LA Ideas (5)

Below are some cool sites for Language Arts Activities, bonus: comes with lesson plans!

Alphabet, Punctuation, & Sounds:

• A good lesson on Punctuation and Use of Quotations
  
• This lesson is on Punctuation Marks and their use in Oral Reading
  
• This is an interesting idea involving Human Punctuation Marks
  
• Students use pasta to punctuate character trait quotations in this fun lesson
  
• In this lesson, students will be writing contractions in a poem
  
• This lesson on capitalization in direct quotes features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
  
• This capitalization lesson for proper nouns and adjectives also features instructional strategies for multiple intelligences
  

Drama & Speech:

• A brief idea for a Talk Show Skit on Alcohol and Tobacco
  
• This idea is called Talk Time and is a good 1st Day of School activity to get students talking
  
• Here's a lesson that gets your students to "Jump" into a Story
  
• Although not a lesson plan, these fun Tongue Twisters can come in handy
  
• This lesson is on Creative Drama and Improvisation
  
• This Drama lesson is on Aristotle's 6 Elements of a Play
  
• Oral Language Practice can be achieved with Silly Story Starters in this lesson
  
• This is a fabulous 8-day multidisciplinary unit on deafness and American Sign Language
  
• "Falling for Rapunzel" is a short adapted play or Reader's Theater piece that even rhymes
  

Foreign Language:

• This lesson is called Count in Espanol
  
• Here's a Teacher's Guide to using Foreign Language Songs in the classroom (La Bamba)
  
• Here's a brief idea for writing Dates in French and back (the different date formats)
  
• Click here to count to 10 and say greetings in German
  
• This fun hands-on lesson teaches students Spanish language and culture as they improve their Baleros skills.
  
• Conjugate French ER verbs with the help of Frere Jacques
  
• In this foreign language direction vocabulary lesson, students search for "my lost dog"
  
• Students find out how to say "Thank you" in other languages in this internet search idea
  

English as a Second Language (ESL):

• This game idea is for building up vocabulary
  

Parts Of Speech:

• A language arts lesson plan on decoding phonograms
  
• This one is on Casey At The Bat
  
• This idea for Word Usage involves the use of an Internet site
  
• This lesson teaches the Parts of Speech by using Computers
  
• Here's a game idea on Common and Proper Nouns
  
• This lesson called "Musical Terms" actually teaches Language Arts Terms
  
• This Charades game idea is on Nouns and Verbs
  
• Another Charades game, this one on the Parts of Speech
  
• A fun activity idea for learning Compound Nouns
  
• This is a brief idea for teaching Prepositions with song
  
  
• This idea uses Parent Teacher Conferences to get students thinking about Adjectives
  
• This lesson plan has a catchy title - "Nicky Noun and Victor Verb"
  
• Here's a good game idea called "Power Verb"
  
• This lesson on Prepositional Phrases is called "Preposition Boogie"
  
• This is just a song to help students remember Helping Verbs
  
• Here's a learning activity for the Kinetic Parts of Speech
  
• A lesson that involves Matching with Synonyms and Antonyms
  
• Teaching Past Tense Verbs is the subject of this lesson
• This lesson plan is on Abstract Nouns (as well as other Nouns)
  
• Adjectives are the focus of this idea using newspaper Movie Reviews
  
  
• A fun Common and Proper Noun Activity Idea
  
• Here's a brief idea for Verbs and Adjectives called "My Favorite Things"
  
• A lesson on Metaphors and Metaphorical Vocabulary Definitions
  
• Here is a great game on learning compound words
  
• In this lesson, students read "Buffaloes Before Breakfast" and learn about compound words
  
• Use this fun activity to review parts of speech before a test
  
• This is an idea for reviewing prepositions
  
• This Squeezy Ball Father's Day idea teaches gerunds and reduces stress
  
• Alliteration using Adverbs and Adjectives is the subject of this lesson
  
• Students work in groups to create an adjective picture poster in this lesson
  
  
• Here is [a, an] article lesson
  
• Vanquish weak verbs like "went" with the "Vivid Verb Word Bank" lesson (but don't try to say it 3 times)
  
• Use this Tongue Twister template to practice parts of speech
  
• This lesson uses fortune cookies to motivate students to "find the verb" or other parts of speech
  
• This is a lesson on adjectives (See how boring this description is without them!)
  
• Here as a story character, students write about their "Caribbean Dream" using verbs from the story
  
• This lesson idea combines adverbs of frequency (always, sometimes, rarely, or never) with interviewing
  
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  Nouns as ideas is illustrated in the non-objective art lesson
  
• This lesson provides a little tic-tac-toe fun with adjectives
  
• This adjective lesson uses a semantics map
  

Poetry:

• A Cooperative Learning Language Arts lesson plan on Poetry
  
• This lesson is on Poetry and Teamwork, using a Poem from Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul
  
• Here's a lesson on Valentine Cinquain Poems
  
• An interesting lesson idea for Poetry About Chocolate (for Chocolate Week)
  
• Students will write Haiku Poetry and Create a Picture for their State in this lesson
  
• Here's an idea called "Fruit Poetry" focusing on Similies and Metaphors
  
• This is a Poetry lesson that focuses on the differences between Prose and Poetry
  
• A fun "Fill In The Blanks" Lesson with Shel Silverstein Poems
  
• Students create Mother's Day Cards with Poems in this lesson idea
  
• "Odes to my (Bilingual) Classroom" is a good end of the year idea
  
  
• This is a good idea for Writing Poetry using the first lines of existing poems
  
• Writing poetry is fun when you are adding couplets to Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
  
• This poem template helps students create poetry to be read by next year's class
  
• If a goofy female horse is a "Silly Filly," then a wet canine is a ____ _____
  
• In this lesson, students write color imagery poems based on Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill.
  
• This inspiring lesson is based on the poetry of a 13-year-old muscular dystrophy victim
  
• This fundraising idea involves publishing student poetry on a calendar
  
• This is an Ode to Thanksgiving Poem which can be expanded as a writing activity
  

Reading - Compare & Contrast:

• This Language Arts lesson involves Multicultural Fairy Tales
  
• In this lesson, students Compare & Contrast "The Mouse Before Christmas" and "The Night Before Christmas"
  
• Students compare two specific Christmas-Themed Books in this idea
  
• Folktales Around The World represent the topic of this lesson plan
  
• Students Compare and Contrast the Characters from "Mufaro's Daughters" in this short lesson
  
• Grab your big ears, binoculars, and fake poop and come investigate context clues with "The Snoop"
  

Reading - Comprehension:

• This one is called Sketch To Stretch for Language Arts and Art
  
• This Reading lesson is on Predicting, Understanding, and Fluency
  
• Here is a good Method for Teaching Comprehension Skills
  
• Here's an idea to increase Reading Comprehension through Visualization
  
• Here's an interesting lesson - a Pre-Read "Tea Party" for Island of the "Blue Dolphins" - Comprehension
  
• This Reading / Predicting lesson uses the textbook "A Soft Pillow for an Armadillo"
  
• AIMS SURE COUNT - A simple Acronym to help learn Reading Skills
  
• This idea focuses on the "SPREADS" Reading Comprehension Skills
  
• Increasing Comprehension Skills is the goal of this lesson on Coal Mining and "Danger At The Breaker"
  
• Kinesthetic Learning is used in this lesson to build Reading Comprehension through Kickball
  
  
• In this lesson, "Miss Alaineus" teaches inferencing and summarizing reading comprehension strategies
  
• In this sequence comprehension lesson, students make a 6-square story quilt
  

Reading - Literature:

• This lesson plan uses the story Beluga Passage and focuses on Beluga Whales
  
• A lesson using Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Japanese History
  
  
• Below are the parts of an in-depth thematic unit on the book Ben And Me
  
  • An Introduction to the Ben And Me Unit
    
  • This page contains an Overview of the Unit
    
  • Here are the Unit's Key Concepts
    
  • These are the Objectives for each lesson in the unit
    
  • Lesson 1 of the Unit deals with who Benjamin Franklin was
    
  • The second lesson is titled Words Of Wisdom To Live By
    
  • This lesson deals with Famous Inventions
    
  • Lesson 4 deals with the Mouse's point of view
    
  • The last lesson involves making a kite
    
  
  
• A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Summer Song," written by the author
  
• A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Libby Bloom," written by the author
  
  
• This complete, multidisciplinary thematic unit is on Charlotte's Web AND Spiders (not listed in order):
  
  • This part deals with the End of the book, and involves launching a Balloon Journey
    
  • Here's a Writing Activity involving the students' Favorite Parts
    
  • This section is on the Main Characters and Quoting
    
  • This portion is on Acting Out portions of the book
    
  • This lesson is on Predicting with Charlotte's Web
    
  • This part uses a Crossword Puzzle to learn Scientific Facts about Spiders
    
  • This section is on Finding Spiders' Homes
    
  • A similar section - Finding Where Spiders Live
    
  • Here's More on Finding Where Spiders Live
    
  • This portion is on writing Haiku Poems about Spiders
    
  • Here students take on the roles of Arachnologists and Interview each other
    
  • The Spider's Life Cycle is the subject of this lesson
    
  • Graphing the Lengths of Spiders is the subject of this part
    
  • More Graphing, this time with Facts about Spiders
    
  • Here students Plot Facts about Spiders
    
  • Another Math lesson, this one using Spider Math Problems
    
  • This part involves doing Research on Spiders
    
  • A fun activity for developing Spider Webs out of cold Spaghetti
    
  • This portion is on Spiders' Venom
    
  • A Writing Activity about Wilbur's First Day
    
  
  
• This collection of lesson ideas on Shared Reading of Tall Tales can be fun and helpful:
  
  • This first one is on the classic tale of Johnny Appleseed
    
  • The Emperor and the Kite is the subject of this one
    
  • This one covers The Princess and the Golden Shoes
    
  • Here's one on the old tale of Pecos Bill
    
  • This one covers Paul Bunyan
    
  • This concluding idea helps to wrap things up
    
  • This one can also serve as a closing to the Tall Tales activities
    
  
  
• A Reading lesson on the story "Sarah, Plain and Tall"
  
• Here's a teaching guide for the book "The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel," written by the book's author
  
• This Native American lesson uses "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee"
  
• The first part of a lesson on "Holes" by Louis Sachar - Introduction and Supplemental Information
  
• This second part on "Holes" includes Teacher Pages for each chapter
  
• This one is on the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Book and includes writing
• Just a brief idea for a complex lesson on Romeo and Juliet
  
• This "novel" diorama project combines reading, writing, speech, and art
  
• After reading The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser, why not make some?
  
• Coretta Scott King Award-Winner books are introduced to children in this literature lesson
  

Reading - Story Elements:

• A Language Arts lesson plan on Theme and on Giving
  
• A lesson plan on Developing a Character
  
• A Language Arts lesson on Climax
  
• A Reading and Writing activity on the author Gary Soto
  
• Analyzing and Identifying Character Traits are the focus of this lesson
  
• This lesson is on Character, Setting, and Plot using the Brave Little Monster
  
• Here's a creative way for students to comprehend the elements of a short story
  
• In this lesson, students create a literary elements advance organizer
  
• This teacher uses How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World to teach second person point of view, geography, and much more
  
• This lesson answers the question "What is genre?"
  
  
• This literary elements lesson uses a "narrator's point of view"
  

Reading - Other:

• A Reading lesson dealing with rain forests
  
• This great lesson plan is on Reading for Meaning and Vocabulary Skills
  
• This lesson plan is meant to teach students to Increase their Read Speed and Comprehension
  
• This lesson called "Book Blurbs" helps students with Reading Comprehension and Identifying Climax
  
• This idea involves recording your students' Reading
  
• An idea for stimulating Reading Motivation by making a "Banana Book Split"
  
• This lesson plan is on Pancake Day / Mardi Gras and involves numerous books about pancakes
  
• After reading about acts of unkindness, students create a web of compliments
  

Research:

• A very thorough lesson on creating an alphabet book and research
  
• The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to use a newspaper index
  
• This lesson builds familiarity with reference sources by researching night creatures (good for Halloween)
  
• This is a game idea for using an index
  
• In this project, students research, write, and use media to help a local environmental issue
  
• Here students research geographical landmarks after learning about tall tales and The Bunyans
  

Sentences & Paragraphs:

• A lesson plan on Quotations
  
• An idea to help students remember the format of a Paragraph - called "Hamburger Paragraph"
  
• A fun activity for creating Sentences out of Candy Hearts (Valentine's day)
  
• Here's a Sentence Development Activity idea
  
• A Special Education idea for Creating Sentences
  
• This is a Typing activity called "Finish The Sentence"
  
• This lesson is on Expanding Sentences and Paragraphs for Details
  
• "Whose Sentence Is It Anyway?" - a lesson on Sentence Structure
  
• Students Write a Paragraph on making a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich in this lesson
  
• Here is a lesson that involves identifying complete subjects and predicates
  
  
• Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
  
• "Better Paragraphs Using Math Formulas" is an 8-day paragraph teaching plan for students of all ability levels
  
• This is the rubric for the preceding formula paragraph lesson plan
  
• In this lesson, students "shop" for sentences
  
• This lesson teaches that successful paragraphs contain variety and proper punctuation
  
• Here is a lesson on sensible sentences
  
• This is a dialogue writing lesson
  
• This lesson invites students to step up to writing descriptive/specific paragraphs
  

Spelling:

• A lesson on Spelling simply entitled Sparkle
  
• A fun Spelling lesson called Spelling Battleship
  
• This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
  
• This idea is called Dictations Please and is on Listening and Spelling
  
• A fun Spelling activity called "Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling"
  
• Here's a brief idea for playing Spelling Basketball
  
• This lesson helps students learn to Spell better by using Memory Cues
  
• Round Robin is the name of this Spelling Game
  
• Here are 2 group activity ideas for Spelling
  
• Here's a game idea called "Spelling Checkers"
  
  
• A Word Study Strategy is implemented in this Spelling lesson
  
• Here's a Spelling game idea that's similar to the TV show "Survivor"
  
• A fun, word-wall spelling game
  
• A fun way to learn to spell
  
• Instead of "write the spelling words 10 times each", why not try this Jumping Jack Spelling Bee idea?
  
• Click here to play Wheel of Fortune Hangman with song lyrics: TW_NK_E TW_NK_E __TT_E ST_R
  
• This is a low stress spelling game
  
• This multi-sensory approach to spelling words is effective for ADHD and dyslexic students
  
• This is an idea to "Stamp Out Spelling"
  

Vocabulary:

• Here's a Vocabulary Building project idea
  
• This game idea is for Building up Vocabulary
  
• Here's an interesting idea for Creating Skits on Spelling or Vocabulary Words
  
• This lesson deals with Musical Vocabulary Links - Vocabulary from Songs!
  
• Here are ideas for learning lists of Important Words
  
• Here's a fun game idea called "Vocabulary Steal The Bacon"
  
• Here's a full-class version of the word board game, Scrabble
  
• This Vocabulary and Symbols lesson uses a "Terms Baseball" game
  
• Here's a very brief idea for a Vocabulary Game
  
• A "Swat Game" for Learning Vocabulary in various subjects
  
  
• This looks like a fun Vocabulary Game idea and is titled "Hot Seat"
  
• This is a good homophone lesson utilizing several internet resources
  
• "Kids Just Want To Have Fun" with this synonym lesson
  
• This lesson teaches vocabulary through antonyms
  
• Swat synonym flies here with this simple vocabulary game
  
• This well-developed vocabulary activity builds memory and teamwork skills
  
• This is a weather vocabulary lesson developed for ELD students
  
• This fun idea combines weekly vocabulary words and movement
  

Writing - Letters:

• This Language Arts lesson is called Flower Power
  
• This lesson is on Letter Writing regarding topics related to students' Community
  
• This is a Christmas idea for Writing Letters to the Three Wise Men
  
• This Pen Pal letter lesson is on Paragraphs and Grammar
  
• In this fun Christmas activity students Write to the Grinch describing why they love Christmas (to try to change the Grinch's mind)
  
• In this idea students Write Letters to themselves at the beginning of the year and read them at the end
  
• A great end / beginning of the year lesson involving Writing Letters to next year's students at the end of the year
  
• This great International Pen Pal idea helps students combat terrorism in a significant way
  
• In this lesson, students write a two paragraph opinion letter in response to "Yoshi's (ecological) Dilemma"
  
• In this lesson, student's write a letter to an Iraqi book character Sami
  
  
• Students write a letter to their next teacher in this end-of-year activity
  
• Here students make postcards to mail to themselves or their teacher over the summer
  
• Here students write letters to be read by next year's class
  
• Here is an UGLY gift thank you letter assignment
  

Writing - Persuasive:

• This lesson uses a Kinesthetic Approach to Persuasive Writing
  
• Students Write Editorials on Protagonist's Decisions in a book they are reading
  
• Here's an idea for establishing academic New Year's reflections and resolves
  
• In this lesson, students write movie reviews from a pet's perspective
  

Writing - Stories / Creative:

• A Writer's Workshop lesson on Legends
  
• A brief idea to use as a Halloween Writing Prompt
  
• This good Creative Writing idea uses "Dream Snow" by Eric Carle
  
• A Creative Writing lesson using The Mysteries of Harris Burdick book
  
• Here's an idea to get students Writing Christmas Stories with Partners
  
• This Writing lesson is on Building Suspense with Sensory Details
  
• Turn ideas into a story with this fundraising project
  
• Autumn Fun - Children write biographies for their Pumpkin Pal art projects
  
• In this lesson, students will write a story from the point of view of a turkey near Thanksgiving
  
• Here's a "super" idea - have students create and write about their own "super-hero"
  
  
• Students write their own Native American myths in this lesson
  
• In this lesson, students write and illustrate a desert animal short story, similar in style to Mama, Do You Love Me?
  
• The object of this lesson is to write and illustrate a children's book about a younger sibling or cousin and then give them the book
  
• In this "write and illustrate a Pourquoi tale" lesson, students journey down the path authors take when they write and publish a book
  
• Here is a "Gilligan's Island" creative writing assignment
  
• Students create their own Harold and the Purple Crayon style drawing and story here
  
• Beanie babies and U.S. cities are the inspirations for this adventure story assignment
  
• Onomatopoeia in creative writing is the subject of this great mini-lesson
  

Writing - Technical:

• This lesson is on Instructions and properly Sequencing them

Writing - Other:

• A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
  
• An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
  
• This is a collection of Christmas Journal Ideas
  
• Here's an idea to encourage Writing Compositions
  
  
• This 3 part lesson idea is on Writing Narratives:
  
  • This part is on how to Explain Yourself in a Paragraph
    
  • Here's one on how to Explain Yourself in a Story
    
  • This portion teaches how to create "Showing Sentences"
    
  
  
• This lesson idea is on Advertising and involves students Writing their own Ads
  
• Here's a Writing idea for what students do for Christmas (Holidays) and allows for the exploring of different cultures' traditions
  
• This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
  
• Here's a Collaborative Writing Activity that uses a Beach Ball
  
• Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
  
• This idea is on the Revision Triangle - Affirmation, Clarification, and Elaboration
  
• Writing a Character Description is the subject of this lesson
  
• In this lesson students use a Timeline to develop Writing Ideas
• Students create a Newspaper on Computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
  
• Here's a lesson for Writing Personal Narratives and using Concept Maps
  
  
• Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
  
• Here's a lesson on Writing an Autobiography that involves using Digital Cameras
  
• Let your students draw AND write, "All About Me"
  
• This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
  
• Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
  
• Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
  
• Here is a Christmas paragraph storybook idea
  
• The author of this lesson compares the development of a song with the development of a story character
  
• Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions
  
• Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
  
  
• Writing Greeting Card Quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
  
• This idea starts out as a bulletin board and ends as a memory book compilation of student writing assignments
  
• This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
  
• This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
  
• Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
  
• This personal narrative lesson uses Joey Pigza Loses Control as a model
  
• In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
  
• In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
  
• Here are some great New Year's resolution lesson ideas
  
• Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
  
  
• Here students write a report describing the steps to build a snowman
  
• In this Valentine's idea, students write their own conversation hearts
  
• The Three Little Pigs teach this personification lesson
  
• In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
  
• This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
  
• Here students use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
  
• In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
  

Other / Multiple Topics:

• The Keeping Quilt story is used in this idea called Quilts of Many Colors
  
• A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
  
• This one, called Class Bank, is to help develop Good Habits, Learner Awareness, and Spelling
  
• An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
  
• This is a great idea for a beginning and end of school lesson - using a Time Capsule to demonstrate students' learning
  
• This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
  
• This game idea is on Rhyming Words but could be used for other topics like Synonyms
  
• This is a brief Reading and Writing idea on Commercials
  
• Students Interview each other in this First Day of School idea
  
• Here's a fun collection of Mother's Day activity ideas (which may be adapted for Father's Day)
  
  
• Here's a good time filler where students Collaboratively Write a "Creative Book"
  
• This fable was written to help children Cope with Terrorism and may be helpful in your class
  
• Here's an idea on using Strategies to Solve Problems
  
• A "Daily Quotes" idea that can be used as a filler before class
  
• This is another beginning / end of the year activity called "Memory Book"
  
• Teach students about the interviewing process using this great lesson
  
• A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
  
• Here's a new ice breaker idea - have groups perform a commercial for a new use for an old object
  
• "Witching You a Happy Halloween" is a multidisciplinary Halloween unit for the month of October
  
• This conflict resolution lesson teaches Mediate, Don't Instigate
  
  
• "Idioms for Dummies" teaches us that when it's raining cats and dogs - we don't have to beware of poodles
  
• This classmate interview template is an interactive language arts activity and an ice-breaker
  
• "Summer in a Can" is a vacation show-and-tell activity
  
• This is a great literature-based lesson on feelings
  
• "The AND Game" is a good Valentine's language arts activity
  
• This is a lesson about endangered animals and "Rare Beasts" by Charles Ogden
  
• This is an "All About Me" memories and goals book idea
  
• This Christmastime writing assignment focuses on quotation marks and nouns
  

Art Connections:

• A great Thanksgiving lesson on texture called Textured Turkeys
  
• An interesting Sculpture lesson on Silence - Expressing Without Words
  
• An Art History lesson on Byzantine Art and Architecture
  
• Students use Words and Pictures as Visual Images to tell Stories in this lesson
  
• Make a class puzzle
  
• Students use their initials to tell their own biographies in this lesson
  
• These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
  
• In this Thanksgiving lesson, students write a list and visually present what they are thankful for by creating a placemat
  
• In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
  
• This self-reflection art and writing project creates a stunning classroom display
  
  
• Students utilize a journal during this elements of art lesson
  
• This outstanding cartography lesson combines the elements of art, geography, geology, math, and more
  
• This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
  

Computers & Internet Connections:

• This very fun idea is called "Musical Computers" (Chairs)
  
• This is a brief lesson idea for typing and spelling
  
• Here's a lesson plan for creating posters with Microsoft Word that works on Formatting and Grammar
  
• Students create animated stories using PowerPoint in this lesson idea
  
• Microsoft Publisher's text box tool is used here to label Halloween tombstones
  

Math Connections:

• A Math lesson involving on measurement and comparing using literature
  
• Another Arithmetic lesson involving writing and fairy tales
  
• This Multidisciplinary lesson deals with the Esimation of a Pumpkin's Weight as it is carved
  
• This lesson on Venn Diagrams uses the book "A Promise is a Promise"
  
• In this lesson, students write a Story that involves Adding and Subtracting Money
  
• Polygon Monsters - create them and write about them!
  
• Tangrams and fox fairies are the subjects of this intriguing lesson
  
• If your kids can't relate to the rules of rounding, try this storytelling idea
  

Music Connections:

• A Music lesson integrating Art and Language Arts involving Contrast
  
• This lesson on Playing How You Feel is called "Little Mozarts"
  
• Here's a lesson on Patterns in Music
  
• A multidisciplinary lesson on Music Around the World
  
• This lesson plan involves Emotions in Music and Art
  
• This is a 4 Part Unit on Music and Emotions
  
• In this idea students play TV reporters and interview their "Favorite Composer"
  
• Here's a fun activity idea on "Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saen-Saints
  
• Notes on the Staff merge with Spelling in this neat lesson plan
  
• Here is a great, musical game that also teaches about nouns, adjectives and verbs
  
  
• Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
  
• "On the first day of Christmas, my parents gave to me ___" involves spelling, ordinal numbers, and memory practice
  
• In this lesson, students create a brochure about a composer
  
• This is a musical instrument writing prompt idea
  
• Here classes compose their own concert songs about frogs or other themes
  
• Here students create their own symphony story using characters from "Peter and the Wolf"
  

Physical Education / Health Connections:

• This Harry Potter Quidditch Game is a great way to get students interested in PE!
  
• Here students use the shuttle run while reviewing for a spelling test
  
• Here is a relay race idea for learning how to spell the names of holidays
  

Science Connections:

• Here's an in depth Thematic Unit on Weather
  
• A Language Arts lesson on rain forests
  
• A Language Arts lesson on precipitation in rain forests
  
• A Language Arts lesson on creating a Rain Forest
  
  
• Here's a huge, fun, well-developed thematic unit on the Colonization of Mars (Solar System - all subjects):
  
  • This first one involves an introduction to the Solar System
    
  • The second lesson is intended to Develop Teamwork Skills
    
  • This portion is on Differentiating Between Needs And Wants Through Research
    
  • Part four is on Planets, Soil, and Nutrients
    
  • Here's a section on the Real Greenhouse Effect
    
  • Part six works on the difference between Orbit and Rotation and distance from the Sun
    
  • This one is called "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
    
  • Lesson 8 helps to decide what it would take to "Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before"
    
  • Part 9-1 involves Writing a Letter to NASA
    
  • 9-2 will create a Short Play
    
  • 9-3 includes Writing a Letter to the President
    
  • Part 9-4 involves Assessing the Mars Colony Ideas
    
  • In part 9-5, students will create a basic Web Page
    
  • Lesson 10 involves Interviewing Skills to determine who should be the first to go to Mars
    
  • In the last lesson, students will use their Interviewing Skill with guest speakers
    
  
  
• This huge unit is on the Solar System (with information on each planet within):
  
  • The Solar System Unit starts with an Overview
    
  • Here are the Learning Activities for the Solar System Unit
    
  • This part is a Classification of the Planets of the Solar System
    
  
  
• This lesson teaches the Relationship between a Species and its Ecosystem
  
• This lesson is on the Interaction between Living and Nonliving things in an Ecosystem
  
• Here's a great lesson on Tracking Hurricanes
  
• This lesson is on Hurricanes, particularly in Florida
  
• This lesson plan is an Exploration of Volcanoes
  
• Here's a multidisciplinary plan on The Water Cycle
  
• This lesson teaches about Ecosystems while also teaching Diamante Poetry
• In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives
  
• Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
  
• This is an excellent multidisciplinary rock and mineral unit
  
  
• Students learn about and create constellations and their myths in his dual subject lesson
  
• Here students write a story about using their newly acquired animal adaptation
  
• In this lesson, students examine simple machines and predict their use
  

Social Studies Connections:

• A Social Studies lesson involving writing letters to the president
  
• A Social Studies/Language Arts lesson plan on the news and its themes
  
• This one is on Native American Legends
  
• This lesson on Cacti is called Cactus Hotel
  
• This lesson is on Black History Month
  
  
• An interesting unit on the Colonization of Australia (invasion or settlement?):
  
  • Here's the Unit Overview along with the first Learning Activities
    
  • This is the second collection of Learning Activities
    
  • And here's the third set of Learning Activities
    
  • Last is a collection of unit Resources
    
  
  
• The unit below on Native Americans ties in with another unit on this site - Charlotte's Web and Spiders
  
  • This portion is on Native American Folk Tales
    
  • This one deals with the Lakota-Sioux Sun Dance
    
  • Here's a lesson on the Navajo Indian Culture
    
  • Another Navajo lesson plan, this one involving Weaving Rugs
    
  • Last is a lesson on Native American Superstitions
    
  
  
• This lesson idea is on School Life and is called "Gremlins go to School"
  
• Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
  
• This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
  
• This lesson plan is on Cesar Chavez and the difference that a single person can make
  
• Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
  
• This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
  
• This lesson is called "Who's Who in Florida?" and involves Historical Figures from Florida
  
  
• The unit below is on Simple Machines and includes 10 lesson ideas:
  
  • The unit begins with an introduction to the Simple Machines Unit
    
  • First we look back to before there were any "Machines," and look at Simple Machines like Corkscrews and Screwdrivers
    
  • Lesson 2 involves exploring Simple Machines in groups
    
  • This part focuses on Safety Equipment needed for some Machines
    
  • This is a Matching Activity with Simple Machines and their Definitions
    
  • This second part of lesson 4 continues the Matching Activity above
    
  • Lesson 5 discusses Assembly Lines and the making of products
    
  • Levers are the subject of this part of the unit
    
  • We continue with Wedges in this lesson
    
  • This lesson discusses Pulleys and their use
    
  • Force and Work are discussed in this portion of the unit
    
  • This brief idea involves Wheels and Axles
    
  
  
• Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
  
• This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
  
• Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
  
• Here's a great, in-depth lesson plan on the Civil War
  
• In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
  
• Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
  
• This Native American lesson involves Painting an Event, Story, or Person from Native American History
  
• Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and presentations in this lesson
  
• A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
  
• In this lesson on Cesar Chavez students make a (paper) Quilt to express their knowledge
  
  
• Below you will find Selected Lessons from a Unit on the Civil War:
  • Here's an Outline of the Unit
    
  • The first lesson is on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
    
  • Another lesson on the Underground Railroad
    
  • This lesson is on Patriotic Songs
    
  • Lesson D is on Songs of the North...
    
  • ...and Lesson E is on Songs of the South
    
  • Here's the Unit Test
    
  
  
• This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
  
• Here's a big Economics Unit that is standards-based and titled "Classroom Business"
  
  
• Here's a great Community Thematic Unit:
  
  • Unit Overview - What makes a good Community?
  • This lesson asks What is Community?
  • Here's a lesson on Following Directions
  • This worksheet goes with the Following Directions lesson
  • Celebrating Diversity and Heritage are the topics of this lesson
  • Here's a section on Goal Setting
  • This lesson looks at Community in Literature
  • In this part students Explore the Multiple Intelligences
  • Students find their most effective ways to learn in this lesson
  • Teamwork is the subject of this lesson
  • Here's a collection of Community-Building Activities
  • This is the first part of the Service Project
  • Service Project Part 2...
  • ...and Service Project Part 3
  • Here's the Service Project Rubric
  
  
• Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
  
• Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
  
• In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
  
• In this lesson, students describe one of America's European explorers in a poem
  
• This multidisciplinary vacation lesson exercises math problem solving, art, literary, and map skills
  
  
• This exceptional interdisciplinary 10-day unit explores the secrets of the Underground Railroad:
  
  • Unit introduction, timeline, essential questions, objectives, national standards, adaptations
    
  • Day 1: Derailment of Human Rights:
    A Life of Slavery
    
  • Day 2: Conductors of Freedom:
    The Role of Abolitionists and Quakers in the UGR Movement
    
  • Day 3: Hear the Whistle Blow! -
    Musical Messages of Freedom
    
  • Day 4: Tracking the Quilting Codes
    
  • Day 5: Tracking the Quilting Codes - Continued
    
  • Day 6: Underground Research
    
  • Day 7: Underground Research - Continued
    
  • Day 8: Route to Freedom:
    Mapping North Carolina's UGR routes
    
  • Day 9: Riding the Rails:
    Personal Journeys to Freedom
    
  • Day 10: Riding the Rails:
    Personal Journeys to Freedom - Continued
    
  • UGR Unit Rubrics
    • Project Rubric
      
    • Presentation Rubric
      
    • Map Rubric
      
    • Diary Writing Rubric
      
    • Cooperative Group Work Rubric
      
    • Self-Report Affective Assessment Rubric
      
  • UGR Unit Bibliography And Webliography
    
  
  
• To complete this lesson, students create a diorama depicting a cause or effect of the American Revolution
  
• As you progress through this 2-week U.S. Constitution Unit, you build a tree with branches and leafy amendments
  
• Here's an election year idea: students watch and critique televised candidate debates and then hold their own
  
• If you are looking for multi-disciplinary project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
  
• Here students write the story of Anne Frank's life if she had survived
  
• This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
  
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" are compared in this lesson
  
• This web hunt shows students why and how we celebrate Independence Day
  
• This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities