You've got your topic—now how do you make your poem funny? Explore ways to make a poem humorous, including puns, exaggeration, silly words, and surprising endings, with a helpful poetry lesson.

A critical look into the structure and function of ecosystems is here for young learners as a series of lessons and worksheet activities. Topics covered include land-based and marine ecosystems, connections to the water cycle, food...

Acrostic poems are perfect for any topic! A quick tutorial guides learners into writing acrostic poems with the basics and key examples.

Take your haikus to the next level with tanka poems, another form of Japanese poetry that regulates the length and rhythm of each line by syllables. Young writers read the explanation, examples, and tips for tanka poems before writing...

First, beginning chemists assemble a large periodic table of elements. Then, they play a game in which they roll dice, move a marker along the elements, and collect pennies according to the number of valence electrons of the element that...

Students read books, learn about the letter g, and complete coloring pages all to learn about Groundhog Day. In this Groundhog Day lesson plan, students also sing songs, and discuss the history of Punxsetawney Phil.

Students practice b words, search for sea shells, write on beach post cards, and more, all to learn about the beach. Students also wear sun hats around the room.

This lesson contains a video lesson [9:28] and various exercises about the area of rectangles, common units of area, two-part rectangles and the distributive property, and shapes composed of rectangular areas.

This lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to practice drawing and measuring triangles and angles. It also shows pictures and gives definitions of each type of angle and triangle.

This video geometry lesson [6:14] explains the concept of perimeter and has varied exercises for students to practice.

This fourth-grade complete lesson with instruction and exercises concerns long division with remainder. Students work on division problems and word problems and check their answers.

This is a complete lesson with video instruction [5:49] and varied exercises about comparing decimals with 1 or 2 decimal digits.

Video lesson [8:41] explains various methods for comparing fractions. It includes word problems and a puzzle for practice.

This is a complete lesson with a video [7:56], instruction, and exercises about dividing decimals by decimals.

In this lesson, learn how to divide fractions using the shortcut of reciprocal numbers which is shown in the accompanying video. [10:31] The lesson also includes practice problems and many word problems.

This geometry lesson defines equilateral, isosceles, and scalene triangles, and has a variety of exercises, including drawing exercises.

This lesson about fractions and mixed numbers includes review exercises about mixed numbers. Learn how to change mixed numbers into fractions and convert improper fractions into mixed numbers by thinking of them as divisions.

Lesson teaches third graders about the concept of fractions.

This is a complete lesson with instruction, word problems, and exercises about adding and subtracting decimals with two decimal digits (hundredths).

In this 4th grade lesson, students learn the connection between division and finding a fractional part of a quantity.

This is a complete lesson with instruction and a variety of exercises, teaching how to add and subtract decimals with one decimal digit (tenths).

This is a complete lesson with instruction and varied exercises, explaining how the place value system works with decimals that have one decimal digit, and how to write such decimals in expanded form.

Complete lesson with examples and exercises about the repeated subtraction process, as it relates to division.

Complete lesson with instruction and exercises, teaching students how to divide decimals using mental math.