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Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 6-7
- Hey, Back Off! Tips for Stopping Teen Harassment
- TESOL Sample Lesson
- The Mouse and the Light
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
Cities and NonProfit Data - Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
Cities and NonProfit Data - Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
Vocabulary - Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
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Learning Goals and Links to Classroom Learning - Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit - Program Description
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit - About Us
- Dramatic Reading
- Differentiated Learning Egyptian Project
- Sadako's Cranes
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Word Lists - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Worksheets - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Units - Stage 3 Early White Settlement
- Invasion - Stage 3 Unit Early White Settlement
- Solar System Unit
- Writing About The Holocaust, Introduction Worksheet
- Writing About The Holocaust, Thesis Worksheet
- Writing About The Holocaust, Writing an Editorial
- Writing About The Holocaust, Terezin Overheads
- Writing About The Holocaust, Writing Poetry
- Writing About The Holocaust, Grandpa Worksheet
- Writing About The Holocaust, Writing A Narrative
- Writing About The Holocaust, Report Worksheets
- Writing About The Holocaust, Research Report
- Writing About The Holocaust, Intro, Overview, Culminating Activity
- Writing About The Holocaust, Connections
- Women in History Pageant
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 2
- Civil War Unit - Appendix D - Always Stand on the Union Side, Union Dixie songs
- Civil War Unit - Appendix C - Star Spangled Banner, Battle Cry of Freedom songs
- Dear ME
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 6-7
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test Key
- Civil War Unit - Unit Test
- Civil War Unit - Lesson E: Songs of the South
- Civil War Unit - Lesson D: Songs of the North
- Civil War Unit - Lesson C: Patriotic Songs
- Civil War Unit - Lesson B: Underground Railroad
- Civil War Unit - Appendix E - The Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie's Land songs
- Civil War Unit - Appendix B - On An Underground Railroad, Follow The Drinking Gourd songs
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit - Pre-Game Lesson Plan 3
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit - Pre-Game Lesson Plan 2
- Social Studies - Black History Month
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Cameo Portraits, the Colonial Period
- Quilting Literature
- Phenomenal Lesson for the Phenomenal Woman
- Aims Sure Count
- Kinetic Parts of Speech
- Division of Syllables in Spanish
- PowerPoint Book Reports
- A Thousand Paper Cranes
- Letters to Soldiers
- Students research the Mexican Grey Wolf re-introduction dilemma here and create a persuasive PowerPoint solution
- Students create a propaganda piece here and write about an American Revolutionary War colonist who is influenced by it
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 1
- Students process "teen stress" here through blogging and by comparing their stressors to those of a literary character
- "The Cheap Crazy Doctor" is an acting dialog for ESL/EFL students to practice and act out
- Students use the Internet here to research the history of the Thanksgiving holiday
- A Photo Story 3 personal narrative is created here
- Learners research a Greek god or goddess and their family tree for a photo story presentation in this introductory mythology lesson
- Students learn how to create the drop cap on the first letter of a paragraph here while reflecting on New Year's resolutions and goals
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 3
- An interesting lesson on Shakespeare's play called "Romeo and Juliet Radio Shout Outs"
- This lesson answers the questions: "What is imagery?" and "What is dependent authorship?"
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- A Writer's Workshop lesson on Legends
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- Literary Response - students write a book report comparing their research to an author's viewpoint
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- ESL students write and publish a five-paragraph autobiography in this lesso
- Conjugate French ER verbs here with the help of Frere Jacques
- Conflict Resolution: Mediate, Don't Instigate
- In this lesson, students Compare & Contrast "The Mouse Before Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"
- This is an idea for a lesson on the Art of Bookmaking
- This Thanksgiving acrostic idea lets students practice their writing and MS Word skills year-round
- Fabulously Faux: The Rockford Frescoes
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- Foreshadowing and irony in the short storyThe Lotteryare discussed here
- In this excellent censorship research lesson, students write a persuasive letter about why a questionable book should be added or banned from an elementary school library
- This lesson on colonial times helps students find the "most important ideas" in a piece of expository text, not just the main one
- This Intro to Science Fiction lesson examines "real or imaginary" with the help of Ray Bradbury
- Here students recreate the plot ofThe Most Dangerous Gameby Connell based on a guided outline activity
- In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives
- Unit Intro: The documentary film "Ballou" follows a struggling inner city school band as it overcomes obstacles and uplifts its community on the way to a national competition
- 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
- Day 1: Introduction to global warming, energy conservation and how rising temperatures affect us locally
- Here is a "Swat Game" for learning vocabulary in various subjects
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- This lesson is an introduction to Australia's indigenous culture through poetry
- Data Analysis (Statistics) - how to construct a histogram, line graph, scatter and stem-and-leaf plot
- Buddy Bags and Venn diagrams are used here as get-acquainted tools to compare and contrast students with each other
- Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
- Public Speaking is the topic of this idea which uses Tongue Twisters
- In this Writer's Workshop lesson, students keep fictional journals on the discovery of King Tut's tomb
- Here is a lesson on foreshadowing and its contribution to a story's plot
- This soft and hard vowels EFL lesson employs the yin/yang symbol
- "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- A word study strategy is implemented in this spelling lesson
- Here are several good ideas for a unit on the Trail of Tears
- Here's an idea called "Fruit Poetry" focusing on Similies and Metaphors
- Asking and answering questions in Spanish is the focus of this foreign language lesson
- This is a brief lesson idea for Typing and Spelling
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Here we learn how to make great low-tech literature chatrooms
- Here are some instructional ideas using "Super Pop-Up Reports for American History"
- After reviewingYou are Special, students create and write about a "just like me" marionette
- This multi-sensory approach to spelling words is effective for ADHD and dyslexic students
- The "Don't Say Uh Game" is a fun way for students to practice their speaking skills
- Botany is used in this idea for teaching descriptive writing
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- This lesson answers the question "What is genre?"
- This lesson teaches that successful paragraphs contain variety and proper punctuation
- This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
- Here's a teacher's guide to using foreign language songs in the classroom (La Bamba)
- Here is a great game on learning compound words
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- Here's a Teaching Guide for the book "The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel," written by the book's author
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- This literary elements lesson uses a "narrator's point of view" and Little Red Riding Hood
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Middle Schoolers anonymously share their New Year's resolutions on a bulletin board and in a five-paragraph essay in this lesson
- Here students can practice their foreign language vocabulary while playing baseball
- This lesson teaches self-editing techniques
- This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
- In this lesson, students create self-descriptive poems using words cut from a newspaper
- This critical thinking lesson teaches readers to "question the author" for deeper understanding
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- Use this fun activity to review parts of speech before a test
- Here students use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- "The Big 4 Clusters of Commonly Confused Words" makes a great first lesson for a Developmental English classes
- These Native American "leather" stories make a great Thanksgiving hallway display
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- This self-reflection art and writing project showcases students' strength and goals
- This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
- Students will improve their writing skills with this sentence combining relay game
- "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- This lesson is so fat... it contains four comedic hyperbole worksheets
- This looks like a fun Vocabulary Game idea and is titled "Hot Seat"
- History and Nature of Science - after a field trip, students analyze what they did and did not see
- A lesson plan on developing a character
- Here is a lesson on S. E. Hinton'sThe Outsiders
- This lesson plan is on Abstract Nouns (as well as other Nouns)
- Day 6: Students compare U.S. energy use to that of other count
- This Native American lesson uses "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"
- Use this lesson when a natural disaster is in the news
- Students write a parody of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" covering the last year or decade in this poetry lesson
- An idea for Writing a News Story and taking on the role of Reporters
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
- Here students create a web of compliments
- Valentine Poem Cards are created here from candy conversation heart sayings
- Here is a creative idea for developing Romeo and Juliet personalized license plates
- This personal narrative prelude lesson is on voice and topic selection
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- A great unit on Johnstown
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony is the subject of this author's lesson ideas
- Day 4: Students examine their own energy consumption and conservation
- Here's an idea to get students Writing Christmas Stories with Partners
- This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
- Students create a newspaper on computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- This is a clever worksheet for using similes to describe characters
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- This lesson contains the requirements, procedures, and rubrics for creating a book or a magazine
- Students create a "tableau vivant" Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
- This is a lesson on summarizing
- Use this Tongue Twister template to practice parts of speech
- This is a foreign language exercise in asking and telling age
- Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
- Titled "Rainbow Revisions," this activity helps students create Sentence Variety
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- The concepts of general vs. specific are taught in this listening skills game
- Enviromental Injustice Unit - Lesson 4
- Word Play Fun... Not Your Ordinary Literary Masterpiece!
- Reading Comprehension Strategies - students host a reading marathon, use a graphic organizer
- Students will create a picture book biography in this thorough 7-day unit
- This is a lesson on the modern effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- Ballou High School Movie Unit - Lesson Plan II
- ESL student's write a letter to a book character in this lesson
- In this idea students write letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end
- In this "Write Like An Egyptian" idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
- "Better Paragraphs Using Math Formulas" is an 8-day paragraph teaching plan for students of all ability levels.
- Here's a lesson on Pronouns using Music
- Here are more clusters of commonly confused words
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- Here is an UGLY gift thank you letter assignment
- Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
- An immigrant group's "culture capsule" is created in this multidisciplinary lesson
- Here students research the culture, language, and traditions of their native land of origin
- Comic book stories are rewritten here to include numerical content that is then turned into illustrated word problems for peers to solve
- This plan is for preparation for a science fair
- This Writing lesson is on Building Suspense with Sensory Details
- Your students will love these great online research filler projects at the especially at the end of the school year
- This great International Pen Pal idea helps students combat terrorism in a significant way
- This "Scary Story" lesson plan would be perfect around Halloween
- This very fun idea is called Musical Computers (Chairs)
- Writing Applications - students write original songs on to save the Bats/Clapper Rails from extinction
- This is a lesson on eulogy and tribute speeches
- In this middle school special education lesson, students combine sentences without using conjunctions
- In this lesson, a costumed teacher introduces a main character and the students fill in the other story elements
- Students create their ownHarold and the Purple Crayonstyle drawing story here
- Here's a lesson for writing personal narratives and using concept maps
- This fundraising idea involves publishing student poetry on a calendar
- This lesson idea focuses on what it means to be an American (or Canadian, etc.)
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- This is an interesting idea where students "Create A Holiday"
- Historical biographies are combined with poetry writing in this "bio-poetry" lesson
- If a goofy female horse is a "Silly Filly," then a wet canine is a ____ _____
- Here students make a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
- "El Supermercado" is a Spanish lesson plan that also teaches about Spanish foods and shopping
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
- Here students create a character trait collage for the novel "The Outsiders"
- Make a class puzzle
- This Speech lesson is on Presenting an Oral Report
- Interplanetary Movement Passport WebQuest
- This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
- This lesson is on punctuation marks and their use in oral reading
- Kids create declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences using Valentine candy hearts here
- "Thrown a Curve" is a reading comprehension lesson on a book about girls' sports and pre-teen relationships
- This lesson plan is on Canada's Nortwest Rebellion and uses the poem "Dialectics"
- Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
- Here's an idea for establishing academic New Year's reflections and resolves
- You can create "Proofreading Pandemonium" with this fun kinesthetic activity
- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- This kinesthetic activity is great for introducing expository and process writing
- Here students formulate a story in the fantasy genre
- Students use free digital scrapbook technology in this project to create alliterative phrase wall hangings
- This is an idea for a class "Acts of Kindness" show-and-tell collage
- This game idea is for Building up Vocabulary
- In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
- This is a suffix/prefix dice spelling aid idea
- Here is an art history lesson on Byzantine art and architecture
- This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Just a brief idea for a complex lesson on Romeo and Juliet
- In this idea, students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- In this lesson, students write movie reviews from a pet's perspective
- Youth and the Civil Rights Movement
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
- Here's a fun game idea called "Vocabulary Steal The Bacon"
- This is a low stress spelling game for music and other words
- " A Round and A Round"
- In these two lessons, drama is used to improve language and literacy
- This problem solving writing prompt was inspired by an Action Maze website
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- This is an introductory unit on persuasive writing
- Here students write the biography of their character
- Here's a spelling game idea that's similar to the TV show "Survivor"
- Day 3: Students learn about the potential consequences of global warming
- A fun activity idea for learning Compound Nouns
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- Students find out how to say "Thank you" in other languages in this internet search idea
- Microsoft Publisher's text box tool is used here to label Halloween tombstones
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- Writing Process Planning - students describe "Stellaluna" plot components and a cultural theme
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- This idea for word usage involves the use of an internet site
- The object of this lesson is to write and illustrate a children's book about a younger sibling or cousin and then give them the book
- This is a game idea for using an index
- Students go above and beyond to create this prepositional treasure map
- In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
- This lesson on capitalization in direct quotes features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
- The Parts of Speech are taught through a Charades Game in this idea
- Here is a "Mighty Mike - Brilliant Brianna - Talented Tamika" name learning game with adjectives idea
- Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
- Vanquish weak verbs like "went" with the "Vivid Verb Word Bank" lesson(but don't try to say it 3 times)
- In this direction vocabulary lesson, students search for "my lost dog"
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- This lesson is on the "other" tall tales and deals with uncommon tall tales and comprehension
- Here student "Sports Illustrated" reporters tour the U.S. and its National Parks following their team
- "Show me the structure!" is yelled during this sentence classification activity
- Here's an election year idea: students watch televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Libby Bloom," written by the author
- This lesson plan is on "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" and Japanese History
- Here is a good Halloween idea called "Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO"
- After reading the book "Lyddie", "Coalition Groups" will create a journal and petition for reforming current fabric mill working conditions
- Roald Dahl books are utilized here to show how to create the hook in an opening sentence
- Chinese students learn how to ask directions at Disney World in this ESL lesson
- This "Preposition Man" idea won't go "IN one ear and OUT the other"
- The "Linking Verb Macarena" is a fun mnemonic device idea
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and Presentations in this lesson
- Here students write letters to be read by next year's class
- This lesson stresses support and elaboration in writing well-developed character trait paragraphs
- This Spanish lesson involves writing autobiographies in Spanish
- This 5 Step Writing Program is aimed at Building Confidence
- This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
- Students produce a multimedia fairy tale photo story here told from a different perspective
- Day 8: Students discuss pros/cons of renewable energy
- This lesson on adjectives can be adapted to all ages
- This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul
- Writing Components Organization - students produce a PowerPoint and play about preservation
- This "Daily Quotes" idea can be used as a filler before class
- Expository Writing - students compile a scientific research report from a thesis statement here
- Day 9: Students debate the pros/cons of government involvement in energy conservation
- This is an idea for reviewing prepositions
- Day 2: Students learn about greenhouse gases and the power of language
- In this idea, students read vocabulary word definitions using funny voices
- Here's a great lesson on the science of addiction that uses poetry - part of a full curriculum on prescription drug abuse
- Here students write a Grammy nomination letter for their favorite artist or group
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
- This multidisciplinary Rainbow Fish activity idea is perfect for the first day of school
- Writing Components - students write and perform a complete history from collected research materials
- A good lesson on delivering Persuasive Speeches (as Presidential Candidates) that also teaches Presidential History
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- Content Rich Science Skits
- Here students design candy bar wrappers after reading "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- After you've introduced mythology, try this lesson on Greek gods
- This idea focuses on the "SPREADS" Reading Comprehension Skills
- Are your students murdering the English language? Then try this word funeral idea.
- Learning how to present research using technology is the objective of this lesson
- This non-objective art lesson shows how history influences art and how art illustrates nouns
- This unit idea for Black History Month unit idea is based on the novel "The Watsons Go To Birmingham"
- This lesson is on Writing Gripping Story Openings
- This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- This lesson helps students learn to Spell better by using Memory Cues
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- Reading and Vocabulary - students collect a flannel board of vocabulary words and stage a spelling bee
- Day 7: Students explore different types of renewable energy sources
- This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
- This lesson uses fortune cookies to motivate students to "find the verb" or other parts of speech
- Day 5: Students learn how schools can participate in energy conservation
- In this lesson, students write color imagery poems based onHailstones and Halibut Bonesby Mary O'Neill.
- In this lesson, students learn how to be a biographer
- Here students assess their school in comparison to Ballou High school and then send letters proposing improvements
- Here's a lesson on "Spanish Bingo"
- This challenging synonym game increases the use of "Vivid Verbs" in writing
- Harry Potter - Quidditch
- In this lesson on "Flowers For Algernon" students learn to Identify with a Character - Charlie
- This lesson introduces students to musicals
- Yuma bats and Clapper Rails Unit Introduction
- This lesson uses a kinesthetic approach to persuasive writing
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- A great end / beginning of the year lesson involving Writing Letters to next year's students at the end of the year
- These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- Here's a game to assess reading comprehension called "Reading Speedball"
- Spanish Verbs are taught through dtorytelling in this collection of ideas
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- Here is a lesson on sensible sentences
- This is the rubric for the preceding formula paragraph lesson plan
- This idea will have your students listening carefully to the musical "words" of Miles Davis
- An interesting lesson involving "Hoboes" and Poetry which is called "Communication Arts"
- This is a lesson on delivering a persuasive speech
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- A Language Arts lesson on the Importance of Reading
- This capitalization lesson for proper nouns and adjectives also features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
- Here's a lesson plan for Creating Posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- Here students apply their knowledge of root words to illustrate vocabulary word concepts
- Click here if you're tired of hearing the excuse,"But I didn't know I was plagiarizing!"
- Students look for Sentence Fragments in magazine ads in this lesson idea
- Enviromental Injustice Unit
- ESL students create a recycling brochure in this SIOP lesson
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- In this lesson, students create a literary elements advance organizer
- A fun Spelling lesson called Spelling Battleship
- Students develop their own Spelling and Grammar game boards in this lesson idea
- This lesson explores the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson and how they relate
- In this project idea, students learn about persuasion while creating a commercial for an improved product
- "Role Playing for Empathy" teaches about other cultures and writing plays as well
- Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
- The story elements of "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe are identified in this short story lesson
- This lesson plan is meant to teach students to Increase their Read Speed and Comprehension
- In this get-acquainted game, students look up creative adjectives to describe themselves
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- Here is a reading comprehension quiz over a Nuclear Water Contamination article
- This is an excellent 12-day lesson on conducting research for expository papers
- This diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- This language arts game is good for reviewing spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.
- If you are looking for project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- Oral language practice can be achieved with "Silly Story Starters" in this lesson
- Here students write editorials on protagonist's decisions
- This is a lesson on letter formats
- In this lesson, students play a game of vocabulary-word repetition for learning
- This lesson is on asking higher level questions to improve reading comprehension
- This idea uses a song to teach linking verbs
- Students craft "double entry responses" in their personal journals here
- Day 10: Students present their energy conservation projects
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Summer Song," written by the author
- This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
- Here's an idea to encourage writing compositions
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- Students describe five ways a book character is just like them in this well-developed Photo Story 3 presentation
- This is a good idea for writing poetry using the first lines of existing poems
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- The Greek creation myth and its timeline is the topic of this lesson
- Students create a narrated video family tree photo story from a template in this lesson
- This is a brief idea for teaching Prepositions with song
- In this lesson, an original "La Rima" is used to teach Spanish prepositions
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- Here's a lesson on Mythology Dioramas and Set Design as a career
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- A lesson on Metaphors and Metaphorical Vocabulary Definitions
- Hogwart's is the scene for this outstanding cones and cylinders math lab
- A good Writing lesson on Persuasive Arguments to deal with issues
- Here students create their own rap songs incorporating the use of similes and metaphors
- Here's a new ice breaker idea - have groups perform a commercial for a new use for an old object
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- Students define "What is a hero?" to determine "Who is a hero?" by those criteria in this kinetic activity and on-line essay assignment
- This six pillars of character student publishing project yields a free full-color hardbound class book
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Adjectives are the focus of this idea using newspaper Movie Reviews
- Here's a "super" idea - have students create and write about their own "super-hero"
- In "Writer's Puzzle," the student composes an essay with a beginning, middle, and end piece.
- This is an easy Poetry idea for Special Education Teachers
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- Students create animated stories using PowerPoint in this lesson idea
- This lesson looks at the Poetry of Music
- This classmate interview template is an interactive language arts activity and an ice-breaker
- In this lesson, song lyrics are corrected for grammar and punctuation
- This is a top-down approach for teaching irregular plural nouns to EFL students
- This is a simple character and scene project idea for the book "Tangerine"
- This inspiring lesson is based on the poetry of a 13-year-old muscular dystrophy victim
- In this lesson, students write a story that involves adding and subtracting money
- Here's a good idea for making "Movie Posters" for Novels students have read
- Another French lesson idea, this one involving a French Weather Report and Dates
- Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
- Here is a good method for teaching comprehension skills
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- Here is [a, an] article lesson
- Your students will start passing secret poem notes after solving these clever "Rhyme Scheme Riddle" poems
- Students report on one of the five U.S. land regions in this lesson
- The novel "Shiloh" by Phyllis Naylor is the topic of this lesson
- A daily spreadsheet is involved in this "Stock Market Game"
- Writing Process Prewriting - students contrast bats and clapper rails using a Venn Diagram
- Here is an introduction to stage directions
- This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
- A fun Common and Proper Noun Activity Idea
- Writing Process Publishing - students create computer graphs showing the population rise
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- This is a great card game for teaching vocabulary words to English, ESL, and foreign language students
- This is a good activity to do following a unit on Short Stories
- This multidisciplinary lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- This lesson on prepositional phrases is called "Preposition Boogie"
- Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- To demonstrate their Civil War knowledge, students write a diary entry or letter from the period, in this lesson
- Here's a full-class version of the word board game, Scrabble
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- If your kids can't relate to the rules of rounding, try this storytelling idea
- A good lesson that involves making a poetry notebook
- A Writing idea for Designing a Magazine
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This ELL article promotes proficient, independent and imaginative English writers by explicit teaching methods and four research based strategies
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's a creative way for students to comprehend the elements of a short story
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- This poem template helps students create poetry to be read by next year's class
- Students love this Earth Day Jeopardy game activity (Special Ed - 3-12)
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- Here is a lesson on the impact of Greek mythology on modern times
- Performing conversations helps students review last year's Spanish lessons
- Spanish language students create and film a humorous mini-dialogue at a restaurant in this lesson
- Students create a medieval crusade journal here after reading a story about Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- Sports scores and cookies teach word choice in these creative writing ideas
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Discrete Mathematics - class systematically lists and counts bats
- Here's a brief idea for writing Dates in French and back (the different date formats)
- This is a fun way to learn to spell
- Here is an elaborate idea for creating an interactive media community service project involving the creation of a logo, letterhead, brochure, newspaper ad, and PowerPoint presentation about a local ca
- A lesson about Vocabulary and Comprehension for the book "Courage At Indian Deep"
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- A warm-up activity idea for "The Outsiders" novel
- In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special
- A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
- Pourquoi Tales
- This lesson uses dance as a way of speaking without words
- This is a dialogue writing lesson
- Round Robin is the name of this Spelling Game
- Here students add a sentence to the character development paragraph in front of them, and then switch chairs
- This is a Spanish language food pyramid (Piramide de Comida) lesson
- A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
- This French lesson idea is on Dates and Weather Expressions in French
- This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
- Art Music - students write music verses and use kinesthetic intelligences to imitate bat sound & flight
- A very thorough lesson on creating an Alphabet Book and Research
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- Students create a travel brochure to an imaginary place in this lesson
- Here's a fun collection of Mother's Day activity ideas (which may be adapted for Father's Day)
- This lesson deals with Musical Vocabulary Links - Vocabulary from Songs!
- Students will choreograph a dance to Langston Hughes' poetry in this lesson idea
- In this listening idea, students write an 8-page story booklet inspired by the mood of eight songs
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This foreign language class Verbal Participation Rubric works for other subjects as well
- This "Cubicle Reading and Writing" lesson is appropriate for Back To School time
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Communism!
- The Three Little Pigsteach this personification lesson
- Valentine Sonnet
- This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins Go To School"
- Holes by Louis Sachar: Teacher Pages
- Community - Service Project Rubric
- Community - Service Project - Part 2
- Community - Service Project - Part 3
- Community - Service Project - Part 1
- Community - Community-Building Activities/Energizers
- Community - Teamwork Lesson
- Community - Multiple Intelligence Inventory
- Community - Exploring the Intelligences
- Community - Community in Literature
- Community - Goal Setting
- Community - Celebrating Diversity and Heritage
- Community - Following Directions
- Community - What is Community?
- Community Unit - What Makes a Good Community?
- Community - Following Directions Worksheet
- Nouns and Pronouns
- Atmosphere & Symbolism in "The Raven"
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
Cities and NonProfit Data - Verbs and Their Tenses, Verbs
- Identifying Types of Adjectives
- Carnival of the animals
- Civil War Unit: Lesson A... Harriet Tubman
- Holes by Louis Sachar - Book Information
- Civil War Unit - Unit Outline
