Students investigate various expeditions throughout history to new and/or uncharted territories. They work in groups to develop and 'produce' television news magazine segments about some of these historic expeditions.

Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.

Second graders improve their spelling skills by reviewing antonyms for specific words. They work aloud with words and find their antonyms. They complete their own crossword puzzle and an activity crossword puzzle.

Help learners improve their spelling skills by completing a word analysis activity. They complete the instant activity by finding the hidden words inside each given word. There is a menu of skill ideas and various ways suggested to...

Not a lesson plan, per se, this webpage offers some activities to help your young French language learners pose and answer the question qu'est-ce que c'est? My favorite: kids take turns choosing objects out of a box and guessing what...

What are the words that use the silent e? With this resource, youngsters complete a teacher-led activity for spelling words with silent e sounds. They then complete a worksheet that adds suffixes s, ed, or ing to words that end in silent e.

Young scholars listen to a number of children's books that describe private citizens participating in acts of kindness, sharing their time, talent or treasure. They identify the characters, problems, and solutions in the books.

Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet instructional activity students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 

Young scholars investigate how increased patriotism as a reaction to national crisis can serve as both a uniting and a dividing force.

Students explore symbols by identifying public signage. In this public safety lesson, students view flashcards of everyday road, fire and food signs while discussing their function and purpose. Students record and identify road and...

Students navigate to various websites and play educational games to reinforce learning.  In this game lesson, students catalog games to play in various areas of the curriculum;. Students play online and board games.

Fourth graders practice proofreading a passage. In this proofreading lesson plan, 4th graders complete a worksheet by reading a passage and circling twelve errors. They proofread for errors in spelling, capitalization, grammar, and...

Fourth graders complete a worksheet. In this spelling instructional activity, 4th graders complete a timed activity where they identify misspelled words and write their correct spelling.

Third graders write paragraphs describing activities for classmates to perform using toys such as balls, jump ropes or hula hoops. They take turns reading their paragraphs while other students follow the directions.

Students answer three questions to accomplish their daily plan: What methods will I use?, What help do I need?, and When will I do it? They evaluate and adjust their plans daily instead of weekly. Pupils practice using the Take Action...

First graders practice finding smaller words inside larger ones. In this spelling instructional activity, 1st graders write smaller words that they find in larger ones. They look at words such as water and write a list of words within....

Ninth graders complete spelling exercises using Greek word parts. In this Greek word parts instructional activity, 9th graders complete an oral assignment to spell with Greek word parts and a worksheet.

Fourth graders review the rules for spelling plural nouns. In this plural nouns lesson, 4th graders review the six rules for making nouns plural. They apply the rules as they complete the associated worksheet.

Students complete a worksheet. In this anagrams lesson, students are introduced to anagrams and look at examples. Students complete a worksheet where they answer questions with anagrams.

Fourth graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell with apostrophes. In this spelling lesson, 4th graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher. Students then complete the Instant Activity worksheet for...

Second graders practice adding ing to words ending in one vowel and one consonant. In this adding ing lesson plan, 2nd graders participate in a teacher demonstration of adding suffixes to one vowel, one consonant words. They learn the...

Third graders complete a worksheet. In this digraphs lesson, 3rd graders discuss the sound of digraphs ch, sh, th and wh and brainstorm words that contain these digraphs. Students complete a word search worksheet.

Fifth graders complete analogies with their spelling words. For this analogies lesson plan, 5th graders give the answers to analogies with their spelling words that contain either le, el, al, er, or, or ar.

Third graders complete a crossword puzzle. In this past tense words lesson, 3rd graders write past tense verbs and review what past tense means. Students review homophones and complete a worksheet where they complete a crossword puzzle...