LESSON PLANS
Give students a general introduction to what fossils are and how they give clues to the past with these PowerPoint…
Become an instant expert on the Olympic Games. Find motivational mini-lessons and the reference material you need to…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organizer for recording what students Know, Want to know, and…
Fluency activities include playing a punctuation card game, performing a Reader's Theater, and engaging in a challenging…
Reading comprehension activities challenge students to complete a Mad Libs© selection as a Cloze exercise, extract a…
ACTIVITIES
Enrichment activities and Internet resources to enhance teaching Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska.
Use a teaching guide that includes vocabulary words, discussion questions, and extension activities.
Encourage students to follow the step-by-step directions for writing an essay.
Present an activity that will demonstrate to students how the air holds water vapor.
In this printable computer lesson and activity on National Parks, students develop their Internet research skills. Then…
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
Increase student awareness of media manipulations in advertising for cigarettes as they create their own honest ads.
Students will learn about work versus force by dropping coins on a ruler.
MAPS
Students create a survey to use in the Great Mail Race as a way of learning more about the United States.
Students will review U.S. geography as they create jigsaw puzzles from a printable map. Use this jigsaw puzzle game to…
In this lesson plan, students use the Internet to find information on the holiday of Kwanzaa, and they work in groups to…
Use this vocabulary list, concept web, and comparison chart with our What is Kwanzaa? Lesson. After researching Kwanzaa,…
Teach students how to create a chart from a spreadsheet. The step-by-step instructions in this lesson demonstrate how to…
Draw pictures and write captions to show the sequence of a realistic fiction story.
Find ways to integrate technology – such as the Internet, DVDs, and TV programs – into your language arts program.
Students illustrate a poem wile predicting what will happen in each stanza.
Use this poem to teach students about interpreting metaphor and fantasy in poetry. I Dreamed I Was a Snowman is a great…
