Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "I Have a Story to Tell"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Wasn't Me"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to use their knowledge and metacognition, as well as helping students implement reading, writing, and thinking connections...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Womanhood"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to become more aware of the role of women in society, and promoting appreciation for the contributions of women.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Not What It Seems"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes enhancing students understanding of metaphors, creative writing, and using life experiences to create poems and writing pieces.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What If?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting student interest in history and helping students understand how the past influences the present.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What a Character

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses ways that authors reveal character traits. Students learn to find examples in the literature to demonstrate that character traits. A sample assessment, graphic organizer and web...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Charlotte's Web Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] If your class is reading Charlotte's Web, you may want to download this flipchart filled with activities to do with your students. The flipchart contains a character match up game, an animal mix-up...
Handout
Ed Koday

Web Archive: Io Moth

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Io moth, named for a character in Greek mythology, has a very obvious black eyespot on each hindwing. Males are golden yellow in color, but females are more brown. It has a wingspan of 2.5-3.5 inches. In Canada and northern states,...
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Karen Cushman

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Have you ever read any of Karen Cushman's work? This site features links to lesson plans and other activities for her books.
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: John Donne

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online resource focuses on the life and work of John Donne. Includes links to related sources.
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Harper Lee

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about the life and work of Harper Lee when you visit this informative site. This site provides links to activities, vocabulary lessons, newspaper articles and more focused on the book "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Richard Peck

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about Richard Peck's life and work as an author? Use this informative site to learn more about this young adult author and to find resources for lesson plans.
Website
Trinity University

Trinity University: A Beginner's Guide to Html

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides a guide which is intended to be an introduction to using HTML and creating files for the Web.
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Strategies for Empowering Students

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to focus on character education and building an understanding of diversity and cultural heritage. This excellent site provides classroom activity exercises for students in the primary, intermediate, and upper level. It is a...
Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Joan Lowery Nixon

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the life and work of the author Joan Lowery Nixon when you visit this site. This resource features several links to more information on this author and her work.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Story, Identity, Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Delve into the art of storytelling in this self-guided unit. Multiple topics are covered such as literary genres, the 7 elements of fiction, figurative language, theme, characterization, etc. At the end of the unit, write your own flash...
Professional Doc
Other

K 3 Learning pages.com: Fairy Tales

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site provides links to elementary information about Fairy Tales. You will find lesson plans, poems, songs, activities and more when you delve into these resources. Some links are no longer available.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Using Tableau and Role Drama to Examine the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
In this instructional activity, 4th graders use tableaux to dramatize their roles in the food chain of an ecosystem. Next, they write in role arguing why they are important to the ecosystem. This is followed by a debate in the format of...
Website
Other

Unicode and Multilingual Support in Html, Fonts, Web Browsers

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the importance of using Unicode and how it can be used in different software applications and contexts.
Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides a collection of free downloadable graphic organizers. These graphic organizers address the following categories: character webs, responding to literature, reading analysis, story maps, cognitive bookmarks, and...