This is a fun, hands-on lesson from AtoZteacherstuff! Students go through a study of frogs while learning how to interpret and restate factual information.

This lesson introduces essays and common essay formats.

This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.

In this RAFTS lesson students read W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" and then complete a grammar activity, or use the interactive fortune creator, to develop a writing prompt for a short essay about the fate or luck involved with their...

These teaching notes for Beowulf provide a model for your own lesson plan and as a basic resource to study Beowulf. These notes can help you remember the pertinent points of Anglo-Saxon epic poem and help to deepen your understanding.

This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...

Harriet Tubman was a leading figure in the Underground Railroad movement. In this lesson, learners research information about her using informative resources and look at impressionistic artwork depicting her life. Comparing informative...

This lesson focuses on the writing in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas and...

Activities and an easy to read biography on President Barack Obama for the elementary student. With printable activity pages; including cloze activities, synonym sheets, essay topics and more! Also includes links to information on the...

This lesson will focus on the writing you do in high school. Whether you write expository and persuasive essays or short stories, your first steps are to determine and define your audience. After that, you will begin to generate ideas...

This is a 3-part project; however, you may opt to omit 1 part. Students will investigate a career related to the legal profession to determine the various aspects of the career. In addition, students will create a PowerPoint presentation...

Discussion of a landscape painting by George Inness will introduce students to the impact of the railroad on the countryside in mid-nineteenth-century America. They will depict this same scenery as they envision it in the past and in the...

Lesson plan for students exploring aspects of preparation for college, including writing an application essay, applying for financial aid, understanding a lease, and evaluating credit cards. Website research is combined with various...

In this lesson plan, learners will read an article that defines ways to improve the Google Search process to get better, more accurate results, and then write a short essay defining what new skills have been learned. The article that it...