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Participial Adjectives
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in the sentences with present of past participial forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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High School Sikh Lesson Plan
Students examine post 9/11 backlash. In this hate crimes lesson, students watch "Dastaar," a documentary featuring Sikh discrimination. Students discuss their impressions of the documentary.
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What Happened to the Chesapeake Bay Filtering System?
In this environmental science lesson, students write a short story about what it's like to help at an oyster garden. They formulate 2 hypotheses on the disappearance of oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
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Rachel Carson
In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Rachel Carson and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Haiku
Students explore the Japanese literature, music and art. Pupils discuss the culture of Japan. While listening to Japanese music, they write and illustrate a Haiku. Students are given the opportunity to create origami.
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Mouthpart Madness
Students explore the basic biology of a pest. They identify the four major kinds of insect mouthparts and explain how they work. Students examine the specific mouthparts and how they can limit food resources and in what environment an...
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Patricia's Garden
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a three paragraph story and answer three comprehension questions provided at the end of the story. The directions ask for complete sentences.
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Question Marks
In this punctuation worksheet, learners read a sentence and circle "yes" if the sentence needs a question mark, or "no" if it does not. There are 15 questions on this page.
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Worksheet 7: Housekeeping Activities
While only having a few questions, this activity could be a good review of vocabulary in the lower grades. Learners fill in 6 fill-in-the-blank spaces with the correct vocabulary word. There are pictures to aid in understanding.
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Vocabulary Review
In this synonyms worksheet, students select from 3 choices the word or phrase that means the same as the word or phrase in bold. There are 10 sentences on the page.
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Compound Nouns
In these compound nouns worksheets, students read the sentences and then circle the compound noun within each sentence. Students complete 30 sentences.
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American Heroines
Third graders explore the heroines of the Revolutionary War. In this Revolutionary War activity, 3rd graders read a passage about famous heroines and discuss the trade practiced during Colonial times.
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Worksheet 3 Vocabulary Review: Words That Mean the Same
For this synonyms worksheet, students read 10 sentences and analyze the word in bold type. From two choices, students circle the letter of a word or phrase that means the same.
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Vocabulary Review: Making Comparisons
In this vocabulary practice worksheet, students rephrase 11 sentences by replacing the boldfaced word with a word or phrase that has the same meaning.
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Analogies
In this analogies worksheet, students complete ten analogies with words from a word list. There is an example on this page that has no theme.
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Worksheet 6. Vocabulary Practice, Present Perfect and Past Perfect
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate words to complete the sentences that express the present perfect and past perfect tenses.
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American Indian Art
Students complete a unit of study about Native American visual art. In this visual art lesson, students complete five lessons to study Native American art.
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Life as a Lighthouse Keeper
In this lighthouse worksheet, students read a one page passage titled Life As A Lighthouse Keeper and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 short answer questions.
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Creative Writing/Poetry Lesson Plan
Students complete poetry writing activities and art analysis activities. In this creative writing and art lesson, students analyze a cubist piece by Picasso and discuss abstraction. Students read a poem by Gertrude Stein about Picasso...
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Color Crazy
First graders create their own brightly colored animals. In this animal adaptations lesson plan, 1st graders create an animal that is brightly colored but can blend into it's environment.
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Creating Your Own Rock Art
Eighth graders look at early art. For this visual arts lesson, 8th graders investigate the attributes of rock art, examine rock art, and create their own examples of rock art. Analysis and instructional worksheets are included.
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Francis Firebrace
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Francis Firebrace and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...
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Where in the World is..?: An ecological study
High schoolers analyze different ecosystems from the perspective of someone from another planet. They compare different ecosystems to determine which would be suitable to inhabit. This is an interdisciplinary activity.
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Virtual Trip of Brazil
Sixth graders develop an annotated list of sights to visit in Brazil including a description of what to see and do there. They name and locate cities within Brazil. They place textual and graphic information on the web.