Alphabet Hike Take your students on a "walk" to find words that start with each letter in the alphabet.		Who Writes History? Rethinking Columbus Day In this lesson plan, students explore their ideas about history and who writes it. The...
Blooming Tree Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.		Rhyming States What's in a state? What makes it great? Students learn more about a chosen state and create a...
Book Snake Reward students for reading by adding to the "Reading Snake".		Holiday Poems Students will write an acrostic poem from the name of a winter holiday: "Christmas," "Kwanzaa,"...
Collect a Sentence Students name everyday objects and then construct imaginative sentences with those words.		Harriet Brent Jacobs Harriet Brent Jacobs was a slave who wrote an autobiography. Students read an excerpt and react...
Reading the Newspaper Use this lesson to explore the newspaper through a variety of academic areas.		The Rights of Bike Riders Students will write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in reaction to the bicycle helmet...
It's a Storybook Life! Students use a web resource to explore oral histories as part of the broad tradition of...		African Storytellers Students will use the Internet to find out more about griots, or African storytellers. Their...
Letters from the Past Students explore a Civil War Website and read authentic letters from a soldier. This lesson...		Sell the Book PowerPoint Slide Show In this lesson plan, students design a PowerPoint slide with an advertisement for a book they...
Historical Sites Project Students will research an historically important site and make a project explaining its...