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American Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century: Teaching Artistic Interpretation as a Tool for Critically Viewing History
Students view a variety of artwork to determine the history and lifestyle of people from New Haven, Connecticut. In groups, they develop their individual hypothesis about why the paintings were created and share them with their group...
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Introduction to Selected Documents from the Roxcy Bolton Collection
Students listen to a guided imagery exercise that takes them back to 1969. They brianstorm ideas to try to discover why they would not be allowed to sit at an empty table at a Burdines lunch counter in 1969.
They read letters about the...
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A Fish Tale
Students brainstorm a list of famous events that took place on the sea. They write a poem or short story from the fish's perspective about the famous event they have chosen. Students share their work with the class.
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Language and Literacy Support through Photography
Students experience creating realia with digital photos to increase their vocabularies. They practice creating meaningful digital photo books that the students can take home and read with their families. Each student interacts with a...
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Recognizing Right Angles
In this right angles worksheet, students analyze 9 geometric or irregular shapes. In the box below each picture, students put a "tick" if there is a right angle or a "cross" if there is not.
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Rebus Writing Using Nursery Rhymes and a Book
Students write nursery rhyme rebus songs. In this music lesson, students practice writing rebuses as a class. Students then create their own rebus based upon "The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's".
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Grammar Practice
In this grammar worksheet, students complete problems on editing sentences, analogies, plurals, grouping words, and proper nouns. Students complete 5 problems.
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VH1 Driven: Shakira, Lesson 2
Students watch a video about the life of Latin singer/pop star, Shakira. They research various foreign music styles and discuss how they influence American pop music today.
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Business Phrasal Verbs Exercise
In this business phrasal verb instructional activity, students match the phrasal verb to the meaning of the verb. Students then translate the meaning of the phrasal verb and use the phrasal verbs in sentences.
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Sentence Writing: Careers
In this sentence writing worksheet, students are asked to complete sentences that have already been started. Students must also write appropriate questions to answers that are given.
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.
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ESL: School Subjects
In this ESL worksheet, students unscramble words naming school subject and label their corresponding pictures, fill in blanks about the school day using a given chart and complete true/false questions.
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Capitalization Practice
In this capitalization worksheet, students underline lower case letters that are used incorrectly in a set of 22 sentences. An answer key is included on page 2.
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Power
Pupils analyze people's sources of power: resources, organization and numbers. They determine when and how power is exercised by analyzing specific examples.
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Yes, We Can!
Students examine a situation of striking workers in Los Angeles. They answer questions related to the story. They also interview people involved if time allows.
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A Watershed Monitoring Module
Learners explore the relevance of water quality monitoring in relation to a local wetland ecosystem. They conduct standard water quality tests using wet tests and CBL calculators and probes. Student record and interpret the results.
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ESL: J Words Mix
In this ESL words with J worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, choosing the correct word beginning with "J" from a choice of 4.
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Culture - Cuisine
Third graders become familiar with plantain recipes from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. They describe the preparation process for cooking plantains.
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Defining Culture
Second graders define the term culture and are exposed to a variety of cultures from around the world. They read books, play Native American games, develop a class book that examines their own culture and, after examining currencies from...
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Pronoun + Be + Noun Review
In this pronoun review worksheet, students read a story about a college student before answering 5 questions using am, is, and are. They circle all of the verbs in the story.
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Breaking News English: David Beckham in 250-Million-Dollar Move
In this English worksheet, students read "David Beckham in 250-Million-Dollar Move," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Regions of South America
Students explore facts about South America in the four lessons of this unit. Booklets are created from the materials produced as the class delves into the topic.
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Process-Writing
Learners prepare to write a discursive composition. They pay particular attention to generating, selecting, ordering and organizing ideas. Students incorporate the use of linking devices and paragraph planning.
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GNP simulation using foods in the Americas
Students gain a better understanding of world food supply, the impact of inequality of the distribution of wealth, and get a taste of traditional foods.