Talk about intrinsic motivation! Begin where your young scholars' natural interests lie  -- with themselves -- and launch a variety of projects with this activity. Class members research important events that took place on their...

Here is an interesting plan for introducing your pupils to the workings of the local city council. The teacher must go videotape a city council meeting in it's entirety. Learners watch the tape, and discuss what they observed from the...

Students explore and investigate the foundation and history of jazz music. They listen to various pieces of music while creating drawings, develop a timeline of jazz history, and read and discuss biographies of famous jazz musicians.

Fourth graders explore their ancestral background while they experience genealogy.