Should school and professional teams test athletes for sickle cell trait? Will it protect them by providing knowledge or lead to discrimination by not allowing them to participate in sports? After learning about this genetic disorder,...

What was the overall behavior of your class while you were away and they were with the substitute? Which students had difficulty in particular subject areas, and which were more challenging than others? Get the answers to these...

Listen to the sound of children's fingers flying across their keyboards as they perform these fun typing lessons. From creating alphabet books and multimedia presentations to researching presidents and writing class...

Add a game-like aspect to class discussion or writing with a die that has something other than numbers on it. You or your learners can roll the die to decide if it's time analyze, compare and contrast, describe, explain and illustrate,...

Support math instruction at home with a helpful reference sheet designed for parents. Three pages cover the subject of addition with written details and labeled pictures. 

Here's a graphic that provides learners a place to record their ideas on any topic. After identifying a subject, they record their ideas within the follage of the tree.

This Earth Day, celebrate our beautiful planet with an activity book that challenges scholars to show off their map skills, complete a crossword puzzle, write acrostic poems, alphabetize, and reflect on their personal Earth-friendly habits.

Don't just rely on adjectives to describe the nouns in your sentence! Use a handy instructional activity to review prepositional and adjective phrases. Learners read eight sentences and add prepositional phrases as adjectives after...

Forming a strong organizational outline is important when reading a complex text, writing an informative essay, or analyzing a complicated problem. Use a straightforward organization outline to teach learners about concept mapping.

Make the thought process visible with a handy concept map organizer. As learners develop their main ideas in research, writing, or creative development, they can add details and like ideas to the worksheet as needed.

This activity is helpful! Young grammarians review ten simple sentences, each with a subject, linking verb, and predicate adjective, before noting each part of speech appropriately.

Three lessons delve deep into the topic of feelings and the importance of expressing one's emotions. Through grand conversation, hands-on learning experiences, and reflective writing, scholars interpret the ups and downs of everyday...

Beyonce's "Halo" and Bruno Mars' "Grenade" provide eighth graders with an opportunity to consider how a writer's choice of words can create a very different tone even when the subject is the same. After a close reading of both lyrics,...

How does COVID-19 affect a global economy? The final installment in a three-part series explores the economic impact of the illness on a global scale. High school historians discuss globalization and analyze sources of data to understand...

Two activities look at how rumors are spread and ways class members can stop them. The first activity brings forth an in-depth conversation about how reporters gather information to write articles and how students can implement the same...

"Who takes over if a president dies, resigns, is impeached, or is otherwise removed from office?" That is the question class members research. After listing the 18 successors in order, individuals respond in writing to a series of...

Have you ever wanted to learn more about a subject after you finished a great book? Guide ninth graders through an inquiry-based research project as they finish the first chapter of Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation. Having...

Ninth graders are introduced to the rule for subject and verb agreement. In groups, they discuss the differences between formal and informal English and identify situations in which one or the other is acceptable. To end the lesson,...

In this writing paper worksheet, students write on paper that is decorated with clip art of shamrocks, flowers, and birds. This paper could be used for St. Patrick's Day writing activities as the students writing on plain black lines.

In this Halloween writing paper worksheet, students can write a note on paper that is decorated with a Halloween bat and a grave that says R.I.P. There are no directions with this page.

In this complete and simple subject learning exercise, students underline the complete subject in the sentences and write the simple subject. Students complete 15 problems.

Fifth graders write a paragraph titled "All About Me" in the computer lab after they have drawn graphic organizers to fill in background information about themselves and used a "10-Point Writing Checklist" to do peer editing.

In this writing sentences worksheet, students test their grammar skills and their knowledge of expressions of frequency. Students write 10 correct sentences and change the verbs depending on the subject.

In this sentence structure worksheet, students write sentences, write the subject and predicate, and punctuate correctly. Students complete 3 activities.