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Land That We Love
Students perform "Land that We Love" using correct posture, correct rhythms, and accurate pitches. Emphasis is also placed on analyzing the purpose and meaning of patriotic songs. Students correctly identify and perform repeats and...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too
Students discover how everyone is special in his or her own way. In this character traits lesson, students demonstrate how they are special by drawing a picture or writing. Students listen orally to the book We Are All Alike...We Are All...
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Hank Williams: My Inspiration
High schoolers research information about Hank Williams using the internet. Using the lyrics from his songs, they interpret the poetry used. They work together and individually to write their own poems and interpret them.
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Phytochemicals
Students identify song style and form. They create movement which shows the song form and improvise rhythm accompaniment.
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 3
students create song lyrics for two verses and one chorus. They compare their song writing process to the process described by ie Nelson and Sheryl Crow.
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Broccoli
Students figure out rhythm notation for phrases describing the benefits of broccoli. They compose four-measure patterns using the rhythms of these phrases.
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Understanding A Culture Through Storytelling
Students explore Japanese folk tales and create a performance that tells one of the Japanese folk stories.
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Instrument Research
Fourth graders work in pairs and choose one instrument from the orchestra to research. They are introduced to the software and use it to search for their instrument. They then may go onto the website, "DSOkids.com" to find out more about...
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Apples Are A...peeling
Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.
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Getting to Know You
Third graders explore different types of poetry and illustrate their own experiences through creating their own poem. In this getting to know you lesson, 3rd graders create and recite their poems with a self-portrait.
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Exploring diversity: Finding ways to learn about our multi-cultural community
Learners discuss ways to research our multicultural communities, set personal goals for learning about others, and outline a plan with specific goals to achieve their goals.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Students research the American Revolution through the story of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In this American Revolution lesson, students research folktale and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Students view illustrations for the story....
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Ingenious Inventions
Fifth graders complete a variety of activities as they study the various tools and machines that have been invented throughout history that have made life easier and tasks less difficult for modern man.
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ESL: Present Continuous Tense
For this present continuous tense worksheet, students look at pictures and choose the correct present continuous tense verb that describes the action, then answer a set of yes/no questions.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.
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May I?
Fourth graders learn what a maypole is and how one is made. They write a paper about how one is made and how it be used on the playground.
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A Famous Artist -- A Noted Musician
Young scholars are introduced to new vocabulary associated with an artist. Using this information, they use the internet to create a report on the artist along with a visual or audio aid. They present their material to the class and...
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Project EMPOWER: Awareness of Differences
Students explore the differences of others. They examine ways in which they can respect the differences between individuals. Students explore the ways in which people are similar and they recognize stereotypes they make.
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Tessellations
Fifth graders investigate the relationship between math and art by examining patterns and polygons.They examine how polygons make up the patterns that form tessellations, and determine tessellations that occur in nature. Finally, they...
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Suddenly!
Third graders explore the text "Suddenly." They create a new version of the story using the predictable patterns from the original story. Students share their stories with the rest of the class.
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Verbs and Rooms in the House
For this ESL rooms in the house vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 14 phrases that describe an activity that takes place inside a house. Students categorize each phrase by putting it under the names of 6 rooms in a house.
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Round to the Nearest Whole $
In this rounding money worksheet, students identify the money amounts in each examples and round to the nearest dollar for the 10 examples.
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Breaking News English: Microsoft Launches Bing Decision Engine
In this English worksheet, students read "Microsoft Launches Bing Decision Engine," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.