Fantasy Themes Teacher Resources

Fantasy Design is a European school project that introduces the concept of product design to participating schools. You can learn about the program, see the resulting student product ideas, and get useful teaching resources to try...

Students will be given baseball trading cards to use the decimals and ratios to participate in a fantasy baseball game. Printable lesson

Find out the controversy behind online fantasy sports with this video and educational resources from PBS NewsHour from February 4, 2016. [8:43] Support materials are provided.

Professor John Bowen considers Emily Bronte's combination of fantasy and reality in Wuthering Heights and the way in which fairy tale and Gothic elements 'haunt the edges' of the novel.

A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning about the fantasy genre.

This is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America homepage. Site includes comprehensive information on this genre for both readers and writers.

Professor John Bowen and Ann Dinsdale discuss the fantasy worlds of Gondal and Angria, created by the Bronte children, and the lasting influence of these on the sisters' later novels. [7:16]

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg and fantasy texts from the classroom library to learn about the characteristics that define fantasy. Lesson includes direct...

[Free Registration/Login Required] After introducing the concept of fantasy within fairy tales, teachers lead class in finding examples of fantasy elements in the story Little Red Riding Hood. Following this model, students work...

This lesson focuses on Isaac Asimov, science fiction author. It features links to I, Robot, a a collection of nine science fiction short stories and Isaac Asimov's website. It also provides questions and a quiz over "Robbie," the first...

This lesson focuses on Kurt Vonnegut, a science fiction author who is famous for his quotes and satire. It features his short story "Harrison Bergeron," an after-reading quiz, and a writing assignment about it. It also provides the NPR:...

This lesson introduces the fantasy genre. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

Come slide down chocolate mudslides and bounce on marshmallows in this crazy imaginary art lesson. Students work to create a fantasy land made entirely of different foods. Students are encouraged to use knowledge of the six food groups...

A list of fantasy books for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels.

The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia to 18th-century Eastern Europe, but it has differed in the terrifying details. So, how did we arrive at the popular image we know, love and fear today? And...

This is the original, online text of the fantasy novel "The Well at the World's End" by William Morris.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1895, one work is A House-Boat on the Styx. This fantasy was written by John Kendrick Bangs.

Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

These vocabulary words are the kinds of words one would find when reading children's fantasy stories of kingdoms, pirates and unicorns. Interactive audio modeling the correct Spanish pronunciation is heard when the mouse is moved over...

Listen to a selection of music by Georg Philipp Telemann in this Yale University performance series with a solo performance by Marion Verbruggen.

This online lesson plan deals with children's natural interest in imaginary play, fantasy, and make-believe by tying it into discovering and understanding different cultures from around the world.

What's wrong with modern physics and could alternative theories explain our observations of the universe?

This is the full text of the short story collection The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs, is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...