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Narrative Writing
Students complete activities to learn narrative writing. In this narrative writing lesson students are given writing prompts in order to better understand how to write in a narrative format.
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War In Iraq Comparison
Fifth graders use the internet to research the Silver Star given to those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Using the information, they write a short report on one of the recipients of the Silver Star. In groups, they visit a...
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English Exercises: Cloze Exercise
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 29 fill in the blank questions where they complete a cloze activity. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Mesearch: A Reason for Research
Students complete a research activity about themselves. They access an article on brainstorming and identifying personality traits. Students brainstorm about their personality traits and view a related PowerPoint. Students create their...
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The Little Red House
Students participate in developmental activities. In this developmental lesson, students listen to the story "The Little Red House" and participate in activities that develop gross motor coordination and fine motor coordination skills.
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Job Shadow/Internship
Students identify a career field to research and complete a job shadow activity. In this career exploration lesson, students brainstorm a list of careers they are interested in and research them. Students participate in a job shadow of...
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The First Class
Teachers explore different ways to become acquainted with their students. They consider ways to learn their Students names including labels, name tags, playing the games "Concentration" and "Add an Adjective." They explore ways for...
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Mystery State #9
In this mystery state activity, students answer five clues to identify the state in question. They then locate that state on a map.
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Read All About It! Looking at Newspapers.
In this newspaper worksheet, students read about emotive language, then choose headlines that are most likely to excite a reader, re-write headlines, replacing words with more emotive words, and read a short article and answer 3 related...
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Primary and Secondary Documents for Colonial Times
Students investigate the Colonial Era by completing a template on their computers. In this U.S. History lesson, students discuss the differences between primary and secondary sources and identify several different sources as one or the...
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Dr. Seuss Word Search
In this Dr. Seuss worksheet, students find and circle/highlight the underlined words in nine Dr. Seuss book titles in a word search puzzle.
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Space: Our Star, the Sun, and Its Friends, the Planets
Students examine the solar system. In this space lesson, students identify the order of the planets and their relative size to the sun. Students create a scale model of our solar system using a variety of household objects.
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The Earth, Sun, Moon, And Stars
Fifth graders explore the solar system. In this solar system unit, 5th graders investigate numerous projects while rotating through learning centers. Students write about space and construct a space shuttle model. Students practice map...
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MacBeth Activity Using Alanis Morissette's "Wake Up"
Learners analyze Macbeth through the lens of a pop song. In this Macbeth lesson, students read Act I, Scene 7 of Macbeth and determine Lady Macbeth's viewpoint. Learners read the lyrics to Alanis Morrissette's song 'Wake Up' and work in...
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Stars and Stripes Forever: Researching Veteran's Day and Historical Events
Sixth graders research Veteran's Day and wars that affected the United States. In this research lesson, 6th graders work in small groups to create an oral presentation based on Internet and conventional research. They complete...
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Sun Activity
In this space science worksheet, students find the answers to the questions concerning the topic of the sun and they label the diagram for the sun.
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Cloze Passage: The Sun
Use this Cloze activity in your science lesson or reading unit. Second graders read two paragraphs about the sun and seasons, and fill in eleven missing vocabulary words. This worksheet contains an answer key.
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Cosmic Mobiles: Recycled Art
If you have a little left over tinsel and aluminum foil, your class can create these fun moon and star mobiles. Poster board or recycled cardboard become your moon and stars; the tinsel gives them sparkle. This would be a great activity...
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Mystery Stars: Estimating Whole Numbers Using Fractions Shown on Sectors of a Circle
In this set of fraction worksheets, young scholars cut out 6 pages of circles that show fractions with stars covering different sections of circles. They show one section of the circle in order to estimate the whole number of stars by...
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All-Star Award
Students review classroom rules. They are awarded class points each time all students are dressed appropriately for class. Each time the class scores five home runs they receive a choice of class rewards (such as treat box, choice of...
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Main Sequence Stars: A System in Equilibrium?
Fourth graders study the equilibrium of internal forces in a main sequence star.
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Could You Be a Star?
In this personality quiz worksheet, students complete 5 multiple choice questions. Students add their score and find out what kind of "star" they are: sports, movie, rock, or super star. The questions are best suited for UK students.
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Rocket to the Stars
Sixth graders listen to a song two or three times. They use art supplies to draw an image, picture, or representation of the sont. They write a title and an explanation of the image.
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News-2 You Weekly Activities
Students complete activities from a special education newspaper. In this News-2 lesson, students read the paper, play games, and complete worksheets. Subscription to newspaper is required.