Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and apply...

"Three Stones Back," a passage from Matt de la Pena's best-seller, Ball Don't Lie, allows readers to practice their close reading skills as they compare the passage to an information text about wealth inequality. 

For this geography worksheet, students use grid references on a map to locate places in the pictures given. They also identify another advantage of using a grid map, which they have an overhead view of the content to prevent any features...

Learners design and create scarecrows. They write descriptively about the scarecrow for a classroom scarecrow show.

Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...

Fifth graders use the attached worksheet, Where's My Location? - Directions, to play a game in which they plot points on a grid.