Students correspond with e-pals about their community. In this cross curriculum geography, technology, and literacy lesson, students complete a postcard webquest about their home location including local photographs. Students e-mail...

Students design a postcard with a graph and text. They research their favorite vacation spot. Pupils write a friendly letter to their parents requesting to visit this vacation destination. Students use a Circle Map, to help fill in their...

Third graders will create a postcard in order to improve reading and writing skills. They will track the pretend progress of a postcard to a destination. The learner will access the resource of the post office and realize its importance...

It's time to hear about some adventures in travel! The Transcontinental Railroad changed life and travel in the United States during the 1800s. Practicing online research skills, pupils discover the features they would like to visit on...

Are you working on a letter writing unit? Use this instructional activity on addressing letters to help your second graders' letters get to the right place! Each section helps students write out the address, return address, and message...

A basic postcard worksheet could be a creative addition to your novel unit, pen pal project, or any other activity involving writing letters or sending mail. The template provides two postcards, each with lines for a message, a space for...

Use art museum paintings as inspiration for your class's creative writing works. Observing the paintings closely, middle and high schoolers list details and write descriptions. Their completed stories are displayed on bulletin boards...

Combining art, music, dance, and reading comprehension, this lesson is geared to reach all ability levels. After reading a variety of fables and discussing story elements and character traits, class members select a moral to use as the...

In this writing worksheet, students compose a greeting on a postcard. Students write on seven lines and include a salutation and closing. The postcard includes an illustration of a first class stamp to enrich the writing experience.

Students improve their letter writing skills. When given instructions and a model for writing a letter students compose a letter with 90% accuracy in form and editing one out of two trials.

Here is a worksheet on editing. Learners read and find the errors in a friendly letter, then answer five multiple choice questions about the letter. An answer key is included.

Students listen to the book "Kate on the Coast" and plot her journey on a map. Then they decorate, address, and write a message on a postcard. They discuss where the postcards are being sent and plot the destinations on map.

Students create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or family member.

Explore cultures from around the world with an engaging pen pal resource. Through a series of classroom activities and written correspondence, children learn about the favoritec pastimes, schooling, geography, and weather that is...

Set up some time for reflection by requiring your class members to fill out postcards about the first week of school. There is space on this template for a message, the date, a recipient's name and address, and the sender's name.

Students read "A Postcard from America" by Robert Olen Butler and complete comprehension activities for the text. For this close reading lesson, students view postcards and read the example text. Students complete close reading...

Students listen to the story about  a naughty dog who writes to his owner in letter form. In this writing a letter instructional activity, students pretend to write to a character in the story and practice their literacy skills....

As Shakespeare famously wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but can the same be said for a state? In this elementary geography lesson, students are assigned specific states to research using the information...

Students listen two versions of the story of The Three Little Pigs in order to clarify the concept of point of view. They complete a Venn diagram and write a postcard to one of the book's characters using their point of view.

Students complete a geography postcard activity using Podcasting. In this geography lesson plan, students research landforms and climates of various U.S. and Canadian regions. Students write a description of their travles in the...

Middle schoolers research Everglades National Park, Three Gorges Dam, Hoover Dam, Roaring 40s, and Mariana Trench. After reviewing the sites, they choose one to illustrate a postcard with an image on one side and a description of the...

Bring evaporation right into the hands of young scientists with an entertaining, hands-on activity. Investigators view videos and images while participating in class dialogue focused on water evaporating from surfaces. A short experiment...

After completing an online activity about the Mayflower, scholars draw a picture about what they know of the Thanksgiving holiday, including a one-sentence summary. A reading of If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma is...