Fourth graders create greeting cards to special persons for a special holiday.

Third graders come up with a career for each letter of the alphabet.

Young scholars are engaged in discussing air quality through hands-on demonstrations using balloons, sealed jars, and toy cars. Students conduct a home radon test to measure their air quality.

Students read 'They Called Her Moses," create a wanted poster for Tub man, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and in groups, create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time...

Students understnad the importance of keeping our rivers and streams pollution free by remembering the major rivers of northeast Kansas. The see how the rivers contain particles of every substance that drains into them.

Third graders write an essay which answers the question, "What kind of student do you want to be?"

Students choose a subject for a biographical research paper. They use books, the Internet, encyclopedias and articles to gather information on a determined subject then follow a rubric to write a research paper.

Ninth graders create Powerpoint Presentation using information and assignments from previous two lessons. They compare Odysseus's obstacles with those from their own lives, and share slideshows with classmates.

Fourth graders open the lines of communication between family members and to gain a historical understanding about family history. They research and interview their grandparents and parents and create a research paper.

Fourth graders view a teacher-made PowerPoint presentation on how photoelectric devices work, and then they answer FCAT-like questions on the material presented. They answer questions about what they viewed in an assignment imbedded in...

Students investigate dialect in poetry as an indication of a people's culture in literature. They write a poem about dating in this era.

These fifteen slides help students master spelling words that end in -le, -el, or -al.

Print this worksheet and practice spelling words that end with al, el, or le. Click the "Answers" button to see how you did.

This Prezi presentation introduces the two ways we spell the short oo sound.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 30 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.3.2.F: Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families,...

Contains plans for six second or third grade lessons that use "Henry and Mudge: The First Book" by Cynthia Rylant to teach high-frequency spelling words, base words, the past tense marker -ed, phonemic patterns, predicting, and...

Practice spelling by choosing the correct ending (al, el, or le) for ten words. Check your answers and try again on any you missed. Then move on to another quiz with ten new words.

In this lesson, students will become word detectives to find spelling patterns in a story, and then sort the words they find according to the patterns. This "word detective" will become a favorite independent activity throughout the...

This spelling lesson on words that end in the shun sound includes flashcards, opportunities to practice, a test, and two games, all designed to reinforce learning the meaning and spelling of these words.

A list of spelling words with -tion, -cian and-sion suffixes.

A library of word searches for practicing vocabulary and spelling. Each word search focuses on a family of words with a similar spelling pattern.

A list of over 100 words ending in -al, -il, -le, and -el.

Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to make spelling cards grouped by spelling patterns. These cards are then used in a "Go Fish" style card game. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...

Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; young scholars use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.