See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...

Students make purposeful choices for their reading materials, thinking about their reasons for reading a book and using strategies to match books to their abilities.

This study guide is designed to help students begin thinking about groundwater - where it comes from, why it's important, and how it can be conserved and protected. The guide includes a brief overview of groundwater, a glossary, and...

Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.

With this printout, simply choose a one-word topic, write each letter of the word vertically in all capital letters, and then write words or phrases that describe the topic and begin with each letter of the word. It could be adapted for...

This instructional activity has students create stories that reflect wiki kind of reading. Students begin by reading untraditional books that use fragmented storylines, multiple perspectives, and unresolved plots. They apply these same...

This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the beginning chess player a wonderful overview on chess - the board, how the pieces move, and scoring. Questions are interspersed in the flipchart to review how each chess piece...

An exercise for students to analyze the classification of nouns and verbs. They begin by considering nouns as a person, place, or thing, and verbs as action words. Students then study more specific uses of nouns and verbs and rethink...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Creative thinking skills lesson- begins by briefly looking at what poverty is, and then challenges the students to think of solutions without framing answers for them.

This presentation helps students think about their daily lives and what right and responsibilities occur. An interactive discussion begins the lesson followed by a game of dominoes so small groups of students can all take part.

Brief discussion of German book burning with a picture of an SA officer throwing a book on a fire.

This unit focuses on teaching students about the many aspects of biomedical engineering (BME). Students will see that it is a broad field that relies on concepts from each of the other disciplines of engineering. They will also begin to...

A student asks Dr. Math for help to understand the concept of direct and inverse variation. The Dr. begins with the very basics and gives a great discussion on variation. The Dr. includes the thinking process and examples.

At this site you will find am online discussion about the centroid of a triangle. The page begins with a discussion of observations leading to the centroid of a triangle. Dr. Math explains the correct findings as well as the errors made...