National Gallery of Canada
To Canada with Love
Focus on line and color with a postcard project. Learners view various works of art and discuss line and color before moving on to creating their own work. Using nature as inspiration, pupils decorate postcards and mail them after...
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Postcard Template
Practice writing short letters with postcards. The resource includes two pages to make four postcards. The first page has space for drawing, and the second includes a place to write, address lines, and stamp spaces.
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Art Imitates Life
Elementary and middle schoolers examine postcards depicting World War I events. Eventually, they create prints that reflect their own lives. In an interesting blend of history and current events, this instructional activity should engage...
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Stringbean Coes Vacation
Third graders first begin the activity by reading Vera B. Williams Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea. This book is a collection of postcards that Stringbean Coe and his brother Fred write to their family while they were on a summer...
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Multi-cultural, The Butterfly
Sixth graders discuss The Butterfly. In this literacy lesson, 6th graders write two postcards about the issues of the Holocaust from the two different perspectives of the two girls from the text.
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Postcard
In this postcard worksheet, students fill out a postcard and address it to who they are going to send it to. Students also draw a picture.
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Language Arts: Let's Take a Trip!
Students examine various books and discover how to locate places on maps and globes. While reading the story, "Toot and Puddle," they trace the locations visited on maps. At home with parents, students prepare for an imaginary trip by...
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Summer Fun! Vacation Destination Postcards
Students design a postcard with a graph and text. They research their favorite vacation spot. Pupils write a friendly letter to their parents requesting to visit this vacation destination. Students use a Circle Map, to help fill in their...
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Personalized Postcards
Students create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or family member.
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Creating a Loyalist Postcard
Students research a Loyalist and create their postcards. Specific Expectations.
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Write A Postcard
Students fill out a postcard on the front with the name of the person it is to and on the back they write a letter. In this writing lesson plan, students fill this out on 1 piece of paper and fold it to make the postcard.
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Postcard to Self
Pupils, during their free time near the end of their journey they are, reflect on their trip.
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Descriptive Writing
Students write a one-page description of a postcard received from the teacher. After finishing, they tape postcards to the blackboard and number them. They read their descriptions, while other students guess which card the student is...
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Usps: Domestic Rate Calculator
Here is a chart compiled by the United States Postal Service that determines how much postage is required for a letter, large envelope, postcard, and etc. Many links. Link to International Rate Calculator.
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United States Postal Service
As an independent agency of the government, the United States Postal Service homepage offers information on zip codes, address change, stamps, online billing, and variety of other topics.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Cheetahs
National Geographic provides great fun facts about this African cat. Find out where they live. Watch a cheetah in action. Listen to a cheetah purr.
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National Geographic Kids: Animals: Lions
Students doing research about lions will find this site very helpful. Video and audio clips, photographs, a map, and fun facts will enhance research projects.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Tigers
"The scientific name for the tiger is 'Panthera Tigris.'" This site includes video and audio clips, fun facts and a map. Other web links are available, which makes this a good site for research projects.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Buster's Egyptian Adventure
Young scholars join Buster Baxter on a ancient Egypt, in this geography lesson. Students learn about Cairo, ancient Egypt, the pyramids, the Nile River, and relevant vocabulary terms. Then young scholars write about what they've learned...