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Photography
Students participate in various tasks to help them talk about photography. Students discuss pictures and predict information about people in particular photographs, then role-play a paparazzi photographer and celebrity.
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Fluency Activities for Higher Levels
Students engage in activities to increase their fluency while speaking. They discuss a topic within a minute and work in teams to decide how items are related. They explore fashion and discuss styles for various ages. They select a...
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Using Songs
Students explore songs in a variety of ways to practice the English language. They work in groups to build songs and sing them to the class. They prepare an oral presentation of a singer, group, or musical genre. They contrast two...
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Christmas tips
Students integrate a wide variety of Christmas themes within this lesson. They research the background to the history of this holiday. Students create Christmas cards, crossword puzzles and write creative stories on their special...
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TEACHING SPEAKING AND LISTENING SKILLS
Students think about what you say in class. They analyze ways to help you make your language more accessible to your young learners. Students summarize how you can make listening fun and easy.
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My English classroom
Students explore all the resources for using language in the classroom. They realize that actions can speak louder than words. Students aim to keep their vision straight and narrow with an end destination.
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Evaluating Progress
Teachers explore various ways to evaluate Students progress. They study the testing of word recognition, sound discrimination, grammar knowledge, oral comprehension, and oral expression. They explore ways to provide feedback after...
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Overweight Britain
Students discuss obesity epidemic, analyze food wrappers and their content and brainstorm healthy food choices. They work together to design a poster to encourage a healthier lifestyle.
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Getting Old
Students explore the topic of aging. They study vocabulary related to various age groups, discuss getting old, and role play people of diverse ages. They read the poem, "Warning", by Jenny Joseph and discuss ways to live longer.
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Transportation in the UK
Students explore the impact of travel on the environment. They read text about transport in the United Kingdom. They match headings with appropriate paragraphs. They investigate transportation solutions for a big city.
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Interpreting workplace memos and notices
Young scholars read company memos and write summary sentences while working as part of a group.
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Driving Down the Highway: Billboards in Nebraska
Students review photos of billboards from Nebraska highways. Using these billboards as examples, students design a billboard promoting a city in Nebraska.
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Advances in Civilization: A Car or a Horse?
Fourth graders investigate the ways in which horses made transportation, hunting and agriculture much easier for the native peoples. They then compare advantages of a horse "back then" to the ease transportation (mainly cars) make on our...
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Food Travels and Preservation
Fourth graders study food processing and distribution. In this food processing lesson, 4th graders investigate various methods of food preservation. Students study methods of food distribution.
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The Great King of Ayutthaya: King Naresuan
Students appreciate the greatness of the Thai King who devoted himself to regaining the independence of Thailand.
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Art or Artifact?
Students analyze and discuss illustrations of the New World by John White. They examine the images, answer questions about each one, and write an essay.
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Noh Theater
Young scholars explore the roles in Noh drama and the significance of Noh masks while creating their own version of a Noh play in this High School lesson adaptable for either the Language Arts or Theater classroom.
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Teaching Imagery
Students review the terms idyll and imagery. They read "A Winter Idyll" from "Snowbound" as a class. They break into groups of 5 and respond/react to their lines to make connections to the text.
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Capital for Cookies
Fourth graders examine the history of Utah's economy. In this Social Studies lesson, 4th graders analyze producers and consumers role in the community. Students study Utah's economy throughout history.
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Lesson on Wayne Thiebaud
Fourth graders view Theibaud's work in order to form opinions and share in class discussions. They also critique some of the artists work using the Linderman method and recreate the artist's style of work with their own paintings.
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The 1812 Louisiana Constitution
Students analyze the Louisiana Constitution of 1812 and then draw up a constitution for their particular school. They compare the Louisiana Constitution to the United States Constitution of 1789 and create a graphic organizer of both...
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Holidays: Stress on the Body
Learners read an article on stress and holiday weight gain. In this biology lesson, students research about the body's response to excess sugar in the diet. They create a pamphlet, billboard, newscast or journal article containing...
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Death and the Deerfield Graveyard
Students learn how death is an indicator of the community beliefs and values, and how have the rituals surrounding death changed over time.
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What Is The Challenge? Manet
Students create a contemporary presentation in which they internalize the information concerning Manet.