Find two dozen lesson plans developed by California teachers that use pieces from the Getty's collection as source material for interdisciplinary approaches to arts and language arts learning.

This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.

Students will explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

This language arts lesson applies hands-on materials to help students apply the sensory details need for writing. It also incorporates writing skills for comparing and contrasting. In addition, students will utilize Thinkfinity...

This lesson incorporates the art of improvisation with writing a collaborative short story. Students will learn the relationships music has with other disciplines outside of the arts.

With Vuillard's painting of a park in Paris as a backdrop, students will explore the social concepts of parks both in this painting and their own life.

This site has nine great lesson plans involving the use of a digital camera in a language arts class. There are suggested activities for students in every grade level.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

The objectives in this lesson plan will have students describing the characteristics of poetry, jazz, rap and hip hop music. Students will also analyze how poetry, jazz, hip hop and poetry reflect the culture of the time.

[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, learners can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.

Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...

This lesson plan is perfect in an ESL classroom. "Abuela's Weave" is the story of a young girl from Guatemala and the beautiful tapestry she creates. Includes prereading questions, vocabulary, and activities to integrate into other...

This is an interdisciplinary language development unit addressing science and language arts standards designed for English Language Learners. In the week-long unit students will learn the life cycle of plants and discuss various uses for...

In this interdisciplinary unit addressing science and language arts standards, English Language Learners will learn the life cycle of insects. They will also use the writing of a renowned children's author, Eric Carle, as a model for...

Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.

This lesson plan is one of the first in a unit on telling time which addresses the following content areas: language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. Students will read several resource books to gather information....

This lesson will focus on how bills become laws. This interdisciplinary lesson combines social studies, language arts and reading skills and concepts. Young scholars will research the topic through the Internet and other digital...

This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson plan where students can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students...

Students meet both language arts and social studies objectives in this interdisciplinary unit on customs and cultures. In part 1 of the unit students practice research and writing skills to create a slideshow. In part 2 of the unit...

This hands-on lesson combines social studies, language arts, and technology. Fourth grade students begin by researching and collecting information from a variety of sources. Students develop an appreciation of the difficulties endured by...

In this lesson students will do a variety of learning activities while they meet many math, science, and language arts objectives. Students will measure items, analyze and record data, listen to instructions, and follow directions. They...

Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.

Nice lesson plan for grades 5-6 that explores poetry and personal expression through the work of Gwendolyn Brooks. Has lots of activities but could easily be modified for time. Has nearly everything you need to do the lesson!

A great cross-curricular activity, students will create a diamante poem based on their feelings regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.