Working Together

Pupils explore brochure writing. They work in groups to brainstorm and categorize important places in their community. In addition, they gather information from the Internet, take pictures using a digital camera, and create a community...

Young writers use the Iroquois Constitution as a model to help them organize their own class constitution in the seventh instructional activity of this unit. Using this historic text helps students better understand the structure of this...

Learners examine language arts by completing a group activity. In this writing styles instructional activity, students define and discuss the differences between collaborative writing and traditional writing while answering questions in...

Blossoming playwrights create multiple scripts about connecting with nature. The first collaborative script prompts learners to choose characters and a first line. They then choose a second line of dialogue and pass their notebooks...

Working with the organized class constitution created in the previous instructional activity, fourth graders learn how certain words and phrases can be used to improve the flow of a piece of writing. By reading aloud their writing,...

What is Internet fraud? Explore Internet ethics and engage in a collaborative discussion. In order to create a Guide to Internet Honesty, learners read and discuss the article "A Beautiful Life, A Tragic Death, a Fraud Exposed." Then...

Tap into writing skills in your science class with this creative writing activity! Get your class to learn the words mitochondria, cytoplasm, chloroplast, chlorophyll, nucleolus, nucleus, tissues, organs, vacuole, and chromosome by...

Collaborative writing projects can be a lot of fun for students. They use a Scholastic Story Starter and the class blog to write a creative story containing basic story elements. The web link to Scholastic is included but non of the...

Students participate in a whole class shared writing activity. They create an original text while examining the thought process of writers.

Students participate in a hands-on activity in which they discover how to solve problems by working together with others. In this problem solving lesson, students read the story Swimmy they discuss how the problem was solved in the...