Students explore "emergency safety" rules through a series of activities led by the teacher. In this safety instructional activity, students practice dialing 911 on a paper or play phone after listening to the interactive book It's Time...

Students create their own illustrated books. In this visual arts lesson, students use the paints and other materials to illustrate their own version of Going on a Bear Hunt. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with...

Learners role play a story from from Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. In this segregation activity, students work in a literary circle to create a role play to present to the class. Each student in...

Students use concentration and imagination to show different ways to move. In this body awareness instructional activity, students show different ways to move to music.  While the music is played students move around the room...

Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, Palmer Hayden, William Johnson, and James Lesesne Wells, the painters and sculptors of the Harlem Renaissance, are featured in a unit study of artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

How does Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun factor into a discussion of the American dream? High schoolers define the American dream and recognize the historical setting of the play. Additionally, they identify...

Students explore how artworks can become symbols of national identity. They examine and analyze Song of the Nations, a site specific sculpture by Quebecois artist Armand Vaillancourt that expresses his views of Quebec's position...

Students are introduced to the idea of traditional oral narratives and divide them into genres. They explore the genres of context, motifs and variants. Each student finds oral narratives in their own lives and practice retelling them in...

Students generate vocabulary words synonymous or related to "noise." In this literacy lesson, students listen to the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle and discuss the meaning of vocabulary words...

Young scholars investigate the Dawes Act and understand its effects on the Paiute Indians. For this Paiute lesson, students recognize that many Native Americans lost their land and money after the Dawes Act. Young scholars dissect a...

Fifth graders investigate the Underground Railroad by creating a quilt.  In this U.S. History lesson, 5th graders discuss the history of slavery through a class "word splash" and by reading an Underground Railroad map online....

Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this Underground Railroad lesson, students examine the attributes and function of the Underground Railroad in order to...

Students investigate the philosophy of nonviolence. In this Ghandi lesson, students discover that Gandhi inspired many civil rights leaders with the idea of ahimsa. Students complete venn diagrams, create timelines, and discuss...

Students analyze sculpture, poetry, and music to gain an understanding of historical events. In this critical thinking skills instructional activity, students take a closer look at African-American history as they examine "Lift Every...

Students research U.S. history by completing a worksheet activity in class. For this historical figure lesson, students identify the contributions and risks taken by the former African-American leader Martin Luther King Jr. Students read...

Students explore the concept of the letter Dd.  In this letter recognition lesson, students are engulfed with items, movement, and music that begin with the letter Dd.  Students create crafts that help them learn and recognize...

Students sing the song "The Groundhog Came Out of His Hole". In this music activity, students sing a song and come up with matching hand motions. They use the same tune to make their own song. 

Students examine civil rights. In this civil rights activity, students research human rights issues of United States history. Students then discuss their research findings and write Bill of Rights statements for the topics they researched.

Students build a theme park ride with LEGO pieces and program the ride to simulate real movement.

Students create their own environmental art after the teacher shows them a variety of example and has a discussion about it. They then write an initial personal definition of environmental art.

Students explore abolition and suffrage in the United States.

Students read and analyze Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. They answer discussion questions, and write and compose a speech that addresses an injustice in society.

Students study A Raisin in the Sun. Students study new vocabulary through a game of bingo. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream" as a supplementary text. Students create their own bingo cards.

Students investigate the 1968 Olympics by identifying their mascots.  For this Olympic history lesson, students participate in a group activity where they match countries with their representative mascots.  Students analyze the...