A book review of "Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication," including critical contents and comments. Also provides information about who would benefit from reading this book review. A good resource for those...

A list of resources concerning illustrating for children's literature. Each link takes you to the book's page on Amazon.com.

Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.

A fantastic resource for getting started in publishing a children's book. Provides information about writing, sending and submitting your manuscript, choosing an agent, and more.

An assortment of clip art featuring scenes of natural habitats, homes, and other places. Scroll down to find the topic of your choice.

Students will select a favorite poem from a class poetry unit, from Poem Finder, included in the Alabama Virtual Library, or from other online sources or poetry collections in the school library, and create a collage or...

An extensive collection of dinosaur clip art that can be used for educational purposes. View and use both color and black-and-white illustrations of Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They will...

Students will use the illustrations and details in the text to describe how plants grow. This lesson uses a complex text to allow students to analyze the pictures in From Seed to Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin. Included are videos and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, young scholars will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text. Students will...

The objective of this lesson is for students to understand how an author uses language and illustrations to influence the way readers think and feel about characters and events in a story. Students are asked to evaluate the introduction...

A book review of "Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books." Includes critical information, contents and comments, as well as a link to the book's Amazon.com page. A good resource for anyone interested in...

Written by literary critic and Columbia professor, Brander Mathews, this site lists 23 short stories from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century. Mathews' notes on each story show the development of the genre.

Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.

This module engages students in designing their own rock art. Teachers will engage students in a shared texts, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola and Mathematics from Many Cultures by Calvin Irons, James Burnett and...

Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Students study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...

Discusses conditions needed for the Hardy-Weinberg Law to hold true and demonstrates calculations involving allelic frequencies to illustrate this principle.

Questions like "How does the bank hold reserves?" or "How do banks make deposits?" are examples of what is explained through this banking simulation lesson plan to illustrate the purpose of the Federal Reserve.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

Forget the romantic view of the Middle Ages. What was it really like? Lesson plan focuses on exploring the lives of the peasants, craftsmen, and monks. Hyperlinks lead to great illustrations.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals.

These images of duckweed (Lemna spp.) illustrate the basic anatomy and environment of these fast-growing plants.

This site discusses the possible relationship between a virus and Lou Gehrig's Disease. It has photos, illustrations and links to other resource information.

What is a hurricane? What causes hurricanes? Watch an animated video that shows a popular theory of CISK to see how a hurricane can form. View satellite pictures, illustrations, and maps to see where hurricanes occur.