Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Students research dinner menus from the colonail period and create dinner party set in the time period. Students dress for the occasion and bring in dishes to share with one another.

Students plan and simulate a dinner party. They involve an author, a fictional character, and a significant historical figure as dinner guests. They build writing skills, assess historical figures/authors, and exercise creativity in...

Students read a story about children with disabilities and write a letter to Santa based on the letter written in the book. In this disabilities lesson plan, students realize how students with disabilities were treated in the past and...

What was life like during the Victorian era? Images of crowded factories and lavish palaces may come to mind—and both would be accurate. Learn more about Britain during the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria with a series of informational...

Students are given a copy of a dinner part worksheet. They research or review the role of each person on the list. Pupils decide the placement of four tables. The goal is for each table to have lively conversations, so they are...

Can pesticides affect humans, even if they don't eat the crops that were sprayed? Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's 1962 work on the environmental effects of DDT, discusses the ways that bioaccumulation creates a path from a dangerous...

Students work in groups to imagine, research and simulate a dinner party involving an author, a fictional character, and a significant historical figure as dinner guests. The activity uses Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the time...

Students use their research skills to determine the famous person given in clues. Using a character recently dicussed in their classroom, they discuss how they would create a costume for them. They write sentences to be used as dialogue...

Students consider the concept of precedence in relation to official functions. They determine the Order of Precedence for an official function.

Meet Medea, daughter of Aeetes in the third audio reading of this Greek myth. The listener meets the Argonauts from Medea’s perspective, and discovers her infatuation with Jason who has come to retrieve the Golden Fleece from her father....