Fifth graders use their listening skills to sketch draft pictures of robots described in paragraphs read by their teacher. They transfer their robot sketches to word processing documents using software drawing tools.

Students look carefully at and analyze a Dorothea Lange photograph and compare it with the migrant experience described in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Students identify, explain and use the basic principles of design. They find a large, clear picture depicting each of the different principles of design and write a complete sentence describing where they see each of the principles of...

Young scholars analyze instrumental music.  In this instrumental music lesson, students investigate musical works of art.  Young scholars describe the instruments they hear and discover the relationship between music and other...

Students observe coal mine pictures. In this US history instructional activity, students analyze the pictures realizing that history is shown in pictures and then write a newspaper article about life in a coal town using...

Young scholars analyze portraits of Ernest Hemingway to see how his private and public personalities are revealed through them. In this "Picturing Hemingway" activity, students complete a variety of activities to investigate public and...

Second graders study vocabulary to describe their community. In this meaning of words instructional activity, 2nd graders acquire new vocabulary words to label pictures and objects. They use these words in speaking and writing.

In this identifying the picture words worksheet, students observe pictures of a girl expressing feelings, read the word choices, and choose the word that describes the picture. Students choose 2 answers.

In this grammar worksheet, students complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.

Students examine the painting, The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan based on a poem by Lord Byron. They compare how Romantic artists and writers made choices about visual elements and language to depict their subjects.

Most have felt a static electricity shock, but what actually causes it? Scholars observe, develop a hypothesis, experiment, and learn about static electricity. Through multiple short writing samples, they describe static electricity in...

Students explore the places and objects that make up the Earth's surface. In this natural and people made features lesson plan, students identify things they've seen that are people made and those that are natural to the environment. ...

In this ESL describing activity, students read simple sentences beneath a picture and underline the words that incorrectly describe it. 

In this word recognition worksheet, 1st graders match pictures to words. Students are given six pictures with two sets of words where the student must choose the word that best describes the picture.

In this ESL animal vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different animals. Students match these pictures with the words that describe them.

In this language arts worksheet, students collaborate with a classmate in a speaking and listening exercise. Student A looks at the provided picture and describes the scene as clearly as possible for Student B to draw. The roles are then...

"How do photographs contribute to an autobiography?" Laurence Yep's The Lost Garden provides learners with an opportunity to examine how photos and their captions contribute to and clarify events in a story. Class members use expressive...

Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story...

To broaden their understanding of both the short term and long terms effects of the Civil War, class groups examine primary source materials and then assume the role of a family member and draft a letter to a soldier describing life at...

Using video clips of young adults from around the world describing their cultures and how they can be misunderstood, learners compare their own cultural point of view to that of others through discussion and writing.

Give math vocabulary instruction a boost with a set of flash cards covering terms such as centimeter, pound, and thermometer to name a few. Word cards are typed using a bold-style font, and correspond to picture cards that...

Using a carousel activity, class members gain an understanding of the idea of inferences by using pictures then connecting them to mathematics. Groups discuss their individual problems prior to sharing them with the entire class....

Make sure that campfire is completely out before packing up your campsite! A straightforward and informational worksheet encourages learners to match pictures to the sequential steps needed to safely extinguish a campfire, and to note...

Computers need precise directions to complete a task. Class members experience what it is like to program a computer with an activity that asks one pupil to describe an image while classmates follow the directions to duplicate the picture.