Students read the book Night in the Country independently and make connections to the story. In this making connections lesson plan, students share their connections with the class.

Making connections to the text you're reading may help build a deeper appreciation and understanding of the material. Second graders practice making text to self and text to life connections as they read two passages; one about Martin...

In this dot to dot instructional activity, students follow the numbers 1 to 60, connecting the dots. Students can then color the picture of the bike rider.

In this Knight Connect-the-Dots worksheet, students connect the dots to complete a picture of a knight. The numbers go from one to thirty.

In this letters and numbers worksheet, students connect letters and numbers to create a picture of a person washing their hands. Letters go from A-Q and numbers from 1-18.

For this visual arts worksheet, students practice connecting the dots from one to sixty-three. Students then fill in the blanks with the letters of the character they just connected the dots to.

In this connect the dots worksheet, students start at the dot next to the number 2 and then count by 2's to connect the rest of the dots and complete the picture. The final picture is of a bunny.

In this connect the dots worksheet, students start at the dot next to the number 1 and connect the dots all the way up to number 35 to complete the picture. The finished picture is of a bunny.

In this connect the dots learning exercise, students start at the dot next to the number 1 and then connect the dots all the way up to the number 62 to complete the picture. The completed picture is of a frog.

In this counting and connecting numbers worksheet, students count the objects in each of the 5 boxes on the left and then connect each box to the appropriate number on the right.

In this thinking skills instructional activity, students draw a line connecting each blue figure without touching any other color. Students connect 4 figures.

In this connect the dots worksheet, students draw lines from numbers 1-10 to complete a picture of a fire engine, then color the picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities. 

In this connecting the past to the present learning exercise, students choose the correct present tense sentence to pair with the past tense sentence given. Students complete 9 problems.

In this feelings synonyms worksheet, students play a connect four game with synonyms that represent feelings. Students play with 42 feelings cards.

When Ruby Bridges entered an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960, she also entered history. Scholars consider what the experience must have been like for the young girl using two books that document her experience as well as a double...

Natasha Wing's story The Night Before Thanksgiving is a great way to incorporate rhyme and literature into the Thanksgiving season. Learners make text-to-self connections, recall main events, and choose post-reading activities...

After completing Chapter 5 of Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, readers make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to Victor Martinez's novel by crafting journal entries addressing comments and questions to characters in...

Hook your class into an exploration of and discussion about violence in video games with a cute animal clip and a video game trailer. After a quick discussion about how media can affect mood, class members read a related article and...

Understanding geography and government begins at the local level. Using maps and the parts of a newspaper, a unit plan introduces the concept of community. It starts with the creation of classroom and school maps, and then moves through...

High schoolers use Internet links to plan a 3-day tour of France. They role-play a typical encounter that may be experienced during their trip.

Biology buffs simulate how genetic markers are passed among populations in order to understand how these markers can help anthropologists map human migration. A couple of volunteers leave the room while you walk the remaining learners...

A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...