Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.

Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.

Learners explore the Johnny Appleseed story. In this service learning instructional activity, students listen to the story of Johnny Appleseed and discover how he was a philanthropist.

Students listen to a story about Johnny Appleseed while learning about how Johnny contributed to history. Students brainstorm rhyming words and write a poem using those words.

Students engage in a study of apples using children's literature. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Student list facts about apples and compare them while answering some guided questions. They plant some apple seeds and...

Students explore surrealism through the artwork of Hieronymus Bosch. For this surrealism lesson, students understand the characteristics of the art of Bosch and create an original artwork and poem to go with it.

Students participate in a variety of activities to learn about apples. Students graph apples, learn about apple uses, taste apples, and observe what happens when apples are dipped in lemon juice.

Students develop an idea about American Folk heroes. Individual slideshows are going to be made by each student to be viewed by their peers. Students also have an opportunity to take part in role play situations from various folklores.

Young scholars develop and create a production company and produce a fall event that demonstrates what they have learned in various subject areas. STudents create stories, complete a venn diagram comparing fall and summer, graph and...

Young scholars investigate the virtue of kindness and giving by conducting a children's literature study of "The Giving Tree". They make a list of words to describe emotions in the story and write a journal daily while looking at the...

Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.

Students examine the paintings of various Indiana artists. Using the internet, they relate the landscapes shown to the history of the state and how it affected Native Americans. Using the information they gathered, they write story...