Students identify qualities of clean water which will develop an awareness of people in the community who keep our water clean. This lesson has a literature tie-in with the "Magic School Bus" series.

Students define and demonstrate proper use of common good, preserve (as in clean water) and public good as applicable to clean water.

Students explore the ecosystem by conducting a ziploc bag experiment. For this recycling lesson, students identify decomposer organisms in our environment and how they speed up the recycling process. Students utilize a ziploc plastic...

In this reading comprehension activity, students read a 7 paragraph selection regarding the cleanliness of beaches and respond to 2 short answer questions.

Bees buzz, dogs dig, lion laze, and snakes slither! Use alliteration to create sentences about four different animals. 

Students examine how to dispose of waste properly and discover how pollution affects plants and animals that live in streams. In this effects of waste instructional activity, students explore biodegradable detergents and the concept of...

Second graders examine the life cycle by observing tadpoles. After reading the book, Tadpole Diary, they draw the stages of tadpole development and write sentences about what they think is happening.

In an exercise from the Purdue Online Writing Lab, learners can review 11 rules for comma usage. They then either label 21 sample sentences C for correct as is, or they identify which rule of comma usage is being broken. Though the...

Challenge young grammarians with a short assessment on verbals. As your class progresses through each exercise, they demonstrate understanding for modal verbs, imperatives, infinitives, and gerunds.

When should you use such and when should you use so? Kids look through 20 sentences and fill in the blanks with so, such, such a, or such an.

Crawl into the world of the darkling beetle with this scientific investigation. Watch as the insects move through the larval, pupal, and adult stages of life, recording observations along the way. Discuss the necessities of life as young...

Want to learn some quick facts about Victorian England? Check out a series of fact cards that include information about class structure, education rights, public health, and Queen Victoria herself.

In this adjectives worksheet, students circle the adjectives in sentences that describe underlined nouns, describe which one, describe how many, and more. Students complete 49 problems.

In this Gulliver's Travels exercise, students choose the correct words to fill in the blanks to a passage from Gulliver's Travels. Students choose 21 words.

This quiz provides learners an opportunity to assess their understanding of several commonly confused words. Words like cloths and clothes, pail and pale, and sense and since are included. It's beneficial to discuss some of these...

In this vocabulary review worksheet, learners determine synonyms in sentences. Students answer ten multiple choice sentences.

This interactive PowerPoint simulates a "Jeopardy" game that addresses figurative language, cause and effect, and other literary terms. Players can chose which category and amount they would like to play on the Game Board. 

As a short review of vocabulary, this 10 question activity is a good way to have learners practice words rich in meaning. This worksheet would be appropriate for upper elementary and any older ESL student.

Students study the concept of having a fundraiser to benefit a local soup kitchen. In this fundraising service project lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history and making of clay pottery, service...

In this similes recognition instructional activity, students read the beginnings of simile sentences and complete them by filling in the blank endings. Students write 12 answers.

First graders complete activities with the story The Ogre Bully. In this literature lesson, 1st graders discuss opposite words and then read the story. They answer questions for comprehension and complete phonics activities and...

In this grammar worksheet, learners complete the sentences by filling in the blanks with either "very" or "too". There are 18 sentences to complete.

In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete the sentences by choosing the best words to complete them. Students complete 12 sentences.

In this intermediate sentence completion exercise 7 instructional activity, students complete 10 sentences interactively by choosing the correct word(s), with immediate feedback.