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Discovering American Symbols
Help youngsters get to know their states and capitals, explore their own country, and study American symbolism. They take a "trip" across America collecting symbols, images, and information about each state as they go (through text and...
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Around the World Calendar
Students explore a country and its culture through its national landmarks. They use technology tools to research and communicate information. To demonstrate research skills, they use the Internet as well as print materials.
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Mannequin
Students participate in an activity designed to stimulate creative thinking, encourage cooperation, and help students get acquainted using newspapers and masking tape. Students must design and create an outfit for a member of their group.
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U.S.A.
In these literature worksheets students will construct a self made book about the USA. Students will color 15 vocabulary words pertaining to the book's topic.
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United States Symbols
First graders identify symbols that represent the United States on a worksheet. In this United States symbols lesson plan, 1st graders identify 5 symbols on the sheet.
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This Land is Your Land: Volunteering in the Community
Students discover what a Relief Office does. In this volunteer lesson, students investigate what a Relief Office does, and who helps run it. Students discuss ways he/she could become a volunteer.
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Patriotic Symbols
Students define what a patriotic symbol means, as well as sing a patriotic song. In this social science lesson students work in groups to write about a patriotic symbol. Groups draw pictures of their symbols.
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Allegory in Painting
Learners define allegory and discuss its use in the visual arts, examine paintings from various time periods and identify allegorical themes in them, and explain what makes an image allegorical.
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Gateway to America
Fifth graders study about immigration, Ellis Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. They create an identity of a fictitious immigrant and describe what they find when they arrive in New York.
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Famous Landmarks
Young scholars investigate countries by identifying their national landmarks. In this World Geography lesson, students utilize the Internet to research a historic landmark in a foreign country and complete a landmark survey...
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Political Cartoons: Introduction to Symbols
Learners make a list of every day symbols they know of and write down what each symbol stands for. Then they are asked to help their knowledge further by considering all the meanings various symbols might have.
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Allegory in Painting
High schoolers define allegory and discuss its use in visual arts. They identify and explain allegorical themes in a number of images.
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1st Grade - Act. 09: Freedom Quilt
First graders create sections of classroom quilt that be tied together.
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Coming to America: U.S. Immigration
Students study immigration in the late 19th and early 20th century. In this immigration lesson plan, students participate in activities including creating maps, responding to non fiction text, memorizing and analyzing poetry, and...
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Express Whole Numbers as Fractions
Apply fractions in the real world using these 10 word problems, each of which has a space for scholars to work out the equation. The problems give whole numbers for scholars to work with, and there aren't any mixed number answers. Pupils...
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A Green Patina Finish
Students create a blue-green patina that serves as a protective coating on copper jewelry or other artwork. Using four different experimental methods, students apply patina to copper pieces and compare the results of the different...
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New York City: ESL Read Aloud
In this ESL read aloud worksheet, students read a short text about the city of New York City. There are no questions to answer on this page.
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Estimating Distances
Fifth graders explore the concept of estimating distances between two places on a map. In this estimating distances lesson, 5th graders interpret maps according to measuring distance. Students choose a place on a map and find the...
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Family History
Students appreciate how families are important to the expansion and progress of a country. In this biographies lesson, students read a biography and write their biographies including photos. Students create family trees.
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Mannequin
Learners design and construct an outfit for one member of their group using only newspapers and masking tape. This activity is designed to help students get acquainted with each other.
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It's Symbolic!
Students use symbols to represent different government and economic systems. They explain how the nonprofit organizations and governments work together to supply needs. They interview a foreign exchange student and complete a chart with...
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Golden Door Book
Students use the Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content. They create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions.
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United States Geography: Crossword Puzzle
In this geography worksheet, middle schoolers use the 14 clues in order to fill in the crossword puzzle with the appropriate United States geography answers.
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Molly's Pilgrim
Third graders recognize and discuss multi-ethnic nature of America's citizens through a variety of activities.