Students use three nonfiction selections in order to investigate the concept of animal communication. They use a graphic organizer for the information as it is gathered in the reading.

Young scholars study echolocation and understand how dolphins use it to locate prey, escape predators, and navigate their environment. They view a video, "In the Wild-Dolphins with Robin Williams" and see first hand how dolphins...

Students create an expressive painting documenting their experience of a storm. They create a slide show presentation comparing and contrasting the impact and the response to a natural disaster in the 19th century with the impact...

Third graders investigate the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. They experiment with various tools to simulate the mouth parts of insects, conduct research, record their observations of butterflies hatching, write a play, complete...

Students research current events and simulate a newscast of a current news story. They watch the evening news and write a summary of a story of interest, conduct Internet research and complete a worksheet on a current event, and...

Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson plan. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.

Students visit a local wetland or WWT centre and record their observations by writing or drawing on the downloadable pupil activity sheet.

Students are given information about two popular sonnet forms-English and Italian. They are given the rules for writing a sonnet. Students are asked what type of sonnet they would use. They are each given a sheet of paper and asked...

Students explore and analyze the sounds and shapes of the words used in Shakespeare's works They participate in a charades-like memorization exercise in which they create "word plays" for each of the words in the monologue.

In this fish worksheet, students will use fish characteristics vocabulary words to fill in the blanks of 3 statements and a crossword puzzle.

In this timbre of instruments worksheet, students explore the concept of timbre meaning four different kinds of sounds: string, brass, choral and percussion. Students locate those concepts in a word search puzzle.

In this grammar worksheet, students add creative phrasal expansions to sixty sentences following the patterns shown as an example for each set of sentences.

Young scholars read an outline on how to prepare an informative speech. In this informative speech lesson plan, students read an outline and then prepare a speech.

Students discuss literature about technology in the 20th century. In this book study lesson, students read I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and compare the fiction to technology in the 20th century.

Learners express the ideas of a poem. In this poem dramatization lesson, students analyze poems for meaning studying their descriptive words. Learners role play the descriptive language of the poem. Students draw a picture of the...

Students explore Folk Music in Iowa. For this folk music lesson, students discuss different types of folk music and how it relates to life in Iowa. They take the tune of a song and write their own lyrics to describe their life. 

In this World Music Day learning exercise, learners complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey,...

Students write, adapt, and compose a song related to the West Virginia State Museum.  In this music instructional activity, students create a composition for a work of  visual art. Students incorporate major and minor melodies.

Young scholars explore sound waves. In this sound waves lesson, students brainstorm different sounds and how sounds move or travel. Young scholars then create a KWL chart and work through six different lab activities to examine how sound...

Fourth graders draw and label music notes and rests. In this music box lesson plan students use staff paper to draw the notes required. The students give the value of each note or rest.

Students participate in an auction game in which they buy as many correct sentences as they can with an imaginary $3000.  In this grammar activity, students determine which sentences are correct and buy as many sentences as...

In this current events activity, students analyze a political cartoon about John McCain and respond to 3 talking point questions.

In this reading an interview transcript worksheet, students read the transcript from an interview with Daniel Levitin who was a psychologist interested in the effects of music on the human brain. Students then answer 10 true and false...