For this trial activity worksheet for the novel Fahrenheit 451, students participate in a trial for Guy Montag. Students follow the seven directions to complete the trial activity.

Students are encouraged to recognize animal and the sounds they make. They create a hands-on craft, story-telling and song. Students share each creation with their classmates.

Students discuss differences between wild and domestic animals. They list animals on chart paper, and then cut out pictures from magazines to create large collage showing wild and domestic animals.

First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...

Students practice reading for comprehension and understanding. In groups, students read, out loud, using a conversation voice. They predict and discuss the story as it unfolds.

Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...

Book reviews about Walter Dean Myers' Bad Boy and Madonna's Mr. Peabody's Apples are given on this site. The author suggests that using these books to help illustrate the concept that it better to tell the truth than to suffer the...

This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...

This field guide was a cross curricular project created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine. Students engaged in multiple fieldwork visits to the Deering Park (across the street), during which they observed trees, recording with...

Use this resource to learn about Nelson Mandela's freedom, which marked the end of Apartheid. This article includes images and an excerpt from his book, "Long Walk to Freedom."

Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth. Here are five strategies that can be implemented in early learning...

After listening to the first 12 pages of the book Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O'Malley, students will discuss story elements leading them to develop their own solution to the story's problem. Students will then generate...

Dick Gackenbach's classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit, is a wonderful story about a child and his fear of the Whatzit that he is sure lives in his cellar. The story shows how through determination and the desire to save...

This book was created by kindergarten students from the East End Community Charter School in Portland, Maine, as part of an eight-week learning expedition on local food and gardens called, "How Does Your Garden Grow?" These young...