Middle schoolers create a school-wide insect collection investigate the insect world. For this project, each grade level "adopts" specific orders of insects, collect specimens, create classroom collections, and complete related activities.

For this writing worksheet, students learn proper punctuation and sentence variety as they write a dialogue pertaining to events in Night of the Twisters. Students read the information about how to use quotation marks, then write their...

Students complete rhyming word activities. In this rhyming words instructional activity, students play an online game for rhyming words and recite a well known nursery rhyme as a class. Students pick out words from the poem that rhyme...

This site provides lesson plans that explore the First Ladies. Covers many aspects of the images and duties expected of the First Ladies. Provides numerous links to photos and other sites with extensive biographical information.

This site was designed as a video conference with the national First Ladies Library. It is an entire lesson that culminates in a competition where young scholars try to identify recent first ladies based on their research.

In this lesson, students will explore Eleanor Roosevelt's many national and international contributions. They will learn how Eleanor Roosevelt used her positions as First Lady and United Nations diplomat to ensure that the powerless had...

Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of an agent of social change as the First Lady of the United States and later as a representative to the United Nations. She helped to create The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which remains...

In this lesson plan, students will consider Women in the White House. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this activity, students explore the role and impact of recent First Ladies through...

Use this lesson plan to familiarize students with the authors associated with the time period of the Gilded Age.