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Bag It
Young scholars create a book report in a bag. They include items that explain the elements of the story and share them with the class.
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Living History- An Intergenerational Philanthropy
Students gather information from a senior friend to write a biography. For this living history books lesson, students organize information to complete a book about their senior friend. Detailed teacher instructions for completing the...
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Cyberbullying
Eighth graders discuss different bullying scenarios and discuss how to prevent and defend when bullying occurs. In this bullying lesson plan, 8th graders discuss how cyberbullying is affecting youth today.
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The History of Creation
Students explore the properties of matter. In this lesson about matter, students will do a series of experiments to enable them to understand about creation of the universe. In these some of the experiments students will makes stars,...
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Your Right to Know
Students read information about access open records and how to file a Freedom of Information request. They access links to investigative stories about open files. They discuss information available. They develop a list of investigative...
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Prewriting 1
Fourth graders practice generating questions to text as a prewriting activity. They complete a computer file - Prewriting 1. They review their assignment and review how to search for a topic.
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The Wolf's Tale
In this ESL literature worksheet, students read excerpts from a story told from the wolf's perspective in Little Red Riding Hood. Students complete 4 pages of exercises and essay questions about this story.
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Problem and Solution Lesson
Students explore problems and solutions in literature. In this literature lesson, students identify problems and solutions in short guided and independent reading samples. Students also discuss characterization techniques used to develop...
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The Little Star: Learning About Christmas
Students listen to the story, discuss how Christmas is celebrated, and construct a nativity scene. In The Little Star lesson, students hear the story showing Christmas as a religious festival. Students act out the story and...
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Storytelling
Students compose a story and tell it to the class. In this storytelling activity, students work in small groups to create an illustrated story. Students are given a checklist of elements to include in the...
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The Power of One
Students read stories about people making differences in the world and specifically the hunger plight. In this making a difference lesson, students read stories about people who impacted people and the plight of hunger. Students then...
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The Outsiders: Chapter 3
For this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions covering chapter 3 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.
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How do people become homeless?
Ninth graders examine the causes of homelessness. In this Sociology lesson, 9th graders describe some of the reasons which make it difficult for people who have become homeless to get themselves out of that situation. ...
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Winter
Students explore the concept of hibernation. For this winter lesson, students read Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming and discuss the content of the story. Students participate in classroom activities that require them to develop their...
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The Contender: Chapters 12 and 13
In The Contender chapter questions worksheet, students complete several questions that cover information from chapters twelve and thirteen. This helps students advance their understanding of the text.
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Conversation Lesson: News
For this conversation lesson worksheet, 7th graders use context clues to get the meaning of 8 words, then select 6 news stories from a list of 12 and explain why they would choose those for an evening TV news broadcast.
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The Birchbark House: Chapter 4
In The Birchbark House chapter four questions worksheet, learners complete several short answer questions to assess their understanding of the text.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Chapter 7
In this Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry comprehension check learning exercise, students respond to 19 short answer questions covering chapter 7 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor in order to help them better understand...
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Durango Street Chapters 13-14
In this Durango Street worksheet, learners complete a series of questions over chapters thirteen and fourteen as well as define vocabulary words for each chapter.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Chapter 1 Questions
For this Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 16 short answer questions pertaining to the characters and setting of the novel.
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Ideal Performance
Students analyze the art of theatrical costumes and modern art designs. In this art analysis lesson, students compare two different designs for theatrical costumes by artists Oskar Schlemmer and El Lissitzky. Students complete image...
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Business English Alibi Game
In this grammar worksheet, students react and reflect on being given a scenario and report what they were doing at a particular time of day the day before.
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Writing a News Report
Students explore journalism by analyzing current events. In this news report lesson, students identify important questions to ask during an interview and discuss a fictitious news story about a missing teacher. Students read published...
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The Westing Game: Chapter 17-20
In The Westing Game chapter questions worksheet, students complete a series of short answer questions for chapters seventeen through twenty to advance their understanding of the text.