High schoolers research a career featured on a career website. They email an expert in the field of their choice. They conduct a questionnaire of the expert and record their findings. They collate their information and write a written...

Students take pictures of items related to parent functions around the school. In this parent functions instructional activity, students take photos of an item that has a shape of one of the parent functions that they studied in class....

Students use a word processing program to make a job pamphlet that is suitable for reproduction. This lesson help students write for a purpose. They use the skills of organizing, pre-writing, and revising with a word processing program.

Students study nouns. For this nouns lesson, students take pictures of themselves doing an activity. Students use Adobe Photoshop to color a major noun in the picture. Students use Keynote or PowerPoint to create a slideshow with the...

Students compose persona-poems. They examine the sample poem and then practice writing their own persona-poem. Students collaborate in small groups and write a poem about their partners.

Pupils create a tri-fold brochure to be used with their local Tourism Bureau that includes information and photos of local streams and lakes and trout fishing areas. Students write a description of the area and include a map of the area...

For this plot diagram worksheet, students fill in a diagram: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Worksheet is designed to be used with an interactive whiteboard.

Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.

Students write two haiku poems in appropriate form. Writing haiku allows students to practice in the skills of dividing words into syllables, counting syllables, and searching for words to fit a structure.

Students label images seen on an interactive website. In this early writing lesson, students do their best to write the name of the object seen on the screen.

Students discover facts about ancient Egypt and find information and pictures of structures in Egypt. They write a story using as many hieroglyphic symbols as possible. Stories are made into a display on bulletin board.

Third graders create paper mache globes, paint them and label the oceans and the continents. In groups, they research a biome, write about it and create an artistic visual representation of the biome and present it to the class.

Learners read about an Urgent Action information sheet from Amnesty International and a petition about human rights abuses against sexual minorities outside the USA. They discuss the situation, read about other similar cases and then...

Sixth graders investigate how journal writing helps preserve past, present and future history. They discover how different groups of people keep different types of journals and what the journals show about the lives of the writers.

Learners use the internet to research the type of art done by Karl Bodmer. Using this information, they design and create their own art cube relating to the artist's life. They also write a paragraph about what they believe their...

Young scholars, in groups, brainstorm different ways to communicate. They practice using new vocabulary. They read an article about communication in Europe and answer questions.

Students discuss the roles of the 8 Seminole clans: Wind, Panther, Bird, Snake, Bear, Big Town, Deer and Otter. They discuss the matriarchal nature of the Seminole sociey. They interview family members and then create an illustrated...

Students listen to and discuss story of Jesus calming storm, write script containing interview questions, create background with props, make video of newscast, and illustrate memory verse or symbol of peace using KidPix software.

Students write similes with a partner. For this spring similes lesson, students discuss the season an write a story using a minimum number of similes.  

Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B.  In this letter B lesson, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity. 

Learners read descriptions of various anti-theft devices and investigate car security systems on the Internet. They write and present a television commercial for one of the anti-theft devices and present it to the class.

Students complete a variety of written and discussion activities regarding Rosa Parks and the Alabama bus boycott and how they changed an accepted way of life in America.

Students write online responses to the Literature they are reading in class using computers, internet access, and the Blog website www.blogger.com. This technology based language arts lesson can be adapted for many different areas of...

Students create an egg. In this language arts lesson, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Students write about the sequence of the hatching.