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- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Using FQR Think Sheets to Respond to Nonfiction
- Hey, Back Off! Tips for Stopping Teen Harassment
- Thanksgiving Poetry
- "All Eyes on the Pond"
- The Beauty of Beethoven
- TESOL Sample Lesson
- Point of View
- Gentlehands Accordion Book
- Bee-Loved Words
- phonics and writing
- Language Arts - Compare and Contrast - Cinderella
- Hunting Whales Lesson #4
- Alaskan Unit Lesson #3
- Alaskan Unit Lesson 2
- The Mouse and the Light
- LuvNotes
- Instructions
- Hot Dog Sentences
- Christmas Card Nouns and Adjectives
- Language Arts - Magic Box
- 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
How to Play - Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
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
- Putting Character and Setting Together
- Dramatic Reading
- Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory Book
- Alaskan Unit lesson #5
- Water Cycle
- Differentiated Learning Egyptian Project
- "How To Build A Snowman" Writing
- Writing paragraphs from formulas
- Sadako's Cranes
- Natural Disasters - Assesssment
- Natural Disasters - Learning Activities
- Natural Disasters - Year 5 and 6 unit
- Culminating Activity
- Conclusion
- The Most Dangerous Game
- Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
- Modern Fear and Suspense
- A Ghost Story
- Elements of the Short Story
- Unit Overview, Short Story
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Trends
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Automobile
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Jazz Age
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Famous People
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Prohibition
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Magazine Description Continued
- The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Project Description
- 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
- Butterfly Unit - References
- Butterfly Unit - What Have We Learned?
- Butterfly Unit - Butterfly Poetry
- Butterfly Unit - Symmetry Lesson
- Butterfly Unit - How to Attract Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - Eat Like a Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycle Sequencing
- Butterfly Unit - Life Cycles of Butterflies
- Butterfly Unit - From Caterpillar to Butterfly
- Butterfly Unit -What Caterpillars Eat
- Women in History Pageant
- Gatsby's Book Cover Symbolism Project
- Listen, Listen for a clue
- 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
- Hurricanes
- Ordering Rational Numbers
- Dear ME
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades PreK-1
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 6-7
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 4-5
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Junior / High School
- Language Arts Lesson Plans - Grades 2-3
- 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
- Map Legend vs. Story Legend
- FK: the 1960 election and Foreign Policy
- Social Studies - Black History Month
- Alaska Unit
- Drama Class {Halloween night}
- Alphabet Soup
- 8 days on Deafness and American Sign Language
- Terms Baseball
- Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
- Match capitals with lower case letters
- Media - Radio
- Cameo Portraits, the Colonial Period
- Introducing Huck Finn
- Quilting Literature
- Pipe Cleaner Spelling, Spelling
- Phenomenal Lesson for the Phenomenal Woman
- Folktales Around the World
- Creative Drama and Improvisation
- Saving the Rain Forest
- Aims Sure Count
- Kinetic Parts of Speech
- helping verb song
- Division of Syllables in Spanish
- If I had a pot of gold...
- PowerPoint Book Reports
- Finish the Story
- Bananabooksplit
- A Thousand Paper Cranes
- Ecosystem Diamante Poetry
- Here children order the steps in the butterfly's "life cycle" and learn the meaning of that word
- Students demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect in this photo story lesson
- This digital storytelling lesson encourages students to use electronic media to tell a personal story in a creative way
- In this transportation lesson, the class creates a land/air/water pocket chart graph after reading a transportation story
- Letters to Soldiers
- This is an idea to celebrate the end of the school year with a Juneteenth Presentation Celebration
- Here students learn how to generate an idea list as a prewriting strategy
- Here kids record and draw journal observations about the needs of their growing seeds
- Here students prepare a PowerPoint on a playwright and present it dressed as a play's character
- This "Ten Important Words" vocabulary building study strategy about Chinese Dynasties and achievements can be used in all subjects
- This gender issues unit and its topics of sexism, gender roles, rape, prostitution, sexual objectification in the media, and the effects of sexism on men was designed for a "Femininity & Masculinity -
- 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
- A hungry monkey get kids miming and moving in this movement story
- Sinbad the Sailor teaching jumping in this movement story from Saudi Arabia
- Environmental Injustice Unit - Lesson 1
- "Quality Time" is a big book lesson about "Me and My Dad"
- 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
- This ESL recycling lesson integrates English vocabulary, science and environmental consciousness
- 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
- This lesson on sequencing and the food chain asks "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
- 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 is a Typing activity called "Finish The Sentence"
- This is a 10-day French language food unit: "Un repas à la française"
- Lesson four is on Writing Memos
- In this lesson, "Miss Alaineus" teaches inferencing and summarizing reading comprehension strategies
- Here is a "Gilligan's Island" creative writing assignment
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- This lesson helps students understand cultural differences with "The House on Mango Street"
- Lesson 7 - Compound and Complex Sentences
- This lesson integrates Phonics with body language, spoken language, and written language
- This lesson teaches social studies vocabulary words through antonyms
- This Squeezy Ball Father's Day idea teaches gerunds and reduces stress
- Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- A Writer's Workshop lesson on Legends
- The last instructional lesson is on Persuasive Writing
- With the help of a telephone keypad, this idea reinforces spelling while working with addition of multiple numbers
- Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
- Literary Response - students write a book report comparing their research to an author's viewpoint
- In this lesson, students experience Tiananmen Square
- Here are 2 group activity ideas for Spelling
- Here the bookGo Away Big, Green Monsteris used to introduce adjectives
- And here they write two descriptive sentences about an apple
- All aboard! Click here to travel on the Contraction Train
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- ESL students write and publish a five-paragraph autobiography in this lesso
- A Language Arts lesson on climax
- This murder mystery game is a novel way to quiz students on an Agatha Christie book
- Students generate an Inspiration concept map on how body systems are connected in this well-developed "Magic School Bus" lesson
- Students work in groups to create an adjective picture poster in this lesson
- A lesson on Comprehension and Inferences that uses a book called "The Snowy Day"
- Renaissance & Writing Outline - Grade 8
- A Language Arts lesson on rain forests
- 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"
- Students learn Prepositions through a game of Twister in this lesson
- This lesson turns a poem into a performance piece
- Here students write the story of Anne Frank's life if she had survived
- Students use the power of voice here to write an unsent letter about an injustice
- "Each One Teach One" is a Flatfish stations activity (3-5)
- This is an idea for a lesson on the Art of Bookmaking
- Here's an Idea to get students started in Writing about Themselves
- This language arts/music lesson uses instruments to add tone color to literature (features the "og" sound)
- Map Rubric
- This one is on senses in science and language arts
- These are multidisciplinary election lesson ideas
- Day 8: Route to Freedom:Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
- Grab your big ears, binoculars, and fake poop and come investigate context clues with "The Snoop"
- In this lesson, students turn a fairy tale into a television news report
- Here is an idea to teach regular verbs with the "Memory Game"
- Students create a Civil War digital diorama here, showing how physical and human geographic factors can affect a war's outcome
- Using the "B-I-N-G-O" tune, students learn "A-E-I-O-U" here
- 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
- Students identify causes of pollution and ways they can prevent it in this bilingual photo story
- In this lesson, students learn prepositions while enjoying obstacle course activities
- Here middle school special education students write a color metaphor poem using adjectives
- This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem Song which can be expanded as a writing activity
- Foreshadowing and irony in the short storyThe Lotteryare discussed here
- Here is a well-developed lesson on heroes in Anglo-Saxon Literature
- This is a collection of Christmas Journal Ideas
- This three-lesson Othello Unit utilizes multiple technologies
- A Language Arts Plan using a Story Pyramid
- 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
- Here kindergartners make and "read" their Circus Balloon Counting Book
- This lesson on colonial times helps students find the "most important ideas" in a piece of expository text, not just the main one
- Here's a game idea on Common and Proper Nouns
- Students get totally involved in the moral lessons of Shelley's Frankenstein novel in this activity
- This Intro to Science Fiction lesson examines "real or imaginary" with the help of Ray Bradbury
- Onomatopoeia in creative writing is the subject of this great mini-lesson
- Groups create a Photo Story 3 presentation about a researched biome here
- Here students recreate the plot ofThe Most Dangerous Gameby Connell based on a guided outline activity
- "On the first day of Christmas, my parents gave to me __" involves spelling, ordinal numbers, and memory practice
- This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
- This activity involves creating Travel Brochures
- This one can also serve as a closing to the Tall Tales activities
- 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
- This reading lesson uses the phonogram method
- Cooperation is necessary to create these sneaky snowmen
- Here students compose and illustrate their own Homeric simile
- Here is a "Swat Game" for learning vocabulary in various subjects
- A high school lesson on 20th Century Literature
- In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
- This is another compound word Easter Egg Hunt
- Students (Special Ed) write a creative non-fiction story about animals here while presenting facts and new materials
- A fun Spelling activity called "Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling"
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anythingis used in this sequencing and ordinal number lesson
- Crayola software is used in making pattern value portraits in this art lesson
- A fun lesson plan on Classification using the Lost Button from "Frog and Toad Are Friends"
- This interchangeable synonyms mini-lesson encourages students to replace cheap words like "good" with expensive "marvelous" adjectives
- ABCs teach students how to learn to read in this lesson
- 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
- A Special Education idea for Creating Sentences
- Students Interview each other in this First Day of School idea
- This lesson plan focuses on Integrating the studying of Shakespeare and the Internet
- After each student creates a self-descriptive bubble map, the class graphs the popular adjectives in this first day of school idea
- Buddy Bags and Venn diagrams are used here as get-acquainted tools to compare and contrast students with each other
- Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
- Here students read "The Lion and the Mosquito," learn the new vocabulary words, then write their own fairy tale using these new words
- 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
- Students use pasta to punctuate character trait quotations in this fun lesson
- Here is a collage lesson in which students create animals
- In this Writer's Workshop lesson, students keep fictional journals on the discovery of King Tut's tomb
- Nouns and verbs are taught using an interactive SMART Board in this lesson
- Here is a lesson on foreshadowing and its contribution to a story's plot
- Unit Materials and Resources
- Students identify and arrange the elements of a news story here and write one based on given data
- This soft and hard vowels EFL lesson employs the yin/yang symbol
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- Student entrepreneurs experience business, calculate profit, and develop an understanding of "economic growth" as settlers in a new community in this multidisciplinary activity
- In "Stop Talking," groups edit a paragraph with stop sign periods and red pen capitals
- Learn about pumpkins here with "The Pumpkin Book"
- This collage lesson plan uses rhyming in poetry
- Here students chart adjectives from a "Carousel of Poetry"
- "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
- This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
- A Music lesson on Poetry and Rhythm taught using Music
- A Valentine's lesson idea on Addition and Subtraction
- This dinosaur lesson plan focuses on the Pteranodon
- A lesson using the "Frog And Toad" series that helps with Emotions
- This is an idea to help students with "Speed Reading in History"
- Students create their own "Chica Chica 123" book here about counting by tens
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- "Alexander, Used to be Rich Last Sunday" turns reading a book into a money activity
- In this lesson, students use Wiggle Works to learn cause and effect
- Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
- In this lesson, students create new shapes with their bodies and even spell words
- Careful here, this one is on Rock Throwing
- This lesson gets into Graphics Elements
- A word study strategy is implemented in this spelling lesson
- Here students write about photographs
- In this greeting card idea, students also collect and identify leaves, write a poem and discuss photosynthesis
- This is an -ad, -op, -ish, -ink and -ump Seussical phonogram lesson
- UGR Unit Rubrics
- 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
- A Reading lesson using The Cat in the Hat and the Phonogram method
- This lesson is on words that start with Q
- This is an idea to send Pocket Poems to our troops in times of war
- This Motivating Prereading activity engages students to use Background Knowledge
- This is a brief lesson idea for Typing and Spelling
- Teach students about the interviewing process using this great lesson
- Here students summarized the sibling tale of "7 Silly Eaters" and make personal and social connections to the text
- This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
- A lesson on Adjectives taught with Music
- Here's a multidisciplinary plan on the water cycle
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
- This lesson on English as a Second Language for ADULTS, involves shopping
- Here we learn how to make great low-tech literature chatrooms
- A Creative Writing lesson using The Mysteries of Harris Burdick book
- 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
- Tell-Tale Heart
- This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
- This is a good homophone lesson utilizing several internet resources
- This one is on Letter Formats and Proofreading
- This learning to whistle idea teaches the value of fortitude
- This is a lesson on oral sequencing conventions
- In this lesson, students use Kidspiration and learn the difference between the terms reuse and recycle
- This group poem building activity is designed for ESL/EFL students
- Here is a fantastic multidisciplinary spider unit titled "Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs"
- Following this Internet demonstration lesson, students create a state park brochure
- Students write and illustrate sentences about "Earth and the Eight Milky Way Planets" in this astronomy lesson
- 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 EFL lesson encourages children to critique cultural holidays and festivals
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- Here is a lesson on imagery and themes of love in poetry through music
- This lesson answers the question "What is genre?"
- This lesson analyzes African American folktales, songs, and hymns during the time of slavery with the help of Inspiration software
- In this mini-lesson, students write a sentence about their favorite animal
- This lesson teaches that successful paragraphs contain variety and proper punctuation
- Lesson 2 - Nouns
- Here is a simple idea to teach the proper spelling of the word R-H-Y-T-H-M
- This lesson instills confidence as students begin drawing their first stories
- This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
- This is one more reading lesson using a story map (circular story)
- 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
- "The Art of Seduction in Poetry" is a lesson that no student will sleep through
- This lesson teaches adjectives with music and mystery objects
- This first plan asks the question "What is a Community?"
- Language Arts lesson on Comprehension and Bio Poems
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
- Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
- This lesson shows that words that sound alike are not always spelled alike
- "Letter Caterpillar" is an alphabet learning idea
- Learners retell a story in sequential order here with the help of Photo Story 3
- Here's a Teaching Guide for the book "The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel," written by the book's author
- This drama class character development lesson asks "What is the difference between creating and performing a character?"
- Here's an idea to increase Reading Comprehension through Visualization
- Here's a Vocabulary Building project idea
- Analyzing and identifying character traits are the focus of this lesson
- Here's one on the old tale of Pecos Bill
- In this fun Christmas activity students Write to the Grinch describing why they love Christmas (to try to change the Grinch's mind)
- Reading and Writing Workshop With Student Round-Robin Participation
- Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Another lesson on Comprehension and Recognition of Detail, using "The Very Quiet Cricket"
- This is an idea to teach young students Rhyming Word Families
- This safety lesson uses Kidspiration templates to teach about helpful community members, traffic signals, and how to cross a street
- This is an ESL agreeing and disagreeing game
- Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
- This literary elements lesson uses a "narrator's point of view" and Little Red Riding Hood
- A language arts lesson plan on decoding phonograms
- This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
- This is an idea for teaching melting that uses the book "Snowballs"
- In this lesson on the joys of giving, kids make fragrant bath salts to give as gifts for Christmas and other occasions
- Lesson Plan 2
- Rock Sculptures are the subject of this lesson
- Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
- 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
- "Change Places" is a robust vocabulary word activity
- This multidisciplinary lesson centers on cookies and the letter "C"
- In this lesson, students create self-descriptive poems using words cut from a newspaper
- Favorite Parts in Charolotte's Web
- This is an excellent lesson on national symbols that are unique to our country
- In "Community Helpers," students draw and write about their future occupation and how they will help the community
- "Fly Swat" is the name of this vocabulary game
- This lesson on insects involves observing a cricket
- Students write their own Native American myth in this lesson
- This critical thinking lesson teaches readers to "question the author" for deeper understanding
- Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
- Students of all ages can kinesthetically demonstrate their understanding of themes here
- Young students learn about "technology" in this lesson and use it to enhance their vocabulary
- In this lesson, students will write about a special memento using the "Self to Text" writing concept
- Here's a Sentence Development Activity idea
- Here's an idea for making Christmas ornaments from dough
- A Writing and Art activity about "When I Grow Up..."
- Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
- 9-2 will create a Short Play
- Here's a good Shakespeare Writing Lesson
- Stems and Roots
- Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
- Use this fun activity to review parts of speech before a test
- InLangston Hughes and the Blues, students recreate common poems in his style
- Here is another arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
- In this lesson, students will be writing contractions in a poem
- 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
- Here is another alphabet game
- This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
- This lesson plan has a catchy title - "Nicky Noun and Victor Verb"
- This well-developed point-of-view lesson employs graphic organizers, the RAFT technique, and "The Ransom of Red Chief"
- Here are five days of spelling activities proven effective in Special Ed classes
- Wilbur's First Day
- These are preschool "bee counting" activities
- Alliteration using Adverbs and Adjectives is the subject of this lesson
- A multidisciplinary lesson on Music Around the World
- This Social Studies lesson involving writing letters to the president
- A lesson on Rhyme in Poetry using Music
- Students will improve their writing skills with this sentence combining relay game
- Lesson Plan 3 - Virtual Exploration of Lascaux Cave
- After listening to a story about Tyrannosaurus rex, students write sentences about this dinosaur
- This lesson is on AP Spanish Literature
- Interviewing Arachnologists
- Children identify animals using camouflage in these activities
- These percussion activities help dyslexic children identify rhythm patterns in written text
- In this Writing activity idea, students Write about a Pictures
- The question "What if Dinosaurs Returned?" is answered in this classroom book lesson
- "When I Was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- A Math lesson involving on measurement and comparing using literature
- How cool is it to compare Achebe's novelThings Fall Apartto a modern day "Creed" song?
- The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
- Students learn computers early with this idea to teach the alphabet
- This lesson is so fat... it contains four comedic hyperbole worksheets
- This looks like a fun Vocabulary Game idea and is titled "Hot Seat"
- This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
- This concluding idea helps to wrap things up
- Here students make a setting mural from theVery Quiet Cricketby Eric Carle
- Title: Reading About the Rain Forests
- In this idea, notes are exchanged with mischievous night-visiting leprechauns
- 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 is a multdisciplinary literature class final paper and portfolio project about contemporary authors
- This is a Writing Lesson Plan called Memory Books
- This lesson plan is on Abstract Nouns (as well as other Nouns)
- Making this valentine mailbox idea could lead into a letter writing lesson
- Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
- Day 6: Students compare U.S. energy use to that of other count
- This Native American lesson uses "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"
- Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -Musical Messages of Freedom
- 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
- Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
- This is a lesson on voting and holding office
- An idea for Writing a News Story and taking on the role of Reporters
- Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
- In this multi-grade Photo Story 3 lesson, students storyboard and present a report on their hero
- Here students use visual imagery to write an original color poem illustrated with images, transitions and narration in a photo story
- This game will let kids have fun, while unscrambling vocabulary spelling words
- This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
- Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
- Lesson 5 - Coordinating Conjunctions
- 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
- Students match objects and words to aid in reading skills here
- After watching the State of the Union address, seniors write a "State of My Union" speech here
- A simple collection of Activity Ideas to accompany Julius Caesar
- The life cycle of a butterfly is taught here with books, poems, story assignments, and pasta art
- Students research, identify and write sentences about African animals here
- This Charades game idea is on Nouns and Verbs
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- Charater Buddies
- A Reading lesson on the story "Sarah, Plain and Tall"
- A lesson on Word Identification for Language Arts
- Here is a collection of extension activity ideas
- Here's an interesting idea for keeping Pet Rock Journals
- Lesson 10 - Interjections and Exclamation
- A great unit on Johnstown
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony is the subject of this author's lesson ideas
- This lesson is called "Walking Through the Alphabet"
- In this mini-unit, a small-moment idea is developed into a full paragraph narrative
- This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement
- Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity
- Day 4: Students examine their own energy consumption and conservation
- This is a lesson on contractions usingGreen Eggs and Ham(Sam I'm?)
- 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
- Here's a lesson on Jack Be Nimble and Candles
- "Summer in a Can" is a vacation show-and-tell activity
- This is a clever worksheet for using similes to describe characters
- This point of view lesson begins by comparing three versions ofThe Three Little Pigs
- This musical idea uses popsicle sticks to create a piece and keep the peace
- 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
- This is an idea for teaching analogies
- Students create a "tableau vivant" Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
- Here students create a graphic organizer of a tall tale they were told and one they would like to tell
- In this new Chipo's Gift "glyph" activity, two species of moths will be compared and contrasted
- "Teen Family" is a number order role playing idea for recognition of the numbers 10-19
- This writing idea for what students do for Christmas (Holidays) allows for the exploring of different cultures' traditions
- This idea uses Parent Teacher Conferences to get students thinking about Adjectives
- This Reading / Predicting lesson uses the textbook "A Soft Pillow for an Armadillo"
- Here students research the biography of a scientist and create his tombstone
- This is a lesson on summarizing
- This is an activity idea for "The Big Potato"
- This one covers The Princess and the Golden Shoes
- This is the introduction to the Technical Writing Unit
- Use this Tongue Twister template to practice parts of speech
- This reading homework bookmark idea encourages parental involvement
- 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?
- Day 10: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
- This game idea is on Rhyming Words but could be used for other topics like Synonyms
- To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
- "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" is the story used in this color/animal vocabulary lesson
- Part two is on Writing Structure
- Titled "Rainbow Revisions," this activity helps students create Sentence Variety
- "Idioms for Dummies" teaches us that when it's raining cats and dogs - we don't have to beware of poodles
- This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
- This lesson called "Musical Terms" actually teaches Language Arts Terms
- In this lesson students learn where their name comes from
- Here students create a clip art PowerPoint slide presentation on a Revolutionary War personality
- 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
- In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
- Here's a "Painless Poetry" lesson idea where students compose poetry from quotes from Novels
- "Peter and the Wolf" introduces orchestra instruments in this lesson
- 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
- This is a plan for making a Valentine Person and poem
- Can you guess who is in the Kapok Tree? This descriptive paragraph lesson answers this question
- Here children make a shopping list, fill a crockpot, and learn to pour "Stone Soup"
- "Un Repaso del Imperfecto" is a Spanish II imperfect tense lesson in which students make a promo for a "Nick at Nite" show
- Students create a 30-second photo story commercial for their personal hero in this hero vs. hero worship lesson
- ESL student's write a letter to a book character in this lesson
- This lesson plan is for Pancake Day / Mardi Gras and involves numerous books about pancakes
- Here antonyms help students learn their spelling words
- This is a reading comprehension lesson for Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- 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.
- This lesson connects novels with published and original poetry
- Acting Out
- Here's a lesson on Pronouns using Music
- Spanish Language Songs to Improve Listening Comprehension in Spanish
- Here are more clusters of commonly confused words
- In this book-based activity, students cut, fold and shape paper into "The Magic Hat"
- Unit Comprehensive Assessment
- Here is a bingo vocabulary game about people who provide service in a community
- This lesson is on the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, uses Goldilocks
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- A lesson on "To Kill A Mockingbird"
- Predicting with Charlotte's Web
- Here is an UGLY gift thank you letter assignment
- Be popular! Assign this Christmas song parody idea!
- Click here to read, write, sing, estimate, graph, and eat apples
- 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
- Students examine simple machines and predict their use here
- Students write about their trip through the solar system here
- This is a cooperative learning language arts lesson plan on poetry
- Here students retell "The Mitten" by Jan Brett while learning letter sounds and animal names
- Students create paper quilting squares here to give a sick classmate well wishes and something to do
- 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
- Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
- This lesson involves writing a paper as a culminating activity
- This lesson connects melody, pitch, and rhyming words "Down by the Bay"
- This Writing lesson is on Building Suspense with Sensory Details
- This sentence building lesson uses who, what, where, and when
- Many creative kinesthetic devices are used here to help students learn the planets and their characteristics
- Your students will love these great online research filler projects at the especially at the end of the school year
- This lesson involves Martin Luther King Jr. and Faith Ringgold to make a Quilt to Record History
- This great International Pen Pal idea helps students combat terrorism in a significant way
- In this journalism lesson, students write captions and headlines for provided articles
- This "Scary Story" lesson plan would be perfect around Halloween
- Here students label the parts of an owl's body with descriptor words
- Improve Listening Comprehension with Music
- This very fun idea is called Musical Computers (Chairs)
- Writing Applications - students write original songs on to save the Bats/Clapper Rails from extinction
- Tangrams and fox fairies are the subjects of this intriguing lesson
- This "describe a place" writing lesson utilizes a reproduction, semi-production and production technique
- 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 students identify and map the elements of a story
- Here's a lesson for writing personal narratives and using concept maps
- This lesson models how to glean information from text to write an informative paper
- Lesson Plan 1 - Mapping Walls
- The book "What Do Fairies Do With All Those Teeth" is used in this lesson
- 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.)
- Here students collaboratively write a "Creative Book" in this filler idea
- Here students draw "My Family is...," after reading "My Family is Forever"
- This Expressionism lesson is part of a Thanksgiving project-based multidisciplinary learning plan
- The Syllabary/Analogy Method is used here to decode the pronunciation of polysyllabic words
- Timeline for Implementation of Lessons
- Dance your way into learning about Earth Day with the book "Earth Dance"
- Here's a lesson on Valentine Cinquain Poems
- This kinesthetic method for teaching novels uses Shelley's "Frankenstein" as a model
- This is an interesting idea where students "Create A Holiday"
- Here's a very brief idea for a Vocabulary Game
- UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
- Here are some good ideas to get Students involved in getting Parents to Parent's Night
- Historical biographies are combined with poetry writing in this "bio-poetry" lesson
- This personal narrative lesson usesJoey Pigza Loses Controlas a model
- If a goofy female horse is a "Silly Filly," then a wet canine is a ____ _____
- This lesson is called "Adjective and Adverb Taboo"
- This lesson is on Writing a Story with Storybook Weaver software
- Here students make a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
- This lesson explores just the sense of touch
- Here's a good game idea called "Power Verb"
- "El Supermercado" is a Spanish lesson plan that also teaches about Spanish foods and shopping
- "Chessays" are a collection of chess-related essay ideas especially useful when teaching creative writing, British literature or medieval history units
- Here students employ inferential thinking while reading "Peter's Chair"
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
- Here students write scrapbook paragraphs about their vacation
- In this St. Patrick's Day Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey type game, students count and learn directional words while "Filling Our Pot of Gold"
- This lesson on Oil Spills focuses on Writing a Letter to a Senator
- Here students create a character trait collage for the novel "The Outsiders"
- The relevance of ancient Roman architecture, culture, and language are explored in this Pantheon lesson
- Make a class puzzle
- With the help of "The Hungry Caterpillar," this "Fruit Unit" also teaches days of the week and graphing
- This Speech lesson is on Presenting an Oral Report
- Here's an idea on using Strategies to Solve Problems
- This Self Esteem Discussion idea uses the book "I Like Me"
- Here's a fun card game used to put words in alphabetical order
- Interplanetary Movement Passport WebQuest
- In this Hanukkah idea, children count and identify the color of menorah candles
- This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
- "Vocabulary Puzzle" is the title of this lesson on prefixes
- To integrate Music, this section is on making "Rocky Music"
- In this lesson, students read "Buffaloes Before Breakfast" and learn about compound words
- Lesson seven is on Report Writing
- This lesson is on punctuation marks and their use in oral reading
- This inspirational lesson about student activism in WWII can serve as a catalyst for student activism today
- Pre-K and Special Ed students learn to count from 1 to 10 here with the help of a Gummi Bear book and other manipulatives
- Students write a research paper here supporting their solution to an unsolved "48 Hours" TV show crime
- This section is meant to be a general Exploration of Rocks in general
- This lesson is on Theater and Set Design
- This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
- This Pen Pal letter lesson is on Paragraphs and Grammar
- "Feuds and Fences" is a debate using figurative/literal evidence fromThe InterloperandThe Mending Wall
- This final project for intermediate Spanish involves using technology to research and present a famous "Spanish Idol"
- 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
- Here is an alphabet book of student-created postcards made for each state, especially Idaho
- The bookCaps For Saleis used here to explore patterns
- This lesson plan is on Canada's Nortwest Rebellion and uses the poem "Dialectics"
- "I'm a Little Cupid" is the centerpiece of this Valentine's Day musical activity
- 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
- This 5-minute interval time-telling lesson utilizes "Clocks and More"
- This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins Go To School"
- This reading comprehension story lesson tackles the topic of teen sexual harassment and sexual assault
- In this idea, students collectively write Edgar Allen Poe inspired scary stories
- Children define and identify homophones within a poem here
- Here's a memory game for learning upper and lower case letters
- You can create "Proofreading Pandemonium" with this fun kinesthetic activity
- Here's a brief but fun Writing idea called "What would you do if..."
- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- This kinesthetic activity is great for introducing expository and process writing
- This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
- Here students formulate a story in the fantasy genre
- In this idea, students create their own weekly letter identification booklet
- Students use free digital scrapbook technology in this project to create alliterative phrase wall hangings
- Lesson 9 - Logic and Questions
- Students use patterns and sequencing to make a necklace in this "Caps for Sale" related lesson
- Here students examine the punctuation of a message left by a leprechaun
- This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
- This is an idea for a class "Acts of Kindness" show-and-tell collage
- This lesson compares Steinbeck'sThe Moon is Down(past) to Vonnegut'sHarrison Bergeron(future)
- Spider Haiku Poems
- This game idea is for Building up Vocabulary
- In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
- Narrative Rationale
- Students write a 5-paragraph story here about their first memorable experience
- Lesson Plan 1
- This is a suffix/prefix dice spelling aid idea
- In this lesson students use a timeline to develop writing ideas
- Here is an art history lesson on Byzantine art and architecture
- This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
- Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
- These three activities help students build a "feelings" vocabulary
- Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
- Just a brief idea for a complex lesson on Romeo and Juliet
- This is an ELL appropriate SMARTboard lesson on using comparatives to describe weather from day to day
- In this idea, students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
- Use this lesson for the letter Hh and its sound
- Here is an easy format for teaching how to write good sentences
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- Here "The Jolly Postman" teaches students how write a friendly letter to a fairytale character
- In this lesson, students write movie reviews from a pet's perspective
- Teaching 'estar' with the family
- The book "Awakenings" is used in this lesson on vocabulary, critical thinking, predicting, and writing
- This Chinese New Year lesson encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration
- Although not a lesson plan, this High Frequency Word List can be helpful in First grade
- The book "Rosie's Walk" is used here to teach basic spatial awareness vocabulary to speech and language impaired children
- Youth and the Civil Rights Movement
- Here's a good back-to-school lesson involving the evaluation of poems
- This is a lesson about endangered animals and "Rare Beasts" by Charles Ogden
- In this sentence type idea, students make a sentence mobile demonstrating their mastery of their assigned sentence type
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here is a dramatic play plan for law enforcement activity centers
- In this idea, students send postcards from Pluto
- Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
- A Kidspiration worksheet helps students chart a main idea and three supporting story details here
- Here's a fun game idea called "Vocabulary Steal The Bacon"
- Here's an interesting lesson - a Pre-Read "Tea Party" for Island of the "Blue Dolphins" - Comprehension
- This portion teaches how to create "Showing Sentences"
- This is a low stress spelling game for music and other words
- " A Round and A Round"
- In this writing lesson, students use multiple sources to expand their original "How I Will Change the World" essay
- Here children play dress-up while learning weather-related clothing vocabulary
- Diary Writing Rubric
- Here's a game idea called "Spelling Checkers"
- In these two lessons, drama is used to improve language and literacy
- This lesson looks at the U.S. and New Zealand in terms of Location, Transportation, and Apples!
- This problem solving writing prompt was inspired by an Action Maze website
- Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer
- First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
- 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"
- Here students write personal mission statements
- Here's a Reading lesson plan dealing with Setting
- This Foreign Language lesson plan involves students looking forward to the future and writing about their past in an "Internet Encyclopedia" entry
- Here are several class activity ideas to go with Romeo & Juliet
- Day 3: Students learn about the potential consequences of global warming
- This one uses the book "Fang The Dentist" and is about Going to the Dentist
- A lesson on Spelling simply entitled Sparkle
- Here students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem and then decorate it
- "Kids Just Want To Have Fun" with this synonym lesson
- A fun activity idea for learning Compound Nouns
- This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
- Students compare two specific Christmas-Themed Books in this idea
- This idea involves recording your students' Reading
- This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
- Here are some small, big, huge and enormous vocabulary activities for "The Enormous Turnip"
- Students find out how to say "Thank you" in other languages in this internet search idea
- This one is for teaching phonograms by using the bookThe Sneetches
- Microsoft Publisher's text box tool is used here to label Halloween tombstones
- Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
- ReadingWhen I was young in the Mountainsinspires this Mother's Day Card idea
- Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
- This one deals with Communities of the Past
- This lesson uses language arts to teach creative movement
- The Emperor and the Kite is the subject of this one
- Writing Process Planning - students describe "Stellaluna" plot components and a cultural theme
- Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
- This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
- In this holiday idea, students present a family report and collage to their family
- Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
- A great lesson for learning the ABCs
- This idea for word usage involves the use of an internet site
- Here's an introduction to computer word processing
- In this well-developed Valentine's Day lesson, kids create Valentine e-cards to send to their parents
- 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
- Making Singular Nouns Plural
- In this Valentine's idea, students write their own conversation hearts
- This lesson uses the story "Caps For Sale" and is on Patterns and Sequences
- This is a game idea for using an index
- Business Letters are the subject of lesson five
- A brief idea to use as a Halloween Writing Prompt
- This one is a Bird Poem Sequencing Activity
- Cooperative Group Work Rubric
- Students go above and beyond to create this prepositional treasure map
- This writing idea connects music to the literature your class is studying
- Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
- This part is on Weight and Balance with Rocks
- In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
- This lesson teaches the Parts of Speech by using Computers
- Students retell Jan Brett's "The Mitten" with cutout animal puppets in this delightful reading comprehension lesson
- Groups view and create videos on habitats and their organisms in this lesson
- In this lesson, students write a two paragraph opinion letter in response to "Yoshi's (ecological) Dilemma"
- This is an outline for an integrated Medical Careers Unit
- Here are ideas for learning lists of Important Words
- This activity allows students to move around as they proofread and edit their essays
- This lesson invites students to step up to writing descriptive/specific paragraphs
- 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
- Spring Into Story Maps
- This is a lesson plan on vowels
- 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)
- This five-day unit helps teens find, get and keep a job
- This is a generic book review lesson
- This is an action verb charades game
- This lesson shows the importance of writing in sequential (first, next, then and last) order
- This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
- In this direction vocabulary lesson, students search for "my lost dog"
- Kids make shapes and letters with their bodies in this lesson
- The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
- Here is a Flatfish Movement activity (K-2)
- This is an excellent webquest on preventing and dealing with street teen gangs
- Similar to the one above, this one is on Native American Rock Designs
- "Here Comes the Judge! Here Comes the Judge!" is chanted in this spelling review game in which neatness counts
- Here is a lesson on past and past participial forms of irregular verbs
- Here as a story character, students write about their "Caribbean Dream" using verbs from the story
- This lesson is on the "other" tall tales and deals with uncommon tall tales and comprehension
- Here's a lesson written to reinforce certain Constant S
- 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
- This is an excellent 5-day literary analysis of Shakespeare'sKing Learfor AP classes
- Guess the Shamrock is a spelling game idea
- Here's an election year idea: students watch televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- This well-developed vocabulary memory game is useful in any subject
- This isn't a lesson plan, but you may find this Charles Dickens Internet Scavenger Hunt to be helpful
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Libby Bloom," written by the author
- This is a lesson on persuasive techniques commonly used in political advertising
- This bulletin board idea results in a cornucopia of produce related similes and metaphors
- This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
- This lesson is on character, setting, and plot using the Brave Little Monster
- This is a color recognition mini-lesson
- This lesson plan is on "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" and Japanese History
- Here students research a key American poet's relationship to an American literary era
- In this lesson, students create a brochure about a composer
- Here is a good Halloween idea called "Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO"
- Here students use Photo Story 3 to illustrate a personally significant poem with their own photos
- A Language Arts Lesson Plan on Nature
- Click here to count to ten and say greetings in German
- This is an Italian II lesson on reviewing reflexive verbs and reciprocals
- A Language Arts lesson on Research
- After reading the book "Lyddie", "Coalition Groups" will create a journal and petition for reforming current fabric mill working conditions
- This one is for comparing and contrasting particular stories
- We finish the unit with this Assessment Plan
- Roald Dahl books are utilized here to show how to create the hook in an opening sentence
- The goal of this portion is to teach about the Bird's Body
- Here is another lesson introducing number sense that uses literature
- Chinese students learn how to ask directions at Disney World in this ESL lesson
- Here ESL students learn to form questions while learning information about their teacher
- This "Preposition Man" idea won't go "IN one ear and OUT the other"
- In this unit, students serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council and develop a statement on Darfur
- This first day of school idea usesMiss Nelson is Missingto teach classroom rules and well as language arts.
- This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
- The "Linking Verb Macarena" is a fun mnemonic device idea
- Students will connect a story to their own lives (text to self) and write about it in their response journals in this mini-lesson
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and Presentations in this lesson
- Students read a culturally authentic French fairy tale here that shows perspectives of francophone culture
- A Mayflower Compact PowerPoint is used here to explain freedom and the necessity of laws and law enforcement in a community
- "Please Don't!" is the name of the teen suicide prevention photo stories resulting from this valuable lesson
- Here students perform "Caps for Sale" after predicting how many caps they can balance
- In this lesson, students "shop" for sentences
- This interesting lesson mixes two topics: The Five Senses and Poetry
- This Writing idea branches off of how the tree got its leaves
- "The Boo Game" is a great way to review vocabulary words in any subject
- Here "The Magic School Bus' takes us through a unit on sound
- 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
- Students share family traditions and culture with their class in this activity
- "Basketball Sentences" focuses on basketball skills and sentence structure
- Coretta Scott King Award-Winner books are introduced to children in this literature lesson
- 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
- Here Halloween storyboards are assembled and acted out
- Lesson 4 - Modify in Moderation
- Here's a Class Memories Christmas Ornament idea
- Day 8: Students discuss pros/cons of renewable energy
- Lesson Plan 4 - Breaking Down Walls
- Students write about selected quotes that reveal character development in the novel Fahrenheit 451
- A Poetry lesson to teach the Subordinate Clause
- This lesson on adjectives can be adapted to all ages
- Using Kidspiration, students drag and drop "Green Eggs and Ham" rhyming words here within a Venn diagram
- In this election idea, students make "T" charts of the candidate's views on issues, and vote based on "Just the Facts"
- This is a lesson activity on cause and effect
- Here's a brief Thanksgiving Poem good for ending a Thanksgiving Presentation
- Another Charades game, this one on the Parts of Speech
- 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
- This lesson on violence involves creating memorials for September 11th through poems & painting
- Expository Writing - students compile a scientific research report from a thesis statement here
- This Nerf Ball game is used to review spelling words
- Day 9: Students debate the pros/cons of government involvement in energy conservation
- The story elements of ecological cartoons are discussed in these lessons that promote keeping grease and grit out of our sewers
- Here students recall details from Galdone's "The Gingerbread Boy" to make and hunt their own
- This is an idea for reviewing prepositions
- Day 2: Students learn about greenhouse gases and the power of language
- Students map, interpret and analyze the growth of Islam here with Google Earth applications and a discussion of GIS in map analysis
- This sound story for "Danny and the Dinosaur" combines language arts with music
- In this idea, students read vocabulary word definitions using funny voices
- This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
- "Where the Wild Things Are" is a good multidisciplinary place to read, compare/contrast, sort monster types, and learn about islands
- A lesson called Growing and Changing that has connections in Social Studies and Math
- Students create their own villains/antagonists in this in-depth character analysis lesson
- This "juicy, succulent, interesting, and sensational" Halloween poetry mini-lesson teaches the application of descriptive language in reading and writing
- "Falling for Rapunzel" is a short adapted play or Reader's Theater piece that even rhymes
- This lesson on anger uses the book "When Sophia Gets Angry
- A Language Arts lesson on creating a Rain Forest
- Here's a great lesson on the science of addiction that uses poetry - part of a full curriculum on prescription drug abuse
- This Spelling-and-Charades Game is a great way to practice vocabulary words
- Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
- Comparing and contrasting truth-themed novels is the focus of this lesson
- After choosing from this list of Vietnam War topics, students conduct their own research and write a paper on the subject
- This one is on Story Maps
- Here students write a Grammy nomination letter for their favorite artist or group
- Click here to discover what's inside this W-E-L-C-O-M-E bag idea
- This is a "Charlie Needs a Cloak" guided reading lesson about sequencing
- Table of Contents
- This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
- This great lesson plan is on Reading for Meaning and Vocabulary Skills
- Students create their own symphony story using characters from "Peter and the Wolf" here
- This multidisciplinary unit focuses on the significance of Martin Luther King Day and the civil rights movement
- If you really want to engage your first graders, ask them about their dreams
- Here's an idea to make collage snow people as seen in Lois Ehlert's book "Snowballs"
- Here are great high school chemistry writing prompts for the start of school and throughout the year
- 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
- This is a Flatfish Data Collection activity (K-2)
- This is a Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody analytical activity and an Art Rock appreciation lesson
- This is an outstanding multidiscipline integrated unit on Patricia Polacco: A Crafty Author <
- In this "Of Mice and Men" project, groups create a newspaper using information from the novel
- This lesson on "passing" is part of a discrimination unit on strategies people used and still use to obtain equal rights and equal access to benefits
- This idea is called Dictations Please and is on Listening and Spelling
- Writing Components - students write and perform a complete history from collected research materials
- "The AND Game" is a good Valentine's language arts activity
- Students identify and count shapes and colors used while constructing Geometry Animals here
- This idea uses the bookCarpenter, Carpenter, What Do You Seeas a career exploration tool
- How to Make Apple Pie in Second Person
- This is a lesson on Punctuation, Conclusions, and Inferences
- Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
- This one is on Rocks from an Ant's Eye View
- A good lesson on delivering Persuasive Speeches (as Presidential Candidates) that also teaches Presidential History
- This is a Poetry lesson that focuses on the differences between Prose and Poetry
- In this unique lesson students compare Online Reading with Traditional Books
- Students use the strategy of visualization here to better comprehend text
- Swat synonym flies here with this simple vocabulary game
- Curriculum Web of Activities
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- Here is a great, musical game that also teaches about nouns, adjectives and verbs
- Content Rich Science Skits
- Called "Book Shopping," this idea helps students learn to make Change from a Dollar
- The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to use a newspaper index
- Here students design candy bar wrappers after reading "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- After you've introduced mythology, try this lesson on Greek gods
- Here a tower of blocks game creatively facilitates a variety of language arts applications
- Music in relation to history is the topic of this contemporary classical music lesson
- Here is a scrapbook project to do after reading a novel like "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents"
- Writing and Grammar Unit - Study Guide
- This idea focuses on the "SPREADS" Reading Comprehension Skills
- A fun lesson on The Egyptian Cinderella picture book
- Here are some Reading and Writing ideas collectively called "The Hat Connection"
- 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
- Day 6: Underground Research
- 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 Huxley's "Brave New World" study guide yields notes for an analytical essay
- Students learn the parts of a seed and the effects of lack of sunlight on the growth process in this lesson
- After readingA Color of His Own, students act out who-what-where-when inslowdance moves in this delightful lesson
- In this lesson, students will write a story from the point of view of a turkey near Thanksgiving
- Kidspiration is used here to create concept maps of a book's theme, new vocabulary, and comparison to the related movie
- This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
- This lesson involves a Writing Prompt - "If Dinosaurs Came Back..."
- This short idea comparesThe True Story of the Three Little Pigsto the original
- "Onomatopoeia Rita" is an active percussion poem for kinesthetic and auditory learners
- Students add sensory details to selected paragraphs here to create vivid imagery
- Here's one on how to "Explain Yourself in a Story"
- This lesson helps students learn to Spell better by using Memory Cues
- After readingThe Borrowed Hanukkah Latkesby Linda Glaser, why not make some?
- Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
- In this hi-tech lesson, ESL learners create a video in English about Chinese culture
- Reading and Vocabulary - students collect a flannel board of vocabulary words and stage a spelling bee
- A graphic organizer is used in this American literature lesson to compare and contrast freedom themed texts
- This is a brief Reading and Writing idea on Commercials
- Here's a great, in-depth lesson plan on the Civil War
- Here's another Internet Scavenger Hunt, this one on Shakespeare
- 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
- This team-building game may be applied to English as well as other classes
- "We're Going Collecting" is an ESL vocabulary collecting game
- Kindergartners practice alphabetic principles here by writing group stories with Kidspiration
- 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
- This homonym lesson is "A piece of the pie"
- "Christmas Shopping at Harrods" is a problem-solving lesson involving monetary conversions
- Here's a lesson on "Spanish Bingo"
- This is a collection of ideas for studying "The Odyssey"
- This is a resume writing for teens lesson
- Here is a lesson that involves identifying complete subjects and predicates
- In this Halloween lesson, students write adjective-rich advertisements for haunted houses for sale
- This lesson idea is on Notices and Signs
- This lesson is called Our Town and involves Imaginary Maps
- Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions
- This challenging synonym game increases the use of "Vivid Verbs" in writing
- This is a creative plan for the book "To Kill A Mockingbird"
- Harry Potter - Quidditch
- Students learn about and create constellations and their myths in this dual subject lesson
- In this lesson on "Flowers For Algernon" students learn to Identify with a Character - Charlie
- Students write and deliver Valentine's Day craft demonstration speeches here
- Here's an idea to make a "Sandwich Book"
- This lesson introduces students to musicals
- Yuma bats and Clapper Rails Unit Introduction
- Here's a lesson on writing an autobiography that involves using digital cameras
- In this lesson, students write and illustrate a desert animal short story, similar in style toMama, Do You Love Me?
- After comparing the "Magic School Bus in the Rainforest" book to its video, students research and present rainforest animal facts to the class here
- Here's a lesson on quotation marks and their use
- In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
- This portion is on Rock Streaking
- A Writing lesson that makes use of Story Pyramids
- We continue with Wedges in this lesson
- Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
- The Keeping Quilt story is used in this idea called Quilts of Many Colors
- Inspiration software and a Smartboard are used in this lesson comparing/contrasting Elsie Wiesel's "Night" and the Holocaust movie "Life is Beautiful"
- Space adventure stories based on facts are written here
- This lesson uses a kinesthetic approach to persuasive writing
- This is an activity-filled lesson on transportation and common pet sight words
- Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
- This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
- This is a common linking verbs song idea
- This lesson teaches a writing process for informative non-fiction research-based papers
- A great end / beginning of the year lesson involving Writing Letters to next year's students at the end of the year
- This lesson is on Expanding Sentences and Paragraphs for Details
- A Language Arts lesson on the concept of Size and Strangers using Goldilocks
- Here is a fun word-wall spelling game
- This part involves Bird Houses and Making a Book
- This is a ballad poetry lesson
- 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
- Children sculpt clay models of their favorite community members in this lesson
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- This speech therapy lesson works on phonemic awareness, vocabulary and articulation skills
- Here is a lesson on sensible sentences
- These activites are helpful for the story "Mitchell Is Moving"
- This is the rubric for the preceding formula paragraph lesson plan
- This reading comprehension lesson centers on Veteran's Day and the book "Granddad Bud - A Veterans Day Story"
- This is an ESL Level 3 literature lesson on culture shock
- Comprehension skills are also practiced here by retelling Rylant's "The Relatives Came"
- Here is an end-of-year music class idea: Sing around the Campfire
- The author of this lesson compares the development of a song with the development of a story character
- This idea will have your students listening carefully to the musical "words" of Miles Davis
- Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
- An interesting lesson involving "Hoboes" and Poetry which is called "Communication Arts"
- Here students write a different type of poem each day, culminating in a PowerPoint presentation
- 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
- This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson - using a Time Capsule to demonstrate students' learning
- In this lesson, students use word beads to write funny poetry
- A Language Arts lesson on the Importance of Reading
- This lesson is on Letter Writing regarding topics related to students' Community
- You'll have bilingual fun with the "The Barking Mouse" in this lesson
- To teach the value of editing your work, this teacher uses examples of how popular musicians rewrite their song lyrics
- This capitalization lesson for proper nouns and adjectives also features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
- This lesson uses the book "Prince Cinders" to teach Predicting and Comprehension
- Here's a Prereading and Summarizing activity
- Here's a lesson plan for Creating Posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar
- Here students use their senses to write Thanksgiving cinquain poems
- Here's a collaborative writing activity that uses a beach ball
- This idea involves plastic Easter eggs and compound words - need we say more?
- 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
- "Round the Clock" is a unit on time to the half-hour and digital/analog clocks
- An Excel spreadsheet is used in this rational and irrational number lesson
- Click here if you're tired of hearing the excuse,"But I didn't know I was plagiarizing!"
- This phrase-cued text practice lesson helps students read with proper phrasing, intonation, and expression
- This idea combines making snowmen and rhyming
- 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 lesson introduces Moh's Hardness Scale to test the Hardness of a Rock
- Make a Halloween pumpkin face with geometry shapes here
- This multimedia lesson teaches how to use key images and music to convey a theme in a personal photo story narrative
- If you wish to hear the praise "good use of body language" in your next speech, read this lesson
- This is an outline for an integrated First-Aid Unit
- As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
- This Spanish idea has a couple of different activites
- "Christmas Around the World" is an original classroom play
- Students research how technological changes impact employment opportunities in the computer field in this Photo Story 3 lesson
- In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
- In this lesson, students create a literary elements advance organizer
- What if Hamlet went on the Jerry Springer Show...
- Students Compare and Contrast the Characters from "Mufaro's Daughters" in this short lesson
- This part deals with "Pet Rocks"
- This lesson idea is on Advertising and involves students Writing their own Ads
- A fun Spelling lesson called Spelling Battleship
- Students develop their own Spelling and Grammar game boards in this lesson idea
- Here's great Thanksgiving "Textured Turkeys" lesson
- Here students use the internet to track the weather online
- We are Going on a Bear Huntalso explores settings
- 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"
- Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
- This Language Arts lesson is called Flower Power
- Notes on the Staff merge with Spelling in this neat lesson plan
- The story elements of "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe are identified in this short story lesson
- Students work collaboratively here to create ecosystem concept maps using Kidspiration software
- This 5-paragraph author research lesson emphasizes finding and citing sources
- Great Idea! - turn a preposition lesson into an ESL service project
- A Reading lesson focusing on sight words
- Here a map of the United States is used to locate important areas in Abraham Lincoln's life
- In this project, students research, write, and use media to support a local environmental issue
- This Frog and Toad lesson is on Identifying Blends
- Make creative writing fun using computer generated coloring pages
- The Importance of Voting is the topic of this lesson using "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs"
- This lesson plan is meant to teach students to Increase their Read Speed and Comprehension
- Using the book, "The Magpies' Nest," this lesson teaches how Birds Build Nests and allows students to Build Nests
- In this get-acquainted game, students look up creative adjectives to describe themselves
- This is an "EA" sound Kidspiration lesson
- Here are three food related spelling puzzles
- This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
- Uncountable nouns are the subject of this lesson
- Elements of a Story Using "Where The Wild Things Are"
- An interesting sculpture lesson on silence - expressing without words
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- Mitch Lopate
- 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
- "The Odyssey" is translated into a children's book in this lesson
- 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
- Here insect literature is read
- With this idea students develop "My Book About Me"
- Here are discussion questions for "The Well" by Mildred Taylor
- This first one is on the classic tale of Johnny Appleseed
- Oral language practice can be achieved with "Silly Story Starters" in this lesson
- A lesson called Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Readers Theater, dealing with his Poetry
- A High School or College level lesson on Poetry Writing
- Readers build comprehension skills here by retelling the beginning, middle and end of "Caps For Sale"
- Students will compare the character traits of Henry and Mudge here using Kidspiration and a Venn diagram
- Here students write editorials on protagonist's decisions
- A-Apple, B-Ball, C-Cat; this lesson teaches the alphabet with picture association and word recognition
- This is a lesson on letter formats
- The story elements of "Thunder Cake" are discussed here
- This is an internet search engine and media center scavenger hunt
- This lesson uses flashcards to learn letter recognition and reading
- A brief idea for a Talk Show Skit on Alcohol and Tobacco
- 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 is a sweet, sour, or salty lesson on tasteful adjectives
- "Life in a Pond" is an outstanding web-enhanced lesson on pond ecosystems
- Contractions are the subject of this lesson, and London Bridge and Balloons are used to teach them
- This idea uses a song to teach linking verbs
- Sight Words
- Beanie babies and U.S. cities are the inspirations for this adventure story assignment
- Students craft "double entry responses" in their personal journals here
- This is an idea to "Stamp Out Spelling"
- Day 10: Students present their energy conservation projects
- Here's a lesson on patterns in music
- This is a tongue twister lesson
- Initial and Final Sounds With Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop
- This part is on how to "Explain Yourself in a Paragraph"
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Summer Song," written by the author
- This is a letter "B" lesson
- Presentation Rubric
- Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
- This one is on Figuratve Language
- This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
- Here's an idea to encourage writing compositions
- An interesting lesson idea for Poetry About Chocolate (for Chocolate Week)
- In this sequence of events idea, the transitional words "first, second, and third" are used
- This 5-senses Christmas poem will add phonemic awareness and variety to your Christmas concert
- Here is an integrated thematic Solar System Research Lesson Plan
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- Hamburger Paragraph
- This is an ecology lesson on the endangered Manatee
- Students describe five ways a book character is just like them in this well-developed Photo Story 3 presentation
- This lesson idea is on Ben Franklin's Virtues, and coming up with Virtues for the 21st Century
- This excellent lesson celebrates Dr. Seuss' birthday
- Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
- Children create "A Book of Many Colors" from magazine pages in this idea
- This is a good idea for writing poetry using the first lines of existing poems
- Here students create illustrated Kidspiration concept maps to define new reading vocabulary words
- "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss inspires this self-portrait art and counting project idea
- This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are compared in this lesson
- This is a similar lesson by a different author
- This Name Rhyming idea is a good way to introduce students to Rhymes
- 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 good Creative Writing idea uses "Dream Snow" by Eric Carle
- This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
- This lesson explores the influence Langston Hughes and his poetry had on history
- This lesson on Quilts uses the book "The Patchwork Quilt" by Valerie Flournoy
- This is a brief idea for teaching Prepositions with song
- Lesson 6 - Simple Sentences
- In this Photo Story 3/iMovie lesson, students manipulate photos and music to create distinct and different tones or moods
- A collection of Big Book Activities, dealing with the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today?
- Mitch Lopate
- 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
- In this lesson, students interpret a scene from Hamlet and make a YouTube movie
- The last plan involves Interviews of Members of a Community
- Students write a postcard from the perspective of a Spanish sailor in this lesson about Columbus' first encounter with the Taino Indians
- This is a model for a college persuasive essay based on a press conference question asked of President Obama
- This Writing Assignment idea involves Writing Sensory Details and is called "Hershey Kiss Paragraph"
- In this Thanksgiving reading lesson, an emergent reader is made into a predictable chart
- This Social Studies/Language Arts lesson plan is on the news and its themes
- "Taking Care of the Earth" is also a four seasons lesson plan
- A similar lesson, using the book "Princess Smartypants" to teach Evaluation and Appreciation
- A lesson on sound that incorporates music and literature (The Magic School Bus)
- Here students tell a story about themselves using photographs and Photo Story 3
- Students explore grief while discussing Barber's Anthony O'Daly choral music recording
- Here's a lesson on Mythology Dioramas and Set Design as a career
- This lesson on Playing How You Feel is called "Little Mozarts"
- Here children will spell sight words after readingJoseph Wants to Read
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
- A lesson on Metaphors and Metaphorical Vocabulary Definitions
- This is an interesting idea involving human punctuation marks
- This is a clothing vocabulary activity for ESL and Pre-K student
- Hogwart's is the scene for this outstanding cones and cylinders math lab
- Here students write a report describing the steps to build a snowman
- This novel lesson cleverly combines literary and personal character development concepts
- A good Writing lesson on Persuasive Arguments to deal with issues
- Students studyWhere the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak here and create new monsters
- This English lesson covers Speech, Writing, and Reading
- This George "W" Bush movie writing assignment taps issues of the presidency, invasion of privacy, international relations, etc.
- Cause and Effect are the topic of this lesson that uses "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
- This lesson explores music and color and our feelings about each
- This one focuses on Comprehension and uses the story Big Bird Dont Cry
- Researching Spiders
- This is an idea for creating a funny "Classroom Do's and Don'ts" book
- This hydraulic water cycle lesson integrates technology and is appropriate for special education students
- Students analyze their favorite song lyrics here, searching for poetic devices
- Spaghetti Webs
- This is a well-developed "Deal or No Deal" unit review game idea
- 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
- Here's a Seasons Book idea
- Here are some ideas for teaching about spiders using "Miss Spider's Tea Party"
- A Spelling game idea called Hoopla
- Yo, away, ho, singing sea shanty poems is the way to go - to introduce Melville's Moby Dick
- This reading and writing lesson idea on rainforests involves comparing cultures
- Addressing Valentine's Day cards provides great practice in handwriting and name recognition
- 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
- Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
- A fun game idea called My Word! - helps to teach Vocabulary
- Here you can teach Art Concepts using Rocks
- 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
- A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
- This lesson looks at the Poetry of Music
- Students are missing word detectives in this shared reading lesson
- This brief idea on Rocks uses Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and includes a Critique of the book
- 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 part continues with Report Writing
- This is a simple character and scene project idea for the book "Tangerine"
- In this lesson on Sharing, students will create a journal
- This is just a fun game idea that can go along with Math or Spelling
- 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
- This is a transportation themed dramatic play activity centers plan
- 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
- This is a Christmas idea for Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men
- Here students research and compose their own version of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech
- Did Leonardo Da Vinci's Curiosity and Detailed Drawings Influence Communities Around the World?
- A reading and writing activity on the author Gary Soto
- Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
- Here is a good method for teaching comprehension skills
- This lesson is called "Who's Who in Florida?" and involves Historical Figures from Florida
- Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
- This is a lesson on number sense and numeration using literature
- Here is [a, an] article lesson
- Constant Digraphs
- 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
- Here's a Project idea for making a Book into a Movie
- Here the process of elimination method for solving multiple choice and vocabulary questions is introduced
- This lesson plan involves emotions in music and srt
- The novel "Shiloh" by Phyllis Naylor is the topic of this lesson
- Balloon Journey
- Project Rubric
- A daily spreadsheet is involved in this "Stock Market Game"
- Writing poetry is fun when you are adding couplets to Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
- Writing Process Prewriting - students contrast bats and clapper rails using a Venn Diagram
- This lesson explores alternative actions for the characters in Romeo and Juliet
- Here is an introduction to stage directions
- "Do You Hear What I Say?" is an exercise that builds listening and communication skills
- 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
- Here students begin writing a story on one computer, then shift seats to add on to or finish their neighbor's story
- This is a beginning Braille letter recognition lesson
- This is a spatial concepts, inferencing and retelling a story lesson for speech/language impaired students
- Increasing Comprehension Skills is the goal of this lesson on Coal Mining and "Danger At The Breaker"
- Writing Process Publishing - students create computer graphs showing the population rise
- Lesson 1 - Writing by Ear
- 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
- The story "Caps For Sale" is used in this color words vocabulary lesson
- In this lesson, students construct and read sentences relating to a picture of a juggling clown
- This one is on Casey At The Bat
- This is a good activity to do following a unit on Short Stories
- Here students research geographical landmarks after learning about tall tales andThe Bunyans
- Here students make a board game for practicing the recognition of different types of sentences
- A too cool, grade two teacher sent this lesson on "to, two, or too" to us
- This lesson on Calligraphy is called "Write Me A Picture!"
- This is a short phonics and listening skills activity idea
- This is a multi-disciplinary lesson on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and sequencing of events
- This first part is on Pilot Jobs and Vocabulary
- This is a well-developed introduction to using context clues
- This multidisciplinary lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- With the poem "In 1492", you can teach Columbus Day and poetry too!
- This is a lesson on baby farm animals
- "Chicka Chicka Sight Word Match" uses a whiteboard coconut tree and magnetic letters
- This is a Process Analysis Pre-Writing Activity involving a Recipe for a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
- Students give the gift of their time in this "Giving Tree" idea
- A lesson on Comprehension using the story Yo Yes
- Unit Introduction
- A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
- This lesson investigates traditional theatre, dance, music, and visual arts integrated in the unique Theatre of the Deaf art form
- This lesson on prepositional phrases is called "Preposition Boogie"
- In "Poppin' Corn," students use descriptive language, inventive spelling and their five senses
- Fictional vs. non-fictional dragon diagrams are created here
- 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
- This part is on Native Americans and their Rock Art
- 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 brief idea for playing Spelling Basketball
- Here students predict the outcome of a book based on its pictures
- 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
- Here's an idea for ABC Freeze Tag that can be used in PE
- This is a successful and appreciated Adopt-A-Vet idea
- Here's an idea for keeping a "Creative Notebook"
- This lesson provides a little tic-tac-toe fun with adjectives
- A Writing idea for Designing a Magazine
- Two useful Christmas vocabulary worksheets are found here
- This is an "All About the Teacher" bilingual poster idea
- Here are 10 brief Early Learning Activity Ideas for 2-3 year olds
- This is a well-developed "Cam Jansen and the Missing Dinosaur Bones" lesson
- "Cowboys at Christmas" is a unique multi-activity lesson teaching us appreciation for the "big gifts" we often take for granted
- This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
- These PK-12 lesson plan ideas on emotions, expressions, and reactions yield altruistic activity in various subject areas and grades
- This Christmas writing assignment focuses on quotation marks and nouns
- A lesson on Word Patterns and Identification using the book Goodnight Moon
- This is another lesson plan on English as a Second Language for adults, that involves customs
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- This lesson on Venn Diagrams uses the book "A Promise is a Promise"
- Tooth Brushing and Keeping Decay Away are discussed here
- This 5-day friendship lesson integrates character education, language arts, math, music and a craft activity
- The second lesson is on Measurement, Graphing, and Creating Art for their plane
- This ELL article promotes proficient, independent and imaginative English writers by explicit teaching methods and four research based strategies
- This is a Great Gatsby book cover symbolism project
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
- Here's a good collection of bulletin board ideas
- This is a AP Modern Fine Arts and Literature Unit on Igor Stravinsky
- A Language Arts lesson using Music on beginning, middle, & end
- Students create a character analysis ofThe Great Gatsbyand compare it to the movie interpretation
- In this multidisciplinary idea, students recreate Romeo and Juliet in a different time and place
- Here's a creative way for students to comprehend the elements of a short story
- This is a drama lesson involving farm animal stick puppets
- In this lesson, students research Edgar Allen Poe, play a fact game, and write a biographical essay
- Students will write Haiku Poetry and Create a Picture for their State in this lesson
- In this Spanish lesson, students describe objects to a store clerk
- Here's a brief idea for Verbs and Adjectives called "My Favorite Things"
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- Lesson 3 - Active and Passive Verbs
- 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)
- "Chipo's Gift" is a thematic cross-curriculum book unit about an inquisitive mopane worm
- This is a lesson on the book, "Johnny Appleseed," and the man, John Chapman
- Day 9: Riding the Rails:Personal Journeys to Freedom
- This one is on Native American Legends
- Another game idea called "Verb Charades"
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- As in "A Pocket for Corduroy," students write and post notices to find their lost bear here
- This language arts lesson involves multicultural fairy tales
- Here is a lesson on the impact of Greek mythology on modern times
- This Reading lesson is on Predicting, Understanding, and Fluency
- Culminating Activity-Field Trip
- Here is a lesson on creating a cover letter
- Geo-spiders are made while discussing conflicts in this Anansi related lesson
- Here's a collection of activities to use with the story "Jamaica Tag Along"
- 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
- Witching You a Happy Halloween
- Here students study multimedia persuasion techniques and use them to create Photo Story 3 advertisements
- Quoting Characters
- Sports scores and cookies teach word choice in these creative writing ideas
- Here students create and draw onomatopoeia sounds with instruments and "The Listening Walk"
- A great Social Studies lesson plan on Newspaper structure
- This lesson utilizes websites to help students overcome performance anxiety and deliver an effective speech
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Discrete Mathematics - class systematically lists and counts bats
- This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
- 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
- Children write short sentences here to create an autumn vocabulary booklet
- "Whose Sentence Is It Anyway?" - a lesson on sentence structure
- This adjective lesson uses a semantics map
- 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
- In this reading comprehension lesson, students make inferences from "artifact bags"
- Here's a very brief idea for Writing a Letter to a character from Little Re Riding Hood
- Here students write a letter about their "immigrant experience" after virtually exploring the Ellis Island immigration station
- This brief idea involves students making Alphabet Books
- Here are two fun activities that integrate locomotor movements with reading, and listening skills
- This is a Photo Story 3 tutorial for any grade level
- Writing and Grammar Unit - Writing and Grammar Test
- Here students learn to say and make lower case letters
- This lesson plan is on Cesar Chavez and the difference that a single person can make
- A lesson about Vocabulary and Comprehension for the book "Courage At Indian Deep"
- Here students decorate a special Valentine and tuck a teabag, candy, or chore coupon inside
- In this "All About Butterflies" Kidspiration lesson, students make colorful models and create a life cycle chart
- This idea is on the "Revision Triangle - Affirmation, Clarification, and Elaboration"
- In this lesson, students use letter pieces to make words from letters
- Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- Learners use graphic organizers here to find "The Main Idea"
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- A warm-up activity idea for "The Outsiders" novel
- This is a Photo Story 3 research project about space exploration during the Cold War
- These "America" poems show how gender and race influence a poet's viewpoint
- 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
- This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
- Letter Bears will be alphabetized in this center activity
- Mitch Lopate
- The topic here is circular stories and sequencing
- Topic is Main Events, title is Little Bunny Follows His Nose
- Here are some lessons for a Speech Unit
- Pourquoi Tales
- A lesson plan on Quotations
- Here your little stars "twinkle" and tell interesting stories
- An idea for Interviewing the "Mystery Visitor"
- This lesson uses dance as a way of speaking without words
- Comic strips and Photo Story 3 are used here to teach story sequencing
- This lesson on Translation of Ideas and Outlining uses the book "Paper Bag Princess"
- Here students share their special "gifts" after reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree"
- "Label Tables" is the name of this interesting Vocabulary Building Activity
- Here students interview an adult at their school
- Mitch Lopate
- A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
- Students write a biography about a famous Texan here
- This is a dialogue writing lesson
- A lesson on Onset Rime using Hop On Pop
- Here's an idea for students to make flags for different countries
- 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
- Lesson 8 - Periods and Commas
- This is a Spanish language food pyramid (Piramide de Comida) lesson
- In this alphabet writing activity, students discover "letters" in a bottle
- A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
- This lesson idea combines adverbs of frequency (always, sometimes, rarely, or never) with interviewing
- This French lesson idea is on Dates and Weather Expressions in French
- Here students draw maps of their rooms using the bookMapping Penny's Worldas a model
- This "Little Mouse on the Prairie" story drama teaches compromise and cooperation
- This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
- This lesson is on Phonogram Decoding (ing, in, ick)
- Art Music - students write music verses and use kinesthetic intelligences to imitate bat sound & flight
- This one covers Paul Bunyan
- A very thorough lesson on creating an Alphabet Book and Research
- A Language Arts lesson on precipitation in rain forests
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- The first lesson plan is on Correspondence
- 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 Spanish I unit will be popular with your clothes-crazy teens
- "Literature and Patterns" is a reading - writing - drawing lesson about Easter Eggs
- 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
- This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
- Here is a lesson on the "sh" sound
- Kids make a paper chain of short 'a' words here
- After reading about the causes of WWI, students make pro- and anti-war posters here and defend their positions
- A "Special Me" class book is created here with Kid Pix self-portraits and written personal summaries
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- In this "Supermarket Math" lesson, students complete and interpret a KWL chart and food pictograph
- This foreign language class Verbal Participation Rubric works for other subjects as well
- 26 letters are found in this Dinosaur Egg hunt, but not in alphabetical order
- 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
- Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:A Life of Slavery
- Students grow a "pair of pears" homophone tree here
- This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
- Lesson Plan 2 - Building the Biggest Walls
- "W is for Worm" is the title of this cinquain poem lesson
- Here students create a booklet about their vacation or summer event
- 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
- Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
- Past Tense Verbs
- 5 Step Lesson Plan - The Doorbell Rang
- Nouns and Pronouns
- Atmosphere & Symbolism in "The Raven"
- Fill in the blank with Shel Silverstein
- Counting in Espanol
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
- Karma Tycoon Video Game Study Guide Unit
Cities and NonProfit Data - Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
- Verbs and Their Tenses, Verbs
- Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms
- Fun with Quotations
- Identifying Types of Adjectives
- Carnival of the animals
- Civil War Unit: Lesson A... Harriet Tubman
- Daycare Game
- Holes by Louis Sachar - Book Information
- Literature theme collages (Imagery)
- Civil War Unit - Unit Outline
- Past Tense Verbs
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
- Poems
