Sight words fly across the screen like popcorn in this innovative activity. Focusing on fifteen simple words, this presentation features animation and repetition techniques to help viewers remember what they have learned.

Help your learners make their writing more meaningful and lively. They review the ways verbs are used in a sentence, describe passive and active types, and discuss techniques for improving their writing. This resource could be a...

What a terrific presentation! It takes learners through a step-by-step explanation to create a new type of chocolate bar, advertise the product, and design a presentation. This is a creative way to get your class writing and thinking...

Your class will love this spelling activity. Learners create words based on a particular pattern. It is a great way to have them practice spelling patterns and identifying rhyming words. This technique could be used with a variety of...

Young writers discover that personification is when a writer gives an object the qualities of a person. After practicing identifying personification in many of the slides, individuals compose their own poem that uses this technique. They...

Have your class write adventure stories. In a step-by-step manner, learners discuss techniques that can be used to make their stories interesting and complete. They analyze the purpose of the story, the ways they can generate excitement,...

Give kids a few strategies to help them become amazing problem solvers. This presentation is intended to be used over a two-day period and presents several techniques or ways to solve word problems or multiplication problems by...

This is an outstanding presentation on graphs and statistics. Learners choose which type of graph is being shown, and also gain practice in the techniques used to find the mean, median, and mode of sets of numbers. Very good!

Here is a very fine worksheet you can use to teach your charges how to add decimals. There are 21 problems, and an excellent example of how this technique is used at the top of the page. An answer key makes up the second part of this...

Sign language is an effective way to communicate with those special needs, hearing, impaired, and non-verbal pupils. This lesson provides a highly structured way to learn or teach ASL. Included are multiple links to images, descriptions,...

Ever consider becoming an interpreter for a special needs or hearing impaired pupil? ASL lesson 13 focuses on becoming an interpreter and also on research. Included are many links to visual aids and video intended to guide your...

Comparing and rounding decimals are skills that take practice. This presentation does a great job of clearly showing how to do these techniques, and has many slides where learners get practice while being guided through all of the steps....

The four major types of angles, right, obtuse, acute, and straight are described in this fine presentation. First, the important vocabulary associated with angles is presented, then the types of angles are described. A protractor is...

One of the most practical ways to teach about percentages is to use the real-life example of "sale" or "discount" pricing. This presentation poses many of these type of problems for young mathematicians who are trying to master the...

Have your class explore alcohol awareness public service announcements. Provided are a detailed plan and a complete set of materials for doing just this. Learners are exposed to a series of approaches and advertisements and decide which...

Young learners explore gender roles in advertising by taking an ad campaign they have seen which is specifically directed to one gender, and redesigning the campaign to target the opposite gender. After leading a guided discussion about...

If your class needs a look at the causes of the Dust Bowl, you've found it. All the reasons the Dust Bowl occurred are provided: poor farming techniques, bad economics, and drought conditions. The eventual effects those had on the people...

Working on analogies in your language arts class? Use this straightforward worksheet to address common techniques and strategies used to solve analogies. This activity is a great way to review vocabulary and to reinforce logical thinking...

Which one has the most? Each row has three sets of identical objects, and scholars compare the sets to determine which has the most or the least (they find the most for the first four and the least for the last four). One example is...

What word is it? Build fluency with sight words using this sounding out strategy which enforces silent reading techniques. There are more than enough words included here on index card templates, but you can use this idea with any set...

What will happen next? Leave readers at a cliffhanger as they practice prediction strategies while listening to a story. Pupils start by making guesses based on the book's cover and title, discussing the techniques they use to make these...

Help readers develop awareness of comprehension issues and employ tools for better understanding. The best way to begin this strategy is to model it through a think aloud. Choose a book scholars will also be reading, preferably one they...

First aid is a skill anyone can and should learn. Give kids a good set of life skills such as tending to small wounds, bleeding, sprains, or insect stings. Slides provide text to reinforce each major first aid skill. Tip: You need a...

Hoopsters! Looking for something to use to teach your hoopsters a bit about the game of basketball? Use this very comprehensive PowerPoint to teach everything from the history of the sport, to skill techniques, to game plays. Included...