Students visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.

Students review letter writing skills and the use of descriptive language, and practice writing persuasive letters, with help from teacher and peers. Letters are then written to nominate friend for Friend of the Year.

Learners listen to the explanation of how to put words in alphabetical order; in this case beginning with "C" and "D". They then work independently using the worksheet provided to alphabetize words beginning with "C" and "D".

Second graders design sandwiches for all meals, courses, and occasions. They list or draw many, different, and unusual sandwich creations. Basic ingredients should be identified for each idea.

Students plan and perform a mysterious scenario using a variety of literary conventions such as characterization, setting, and plot development. Each group provides enough clues to make solving the mystery a challenge.

Students demonstrate that, although we sometimes can neither smell nor taste them, many ingredients in our foods and household products come from the sea. They also investigate food eat to determine algae derivatives they contain.

Learners discover that seaweed/algae is a small part of the resources the oceans provide. By investigating common household products, students discover that human senses are not enough to detect the presence of seaweed/algae in food.

Students identify places that a child living in South Africa and they themselves might want to visit.

Learners demonstrate the jigsaw strategy by individually reading different selections of a text, and then coming together to share what they have learned.

Seventh graders research Internet sites that provide recipes from Asian and African countries. They compile the recipes in a database. After compilation, they can sort the database for similarities and differences in ingredients.

Students write and illustrate a picture of their favorite food to be included in a class book.

Learners read excerpts from an autobiographical work and retell scenes from the book. They consider the ways Susie King Taylor's autobiography displays character traits including courage, creativity, compassion and determination.

Second graders research the Internet as they classify different forms of energy, investigate electrical energy and how to conserve energy.

Students use the Web and other resources provided to select several recipes to combine into a menu they can cook for their families at home. They develop a sense of how food is prepared and kinds of preparation necessary to cook their...

Students write and illustrate a picture of their favorite food. They describe and practice responsible behaviors for health and safety.

Students investigate a set of foods to find the presence of eggs after designing an experiment that will complete the test. They complete a test and discuss antibody-antigen specificity.

Students explore the popularity of bananas. They conduct a survey to understand the reasons for their popularity. Students research a banana's journey from the farm to school lunch. They compose a children's book about bananas explaining...

Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various words...

In this foreign language worksheet, students discover that many Polish words are similar to those in English and the meanings can be guessed. Students read a chart of 220 Polish words and their English translations. Example: balon...

In this language arts instructional activity, students learn the difference between homophones, homographs, and heteronyms by reading this informative chart. Detailed examples are given for all. There are no questions on the page.

In this worksheet on British Food, students complete matching, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank questions associated with British Foods and customs. This simple worksheet could be an effective tool for an introduction to British culture.

In this language arts worksheet, students first read an information chart on the use of "any" or "some." Students read 10 sentences and fill in the correct word.

In this noun usage worksheet, students select a noun from the word bank that best completes each sentence. Students may use the same word more than once.

In this multiple meaning word worksheet, students connect lines between three columns to match words with multiple meanings to two correct definitions.