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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Nash Ing the Animals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading several animal poems by Ogden Nash, students imitate Nash's writing style to write animal poems of their own. Teacher instructions, printable graphic organizers, student instructions, student writing samples, and an idea...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Beginning writers work through a Writing Workshop format to create Question and Answer books. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, possible texts, and samples of student work are all provided.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Movie vs. Book

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars compare the video version of the teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" to the actual teleplay. (A teleplay is a play or script written for television.) The links to media in this lesson no longer...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and graphing....
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What a Character

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses ways that authors reveal character traits. Students learn to find examples in the literature to demonstrate that character traits. A sample assessment, graphic organizer and web...