This slideshow lesson focuses on revising using teacher comments. It discusses the advantages of teacher notes on rough drafts, how to use the notes to improve the final, examples from sections of marked student papers, editing and...

This companion website for a PBS documentary about Hans Hofmann includes all the essential information about Hofmann, whose reputation as a teacher almost eclipses his reputation as an artist. Wonderful site for exploring how artists...

This blog post provides background on the concept of Driving Questions as a basis for Project-Based Learning and gives some direction for how to create them. The links at the end of the blog allow teachers to explore this technique more...

How can we use questioning to create lead sentences and details in order to create a purposeful paragraph? This PDF lesson offers an organization technique that asks students to pre-plan paragraphs by brainstorming interesting questions...

This complete unit plan includes an overview of student activities, a number of activities for the class, complete with handouts and rubrics, and a student guide that explains what will be learned and how.

If you're looking for a complete list of art critique questions, this is the site for you! You'll find ideas for description, analysis, elements, technique, judgement, and audience.

This informative website contains pages discussing the history of Navajo pottery. Provides photos and explanations of various pottery techniques. Teachers can use these lessons to show learners how to create and fire their own pottery!

Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....

Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....

A great resource for teachers, students, and performers of string instruments. Very indepth "how-to" descriptions, care information, procedural movies, and more.

Through this series of Internet-based learning experiences and activities, young scholars will use real-time data to track a real ship at sea and monitor weather conditions. Includes a teacher's guide with problem-solving lesson plans...

Discover more about your favorite children's author, Eric Carle, when you visit this biography. Students and teachers will gain a new perspective of this author's life and work.

A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.

A lesson plan to help middle schoolers understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.

This PDF is a Common Core teacher resource that provides a list of questions for students to use with fiction works. It includes questions for before, during, after reading, and determining author's purpose, viewpoint, and techniques.

Discover how writing in a journal can boost your students reading skills when you read this article. This article sites ways to integrate writing with teaching math skills.

Students will learn the basic concepts necessary to produce broadcast quality audio recordings of human speech (which can then be used in professional radio or television productions). Lesson 1 of 3.

"The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln is one page, non-fiction speech given at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1963. It is followed by an assignment asking students to...

Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...

This site features a lesson plan for how middle school students can learn to reflect on poetry readings. Students and teachers will benefit from this informative resource.

Providing tips, lessons, and ideas for saxophone players, whether they are just starting out or they are fine-tuning their techniques, this website is an excellent resource for students and educators alike. Some of the highlight of Ryan...

Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels....

This lesson plan is designed to help students learn to make estimates. Resources are linked to help support the teacher and offer exploration and practice to students.

In this lesson, students interpret how words are used in a literary text and examine how word choice affects meaning and tone. A sample analysis of a poem is presented, terms are defined, and question stems for assessment purposes are...