Middle schoolers explore transportation systems through history. For this transportation lesson, students determine how modes of transportation affect quality of life and design transportation plans for cities.

In this bees worksheet, students choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentences about bees in the correct tense agreement and expression. Students complete 21 sentences.

Ninth graders brainstorm the economic and social functions of a family. In groups, they research the roles of each member of a family in the past and compare it with their family today. In groups, they develop criteria for what the...

Fourth graders identify geographic regions (Texas' Edwards Plateau) and sequence steps in the hot rock cooking process. They compare and contrast prehistoric and contemporary cooking methods. Students conduct online research and record...

Students explore how much trash they create. In this recycling lesson, students define stewardship and conduct an experiment to see how much trash the class produces in a week. At the end of the week the students propose ways to...

Students listen to a story about school in a one-room schoolhouse.  In this cause and effect lesson, students create a Venn diagram to find the similarities and differences in schools then and now. Students discuss how past events...

Your developing language users rewrite 10 sentences by changing the underlined verbs to present perfect tense verbs with one of the helping verbs: have, has, or had. Resource contains explanatory material as well as a practice worksheet.

Take a trip to Costa Rica with th popular song "Ella y Él" by Ricardo Arjona. After listening to the song (and possibly reading the lyrics) the class discusses the general message of the song, the political nature, and other US bands...

Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking...

Upper graders read the story One Grain of Rice, and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast topics found in the story to current event topics today. Groups of three learners work together to create their diagram. The topics they must...

Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.

Learners analyze the evolution of cultural attitudes through the lens of transportation, examining several artifacts, documents, and photographs. Topics covered include how American attitudes have influenced society's evolution into a...

In this verb review instructional activity, students respond to 29 fill in the blank questions pertaining to the correct usage of present tense verbs, past tense verbs, and future tense verbs.

In this verbs practice worksheet, students respond to 40 fill in the blank questions that require them to use the appropriate forms of present and past tense verbs.

Third graders review the concepts of compare and contrast, drawing conclusions, and cause and effect. For this literary elements lesson, 3rd graders write a paragraph that compares and contrasts the past to the present. They show cause...

Students create a timeline and reinforce the concepts of past, present and future as well as scale.

Quiz class members on the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses with a helpful grammar presentation. Before learners practice their skills, they view the definition of each tense, complete with correct examples...

You can review six different verb tenses in this PowerPoint: present future, present progressive, past progressive, preterite, and imperfect. It gives examples of the proper conjugation for each tense. Tip: Provide students with a list...

Where did the Olympic Summer Games originate? The class takes a look at ancient origins of modern Olympic games. They research the Olympics and write a compare and contrast essay that describes how the Olympic Games have changed since...

Get ready to read The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 with a lesson about historical fiction. Spanning several centuries, the resource prompts learners to guess the historical era of a story based on a word or phrase...

Seven major abstract art movements are analyzed by learners in groups. Each group analyzes various works by determining which work belongs to which movement. They then read Flatland, engage in an art and literary analysis discussion,...

What is the difference between making inferences and making observations? Young climatologists refer to a PowerPoint to make observations on each slide. They record their observations in a provided worksheet before drawing a...

Today we are talking about one of the stealthiest, sneakiest, and most intriguing insects of all times, the spider. Learners will examine the predatory nature of these super bugs as they conduct a spider safari survey. Each child will...

Skeeters are used to model linear and exponential population growth in a wonderfully organized lesson plan including teachers' and students' notes, an assignment, graphs, tables, and equations. Filled with constant deep-reaching...