Everyone loves a good prank! With this reading passage, Perla and her grandmother play some fun innocent pranks on one another. Kids focus on new vocabulary words, questions about the information they have read, and responding with their...

It's no small wonder that a lightbulb has come to represent a bright idea. The light bulb, the bright idea of Thomas Edison, was just one of his over 1,000 inventions. A teacher's guide introduces young audiences to works of the man who...

Students interview a selected candidate and find out his or her views on important issues and what he/she hopes to convey to voters. They write and design campaign flyers. Students create final mock-ups of the materials.

Students think critically about artistic freedom and evaluate the aims and effectiveness of censorship and education. They begin an investigation of the ongoing controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" by reading "New...

Students research how April Fool's Day began. They identify and discuss various theories, interview family members, write original myths about the first April Fool's Day and design a wild goose chase for another class.

In this language arts worksheet, learners use the chart of words as a tutorial for writing a formal character sketch. The words are meant to make the description more vivid.

Overcome obstacles to reach big red buttons and turn off the Wordsuckeruppernator, a dastardly device that has been sucking up words from planet Earth.

In "No More Pranks" by Monique Polak, Pete is adept at pulling pranks and often gets into trouble over them. Sent to live with his uncle who operates a kayaking business, Pete and his new friend Rosalie put Pete's skills to use as they...