Students read and discuss the story of a Peace Corps volunteer's experiences in Poland. They read and write a response to the story, and participate in a class analysis about their own personal decision regarding the story.

Middle and high schoolers check their writing for pronoun-antecedent agreement. After identifying the pronouns in their writing, they then complete a table with the pronouns and corresponding antecedents, making revisions as necessary.

First graders read the nouns and noun phrases. They fill in the space with the article adjective "a" or "an." Everyone complete 10 examples.

Students explore communication skills. In this Peace Corps instructional activity, students read "The Extra Place," by Susan Peters and discover Polish cultural traditions. Students consider how they would respond in a scenario that...

Students investigate how students in various countries celebrate their winter holiday traditions, locate various countries on a map, and draw and tell about various Santa Claus legends.

Students demonstrate the importance of sharing compliments. In this character education lesson, students write compliments on post-it notes to one of their classmates.

Students celebrate Mexican holidays. For this global studies lesson, students collaborate to research the Day of the Dead and Cinco de Mayo. Students present their findings about the holidays and host classroom celebrations.

Sixth graders examine the culture and celebrations associated with Chinese New Year in this unit of lessons

Study African American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger and create imaginary monsters using texture.

Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.

Students take up the challenge of deciding what to do when confronted by a difficult and awkward situation. They read the story and highlight sentences or phrases that have particular meaning to them and think about and discuss a...

Students examine immigration. In this oral and social histories lesson, students analyze primary sources to research immigration history in their community. In this year-long research project, students participate in visual and...

Students create a Kwanzaa memory book. In this memory book lesson, students cut a cover from a brown paper bag and use ziplock bags as pages. In the ziplock bags they put construction paper with photos and drawings. 

Students plan their own fiesta. They study information about a "posada" and explain the significance of a pi??ata. Afterwards, they construct a pi??ata to be used for end-of-unit party. in addition, they read a story and answer questions...

Students use hockey sticks to strike pucks into a goal, between two cones, or into another target (e.g., bowling pins). They use white rolled up socks as snowballs to throw at a variety of targets that are on the floor or on the wall .

Students examine the transportation system of a tree and the speed with which nutrients and water move. Cross sections of the samples used are examined in class for experimental results.

Young scholars create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious lesson ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The lesson includes resource links and can be adapted for any animal or...

A collection of chemistry activities and experiments with a Christmas holiday theme.

'Literacy Activities for Holidays' is an extensive collection (150 pages) of activities for celebrating the traditional holidays of Valentines Day, Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Birthdays are also included.

Looking for resources to enhance teaching a unit on Christmas spend some time perusing the many worksheets, activities, lesson plans and more provided by Teachnology.

This resource has crafts and activities for holidays. Ideas are listed by holiday. Most can be done with common classroom and household supplies with little adult help.

Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing the Christmas and other holiday traditions. Uses a variety of tenses. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers...

Check out this awesome secular Christmas resource. This site offers songs, customs, themes and more.