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Ellis Island
Students explore immigration. In this U.S. history immigration lesson, students complete and read a mini-book about Ellis Island.
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Students' Stories of Arkansas
Eighth graders create their own Arkansas story books based upon their families' oral histories.
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What Physical Activities Do Sneakers and His Friends Do?
Students investigate fun physical activities that can be done year round. In this physical education lesson, students read the story Big News! Straight From the Heart, and list the activities written about in the story....
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Six Insect Legs
Students observe and discuss the sun's position in the sky. They explore the number six, read various number books, and create the number six page for a counting book.
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Linking Rembrandt and The Odyssey
Learners apply knowledge of the style and techniques of Rembrandt to illustrate characters from The Odysey. They respond critically to a variety of works in the arts.
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Water and Me
Young scholars name the ways in which they use water every day and create a counting book using the ways in which they use water to illustrate it. The measure and graph the amount of water they use when they wash their hands.
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My Name is.....
Learners utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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Seven Quacks Me Up
First graders explore the day and night sky and add a page for the number 7 to their countiing books.
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Jataka Tales
Students create an illustration and hardcover book illustrating a Jataka story. They listen to Jataka stories, create an illustration from a scratchboard or linoleum print, and construct a hardcover book to present to younger students.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Collage Technique
First graders listen to the story The Hungry Caterpillar, then sequentially organize their own re-writing and re-creating of the story. They construct illustrations for their book using the collage technique Eric Carle used in his...
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Food Contributions
Fourth graders make an alphabet book. In this food contributions lesson students identify foods first harvested by indigenous people. Students use the different foods that are still eaten today that were first harvested by indigenous...
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly
Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know. In this Monarch Butterfly lesson,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly. Students gather...
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Through the Looking Glass: Eudora Welty's Photography and The Ponder Heart
Students study the context of The Ponder Heart through Welty's photographs.
They analyze how illustrations and photographs interact with written text and
create their own images to illustrate a well-known Welty short story....
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DIVISION OF LABOR
Students define division of labor. They read books about how things are produced to help illustrate the concept of division of labor. They suggest other items that could illustrate division of labor. They create a sample flow chart...
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Beginning Research
Students view and discuss a video segment to discover the importance of researching a topic before writing about it. They use the topic of plants to research information by looking through picture books and observing potted plants in...
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Basic Shapes
Young scholars create books about shapes. For this shape lesson, students select a topic such as points, lines, angles, planes, polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles, circles, and polyhedra. In groups, they create an...
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"Where the Wild Things Are" Lesson Plans
"Where the Wild Things Are" lesson plans can help students appreciate the beauty of words and illustrations.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
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Patterns in Nature
Students examine places in nature where patterns can be observed by looking through a number of books after watching a teacher PowerPoint presentation. They illustrate a pattern in nature.
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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb lesson, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...
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It's A Mystery To Me
Learners become both mystery readers and writers. They utilize the Internet to understand the elements of this classic genre; employ critical thinking skills when reading various stories in both print and electronic formats; form groups...
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The Magic Pot
Second graders complete activities with the book The Magic Pot. In this comprehension lesson, 2nd graders read the story, answer comprehension questions, and create a storyboard. They also complete Magic Pot math by working on...
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In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall Teacher’s Guide
Students read the book I Am Tall and complete several reading response activities relating to the poems in the book. In this reading response lesson, students focus on the subject of fathers and make speculations about what the poems in...
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Geometry Library
Fifth graders write and illustrate books to make a class library of math term books. They utilize vocabulary associated with geometry to make their books. For example, one character may be, Mr. A Cute.