Need help planning ways to creatively teach your middle schoolers chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be...

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage learners in creative writing about items found in a basket. Examples of creative writing are provided. Examples of springboard ideas are included.

This teaching pack will introduce students to Ignatius Sancho in his own words through a selection of his letters and invite students to offer a variety of creative responses to Sancho's life, work, and unique voice. Students will work...

A lesson plan designed to have middle schoolers obtain the role of creative director for a clothing line. Through the lesson students will learn the qualifications, training, education, job requirements, and salary of a creative director.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage young scholars in writing chain stories. A variation of the lesson plan is provided as an extension during the publishing phase of writing.

In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will consider "Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

This PIZZAZ lesson allows learners the opportunity to write stories about magazine picture collections. Two examples of creative writing pieces are provided.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing diamante poems. Examples of diamante poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing twist poems. Examples of ideas for these types of poems are provided. Variations of twist poems are listed as a way to provide for...

This multi-media visual and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...

In these activities, learners will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...

Encourage students to apply creative thinking to historical research in order to predict the future. This page provides three different activities that encourage creativity.

Students will enjoy these activities that promote a "Pro-Laughter" campaign using their creativity while exploring the physical and emotional effects of laughing.

Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Students study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...

Middle schoolers reflect on their responsibilities as creators and users of creative work. Requires Adobe Reader.

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to write literary analysis essays about Edgar Allen Poe's ?The Fall of the House of Usher.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...

This is a three-part writing project which includes a research paper, a creative short story, and a movie review inspired by the movie, The Rookie. The lesson is easily adapted to other appropriate films of similar themes.

This very detailed lesson plan includes readings, discussion questions, handouts, interactives and a rubric, all aimed at helping students construct a themed memoir while documenting the artistic process they used to create it.

This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing personal poems. Examples of personal poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.

Introducing the Holocaust to young children can be tricky. The author of "I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly" reworked the story in a way that young children can be exposed to the Holocaust on an appropriate emotional level. This in-depth...

With just a pair of pantyhose, and a coathanger, you won't believe the creative sculptures your students will come up with! This lesson plan gives step-by-step directions, and several colorful examples to show your students. (Click...

This lesson plan engages learners in an activity to monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students will break into groups and track each other's movements as they move through a pre-determined course. The results will...

Students are introduced to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process through a short lecture and an activity in which they design their own medical devices for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. They learn...

The goal of this lesson is to explore the concepts of surrealism and early cubism that Chagall portrayed in his work. Young scholars will create works of art inspired by artist Marc Chagall's painting I and the Village.