Do you have a pet? Have your third and fourth grade classes conduct a class survey, recording the results on a pre-made chart. Where do these animals live? With these basic questions, learners categorize animals into groups. Consider...

Students participate in contrived conversation in French to determine preferences for known food items.

After an initial sharing of and discussion about favorite foods, individuals or partners create surveys about food. Spanish language learners must include several comparative questions in their surveys. Once everyone has gathered...

What is the most popular way to get to school? Have learners interview their peers to discover how and when they get to school. Then learners will graph the results. Consider providing statistics from other classes for your older...

Learners record themselves saying basic biographical facts about themselves: : what their names are, where they live, how old they are, what languages they speak, and what activities they like to do. They practice their presentational...

Students survey common professions and occupations in the community. They create scrapbooks which depict ten different jobs. They create pictures of the 10 occupations and label the occupations. They write a brief (1-2 sentence)...

The relationships within and between ecosystems can be explored. after examining an area for living and non-living things students complete the same examination in the forest ecosystem. Students identify abiotic and biotic elements in an...

Students research the French-Canadian influence in northern New York. They interview families of French-Canadian descent, research immigration history, visit a French restaurant, write narratives about their experiences interviewing...

Young scholars plan a trip to Disneyland in Tokyo. They read the read the research website in Japanese and create a poster in katakana.

For this counting to ten mini book, students cut out and color a book that shows the numbers from 1-10 and the words for the numbers. The languages in this book are: English, Spanish, French, Swedish, Japanese and Swahili. Pronunciation...

Students study prerequisites for a career. After they explore a selected career, students create a tri-fold flyer describing the positive aspects of the job. Students include job description, skills, education, salary and work...

Students practice converting measurements into metrics. In groups, they translate a recipe from English into German and convert all measurements into metrics for the recipe. They examine the difference between United States and metric...

A tool for listening comprehension, this site surveys the French home, each room highlighted with extensive vocabulary lists. Includes interviews with video and transcripts as well as grammar points.

The Great American Read is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the lens of America's 100 best-loved novels (a national survey). This LearningMedia collection highlights books from The...