Students use the process of journaling to make discoveries about the moon. This activity involves having students write observations about the moon in a journal. Using their observations they go to an online resource and choose...

In this lesson, writers will create a detailed journal entry from the point of view of a character who never actually existed. The journal entry will be for a day in history that the writer has researched and found interesting...

Contains plans for lessons that ask learners to write journal entries about texts they have read by responding to open-ended questions. The book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Richard Atwater is used as an example. In addition to objectives...

The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...

Students often classify objects by size and shape. Now they will look more at the properties of objects such as hardness, flexibility, and texture. Included in this lesson are examples of student's science journal entries, a video of the...

The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...

Students read the book The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along by Mahlon Hoagland to examine the sixteen patterns of life presented in the book. As students study...

This instructional activity focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Students learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal...

The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the learners. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss...

After a study of the Creek War, students will explore perspectives of families on both sides of the war. Students will compose journal entries from a selected social class of the era to develop and exhibit an understanding and...

This article focuses on journal writing including the benefits, goals for parents and teachers, materials needed, journal exercises, and teaching kids how to keep a journal.

"The Trip of the Horla" is a short story that unfolds in a series of journal entries about strange incidents occurring near the writer's home. Read the full text of this Guy de Maupassant short story.