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Mississippi
In this Mississippi worksheet, learners read a two page text about the history of the state of Mississippi. Students then answer 10 true and false questions.
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Explorit's Astronomy 2. Quiz
In this astronomy worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about astronomy. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Can Mansueto Turn Magazine Publishing Bust Into a Boom?
Students explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students read an article about a man who turned a magazine company into a success. Students compare and contrast two companies, one that is a financial...
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So and Such Exercise
In this so or such worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the sentences with the words so or such. Students complete 20 sentences and write 4 of their own.
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Cloud Types
Students examine cloud types. In this cloud lesson, students identify cloud types, observe clouds and collect data, and analyze data to identify the most common cloud they observe overhead during the course of a month.
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Biomass: The Energy of the Future
Students research renewable fuels. In this alternative energy lesson, students compile information and create a comparison chart on renewable resources. This lesson includes additional suggested readings, vocabulary, and a Biomass...
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Eclipses
In this eclipses instructional activity, learners read about solar and lunar eclipses to complete 8 short answer questions comparing the two types of eclipses.
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ESL Colors Activity
In this ESL colors worksheet, learners watch a video titled "The Colors of the Earth," then choose the correct colors to describe pictures and the correct animals being described.
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Conditional Sentences
In this conditional worksheet, students use words in the conditional tense to complete sentences about the pictures. Students complete 6 sentences total.
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A to Z Quiz
In this alphabet worksheet, 5th graders answer 26 general knowledge questions in which the answers begin with each letter of the alphabet, answers included.
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Miniature Water Cycles
Young scholars construct a model of the water cycle in action using two-liter pop bottles to build a terrarium. Locate examples of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle (e.g., water evaporates when heated and clouds or dew...
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Literacy & Art: The Story behind the Quilt
Students examine the many ways quilts were used to chronicle the history and experiences of African slaves and African-Americans in America. They analyze a story quilt using the elements of storytelling, then create a class quilt.
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Unit Lesson on The Gingerbread Man (Elementary, Reading/Writing)
Learners sequence the main events of the story, The Gingerbread Man, into chronological order and rewrite the story changing characters and settings.
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guided reading lesson using BATS
Students answer questions, then after reading several bat books, students revisit the questions.
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Dinosaur reports-4 blocks guided reading & focused writing (Elementary, 4 Blocks)
Students read books about dinosaurs for book club groups and then participate in focused writing. In this reading and writing instructional activity, students work together over the course of three days to produce a group story about a...
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Who Lives in the Sea? A class book (Elementary, Science)
Students, assigned an alphabet letter, do research on a sea animal whose name begins with that assigned alphabet. All of the assignments then be turned into a class book.
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Creating Life Maps (Elementary, Reading/Writing)
Young scholars create a personal life timeline to better explain how a historical timeline is effective in studying history. They also write a poem about themselves.
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Native American Legends, Folk Stories and Tales
Middle schoolers write an Indian tale explaining a natural event, an animal characteristic,
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Secrets of the Ocean Realm - Survival in the Sea
Students determine the sequential links in a marine food chain and identify the roles that various organisms play in this chain. Students develop charts as visual aids for illustrating marine food chains.
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Integrating Past Continuous
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Snowy Evening Poetry for ESL (Elementary, Literature)
Students read Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, illustrated by Susan Jeffers (2001). This is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations that go with each line of the poem.
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Construction Square Fun
Middle schoolers identify numbers as prime or composite and complete prime factorization of composite numbers.
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Lesson Exchange: Monster interviews (Elementary, Language)
Students learn interviewing and proofreading skills, as well as 1st and 2nd person pronouns.
