Opening Activities Teach students that learning begins right away in your classroom with a daily opening learning...		Thanksgiving: Multiple Perspectives Students will create a landmark that commemorates both the European Settler and the Native...
Desk Barriers Students will create privacy shields to create barriers between desks.		Harry Potter Character Posters Students make posters after analyzing various characters in the Harry Potter books.
Classroom Timesaver: ID Numbers Assigning students I.D. numbers saves time during assignment collection, field trips, and fire...		Write a Harry Potter Script Students learn to summarize one chapter from a Harry Potter book and write a one scene script...
Profiles of Olympic Athletes Find links to profiles of diver Greg Louganis, protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, swimmer...		Harry Potter Haiku Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
Babe Didrikson, Olympic Athlete A profile of Babe Didrikson, a female athlete who was ahead of her time.		Election Vocabulary Brainstorm In this lesson students will be asked to generate vocabulary related to elections. They will...
Jesse Owens: Olympic Champion Profile of Jesse Owens, track and field champion of the 1936 Summer Olympics.		International Cover Art for Harry Potter Lesson Using pictures of book covers from around the world, students will analyze the accuracy of the...
Women Inventors A list of women inventors and the fascinating things they invented.		Make a Harry Potter Board Game Students improve their reading comprehension by making and creating a board game based upon the...
Left-Handers Are All Right Students use a web resource to explore the perspective of left-handed people coping in a...		Create a Hogwarts Floor Plan Students learn about the concept of scale and other mapping skills by creating a floor plan of...
Up, Up, and Away Students use a web resource to learn about hot-air ballooning, including a recent, daring...		Election Vocabulary Bingo Play bingo with election vocabulary to have fun and assess your students' knowledge of the...
Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate Procedure An outline of the procedures for a Lincoln-Douglas style debate, which is to be used with the...		William Butler Yeats Read a brief biography of W.B. Yeats.