"Summer Song"

If you need a instructional activity for your poetry unit, use two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Rain in Summer" and "The Slave in the Dismal Swamp") and a resource on Elements of Poetry. The lesson plan guides you through...

In this verbs worksheet, students first listen to the James Taylor song "You've Got a Friend." Students fill in the missing verbs in the song lyrics by choosing the correct word from the word box.

In this song lyrics worksheet, students use words from the word bank to fill in 15 words in a text of the lyrics of James Taylor's song "You've Got a Friend."

In this song lyrics worksheet, students read the history of the song "God Bless America." The song lyrics for "God Bless America", "Danny Boy", and "The Happy Wanderer" are provided here but there are no questions to answer.

If you can find a copy of the song, "National Holidays," you can use this worksheet with your elementary schoolers. They read the lyrics to the song and answer questions about it. Along the way, they examine the reasons that we celebrate...

Get to know the four seasons with a rock n' roll ballad. Listen and sway as the singer details the four seasons, complete with hand-drawn animation and a fun beat.

Young scholars explore wildlife plants and summer activities. In this natural science lesson, students identify plants and animals and create a scrapbook of their findings.

Students explore "summer songs." They compose a list of songs that they would put on a summer CD and write an essay that explains the images they would choose for the cover for this CD. They also create collages that represent their...

What will the ants do when they hear the sad song of the leisurely grasshopper during the winter? Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper" is the foundation for an activity that allows learners to either rewrite the ending to the fable, or...

Students exploring puddles.  In this rainy day activity, students study reflections in puddles, look for shapes in the clouds, measure the length, width and depth of puddles, and learn songs and poems about rain.