Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.

Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...

At the beginning of this Halloween lesson, learners generate a list of spooky characters and words that they will use when creating their original stories. Teams of 3-4 members create the stories together. The lesson includes a handy...

For this performing acts worksheet, students, working with a partner, choose one of twenty-eight actions to mime for their partner and see if they can say the sentence of what their partner is doing.

Students conduct field research of a historical site in order to discover a more complete understanding of a time period. They choose one particular historical figure and write a short poem about the site from the historical person's...

A great resource for your unit on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Small groups conduct research about related topics (list included), write papers, present PowerPoint slide shows, and take a student-created test. Fill in a few...

Students examine arguments for and against culling animals. Students, in groups, read news stories. They create a list of arguments, for and against, the culling of animals. Students debate, supporting their opinion. Students create...

Students organize a list of qualities that a person must have to become a Prime Minister in Canada, and in groups discuss the quality of choices made by each group. They compare/contrast the list with the current Prime Minister.

Young scholars analyze and create their own resume and cover letter. In this job skills lesson, students analyze the components of a cover letter and resume and complete related activities. Young scholars then draft their own cover...

Young scholars explore their personal strengths. After participating in group discussions, students list verbs that describe their talents. They observe a commercial describing characteristics and talents. Young scholars create their own...

Eleventh graders examine the contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah's pioneers.

Students use a popular American song to learn the past and present continuous tenses. They complete a web quest about the song "This Land is Your Land" and discuss it.