Introduce class members to journaling with a colorful packet that suggests various purposes, formats, and topics for this very personal form of expression.

Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?

Designed to be used with an independent reading book, this activity provides practice with identifying and explaining literary terms. While they read, individuals find instances of literary devices and elements in use in their books....

If you're looking to start a unit based around narrative writing, make sure to consider this resource while you're planning. This book covers five topics: writing personal narratives, writing narratives about others, writing...

Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...

Use hosiery to teach computer science. Scholars use socks to develop a set of algorithms. They find ways to find a particular sock from a set and ways to sort socks. Finally, they use their algorithms to consider time complexity.

Who knew turning a light on and off could be so complicated? In the instructional activity, pupils use Arduino boards to learn about computer codes and programs. They program an Arduino to make a light turn on and off at certain time...

Who knew sorting could be so much fun? Scholars participate in a sorting activity where they develop questions to place a list of numbers in order. They consider how these questions can be used as an algorithm.

Review the multiple methods of solving quadratic equations through an analysis of the discriminant. Scholars use the discriminant to determine the best solution method and then solve various equations. As a challenge, learners build...

What was life like during the Victorian era? Images of crowded factories and lavish palaces may come to mind—and both would be accurate. Learn more about Britain during the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria with a series of informational...

Learn how to find things quickly and efficiently on the Internet. The activity teaches how search engines work and how to efficiently use them. It includes an activity where groups develop search queries to find sites using given criteria.

Teach basic logic using Boolean operators. Young computer scientists learn about the operators NOT, AND, and OR, and how they can be expressed using Boolean notation, logic gates, or truth tables. Along the way, they learn about half...

Turn your class into a group of self-motivated learners with this goal setting resource. Children will take ownership over their own education as they set goals for themselves and reflect on their progress, creating a record...

This journal entry examines the fiction of Paul Theroux in conjunction with the topic of travel in Costa Rica to make for an informative and interesting look at the Central American country.

Excerpts from Walden, with suggested discussion questions and journaling prompts.

This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with spring by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...

Scroll to the heading "Getting Started" to find several prewriting links. Topics include "Where to Start a Paper," "Keeping a Pre-writing journal," and "Exploring Ideas Through Cubing."