions...

Assist your learners as they unravel the wonders of lyric analysis. This resource breaks down the analysis process by hook, verse, and chorus. Each is briefly defined and is used to look at any song's lyrics in a systematic way.

Use this list of spelling activities all year long to help your class spell each week's list of words! This list provides 12 different ways for class members to practice their spelling. Learners identify vowels, consonants, synonyms, and...

In this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the correct vocabulary word to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter "C."

In this Missouri worksheet, students read 14 clues about the state of Missouri. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle.

How does media convey different messages? Use this instructional activity to explore media by identifying and analyzing selected images. Middle schoolers analyze a poster and discuss the intended meaning of the imagery and how it makes...

Introduce your students to humor in the workplace with this thorough presentation, which provides numerous examples of why humor in business is beneficial - and even profitable. A good resource for a semantics class or beginning business...

Philosophy and religion are the topics of this presentation, though humor is what ties them together. Providing many examples of humor in different religions (Evangelism, Buddhism, Mormonism) and from different philosophers (Plato,...

If you don't know the answer to a question, how do you find it? This is the skill you can help children learn. Using this resource, learners answer a series of questions relating to the band Aqua. Since they won't be familiar with this...

New to constructed response question worksheets? Here's a model that demonstrates how to construct questions that require readers to interpret graphics found in informational text.

Young scholars compare different cartoons dealing with social or political issues. They discuss the cartoons as a class. They create their own cartoon with their own message and shares them with the class.

Young scholars think critically and creatively while researching Negro Leagues baseball vocabulary terms and producing a political cartoon defining those terms. The research for this instructional activity is done on the internet.

Learners put writing pieces into categories to show different organizational features in writing. In this writing lesson plan, students are shown examples of speeches, poems, editorials, cartoons, parodies, historical fiction, and more.

For this reading worksheet, students learn to distinguish between the words "want" and "what" by reading a story about a super-ant. Students read or listen to the story and draw 7 cartoons to show events in the story. In each cartoon box...

Students examine the impact of the media on various wars, especially the Iraq and Vietnam wars. By examining cartoons and popular music as primary sources, they suggest motivations for the conflicts and propose reasons for public...

Students discuss cultural beliefs about magic. They investigate European exploration and colonialism. They create a cartoon strip of an episode that is described or dramatized in the play.