Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Graphs Tell a Story
Students match a word story to the correct set of graphs involving temperature change over time.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story
In this lesson plan, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of...
Other
Common Core: Curriculum Maps: Tell a Story, 1 2 3 [Pdf]
In this second six-week unit of Kindergarten, students focus on sequence as they enjoy "Counting Books," both fiction and informational, and stories based on "three."
Other
Telling Their Stories: Japanese Americans Interned During World War Ii
Watch and listen to these fascinating interviews of Japanese American men and women who were interned during World War II.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Themes: Container Back Story: Container Revolution
America on the Move tells the story of containerization-the technological and operational revolution that transformed the way cargos are loaded and moved among ships, trains, and trucks. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
This lesson focuses on the short story "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin which takes place in Louisiana during one hour at the turn of the 19th century. Chopin uses local color and various forms of irony to tell the story. The text is...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Story Magic: Word Girl
This WordGirl lesson helps students use new vocabulary and work in small groups to tell a story based on visual clues.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Graph Tells the Story
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson exposes students to graphs using logarithmic scales. Although the graphs are at first non-intuitive, students should quickly "get used" to the scale. The lesson leads to a good...
Climate Literacy
Clean: It's Time to Tell the Story About Buds, Leaves and Global Warming
In this activity, students explore how, in New England, the timing of color change and leaf drop of deciduous trees is changing.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Eight Days: A Story of Haiti" by Edwidge Danticat
In this tale, for young readers, award-winning Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Junior, a seven-year-old boy trapped beneath his house after the Port-au-Prince earthquake and his rescue. While trapped during the earthquake, Junior...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)
Students watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this instructional activity, students explore...
Read Works
Read Works: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text telling the story of the first Thanksgiving. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Mitten/la Moufle
Storyteller Priscilla Howe tells a story about how a mitten dropped in the snow becomes a temporary home to several animals. The story is available in English and French.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: The Stories Julian Tells
Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Pompeii: Stories From the Eruption
An online exhibit that visits three sites devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius, telling the story of the people of Pompeii and how their untimely deaths were captured and preserved in the volcano's ash.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: Death in the Marketplace
Donna Washington tells the story of a wealthy man who tries to escape Death.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Monkey's Heart
Donna Washington tells the story of a clever monkey who outwits a crocodile.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pourquoi Stories
This video segment from Jakers! features a storyteller who tells a Pourquoi story about Anansi, the spider, a popular character in African folklore.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Telling a Painting's Story
This Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies lesson plan features museum field trip writing activities. Upon returning from the museum, students will write stories inspired by paintings that they observed and evoked an...
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum: The Black Wings Story
This online story tells of how African Americans overcame enormous obstacles to break into aviation. Besides tracing the story there are primary sources, classroom activities, and teaching resources are included.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Here Their Stories Will Be Told
Each Jewish community during WWII had its own individual story to tell. This online exhibit highlights 12 of these communities. Select a community and read about life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimony from survivors is...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Telling Your Story
A instructional activity in which learners gain empathy for people who lived during a historical time period by writing a first-person story with experiences that would have happened during that time.
Read Works
Read Works: I Am a Robin
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with a robin telling the story of his parents have raised him. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers, Who Gets the Flowers?
Students can read along with the audio as Mister Rogers tells a story about giving.