Curated OER
Italy
Learners read stories about Italy and identify main events and characters. They take an imaginary trip to Italy and write a story about their adventures. In addition, they practice several italian words and phrases.
Curated OER
Creating with Alice
Students explore Alice Programming Software. For this exploratory lesson, students design a unique storyboard which will guide the creation of their Alice World. Students write and create their own films.
Curated OER
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Pantomime
Students investigate acting and performing arts by portraying a story in class. For this pantomiming lesson, students read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and discuss the characters amongst themselves. Students portray the 4...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Storytelling: Imagineering in a Box
A landing page for a new course in storytelling that is presented by Disney designers through Khan Academy's site. They share how they design theme parks and rides. Students will design a theme park of their own.
City University of New York
Cuny: Jane Austen
Site offers information about readers' response to Austen's writing, the themes in her novels, and specific discussion of "Emma."
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?
Here is an art idea for young students returning to school after summer break. Website provides ideas for making unique collages conveying any theme.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dr. Seuss on the Loose
In Dr. Seuss' first published children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Marco, inspired by the passing of a horse and wagon, imagines a series of increasingly incredible sights on his way home from school. This...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Purpose
This slideshow lesson focuses on purpose; it defines purpose and lists the two main purposes of all writing: to educate (didactic text meaning to inform and instruct) or to entertain (imaginative text). The purpose could also be art for...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The Romantic Period
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the Romantic Period including the shift in thoughts away from reason and science and toward the power of nature, emotion, imagination, and the individual man. It features links to a vocabulary...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Myths, Monsters and the Imagination
A shadowy man-eating monster, a strange green knight, and fictional accounts of journeys around the world: investigate the boundaries between the real and imaginary in medieval literature.
Library of Congress
Loc: Thomas Jefferson's Library
Resource showcases the holdings of Thomas Jefferson's personal library built around the themes of memory, reason, and imagination.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Are There, First Flight
Students learn about archives and primary sources as they research original historical documents. While preparing an imaginative first-person account as if witnessing an historical event, they learn to appreciate the value of the...
Aaron Shepherd
The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese Legend (R's Theater)
A reader's theater version of a folktale from Vietnam for 13 players, ages 10 and up. Adapted by children's book author Aaron Shepard from his picture book "The Crystal Heart," the themes explored are kindness and false imagining....
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Visions of the Future
Explore the ways in which 20th-century writers imagined the future, investigated the present, and prepared for the unknown.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most quirky, imaginative fantasy stories. Find out about the characters and themes in this informative site.