Students produce iMovies to share their thoughts of friendship along with poetry creations in this technology-based lesson plan for the upper-elementary classroom. The lesson plan includes a link to a "create a poem" site and requires...

Students use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...

In this handwriting practice activity, 3rd graders write the name of each month, once, in order. The cursive shown on this sheet is computer generated, and not standard cursive style.

In this literacy worksheet, students read a calendar that has been created using a computer program. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.

In this letter d worksheet, students practice first tracing, then printing both the upper and lower case letter d on provided lines. Students can use their computer mouse to animate the letters guided practice arrows.

In this letter w instructional activity, students practice tracing, then printing the upper and lower case letter w. Students can move a computer mouse over sample letters with guided arrows to begin.

In this Nasreddin Goes Shopping learning exercise, students recreate the story sentence by sentence using the computer. Students choose from 3 sentences for each sentence to recreate.

Students explore organizational strategies by utilizing an information web. In this note taking lesson, students investigate the uses of an outline when taking notes. Students utilize notes from a class lesson to create an information...

Students explore world history by researching explorers of North America. In this famous explorers lesson plan, students research one specific explorer of their choice and identify his successes and failures by utilizing the Internet....

Students read the story The Day Jimmy's Boa At the Wash and put the event boxes in order from the beginning to end of the story. In this sequencing lesson plan, students do this on the computer.

First the class learns how to write a Haiku poem. Then, they use kidpix to illustrate their poem. 

Young scholars read or hear about famous African Americans to learn about the ways in which they exemplify one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Students write wedding invitations for the fairy tale, Bubba, the Cowboy Prince. Once they assess the components of the original Cinderella story, they compare and contrast it with the fractured fairy tale. Students decorate their...

Students design a multimedia report on one or more of the fifty states.

After reading The Sign of the Beaver, learners utilize Kid Pix Studio Deluxe to draw a picture from one scene in the story. They also compose a description to accompany their scene. A minimum of two paragraphs must be written, using at...

Third graders practice dictionary skills. They use a digital camera and insert pictures from a floppy disk into a document. They play a game in which they are handed an anonymous definition of each other and must find each other in class.

Upper graders read the book Holes as a class or by themselves. In groups, they identify symbols and discuss how they are connected  among the many plots in the story. They create a timeline in which they sequence the main...

Present perfect tense doesn't mean that something is perfect, just that it's continuing from the past into the present. Demonstrate proper usage of present perfect verb tense with a slideshow presentation, which features a passage...

Everyone wants to be part of a royal family. Let your pupils experience the privilege of royalty by rewriting the story The Frog Prince from the point of view of the princess. While the story line remains the same, perspective is bound...

Biographies can be a fun topic for any history project. Learners choose one famous person that lived between 1865 and 1930 to research. They gather information, work on reading comprehension, and use what they find to create slide shows...

Discover alliteration found in picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards. Then, dive into a read aloud of Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak. This practice sets the stage for budding poets to create their own acrostic poem,...

What causes sound? Groups of sound detectives use a variety of tools including ping pong balls, pasta noodles, raisins, rubber mallets, and a tuning fork to investigate what causes sound. The young Sherlocks conduct a series of...

Students examine how African Americans escaping slavery used storytelling to communicate. They listen to and read the lyrics for the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd, view the Reading Rainbow video, and write and illustrate their own story.

While the content of this activity is more specific to the first grade, the directions given to work on a PowerPoint are well written. These directions could be used by anyone, with any content. Younger learners may need help reading the...