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Trustworthy Images
Students investigate metaphors. In this writing activity, students brainstorm traits of a trustworthy person and create a metaphor for a trustworthy person.
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Periodic Pigment
Students make paint using the ingredients from recipes from the 17th century. In this paint making lesson plan, students follow a recipe with vegetable oil, eggs, pigment, paintbrushes, and more to make their paint.
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Still-Life Painting: Arranging Nature
Students examine and paint still life paintings. In this still life painting lesson, students look at pictures of European still life paintings and determine the characteristics when using an opaque medium. They use an opaque medium to...
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Technology Rich Native American Unit
Student groups retell stories from Iroquois storytellers. They role-play Iroquois women, men and children and explain their roles. They read "Knots on a Counting Rope" and make up their own stories. They create timelines. They visit a...
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USA Quilt and Cookbook Project
Students share information about themselves and their surrounding area through postcards, quilt squares, and recipes. Students use a digital camera to take pictures of their community and create postcards using desktop publishing. They...
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Sonoran Desert
In this Sonoran Desert worksheet, students read and analyze a letter that Jeremy wrote to his grandmother and then complete the picture that follows using information about the desert they learned from the letter.
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Synonyms
In this synonyms instructional activity, students read 9 sentences and note the highlighted word. Student underline the synonym of that word.
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Reading Comprehension- The Use of Senses in Poetry
In this reading comprehension poetry worksheet, students identify the use of the senses in a poem entitled, "As I Awake." They discuss how the author feels about being alive and if the author believes that one person can change the world.
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Conditional Sentences type 1
In this conditional sentences worksheet, learners complete multiple choice problems where they complete sentences, fill in the blanks to a song, and watch the video to the song. Students complete 3 activities.
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Beginning Spelling - Summer
In this spelling learning exercise, students spell 13 Summer words correctly using the definitions that are listed to the right of the jumbled word.
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Bill Gates
For this Bill Gates worksheet, students read about the life of the businessman, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Plant Science Activities
Students complete several plant life activities. In this botany lesson, students practice painting images that resemble plants they are familiar with as well as planting seeds outside of class. Students participate in a dramatic...
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Going on a Seed Safari
Young scholars describe biology by identifying different plants in class. In this seed instructional activity, students discuss the process of how a plant grows from seed to leaves. Young scholars attend a field trip to their garden or...
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France: Carnival at Nice
Young scholars research the events held at the Carnival at Nice, France and its history. Using mixed media, they design and decorate a flower garland necklace and discover the use of flowers in cultural festivals. They share their...
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Plants
Students identify and label parts of a plant. They will construct a plant from art material and describe the purpose of each part for the plants survival. Students author a book with pictures and words or a story about a plant.
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Cyclical Psychology in Japanese Culture
Students create artistic representations of various cyclical patterns after analyzing the importance of cyclical psychology in Japanese culture. This lesson can be done in an Art class or as part of a unit in a History or Language Arts...
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Spring Fling
Students take part in a number of activities that center around a spring theme. They draw the steps to show process of growing seeds.
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Introduction to Scientific Illustration
Seventh graders draw scientific illustrations in the lab. In this life science lesson, 7th graders discuss the importance of drawing in science experiments. They differentiate scientific drawing from basic art.
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Japanese Warriors
Students compare and contrast the warriors in Japanese history, folktales, and art to the kinds of soldiers American children learn about. This lesson includes possible lesson enrichments.
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Squigly's Riddler
In this secret code puzzle worksheet, students follow the directions on the page to solve 6 words in secret code. Students then fill in the crossword puzzle to find out the answer to a riddle.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Surprise Garden
Students explore English by reading children stories in class. In this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Surprise Garden and identify the settings, plot and characters. Students define a list of vocabulary words from...
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Picture This...
Students explore the concept of visualization as a means of comprehending what they read. Through modeling, they discover how to create mental pictures of what they read from both poems and books. As a class, they create a story quilt...
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Explorit's Tasty Food Quiz
In this foods worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive worksheet about foods that we eat.
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A Gift for Mother's Day
Students create a Bonita card for their mothers on Mother's Day. Students learn about symetry.