Writers draft paragraphs comparing and contrasting the author's viewpoint in two poems. They also discuss the differences between an informational text and a poem regarding manners. Rubric and assessment are provided.

Third graders write a poem describing why they love a special family member. They use decorative paper and illustrations for their poems. Students give thanks and praise to their family members.

Students interact with texts. They are given the first four lines of Walt Whitman's poem "When I heard the learned astronomer." Students read them and discuss what they think Walt Whitman did when he heard the astronomer.

Learners are introduced to Trompe l'oeil art by a docent. Using that information, they compare and contast it with other forms of art they are familiar with and discuss their opinions with the class. They write a poem about their...

Learners explore Native American life and culture. For this Native American lesson, students watch a video segment pertaining to The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Learners discuss Native American culture and...

Fifth graders become familar with the pilgrims and first Thanksgiving through essays about important people of the time.  In this Thanksgiving lesson, 5th graders choose an important figure from the time of the Pilgrims and write a...

Students examine the poem To Walt Whitman by Angela de Hoyos. They divide into groups. Each group creates a poem written from one of two perspectives: to Walt Whitman or to de Hoyos from Whitman.

Students travel down the Nile River to survey ancient Egypt in this unit of nine lessons. Data about pharaohs, hieroglyphics, growing crops, pyramids, the geography, and the sacred rituals are explored in this unit.

Students research and write reports about inventions and inventors. They develop graphic organizers to organize their information, and create reports on the impact of inventors and inventions.

Twelfth graders explore the power that a single word or line can have by focusing on specific imagery in the poem "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden.

Second graders investigate the concept of a celebration through the experience of music and culturally relevant conversation. They have a class discussion about thankfulness and tie it the tradition of celebration. Then students listen...

Sixth graders invite members of their community to a celebration in which they present information about what they have gathered during the Aqua Pure project. Using art, they unveil their projects to the community and extend their thanks...

Discover activities to help learners increase self-awareness, build peer and family relations, and develop positive self-esteem. Here you'll find six suggestions for instilling a sense of confidence and self awareness in youngsters. Each...

Who are we and what shapes our identities? Seventh graders work to answer this question as they learn how to write a memoir. Full of non-print resources and supplemental texts that range from fiction to non-fiction, scholars write their...

Young readers explore reading comprehension by creating a class presentation. In this storytelling lesson, puils read an assigned text in class and analyze the characters, settings and story. They create an illustrated presentation in...

High schoolers research and explore Viking culture, distinguishing between fact and fiction, and examine their contribution to our society.

In this items that come in bunches instructional activity, students play a Connect Four type game with vocabulary words that name things that come in bunches. They work with words to make matches such as geese/gaggle, and to get four...

First graders see how to throw away their mean thoughts instead of saying them to the person with whom they are upset. They write their thought or the words down on the piece of paper, including their names and throw them away in the...

Third graders create a timeline of inventions and inventors made out of light colored bulletin board paper.

Third graders use an outline to write a letter to their parents sharing their week at school.

In this homonyms activity, students complete a set of 20 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct homonym. Students may click on an "answer" button for immediate feedback. Labeled a quiz, but suitable for practice.