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Chinese Dragon Puppet
Students discover the importance of the dragon in Chinese culture. Using a template, they make their own dragon hand puppet and color it with watercolor paints. To end the lesson, they read stories about dragons and their role in the...
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Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures
Students exoplore the world of imaginary creatures (dragons, unicorns, etc.) They discuss the creature's special attributes and read stories about them. They create their own magical creatures in the form of puppets.
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Dragons: Read and Brainstorm a Habitat
In this brainstorming instructional activity, 4th graders will work in small groups to brainstorm what a dragon's habitat should be like. Students are asked to review books they have read about dragons to support their answers.
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Creature Creation
Students explore the characteristics of dragons as represented in the myths of cultures around the world. They create their own mythical dragons by hybridizing two creatures with desirable traits and writing stories about their creation.
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Magical Dragon Mask
Students read a variety of fiction books about dragons and visualize what they think the dragon in the book might look like. They sketch out a drawing of the dragon and then design and shape a dragon's head mask to represent the dragon...
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Friendly Dragon-Flies
Learners listen to a story about, and visualize, fanciful dragons with wings. They create imaginative paper dragons that can fly. Students write fictional stories about the adventures of their flying dragons. They imagine if dragons...
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Medieval Newspaper
Sixth graders create a Medieval newspaper. In this history lesson students work in groups to write portions of a Medieval newspaper. The articles are compiled to complete a newspaper. Extra or additional articles are also assigned to...
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Knights and Dragons Cloze Activity
In this knights and dragons cloze activity worksheet, students read a 4 paragraph selection and fill in the blanks with words from the provided word bank.
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Dragon Alliterations
Review the definition and an example of alliterations and have your class work on an alliteration project about dragons. They will then write 4 alliterations and draw an illustration of one of the alliterations.
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Color and Write
In this coloring and writing worksheet, students practice coloring a dragon with vibrant colors and then writing a short descriptive paragraph describing their dragon.
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Dragons
In this dragon worksheet, students brainstorm and discuss sixteen key terms/environments/characteristics associated with dragons and then locate and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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The Battle Between Dragons and Humans
For this social studies worksheet, middle schoolers find the words related to the literature with dragons. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Paper Dragon Puppet
Students discuss the Chinese New Year and the importance of the dragon in Chinese culture. After examining pictures of dragon puppets, students create simple dragon puppets and have their own Chinese New Year parade.
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Chinese Parade Lions or Dragons
Pupils view a video on Chinese dragons or lions that are used in Chinatowns in the United States. With construction paper, they create the face and body of either animal giving it a tongue, eyes, ears, etc. They attach a stick to their...
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Dragon Connect-the-Dots Game
In this math worksheet, learners practice counting to 50 as they connect the dots to create a fantasy picture of a dragon. Students color the picture.
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Day of the Dragon Wordsearch
In this literacy worksheet, learners find the words that are related to the stories that have dragon characters. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Dragons Of China And Japan
Middle schoolers create drawings of dragons that could be found in the art of Japan or China. The lesson involves two-days of instruction and leads to student examples of dragons four-times larger than the originals.
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The Role of Dragons in Chinese Culture
Students discuss the concept of symbolism in China and America and create their own "dragon boats" for evaluation and display. This Art lesson can be easily integrated into an elementary unit on China.
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Dragons In Chinese Folktales And Art
Students investigate and discuss the use of the dragon in Chinese folktales and art in this middle school lesson introducing Chinese art and culture. Lesson extensions are included for additional activities.
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Dragons: Dinosaurs in History?
Students read the scripture that cooresponds with this lesson on dinosaurs. Using the text, they identify where dragons are mentioned and determine if they match the description of what we would call a dinosaur. They discuss whether...
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The Dragons are Coming!
Pupils develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around with, and from, other Students.