Students summarize a piece of literature using the technique "mapping" in this lesson. The technique involves 6 main steps: delete unimportant information, delete repeated information, substitute easy terms, add a series of event with...

Learners contribute research projects to a cyber safety fair. In this Internet safety lesson, students assemble information regarding safety on the Internet. Learners present safety guidelines as they create PowerPoints or board displays...

Students assume the personality of a pioneer on a wagon train and create daily journals.  In this journal writing instructional activity, students read excerpts from The Way West:  Journal of a Pioneer Woman. ...

Students graphically represent data from the Census.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate the housing characteristics of different tribes of Native Americans and compare them to the average American...

Students find the difference between fiction and nonfiction. In this fiction/nonfiction lesson, 1st graders read the story Johnny Appleseed and discuss what makes this a nonfiction story. They listen to a fiction story and see...

Learners read the story The Very Busy Spider and go on a spider hunt, complete a KWL chart, talk about the animals in the book, and more. In this guided reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the book.

Second graders discuss proper uses of the Internet. They complete the 8-question survey by selecting their favorite answer for each question. They click one time in the white circle to choose an answer and click Next at the bottom on...

Students examine the different types of weather. They create illustrations of the type of weather to go into a class book. They are encouraged to examine the weather each day,

Learners research many different tall tales. They retell the tale in their own words and create an orginal tale of their own. They share their tall with the class along with illustrations.

Young scholars use the "tool" popcorn with activities in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, P.E., Music, Art, Science and EATING.

First graders explore language arts by participating in a bingo activity with classmates. In this irregular word lesson, 1st graders utilize index cards and game boards to participate in a game of Word Bingo. Students practice sounding...

Pupils construct a website with several links to pages they create. The site weaves logo titles, photos, animation, and textured backgrounds created and edited in PhotoShop into pages created using Dreamweaver software. The project also...

Young scholars create autobiographies. In this autobiographical writing lesson, students use a story doll template and write about themselves. Young scholars decorate their autobiographies.

Eleventh graders explore, examine and study about the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the American culture. They assess and explain how the Harlem Renaissance was a "rebirth" for the African American culture through art, music, and...

Students draw and print two-dimensional objects, by accessing commands and short cuts and options. They customize their modeling environment, create basic graphic objects - lines, circles, arcs, curves, solids, and surfaces, and draw...

Eighth graders explore the Ellis Island immigration processing station. In this immigration lesson plan, 8th graders research Ellis Island using the selected websites and create scrapbooks that contain pictures, clippings, and scraps...

Students create poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read poetry and identify rhyming words using highlighters. Students may also add rhyming lines to the poetry they read.

First graders explore the characteristics of being a good friend. They observe a puppet and discuss why the puppet is sad. In groups, 1st graders form two lines, facing each other. They practice talking to each person in the line,...

In this magnetic compass reading comprehension worksheet, students read brief 2 page selection and then answer 6 multiple choice questions.

Third graders examine ancient world civilizations and the mythologies they created to explain natural phenomena, as well as the writers and poets who wrote about the mythologies.

Students create their plays to demonstrate concepts from Algebra I. They collaborate in small groups to add music and dancing to their plays. They analyze the suggestions from the previous class as they revise their plays.

Students discuss the characteristics of a quality relationship and determine how such a relationship is maintained. After reading a scenario of a relationship, students take one character at a time and place themselves in the character's...

In this intermediate suffix or prefix instructional activity, students examine the words in italics in 8 sentences and choose the appropriate suffix or prefix. Students also use prefixes and suffixes to form words.

Students paint a piece of art based on the linear style of Keith Haring to create figures showing movement and how they bend. They emulate Haring's use of bright color.