Follow poetry instruction with a four-category rubric designed to guide budding poets' writing of free verse poetry. 

Students are provided with a six-step process for empowering students to plan and implement civic participation projects in the community. They look into solutions to community problems and seek ideas for actions project in response to...

A reading of Whale Journey, a fact-filled picture book by Vivian French, launches a study of the life cycle and migration of three generations of gray whales. The interdisciplinary lesson plan offers opportunities extensions into all...

First graders create games of their choice to be played with the class to reinforce their knowledge of prefixes. This six-day lesson plan includes an excellent worksheet and assessment. I like the use of educational games!

High schoolers are challenged to investigate the physical and chemical properties of plastics and use them to design a system that could be used to separate them. 1st year chemistry students use density for separation, high schoolers...

Seventh graders describe how the traits of an organism are passed from generation to generation. They distinguish between asexual and sexul reproduction. Students identify traits through genes and those resulting from interactions with...

Sometimes it's hard to get your English language learners speaking in a natural manner. Print out this board game to provide learners with several opportunities to speak. Everyone gets a chance to participate in this game! 

Young mathematicians explore the maximun area for patio with the added complexity of finding the mimimum cost for construction. First, they maximize the area of a yard given a limited amount of fence and  plot width v. area on a...

Explore word choice in writing. Your class listens to a short story entitled "A Nice Day" (included) and discusses how the story could be improved. Pupils replace the word nice throughout the story with various synonyms, then reread the...

An excellent review of the very specific stages of mitosis, the detailed slides start with explanations of the directionality of DNA and then develop the concept of daughter strands. The intricate diagrams are intended for experienced...

Using your senses, apprehend the effects of contaminants in water. With a global focus, young scientists conduct a safe experiment by tasting sugar and salt water with different dilutions. After reviewing threshold limits, learners write...

Challenge your students with this activity on misplaced and dangling modifiers. This 20 question worksheet could be used after a lesson on this topic to cement students' understanding.

Here are four familiar pictures and words for emerging readers: dog, mouse, cat, and hen. After examining the image and spelling, they draw something that rhymes with each in the space provided. Encourage pre-readers to sound...

What rhymes with fox? Get learners engaged with rhyming words through this drawing worksheet featuring four single-syllable words for beginning readers. For each, they draw something that rhymes with the word. Challenge learners who need...

Uncover the hidden pictures. There are two sets of shapes here, and each has a CVC word inside. Beginning readers follow directions by coloring all the shapes with words that rhyme with a given sound (in for the first and ug for the...

There are hidden pictures here, but scholars must find the rhyming words to uncover them. They follow directions by coloring in only the shapes that rhyme with a given sound. Although the pictures aren't that well hidden, this puts a fun...

Get scholars thinking about the scientific process with this fun experiment they can do at home. Learners practice reading directions as they underline each instruction in a procedural paragraph. They create a flow chart and record...

One of these words doesn't belong! As they practice first-letter recognition, scholars examine rows of familiar objects to determine what letter each begins with. For each row of three items, they decide which does not begin with the...

Usually playing I Spy in the bathroom causes trouble, but not in this worksheet! Little readers look for objects that begin with the letters b and t. They circle the objects in the picture, count how many of each they found, and write...

If you're looking for a fun way to practice initial phonemes with emerging readers, look no further! They examine a farm scene to find things that begin with f, h, or g, writing the total number they found in a box beside...

Start out your alphabet practice right using this phonics and printing worksheet. Pre-readers begin by tracing and printing lowercase letters a and b and adding them to an incomplete alphabet at the bottom. They connect...

Become acquainted with the lowercase letters i and j and the many words that begin with them. First, printers follow guiding arrows to trace each letter, writing several on their own. Next, they connect the letters to...

Pair printing practice with initial sound recognition using a matching activity. Learners focus on lowercase letters m and n as they match each to words that begin with the same sound. There is space for printing...