Animals in Ancient Rome (Grades 1-5)

Read about a heroic moment in Roman history with a passage about Horatius and his defense of Rome against the Etruscans. Fifth graders answer questions about unfamiliar vocabulary, make inferences about story details, and predict what...

Bring together the subjects of math and English language arts with this collection of fun resources based on the children's book Over in the Grasslands. Intended to build the number sense of young mathematicians, these grasslands-themed...

Students read the passage, "Youth in Ancient Greece," and determine if the 11 statements with nouns and pronouns are true or false. Students answer 1 short-answer question at the end of the worksheet.

Get ready to teach a unit about community workers that uses Common Core literacy standards as a way to connect language arts and social studies. The packet is printable and contains teaching strategies, scripted activities, and...

Join Jason on his voyage across the sea to Colchis as he rounds up a group of laborers to bring back the Golden Fleece. An audio resource provides a written story and audio accompaniment to engage pupils in Jason's exciting adventures.

Heracles—or Hercules as he was known in Rome—was put to work on 12 impossible tasks by the jealous and vengeful Hera. Listen to his heroism over the Nemean Lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Cretan Bull, and others with an engaging audio...

Students paricipate in seven activities to investigate ancient stories about heroes, monsters, gods, and goddesses.

Get young learners on their feet and moving around with this fun activity for the children's book Over in the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats. During an initial reading of the story, the teacher stops and introduces students to a series of...

Kids challenge their understanding of the world around them and consider the impact man has on the environment and animal life. They examine a Tlingit piece, read two Tlingit stories about man and animals, then participate in a research...

Some problems are so big it takes an entire community to solve them. So was the case in the children's book Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by Wendy Tokuda and Richard Hall. This primary grade lesson uses a class read-aloud of this...