Students read and evaluate a piece of expository writing. They participate in a class discussion of the outlining process and individually outline a piece of expository writing. Finally, the students create an outline for the purpose...

Students examine photographs, paintings and drawings convey meaning and mood. The ability to 'read' a picture is an important literary skill. This activity gives students the opportunity to tell a story through pictures by creating a...

Students practice making charts and graphs from data on spreadsheets. Individually, they create a graph representing the latest information on voter registration. They answer questions and analyze the data to end the lesson.

Young scholars investigate color distribution in bags of M&Ms They sort and classify the contents of a bag of M&Ms and summarize their findings on a worksheet. Students convert the numbers into charts and make predictions about...

Students, working in teams of four, take on the role of marketers hired to promote one state in the U.S.A. Each team researches their state in order to create a brochure highlighting its most intriguing features. Groups give a 25 minute...

Young scholars create a database that catalogs their collection of CD's and tapes. They sort, analyze and print databases. They practice how to search, sort and analyze a database.

Learners practice different strategies to aid them in drawing meaning from their reading. Students, working in groups, read an assigned text selection. Each group member provided a summary of what they have been read based on a...

Learners analyze the role and impact of technological innovation in the late 19th and early 20th century. They evaluate manuscripts, sound recordings, and motion pictures to construct historical meaning. Students observe the connections...

Students read books about the Middle Ages. They discuss characteristics of the Middle Ages. In groups, students construct a castle and draw a map to scale. Pupils create a Venn diagram comparing rules in different countries in the...

Tenth graders continue with practical work and an introduction of work on fomers. They use hand tools and fret saws. Students continue work after a demonstration on the use of the vacum former. They discuss the precision required in...

Middle schoolers study the people and inventions related to computers. They research famous people for each invention they created and create a timeline of the inventor and his inventions. They present an oral presentation about the...

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Students in a kindergarten class are introduced to the concept of time. Individually, they compare the current year to their birth year to discover their age. As a class, they practice reading a digital and analog clock and create their...

In this Lord of the Rings word search, students locate vocabulary words from this book. They identify approximately 70 words from a given list. An answer sheet is provided.

In this literacy wordsearch, students find the words that are associated with the acquisition of vocabulary and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.

In this religion worksheet, students find the words related to the practices of Wicca and the answers are found through clicking the link at the bottom of the page.

In this chemical elements: teacher story instructional activity, students use the periodic table to write down the name and symbol of the first 10 elements. Students then complete a story by filling in the blanks with the names of the...

Guide your learners through the uppercase alphabet with this basic activity, which provides dotted letters to illustrate proper line spacing and height. Students can work on this activity repeatedly to reinforce strong printing skills.

Soon, your learners will be masters of cursive writing after a few lessons with this activity, which provides dotted models of all uppercase cursive letters. Useful as both a reference sheet and a practice tool. This activity helps...

Learners can practice their curves, loops, and swirls with this cursive practice sheet, which includes all uppercase letters in dotted form. Students can use this worksheet as a reference or to practice their writing.

For this printing practice worksheet, students will trace 7 rows of upper case X. Then students will write 2 rows of their own upper case X's. This is in the D'Nealian style.

In this literacy worksheet, 1st graders practice printing the lowercase letter x. They use the guides in order to help with letter formation.

In this grammar worksheet, students read and punctuate correctly ten sentences associated with a strange desert plant. Students share their findings with their classmates.

In this grammar worksheet, students participate in an interactive verb quiz involving transitive, intransitive, linking and auxiliary verbs in twenty sentences.