Although the article that launches this lesson is about the history of the Periodic Table, the objective is reading comprehension. Using the eight-page informational text, learners answer five comprehension questions and craft one essay....

After reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and an article about the use of the novel, class members engage in a Socratic seminar focused on whether or not Twain's book should be banned.

Young readers can be exposed to the literary works of Mark Twain as they interact with challenging text and gain experience by reading the complex passages of chapter two "The Glorious Whitewasher" from his famous book, The Adventures of...

Gummy bears are tasty, but did you know they are also used to determine color and light properties? Use the activity as a way to demonstrate light absorption, light reflection, and refraction with high schooler....

Density: the reason a giant pumpkin will float, but a tiny cranberry won't. Lesson begins with a demonstration of two of the same-sized cubes having different densities. Then pupils take eight cubes, each of the same size, and have to...

Students explore the use of question marks and exclamation marks. Students read a story and discuss the proper use of punctuation. They complete a worksheet and place proper punctuation at the end of the sentence. Students sort words...

Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...

In this angle bisector worksheet, students solve five short answer and multiple choice problems. Students construct angle bisectors using a compass.

Introduce you primary graders to timelines with a worksheet that not only explains what this convenient tool is and how it can be used, but also describes how to construct one.

What will I be? What do I want to be? What will I have to do to achieve this goal? These are the essential questions that launches a research project that asks like-minded individuals to identify their goals, the costs of the practical...

Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...

There is more than one way to measure an amount, as learners discover by applying multiple measurement tools in these activities. Centimeter cubes, cylinders, beakers, and measuring cups are used to find the volume of regular and...

It is not about where you are going, but the journey to get there. Scholars choose a play or novel in which a character takes a journey. They then create essays describing what the journey meant to the overall piece of work. Learners...

A viewing of Disney’s 1993 film of The Adventures of Huck Finn launches an examination of the events in and themes of Mark Twain’s story. Viewers respond to prompts on a film story worksheet, engage in full-class discussions, and select...

Use text marking and highlighting to explore the structure of a poem. After listening to Allan Ahlberg read "Please Mrs. Butler," learners locate stanzas and patterns on their copy of the poem using the text marking technique. Class...

In this information table worksheet, students will survey their classmates to find out what types of pets they have at home and record the information using tally marks on a table. Then students will answer 6 short questions about the...

In this punctuation mark interactive worksheet, students in the proper punctuation in each of 10 sentences. They insert commas, periods, question marks, semi-colons, colons, or apostrophes as needed in the sentences. They submit their...

In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...

Students research life in Hannibal, Missouri. In this Mark Twain instructional activity, students analyze primary sources to develop an understanding of life in Hannibal in the late 19th century. This instructional activity may be...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer questions about the content of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

In this question words instructional activity, students write 6 questions that begin with the words: when, where, who, why, can and what. Students must use the correct end mark.

Young scholars examine the use of a sundial to tell apparent time. In this sundial lesson, students watch a teacher demonstration using a flashlight to create shadows. They discuss what happens to shadows of different objects as the...

In this interactive grammar worksheet, students choose the correct way to use apostrophes in each of the seven sentences.

For this quotation marks worksheet, learners learn the proper use of quotation marks. Students read the 6 primary functions and examples for each. Learners write one sentence each to illustrate the 6 uses for quotation marks.