Students create new ways of thinking about old things. They may use a modified approach to make unfamiliar material familiar (after teacher provides brief introductory materials, for example).

Students demonstrate personal space in a gym. In this physical education instructional activity, students move creatively by using their spot markers. Students jump side to side and back to front.

Students learn vocabulary words. In this reading and vocabulary lesson, students write a word, listen for it in a story and write down what they think it means.

In this Tudor life writing worksheet, students examine a picture that depicts a stagecoach that has just arrived from the countryside to a town. Students write a creative story about what they would be thinking when they see the Tudor...

Young scholars read Molly's Pilgrim and discuss what the word pilgrim means and what they think they look like.  In this pilgrim lesson, students design a clothespin doll to represent a pilgrim. 

Being expressive in a creative, empathetic, or imaginative way is not only fun, it builds good pre-writing and communication skills. Learners with visual impairments have a roundtable discussion session where several sentence frames...

Explore distance and time factors to build an understanding of rates. A comprehensive set of problems target learners of all grade levels. The initial problem provides distance and time values and asks for the winner of a race. Another...

Students, after analyzing interactions between groups/societies, effects of causality/change over time, forms of imaginative writing and utilizing art media to conveying messages/meaning, examine the relationship between clothing and...

In this creative reading worksheet, students read the one sentence at the top of the page. Students circle parts of speech, predict what will happen in the story, and guess the genre. Then students write the story.

In this creative worksheet, learners read one sentence which is provided. They then make predictions about what the book would be about. Students then write and illustrate the story.

Students write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham.  In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what they...

In this creative writing worksheet, students apply knowledge about seeds to write an interview using the who, what, where, when, and how questions to ask a seed questions and to answer them. Students write one complete interview.

In this comprehensive reading comprehension lesson, students complete an indepth look at the introductions and history of cell phones. Students research, analyze and determine the answers to twenty two questions regarding what a cell...

Students write a riddle to be included in a class riddle book. In this creative-thinking lesson, the teacher will introduce children to riddles, then guide children through the process of writing and illustrating their own riddles to be...

Students investigate the world around them with this animal habitat activity. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create murals depicting animal habitats to encourage the development of science, geography, creative-thinking,...

Students write in their journals at the beginning of class. They create a poster of what they just wrote about in their journals. Pictures are to be labeled and dictionaries are encouraged.

In this literature worksheet, students identify and name their twelve favorite books. There are twelve blank lines to write their favorites and why they selected each one.

In this creative writing worksheet, students write an essay based on the prompt, "If I was a squirrel, I think my favorite season would be Fall, because." They write the story on the lines under the prompt.

In this algebra learning exercise, 11th graders use algebra to solve a word problem related to fishing. They figure out how to get a boy home form his fishing trip as their are restrictions as to what he can take on the bus. There is an...

Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution...

Sixth graders examine Sumerian inventions. Using the internet, 6th graders view images of the inventions and create a poster of the images. They create a PowerPoint presentation, with video clips, of Sumerian inventions to share with the...

Students integrate Author and Biography study with Students personal perspective. They make connections between research and creative writing. Students enrich research and critical thinking skills. They encourage students to think about...

Prepare young scholars for life in the twenty-first century with this introduction to computer coding formatted as a fun problem solving game, this resource is a great way to develop children's sequential thinking...