This hands-on, inquiry-based lesson combines maps skills which include identifying map elements, applying an understanding of cardinal directions, interpreting resource maps, and identifying a location. Students will have the opportunity...

The students will be able to use coordinates to find locations of specific cities on a map of Alabama.

Students will brainstorm adjectives to describe the American Flag and will write two descriptive sentences for homework. Students will also create star art to accompany their writing to show the relationship between words and pictures...

Lesson for early elementary and special education students utlizing the book Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves and graphic organizers to identify elements in a story (title, author, setting, characters, etc.). Students participate...

A discussion of the building of the National Road, its route, and importance to the opening of the West. From the National Park Service.

A collaborative distance learning project on world geography.Two classrooms will interact while solving clues about "mystery" counties.

This plan is the first lesson in my unit on Lewis and Clark. This is a project-based, hands-on unit in which learners "become" part of the Corps of Discovery - the members traveling in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In this lesson, the...