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Teaching About Asia; Freeman Seminar
Students integrate the study of photography and Eastern Culture for the purpose of increasing artistic expression. They produce high quality photographs in conjunction with conducting research with meaningful writing produced with the...
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Looking at the Civil War through the lens of local history." Teaching
Young scholars research life in Plymouth during the Civil War. Using the internet and other resources, students examine the historical effects of the Civil War. In groups, they publish a newspaper explaining the events of the day.
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Teaching English: Northern Ireland
In this northern Ireland activity, students complete a matching activity, and true/false and short answer questions after reading short paragraphs of text.
Ophelia Project
Let’s Be Friends
Introduce positive social skills and friendship to young learners with this wonderfully designed eight-lesson unit. It includes several activities to help learners identify positive attributes, build empathy, and understand...
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Ecology Integration Using IMovie
Amazing! Any 5th grader would be more than willing to participate in this project. Students are broken into groups, each group reads one book from a list of five. They use their book as the basis for choosing an animal and environment to...
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Building Arrays Using Excel Spreadsheets
Students create arrays using Microsoft Excel. In this technology-based math lesson, students expand their knowledge of multiplication by creating arrays on the computer using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art Newspaper
Students create newspapers. In this technology skills lesson, students create a newspaper layout using a word processor program. The newspaper features stories regarding the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Dietary Guidelines 2000
Students research dietary guidelines and create a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that reviews the dietary guidelines to present to their class or an elementary class.
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House Plan
In this ESL activity, learners will learn house related vocabulary and create sentences about how they would arrange furniture in a home. Sample lesson ideas are included.
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Phonograms
In this phonograms practice worksheet, learners read 2 sentences, identify the "ar' and "ea" phonograms, and draw pictures pertaining to each of the sentences.
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Estimating With Fractions
Seventh graders, exploring methods to estimate fractions, take notes on estimating fractions, 7th graders write letters to explain the process of estimating fractions and mixed numbers to someone who does not know the concept. Students...
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What Do We Have In Common?
In this commonality worksheet, students read sets of words and explain what they have in common, 15 sets total. Each set has 3 words.
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Bank On It!
For this science worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete a story about turning an empty field into a garden. They select words from a word bank of ten words to create the story.
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The Duckling/ Bank On It
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words to fill in the context of the reading. They choose the words from the word bank.
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Adverb or Adjective?
In adverb or adjective worksheet, students choose the word that correctly fits in sentences, either an adverb or adjective. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Alphabetical Order Practice
In this alphabetical order worksheet, students put a set of 15 "nonsense" words in alphabetical order. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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Caterpillar/ Bank On It
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words that are needed to complete the reading passage focused on the subject of the caterpillar.
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Caterpillar/ Bank On It 1
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the reading passage about the caterpillar. They fill in the passage by using the word bank.
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Max Goes To Sydney
In this literacy instructional activity, students find the words that fit into the story about Max and his adventures of traveling to Sydney, Australia.
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The Hunter/ Bank On It
In this literacy instructional activity, students look at the reading passage and match the words that complete the sentences in the correct context.
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Phonograms
In this phonics activity, students answer 6 questions in which the given sound is circled in all of the words in a sentence. Students draw a picture about each sentence.
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Short Vowels: Read and Color
In this short vowel worksheet, students read words found inside a picture of a cow, then use a color key to color words with given short vowel sounds their assigned colors.
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Log Canoes: A Chesapeake Bay Tradition
This activity uses a question and answer format to scaffold learners comprehension of a short dialogue about the Chesapeake Bay and its tradition of log canoes. After reading the short passage, students are prompted to find three facts...
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A Great Beginning
Check out this detailed resource for some beginning of the year activities. After examining examples, class members uses the computer lab to create a personal brochure enhanced with clip art or photos to introduce themselves to the...