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Go for the Gold!
The options are vast with this Ancient Greece and Olympics research project! Using Scholastic online resources, historians have interactive and educational supports to guide them through researching and writing about the 2004 Olympics in...
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Get the Facts
Students explore spiders. In this spider lesson, students fill out KWL charts, discover facts about spiders and how to identify different spiders. Students research spiders on the Internet and do online activities.
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All About Our Town
Pupils explore brochure writing. They work in groups to brainstorm and categorize important places in their community. In addition, they gather information from the Internet, take pictures using a digital camera, and create a community...
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Menus
Students explore different styles of writing. In this writing lesson plan, students look at menus to get an idea of how many different types of writing there are. Students create their own menus and add border and clip art.
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A Growing Success
Young scholars create a multimedia presentation as a culmination of a plant unit. In this hyperstudio lesson, students research from assigned sites and create a Hyperstudio stack. Young scholars write a cinquain.
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Venerable Inventors
Students discuss important historic inventors and read their biographical information. In this world history lesson, students describe Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison, and Guglielmo Marconi using vocabulary terms used in their text....
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Return Of The Living Dead
Students research endangered animal species that have 'beaten the odds' as they continue to survive longer than scientists had expected. They write individual pages for a class book about endangered species.
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Pupils explore Spanish speaking countries. In this multi-cultural literacy activity, students research a country in which Spanish is the official language, and create a related travel brochure on the computer.
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Dog Gone Good Note Cards
Students conduct research on a chosen dog breed using the card catalog and the Internet. They create at least three note cards with information about their dog breed.
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History of Television
Students investigate the history of Television by using the Internet. In this timeline activity, students discuss and take notes on the 10 main events in Television history and create a timeline through education software. Students...
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How Do They Work?
Students investigate famous U.S. inventions by utilizing the Internet. For this U.S. history lesson, students examine the relationship between great U.S. inventions such as the radio, telephone and light bulb and the effect it had on...
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The Scoop Through Desktop Publication
Drafting, revising, and editing is all apart of the publishing process. Using a series of documents as inspiration, young journalists compose a class Newspaper. They work independently and in groups to publish their own articles.
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Bryant Creek Watershed Project - Making a Karst Dictionary
Students explore the definitions relevant to Karst topography. They develop a Bryant Watershed Dictionary of the special words and terms that are used to talk about the topography and hydrology of the area they live in.