The LTTA methodology captivates and motivates students to learn through a unique blending of the sequential approach embodied in the core curriculum with the insight, physicality, and expressive power of the arts to work on real concepts...

Students will be introduced to the first African American Regiment that fought in the Civil War through a memorial sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. They will compare and contrast the experiences of these soldiers through their...

Students will explore life on a nineteenth-century farm by analyzing a painting of "Mahantango Valley Farm" and researching the Manual of Agriculture (1862). They will then write a journal entry of a day in the life of a young person on...

Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...

From the site: "It was supposed to be a short-term research project. Instead, it became a lifetime of learning. Along the way, people learned to see gorillas in a whole new light. 'A Conversation with Koko' tells the remarkable story of...

Thinking creatively about written language is an important communication skill developed by this lesson, which can be used with passages from any book being read by students. Includes student handout and evaluation rubric.

This lesson plan has a new approach to vocabulary building where students generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.

This 8 question quiz on sentences presents a sentence and asks students questions about its structure. Java is required.

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Read about the surrealist Spanish painter Salvador Dali and view examples of his work in his native language, Spanish.

Open-source encyclopedia entry on Spain. Provides an overview of Spain's history, politics, administrative divisions, geography, economy, languages, peoples, religion, art, and culture.

Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day,"...

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These free printable worksheets help students practice finding root words.