Media Moves

Teach kids how to watch television, specifically the news, with this creative idea for learners of all ages from the Media Awareness Network. The elementary school plan focuses on presenting news as a story and uses Jon Scieszka's story...

Learners participate in a scavenger hunt to locate various sections and items in the library media center. Using a "Media Center Hunt" worksheet, they locate letters that correspond with items and sections in the library and match them...

Movies have depicted the Velociraptor as a large, vicious dinosaur. Although they may have been vicious, Velociraptors were much smaller in size, allowing them to move fast and catch their prey. Read to find out more about this complex...

If your learners are learning about place value and number value comparisons, this set of engaging activities and worksheets will make your job easy! Scholars use math manipulatives to estimate and then determine how many seeds a colony...

Digital pictures from a field trip to the zoo launch a research unit for 3rd through 6th graders. Over 6 weeks, your young researchers develop skills at locating information from various resources -- with keyword searches, in magazines...

Engage all the upper elementary classes in your school in a game to learn Dewey Decimal Classification. On 5 or 6 consecutive visits to the library, teams from each class learn how the system works, locate books in each category, and...

In this English worksheet, students discuss North Korea. Students brainstorm, debate, and practice their listening skills with this worksheet.

Fourth graders view commercials, print advertisements, and nutritional labels to make inferences and draw conclusions about how media affects our food choices and eating behaviors. Students create their own advertisements and jingles for...

Woody Guthrie will capture the imagination of even your most reluctant learners. Using his work, your class will develop their skills in non-fiction reading comprehension, interpreting primary source material, and use of multiple forms...

Fifth graders find or shelve books in the library. In this library books lesson, 5th graders find books and learn how to shelve books in the library.