What do the flag, the bald eagle, and the Statue of Liberty remind you of? After reading a short article about these national symbols, middle schoolers are asked to identify ideas that these items represent.

Let's go shopping! Featuring terms like blue jeans, high heels, and slippers, this ESL presentation would be a good addition to your unit about clothing. Each slide features one item of clothing, a fun illustration, and a short description.

In this creative writing lesson, pupils listen to the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", read the book adaptation titled I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!, and pay close attention to the rhyming scheme, punctuation and illustrations. ...

How can you get your class to remember how to use the subjunctive tense in French? Create mobiles and booklets! Pupils work in groups to make mobiles that depict the correct usage of the subjunctive, and for each time they use one of the...

Seventh graders listen to, recite, and research African folktales. They research African artwork to add to their original folk tales which they write.

Students explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. In this book making lesson, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Students utilize these...

Students explore the history of the foods of different ethnic groups and the significance of these foods in perpetuating culture.

Learners discuss as a class the items they value and why. They read an article about the popularity of cellphones in Iraq. In groups, they work together to create a guide to their culture to share with others visiting their classroom....

Third graders discover the origin of an item of clothing.  In this clothing lesson, 3rd graders navigate the net to locate information related to various fabrics.  Students answer questions and define vocabulary about...

Learners in an ESL classroom describe and identify different clothing items. In groups, they compare and contrast the various clothing tradtions found in each home country. They discuss the importance of clothing and how they should...

Students conduct a research project looking at the origins of the Korean language. To create a context for the investigation they first look at the invention of some common items.

Students study the Italian Renaissance, its impact, and origin. In this Italian Renaissance lesson, students study the Renaissance via the ancient civilizations and political geography of various countries. Students study the art prior...

Students read about the Newseum and create their own museum exploring various aspects of news media.

Students create a storybook using vocabulary from the topic "urban and rural life". They write about past events in a children's story. They present their story to the class at an author's tea.

Eighth graders are introduced to Chinese language and culture to make Asian reading selections in literature circles more meaningful. They write about Chinese characters, work on oral speaking, and read Asian books and then have...

Engage your learners in a cross-cultural study by having them read, compare, and contrast various Cinderella stories from different cultures around the world. From this exercise, they will learn that plot element can seem...

In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Students research Samurai using the Internet. They compare and contrast the research information with each other.

In this humor worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...

In this simile bingo activity, learners play bingo with words and pictures on it and fill in the blanks to similes with those words. Students play with 4 players.

Students read a local town meeting sheet about a problem they are having, and come up with solutions. In this decisions lesson plan, students analyze the problem and come up with solutions to the problem. Students discuss how to make a...

Students explore reasons for making a particular purchase and examine one strategy Wal-Mart stores used to keep prices low. They research and compare two companies that make similar products using different business philosophies.

Students create their house to add to a class "neighborhood". In this lesson on family and community, students read the book Family by Todd Parr and discuss how all families and houses are different. Then, students create their own...