Beacon Lesson Plan Library

   Lesson Plans - Language Arts

• 100 Years...100 Movies (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After students choose one of the top 100 movies to view, they research critical reviews and then write their own reviews.

• 100s of Ants! (Authored by Desiree Senter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What does 100 look like? What is the best way for 100 Ants to move on? Students will have fun counting to 100 orally as they use grids to display the 100 raisins they counted.

• 2004 Summer Olympics Internet Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Elana Collins.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? Have you ever been on one using the Internet? In this activity, students will participate in an Internet scavenger hunt as they search for the answers to questions about the 2004 Summer Olympics.

• 4 X 4 (Not a Jeep!) (Authored by Lisa Glenn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students working in groups of 4, complete a puzzle by matching terms and definitions.

• A Bar of Many Colors (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use colored candies to collect data, construct double bar graphs, and find averages.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 1: Hull of a Ship (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the introductory lesson to the Unit Plan: A Colony Is Born. In this lesson, a bulletin board for the unit will be started, Colonial Notebooks will be presented to each student, and a pre-test on colonization will be administered.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 11: Group Presentations and Summatives (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Group presentations will be for the next three days. Classroom students take notes on the presentations and play a card game for content review. On day four, the short answer summative assessment is given, and notebooks are turned in.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 2: Sez Who? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the second lesson in a unit on colonization. It establishes baseline knowledge of students' understanding of primary and secondary sources and the likenesses and differences of them with regard to a selected historical event.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 3: Marking Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson swiftly travels through time from 1492 to 1607. Significant events are marked on a timeline, note taking is modeled, and a focus on reasons for leaving England for the New World is clarified with the use of a graphic organizer.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 4: What Went Wrong? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Lesson 4 focus is on Roanoke and Jamestown. Students examine what worked well, what did not, and significant events of the two colonies. Students emulate modeled note taking, use a T-chart for organizing the information, and make additions to timelines.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 5: Dear Mem (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The primary informational source of journal writing is the focus. Journal entry traits and rubric expectations are established. Identified and charted by students, they'll be used to assess examples and be a guide for students' required journal writing.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 6: To Leave or Not to Leave (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: A pivotal point of the unit. Students, assigned a reason for coming to the New World, will utilize the resources in their notebook to establish an identity. Three regions settled will be identified, and students will associate with a particular region.

• A Colony is Born - Lesson 7 - 10: What's My Line? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: These four lessons represent the guided resource time that groups need to research their assigned regions, complete the regional guide, and prepare their group presentations.

• A Courtin’ We Will Go (Authored by Joy Rowell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students read a poem full of Southern dialect. Groups research and share with the class an assigned literary device, create a list of current words which may one day be considered dialect, and construct a poem about dating today.

• A Day in the Park (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students create written proposals that will accompany an architectural bid for the construction of a recreation center.

• A Geopoem about Alaska (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gather information on the physical and human characteristics of Alaska (geographic theme PLACE).They organize this information on a concept map to be transformed into a geopoem about Alaska.

• A Goldfish is the Best Pet (Authored by Cheryl Stanley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: A goldfish is the best pet. What facts support this thesis? What facts oppose it? Use graphic organizers to help students select facts which must be considered in order to persuade an audience to agree with a given point of view.

• A Graphic Scene (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using collected information, students compare and contrast characters from various texts within a Venn Diagram.

• A Growing Vocabulary (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Watch your intermediate students’ vocabulary and critical thinking skills grow with this reading activity that also provides many opportunities for extensions.

• A Hungry Cat Searches (Authored by Carole Gooden.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to the story [Panther: Shadow of the Swamp] to learn about the variety of plant and animal life in the Everglades and how loss of habitat impacts panthers. Students will alphabetize the names of the plants and animals by initial and second letter.

• A Look Through Time, Final Project (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the final lesson in a three-part series seeking to answer the question, -How do we know about history?- Students will use previously gathered research to produce tourist pamphlets that highlight historical county events.

• A Moment in Time (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A moment in time before shooting a foul shot or the moment right before a runner steals a base can make for a fascinating poem. Students study poems to see how punctuation, line length, rhythm and word choice can be used to create a memorable moment.

• A Pair of Anything (Authored by Brian Rowland.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students utilize a Venn diagram as a prewriting strategy.

• A Picture is Worth a Fantastic Story (Authored by Elaine Padgett.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students select one of the photographs they have taken of friends, pets, parents or objects and write a story. The photos provide visual prompts and a supportive framework for their writing.

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast characters from various texts and compile the collected information into several graphic organizers.

• A Play on Words (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students make predictions about the story Verdi, based on the cover. After hearing the story they will make a new list of descriptions, personality traits, etc. Students will select an animal and write a narrative story about the animal.

• A Short, Short Story (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.

• A Sneaky Poem (Authored by Julia Balukin.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using poetry to share their ideas, students incorporate a subject and its synonym, and the parts of speech to create a Sneaky Poem.

• A String of Beads (Authored by Cheryl Stanley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson will allow students to visualize (through constructing a necklace) a plan for including the central idea, supporting facts, and a clincher sentence in a paragraph.

• A Tacky Cheer (Authored by Donna Rugg.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Would you make a good cheerleader? In this lesson, students make predictions, copy cheers, and make inferences as they read a story about an odd bird and his awkward attempts to help his fellow penguins win a cheering contest.

• A Taste of Blackberries (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: [A Taste of Blackberries] provides a wonderful shared reading experience for fourth graders. The main character in the story helps the reader understand ways to manage grief in the loss of a best friend and identify skills of a responsible family member.

• A Visit to the Rain Forest (Authored by Carole Gooden.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to [The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest] to learn the names of animals and people found in the Amazon Rain Forest. They play a card game to arrange the animals in the sequence that they appeared in the story.

• A Whale of a Tale (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will research and gather facts about whales and use this information to create a narrative (story) with interesting and realistic elaborations.

• A Wing and a Prayer (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students improvise missing harmony accompaniment for a soloist performing -The Star Spangled Banner.-

• A-maizing Facts (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit [Native Americans]. It focuses on using informational text to locate the Northeast Woodlands region and understanding how the climate, location, and physical surroundings of the region affected the way of life.

• ABC Beat the Clock Adventures (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an interesting lesson on putting letters and words in alphabetical order that involves games and cooperative learning to solve problems.

• ABC Bingo (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson reinforces the alphabet through a homemade ABC bingo game.

• ABC Detectives (Authored by Heidi Tilton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will alphabetize words according to the first letter while pretending to be detectives with magnifying glasses. Your students will also be working on their social skills and character development when working with their teams and partners.

• ABC Rhyme Time (Authored by Christine Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After producing a word family list, students will put the list in ABC order.

• ABC’s of Ramona (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students list words in alphabetical order according to initial and second letter. Various lists of words may be used for practice; however, initiate using proper nouns for assessment in capitalization.

• Acrostic Poetry (Authored by Farica King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using newspapers or magazines, students create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.

• Actions Speak Louder than Words (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: No matter how good a written speech is, the delivery is what the audience remembers. Learning about and practicing volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation helps students to deliver an oral presentation effectively.

• Adopt a Manatee (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this writing activity, students will learn about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues.

• Alien Behaviors (Authored by Lisa Capon.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to list and classify which human characteristics are learned and which are inherited. Each student then writes a letter identifying and explaining learned and inherited human characteristics.

• Alien Pen Pals (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a friendly letter to an alien informing it about the planet Earth. Students use editing skills and brainstorming skills to produce a final product.

• Alike or Different – You Be the Judge! (Authored by Patricia Morres.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students write an expository paragraph after comparing and contrasting items of texture, taste, odor, and visual appearance.

• Alike, Different, or Both? (Authored by Christy Simms.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast two characters from the play [The Diary of Anne Frank] on a Venn diagram and write a paragraph showing similarities and differences.

• All Aboard! All Aboard! The Essay Train (Authored by Brenda Lewis-Williams.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: All aboard! All aboard! Ride the English Trax! Come and enjoy a train ride with [The Little Engline That Could] and learn how to create a five-paragraph essay train.

• All About Me (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to learn about each other and their cultural backgrounds and provides an opportunity for students to have a long-distance relationship with students in another state/country .

• All About Me - A Poem (Authored by Beth Hilton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create a free verse poem about themselves. This lesson can be used to introduce students to one another at the beginning of the school year, or during the school year when studying famous Americans.

• All About Me-I'm My Own Research Project (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is an introduction to teaching students how to do a research project. Students learn how to categorize information about themselves and relate to categorizing information on sea animals for a future research project.

• All Mixed Up (Authored by Colleen Habhab-Strickland.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Oh no! I dropped the color and number word cards! How will I ever get them sorted? This activity actively engages students in identifying and sorting words into the basic categories of color and number.

• All's Well That Ends Well (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Beginning and ending are two of the most important parts of a speech! The middle is rather important also. Students check out the importance of organizing a speech.

• Alliterations Allowed (Authored by Mary Borges.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students recognize and create alliterative language in both literary and commercial use.

• Alphabet Animals (Authored by Elisabeth Coogle.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create an encyclopedia of unusual animals, using a variety of resources to collect their information. Each student illustrates an animal and provides a brief description for each letter of the alphabet.

• Altogether Now, The Five Senses (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Popping popcorn is a fun way to summarize the end of the five senses unit. It is easy to involve all the senses.

• Amazing Adjectives (Authored by Andrea Austing.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson students will compose sentences that use descriptive adjectives to describe a specific food and day that they both like and dislike.

• Amazing Animals (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Amazing Animals gives students an opportunity to use their estimation skills as they compare amazing animal facts to their human world.

• Ambient Pressure: Three in One (Authored by summer zephyr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson explains the differences in the three confusing terms used to describe pressure and their measurement.

• America Doubled (Authored by Andrea Raley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What could you do with 15 million dollars? The US doubled in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Students learn about Lewis and Clark and experience traveling through the land like them rationing out what items they would need and their importance.

• American History Research with Visual Timeline (Authored by Carter Hannah.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a three page research paper choosing their topics from a Washington, D. C. landmark and create a project depicting their topics to go on a time-line.

• Ample Apples (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students make observations about the growing process of an apple tree. They complete expository writing and draw illustrations in a student writing book. This lesson includes a cooking activity.

• An Atlas of Health Care (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Partner teams utilize programs such as Street Atlas USA and Student Writing Center software packages to research and publicize an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community’s health care facilities.

• An Explication of Death (Authored by Cheree Brown.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: In groups of three, the students will explicate 'Thanatopsis.' During this explication they will identify poetic elements as well as sound effects in the poetry.

• An Invitation to Simple Machines (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The principal with a hurt foot needs our help! Students are challenged to devise ways to move the principal around the school by exploring simple machines. They then write an invitation for parents to come view the simple machines and web page reports that students create.

• An Overview of the Civil War (Authored by Diane Krapf.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Examine the history of slavery in the U.S. and how it contributed to the Civil War. Students will use available technology to research and present information in response to a series of student-generated questions.

• An UnCOMFORTable Situation (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore the relationship between the area of square units and their perimeters in a hands-on activity. Observations are recorded, and students begin to recognize that shapes with the same area can sometimes have different perimeters.

• Analogies (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about relationships between words and then are expected to figure out the missing word for a list of analogies. This lesson is a good lesson to use with ESOL students or students who are having difficulty with word relationships.

• Analyzing a Science Fiction Movie (Authored by Robert Rosen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students observe and predict how technology and scientific knowledge interact. They then discuss the societal ramifications of this interaction and watch the movie CONTACT.

• Analyzing Persuasion (Authored by Sherry Czupryk.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students identify and explain the persuasive devices used in -I Have a Dream.- This is the culminating lesson of a unit on analyzing persuasion. See lessons with -Persuasion- in the title.

• Ancient Africa's Connection to Today (Authored by Wilma Horton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Ancient Africa's Historical Contributions are told though the eyes of a spider, Anansi and his search calabash game. Fabric art is optional.

• And Your Point Is . . .? Part I (Authored by Lois Christensen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is Part I of a two-part series. Part I introduces students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. Part II (See Weblinks) extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.

• And Your Point Is . . .? Part II (Authored by Lois Christensen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is Part II of a two-part series. Part I introduced students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. (See WebLinks.) Part II extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.

• Angels of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson uses ANGEL CHILD, DRAGON CHILD by Surat to identify generous actions. Students will keep a generosity journal reflecting acts of kindness they performed each week.

• Animalopedia Poetry (Authored by Prudence Mason.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in groups to research animals and write poems for an Animalopedia classroom book.

• Animals in Research - Right or Wrong? (Authored by Carol Houck.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research and discuss a sensitive or controversial issue and attempt to make a decision based on group findings.

• Any Way You Slice It (Authored by Farica King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, ESE - CL (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using real-world text, students learn about the history of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while using a graphic organizer to clarify meaning of text. Following the activity, students write directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Students then exchange directions and follow their classmate’s recipe to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

• Appropriate Responses (Authored by Brian Rowland.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work in pairs to practice listening and speaking to each other. Students offer input, make clarifying remarks, and demonstrate that they understand what they hear.

• Architecture Makes an Imprint (Authored by Kim Salesses.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will explore architecture of the world, uses of buildings and discuss architecture as a career. Students will work in cooperative groups and present their findings to the class.

• Are They the Same or Different? (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information.

• Are We There Yet? (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the review lesson for the unit, Going to Grandma’s. Using the Formative Assessment Checklist and all completed summative assessments, the teacher reinforces skills and concepts using the activities from this lesson.

• Are You a Peacemaker or a Man-Eating Shark? (Authored by Teri Grunden.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work on the concept of "fairness" through a group activity, discussion, and written responses with conflicts/resolutions from a short story, and then produce a page on the computer (or on paper) for a class book.

• Are You for Real? (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review newspaper articles, magazine articles and advertisements to determine if they are informative or persuasive. They identify the methods that the writers use to persuade or inform the audience.

• Are You Listening to Me? (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify differences between listening and not listening skills. Students learn how to use good listening skills when trying to solve a conflict. Students role-play using listening skills to resolve conflicts.

• Are You Moody? (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Are you moody? Is a novel? Students continue their study of the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved] and their examination of literary techniques the author uses to grab their attention.

• Are You Sure They Lived Happily Ever After? (Authored by Diane Goodson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Have you ever wondered whether some of the fairy tales would have truly ended “happily ever after” if the story had continued? Predict what will happen after the frog prince marries the princess in the [The Frog Prince Continued].

• Are You Sure You've Got the Right Answer? (Authored by summer zephyr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: The student selects a problem to answer in the content area. Through the use of strategic questioning, planning, searching and information-compacting skills the student effectively uses the Internet to find the answer to his question.

• Around the Room Short Story (Authored by Laura Childers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Once students are taught the elements of a short story, they will demonstrate their understanding by collectively creating stories within a group. This lesson will develop/ solve conflicts and show short story elements through listening skills.

• Artfully Speaking (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 12 of the unit [Native Americans]. It is to be done after [The Seminoles] lesson plan on the same day. Students will complete a My Favorite Artwork form and use it to practice speaking to small groups.

• At the Governor's Mansion (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: -At the Governor's Mansion- is a mock visit to -talk with- our state governor and his family while -touring- the lovely mansion facility. Students report interesting facts that they learn about the governor in the class-made book.

• Attracting an Audience with Purpose (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Making sure that the purpose of an oral presentation or speech, and the intended audience are compatible will help students become good speakers.

• Attractive Adjectives (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This ESOL lesson, that is part 3 of a unit, reviews nouns and verbs, then introduces adjectives. Students learn to identify and use adjectives in sentences, identify them in listening activities, and review all three in a commercial.

• Awesome Alliterations (Authored by Regina Letizia.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The learner will build an interest and appreciate poetry through writing alliterative poems.

• Awesome Audio Book (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students select and record a poem, article, or short story that incorporates images and sounds within the text to elicit emotions in the listener. They write an explanation of how sounds and images are used to elicit the emotional response.

• Bag It (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a paper bag or a gift bag, students create a book report providing information on the elements of the book.

• Bah Humbug (Authored by Nicole Briggle.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After listening to Charles Dickens’ [A Christmas Carol] and Dr. Seuss’ [How the Grinch stole Christmas], students create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting the two main characters.

• Balloon Bustin' Biographies (Authored by Idella Kruger.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using balloons as inspiration, students choose a famous person to research. Students view videos, read electronic encyclopedia summaries, and/or biographies of a famous person from the past, then create a one to three page report.

• Bark/Meow, Purr/Snort - Oh, What a Voice! (Authored by Dianne Parks.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will do teacher directed experiences to understand voice in writing. Students will complete a narrative writing depicting two animals/things that are opposite by focusing on different voices.

• Batty Facts (Authored by Carol Cline.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Go batty! Students use a KWL chart as a prereading strategy to organize and display their knowledge of bats, nocturnal animals.

• Be a Celebrity and Share Your Life with Us (Authored by Patricia Morres.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students become class celebrities by writing their own autobiographies and by sharing them with the public, the class.

• Be An Expert (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Days 5-7 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will read informational texts to become “experts” on a Native American culture group. They will record notes and make a project to inform the class about their culture group.

• Because I’m Big and Bad! (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use -The Three Little Pigs- and -The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig- to identify cause-effect relationships.

• Become a Detective (Authored by Shannon Flynn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone loves a mystery and now your students can be the detectives! In this lesson, students read a mystery story while searching for clues to help predict the outcome. They record the outcome then finish the story to see how well they predicted.

• Benjamin Franklin and Electricity (Authored by Paul Baldauf PhD.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is an interdisciplinary lesson combining exercises in Language Arts and Science, and includes discussions and written assignments on one of the seminal figures in science, Benjamin Franklin, and continues with simple experiments in electricity.

• Better to Tell the Truth (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to distinguish between emotional and logical arguments in advertising.

• Big Brain Central (Authored by Shelley Mann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students set up Editing Centers and become trained specialists in certain components of editing. Peers come to specialists for editing needs.

• Big Business Monkey Business (Authored by Richard Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to provide presentations on business organization and “Big Business” during the second part of the Industrial Revolution (1860-1910) in the United States.

• Big Dog and String-bean (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students read a story and identify the pronouns. They determine what noun from the story these pronouns stand for. They then enhance their knowledge of pronouns by completing an assignment that practices this language skill.

• Big on Biography (Authored by Lorinda Luther.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students select a person to research for biographical information. Utilizing resources in the Media Center, students record information on note cards; students then interpret and categorize information for appropriate placement on a graphic organizer.

• Big, Bigger, Biggest (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate keyboarding skills to illustrate big, bigger, biggest and small, smaller, smallest in a transportation picture. (NETS for Students: 1.1 and 3.1)

• Bio-Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a biographical poem about themselves using an easy formula.

• Biographical Research Paper (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using resource materials, students write a biographical research paper.

• Bits and Pieces! (Authored by Priscilla Boan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students listen to the story [Winter Fun] written by Rita Schlachter. They listen for information throughout the story that relates to the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

• Blooming with Self-Confidence (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Many children worry about not being able to do what other children can do. This lesson will help them understand and respect differences in readiness and abilities, as they read the book [Leo the Late Bloomer] and make flowers of their own.

• Blooms Connection II (Authored by Marshall Thomas.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students will apply the Bloom's Connection strategy in their social studies or science class. This is a second lesson applying Bloom's principles.

• Blowing Kisses (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Fifth Grade students thank their mothers (grandmothers, aunts, god-mothers, etc.) for their first breath of life. Activities are pre-writing, designing a poem form, and making a card.

• Bodaciously Beautiful Butterflies Take Flight (Authored by Heather Watson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for K-1 students. The students complete a study on butterflies using real caterpillars. Each student keeps a personal daily journal of observations and completes a timeline for their caterpillar/butterfly.

• Body Systems in Action (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the last lesson, days 13-16, of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am? Students research the body systems. Cooperative groups create and present a short skit demonstrating how systems work together.

• Body Systems, Part I (Authored by Candace Parker.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with the systems of the body through research.

• Body Systems, Part II (Authored by Candace Parker.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the second of a two-part lesson. Students create a multimedia presentation to reinforce the knowledge they gained from the lesson, -Body Systems, Part I-.

• Boo-ographies (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the month of October, students are encouraged to read biographies of famous individuals from the past. Students pretend to be the character and give a short video-taped presentation.

• Book Jeopardy (Authored by Megan Siska.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students participate in a fun, educational game of -Book Jeopardy- which can be used to review material before a comprehensive test on any novel.

• Book Selling Project (Authored by Megan Siska.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create an oral presentation that uses a visual aid to sell their books to their classmates with the goal of trying to get their classmates interested in reading the book.

• Book Share (Authored by Joan Jackson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students meet in small groups to reflect on and share their thoughts after reading a short story, poem, chapter in a novel, etc.

• Boston Spies' Report on the Redcoats (Authored by Francis Sicius.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students collect information about British actions in Boston and send it by secret message to leaders in Philadelphia.

• Bountiful Biomes (Authored by Linda Webb.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in groups to research five different biomes (arctic tundra, tropical rain forest, North American desert, African grasslands, deciduous forest) and complete a graphic organizer.

• Bountiful Butterflies (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After creating a symmetrical design resembling a butterfly, the students describe symmetry. Using their pictures students then write a story about the butterfly while focusing on creative ideas.

• Bowling Over the Order of Operations (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After learning how to solve equations using the order of operations, students will use their skills to create equations that will -knock down bowling pins-.

• Brainstorm This! (Authored by Jena Lewis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about brainstorming, and how to effectively use this prewriting tool for four different writing tasks - persuasive writing, expository writing, character development, and the development of vivid and precise details for any subject.

• Break Down (Authored by Mary Borges.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products.

• Break It Down (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This engaging game may be used as a group activity for the reinforcement of identifying word parts. It could be modified to be used as individual assessment of the same skill.

• Broadcasting World War II (Authored by Richard Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create and perform radio broadcasts relating to events and situations that affected American society in World War II. They test their listening skills during these broadcasts. They practice by responding to tasks like those found on the FCAT.

• Buddy Stories (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will write and illustrate short stories to share with a younger class of -Buddy Readers-.

• Budget Hungry (Authored by Donna Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, ESE - CL, ESE - CO (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create an expense budget for a meal at a restaurant. They learn the basic communication and etiquette skills needed to successfully go on a field trip to implement the budgets they created.

• Buggy Patterns (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This literature-based lesson is the second lesson from the unit plan Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Students learn to identify, create, predict, extend, and use patterns.

• Building a Dichotomous Key (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: A dichotomous key helps us understand diversity and identify unknown organisms. In a laboratory/classroom setting students design a dichotomous key.

• Building With Blends (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students learn how to blend sound components into words by completing a whole group activity with the teacher. They then use this knowledge in a station activity game where they match word parts with blends to form complete words.

• By Dawn's Early Light (Authored by Edward Blackwell, Jr..)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students have the opportunity to explore the history of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” In the process, they explore how the lyrics of a song can be a form of poetry and the principles of cause and effect.

• C is for Cookie-A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work in groups to dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. Students create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information

• Can I Be Your Friend? (Authored by Ann Lyons.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading, [Charlie, the Caterpillar] to the class, students write one paragraph about how they can be a good friend.

• Can You Figure Language? (Authored by Robin Ziel.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone always compares themselves to someone else, however, can they understand figurative language or compare two dissimilar objects? This lesson teaches similes and metaphors and how to understand and create them.

• Can You Hear Me Now? (Authored by Miriam Buchanan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will explain steps to guide another student to reproduce a drawing. Students will also do peer evaluations critiquing articulation abilities.

• Cancer Public Service Announcement (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students explore the causes and treatments of cancer by developing a Public Service Announcement to share with others.

• Capitalization and Washington, D.C. (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this unit, students learn and practice capitalizing names of cities, states, countries, streets, buildings, bridges, and geographical places around the theme of Washington, D.C.

• Career Recruiter (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Multimedia and technology are integrated into a classroom presentation on a health-related career. NETS for Students: 3.2, 4.2 and 5.1)

• Careers in Criminal Justice (Authored by Bill Chapman.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Identify and describe the career opportunities and prerequisites in the criminal justice system using multimedia and technology.

• Cars on the Curve (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students predict which car will -win- and then play a car-race game to test their predictions. Their results are analyzed to recognize patterns of central tendency.

• Cars, Trucks and Things That Go Sorting Fun! (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group activity in which students have fun sorting, classifying and writing about how they sort transportation vehicles.

• Cartoon Vocabulary (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A student’s comprehension of a vocabulary word is tested by having the student draw a picture to illustrate the meaning of the word.

• Catch Me! (Authored by Jeanette Robaldo.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This read-aloud activity gives students basic ideas and vocabulary to speak about a leprechaun trap.

• Cause or Effect (Authored by Janice Jowers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students develop relationships among ideas by recognizing cause and effect in sentences. They complete a whole-group activity then play a station activity game where they determine if part of a sentence is the cause or effect.

• Cause-and-Effect Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students go on a scavenger hunt to locate and identify cause-and-effect relationships in a reading selection.

• Celebrate You (Authored by Beverly Stanley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity reinforces the uniqueness of each student on his/her birthday. The students learn through a pictorial graphing activity about the months of the year. Students write about their special birthday traditions.

• Cell-a-bration (Authored by Kelly Toomey.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students compare and contrast the structures of a plant cell and an animal cell by creating a graphic organizer and a food model in preparation for writing an essay comparing and contrasting the two kinds of cells.

• Cells in the Making (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: How do cells keep us alive? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about parts of a cell, and their functions in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

• Cells, Building Blocks of Life (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What is the basic unit of all living things? Through reading and hands-on activities, students learn about cells, and their function in carrying out processes for life. Study skills are taught and modeled as students make entries in science notebooks.

• Challenging the Human Spirit (Authored by Colleen Starr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students select a theme-related essay topic from [Night], by Elie Wiesel, or [The Metamorphosis], by Franz Kafka, and develop an essay that relates the theme to modern day personal experiences. The essay follows a preset rubric.

• Character and Choices: Dickens' A Christmas Carol (Authored by Jeff Gillard.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this three week lesson, the teacher provides instruction in the basic elements of literature. By reading Dickens' novel students are provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior.

• Character and Plot Development Through Comics (Authored by Monica McManus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students identify these four attributes in the comic strip and present their findings to the class.

• Character Comparison (Authored by Terri Griffin.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to practice comparing characters from two stories, focusing on actions, motives, emotions, and traits. The Venn diagram is used to display the similarities and differences.

• Character Traits and People in Black History (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read a one-page biographical essay and write in paragraph form how an African American has demonstrated a certain character trait.

• Character, You Say? Prove It! (Authored by Kathy Boyte.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students complete a Character Map and a Venn diagram for selected characters in any text.

• Characters in the Chocolate Factory (Authored by Beth Brewington.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Books are more interesting when the characters come to life! Students will make creative guesses and compare information about selected characters from the book [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory].

• Choose a Book You’ll Like (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After a class discussion of how to choose a book, students complete class and personal charts which will be used to help select books to read.

• Chris' Culture Club Cruise (Authored by Christine Broyles.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities. Follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and make local connections.

• Chunking Huck Finn (Authored by Lisa Glenn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students read a designated chapter of [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]. In small groups, students discuss chapter summary and answer specific questions related to the chapter. Groups will present summaries, addressing answers to specific questions, thereby chunking information.

• Cinderella Around the World (Authored by Monica McManus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.

• Cinderella Stories (Authored by Judy Albero.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: While doing this lesson, students will be able to remember, compare, and contrast two different Cinderella stories of their choice.

• Cite Your Sites (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students get exposure to a variety of resources by working in a cooperative group to complete a literary scavenger hunt.

• Class Act (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Theater (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students in small groups prepare a short videotaped presentation dramatizing a poem.

• Class President (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you wondered what kind of person makes a good president? Students learn strategies to develop reading vocabulary and learn to identify comparison and contrast as an aid to comprehension as they follow Julio and his secret desire to become class president. The novel, [Class President], is used for this ten-day lesson.

• Class Quilt (Authored by Joy Whithaus.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity will promote acceptance of diversity within the classroom through the creation of a class quilt. Students will evaluate the final product to find commonalities with other students.

• Classified Clues (Authored by Deborah Shaw.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using classified advertisements, students work in groups to draw conclusions and make inferences about the writer of the ad and to whom the ad may appeal.

• Classifying and Constructing Corners (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore, classify, and define the various types of angles (acute, right, obtuse, and straight) that occur in the world around them. This lesson plan is the second lesson in a series on geometry.

• Classroom Behavior Role Play (Authored by Jennifer Marshall.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students analyze appropriate and inappropriate classroom behavior after listening to and discussing MISS NELSON IS MISSING by Harry Allard and James Marshall.

• Clean Air (Authored by Mary LaLane.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a graphic organizer to clarify information for a presentation.

• Clouds of Spelling Words (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students receive a folded piece of paper and copy the spelling words onto the paper with a word in each block. They then trace the spelling words four times with four different colored crayons. This is a kinesthetic way to practice writing the spelling words.

• Collaborative Compositions (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the final lesson in an expository writing unit. Students are set loose to develop, draft, and elucidate information for a research topic. Students work collaboratively to write a paper as practice for the final task of writing their own papers.

• Color My World (Authored by Donna Woods.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write poems using color to describe their feelings and environment.

• Come On, You Can Trust Me (Authored by Colleen Starr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students learn to define and then recognize a variety of propaganda techniques at work in their everyday world. Choosing one technique, they creatively demonstrate a thorough understanding from real world experiences.

• Common Commas (Authored by April Smith.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students identify where to place commas in a word series sentence and is appropriate for ESOL students.

• Common Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots (Authored by Deborah Jackson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is a fun way for students to identify word parts, such as prefixes, suffixes, and root words by cutting and pasting.

• Community Brochures (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure.

• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 1) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Advertisements promoting the campaign are created with Student Writing Center.

• Comparatively Speaking (Authored by Sharon West.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn to identify and use the literary terms simile and metaphor. Their knowledge will be reinforced as they are engaged in creating and illustrating two examples of each.

• Complaint Department (Authored by Kim Forgione.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write business letters describing a problem with a purchased product and offering a possible solution to the problem.

• Composer of the Month (Authored by Anissa Sanz.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In order to keep music alive in the schools, we need to validate our class. What better way to do that than to intergrate social studies and writing into the Music Class?

• Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar (Authored by Pat Mixon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This pre-writing assignment prepares the students for the literary analysis. Writing one body paragraph gives the students the flavor of the analysis. The students locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme.

• Conservation Critters Anonymous, Etcetera (Authored by Wilma Horton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students access one of the designated Everglades National Park Websites to understand the intricacies of conservation and relationship balance of flora to fauna.

• Consider This! (Authored by Julie Thompson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students draft a simulated email to the governor of Florida that includes their recommendation for the -heart of Florida- capital and provides support based upon research and established criteria.

• Constructing Contractions (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This game was developed to reinforce the skill of making contractions and the use of the apostrophe in contractions.

• Continuation of the Revolution (Authored by Richard Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is Lesson 2 in the Industrial Times unit. Students research information on inventions that occurred during the second part of the Industrial Revolution. They write and publish articles on a selected invention.

• Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students learn about the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class. Then students publish a class cookbook with their recipes.

• Cool School Poetry (Authored by Barbara Hirst.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students draw ideas from words supplied by the entire class on fifteen subjects of school life, and compose a four line poem using AABB, ABAB or AAAA rhyme, in the same manner as Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky

• Cool Words to Share (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use teacher-selected vocabulary (can be from reading textbook) to present a written story to a first grade student. The book will include a glossary of terms and illustrations of the terms.

• Coping with Verbs (Authored by Amanda Yates.)

Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This ESOL lesson that is week 2 of a unit, gives a review of nouns, introduces verbs, helps students understand how verbs function in sentences, explains verb tenses, and gives visual/verbal/written practice with verbs.

• Could You Elaborate on That? (Authored by Donna Woods.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson teaches the parts of an expository essay and how to organize and write an expository piece from a given topic.

• Could You Repeat That? (Authored by Colleen Starr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students gain an understanding of the Oral Language Tradition of Anglo Saxon Poetry and identify how existing lines were affected by this tradition.

• Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic (Authored by Andrea Farage.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The -Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic- lesson uses creatures created from student’s imaginations to teach hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and alliteration in association with creative writing.

• Crazy Critters Creative Writing Assignment (Authored by Andrea Farage.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: During the Crazy Critters creative writing assignment, students develop characters that take part in a narrative involving creatures that reside in a student’s imagination.

• Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech (Authored by Andrea Farage.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: During -Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech,- students examine a paragraph they have written to determine the individual strengths and weaknesses of their writing. Included is a specific study of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, nouns, and verbs.

• Crazy Putty Ratio (Authored by Georgia White.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students mix various ratios of liquid starch and glue to make craxy Putty (their variation of Silly Putty) using knowledge of measurements and ratios. They chart their ratios, make observations, and write summary of activity.

• Create A Park Map (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students design the ultimate park experience for Florida families as they demonstrate their knowledge of map legend skills.

• Create Your Island Paradise (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Create a descriptive essay and map describing your island paradise.

• Create Your Personal Shield (Authored by Patricia Morres.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: For the purpose of presenting a one - minute personal introduction speech, students create a poster in the shape of a shield , which represents their individual lives by using art, photographs, magazine and newspaper graphics

• Creating Food for Thought (Authored by Cindy Listowski.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After listening to a selection of poems from William Cole's [Poem Stew], the students practice poem writing and later develop a poem on the topic of food. The poems are then compiled into a class book.

• Creating My Personal Animal ABC Book. (Authored by Louise Kent.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create an Animal ABC book to present to a young child. Along the way they research specific information about animals.

• Creatively Creating Expository Essays (Authored by Kara Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: In groups, students create inventions using common objects such as pipe cleaners that could have been in FAHRENHEIT 451. Students share how their inventions work, then draft expository essays explaining their purpose or how they were built.

• Creature Features (Early Grades) (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students select an animal and simple reference books to choose and share pictures and facts about their selected animals through the construction of story boards. As a culminating activity, students make a video of animal facts to share with the class.

• Creature Features (Intermediate Grades) (Authored by Jeanne Barber-Morris.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Paired children are to complete their own “creature and habitat” designs on construction paper. Writing a four paragraph narrative is the final step. Benchmarks include the writing process. Previous studies of animals and their habitats are needed.

• Creatures that Are Just So (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students listen to Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories read aloud. After observing an animal, students create their own "Just So" stories and publish them on Beacon's SiteMaker.

• Critic’s Choice (Authored by Jill Blonder.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read three to five genres and choose one as his or her favorite. Students write an essay persuading the class to read the genre.

• Cruising Through Clouds (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will be able to name the three major types of clouds and describe the characteristics of each cloud.

• Cultural Exposure (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson explains why and how colonist attitudes towards the Native Americans and African Americans changed over time.

• Dateline: 442 B.C. Antigone (Authored by Patti Cogburn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work in groups to write, produce, and video tape a newscast based on the events in the play [Antigone]. The students will describe the main events, analyze the main characters, problems, conflicts and resolutions within the play.

• Dead Words Come Alive! (Authored by Shannon Anderson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an exciting way for second graders to learn about synonyms and increase their vocabulary at a rapid pace. It is designed to be used all year on a daily basis.

• Dear FCAT Checker (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After several months of preparation for the FCAT test, students review how to write business letters, and write one to the person who will check their FCAT test.

• Dear Santa Claus (Authored by Carol Swanick.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Santa answers letters. Students write letters to Santa Claus to find answers to their questions. Students then become Santa Claus answering the questions in a response letter.

• Dear Teacher (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading [Dear Mr. Blueberry], a book by Simon James that models letter writing, students write their own letters to their teacher.

• Decidedly Different (Authored by Carolyn Garner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this first lesson of the Unit Plan, What Makes Me Who I Am, students study why scientists need to use observable characteristics, how they sort the characteristics, and why they do so. Journal entries allow students to reflect and make inferences.

• Defending Great Literature (Authored by Laura Childers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Responding to a fictional letter by an upset parent, students defend Mark Twain and the study of [Huck Finn] using persuasive techniques, appropriate word choice, and correct letter format.

• Delicious Words (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work together to make simple menus more interesting by adding descriptive words. This plan works well with the Six Traits of Writing as it covers the trait of word choice.

• Demonstrating and Calculating Electrostatic Forces (Authored by Robert Rosen.)

Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: A presentation demonstrating electrostatic force focuses on how electrostatic forces exist between charged objects.

• Descriptive Writing (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will have fun using descriptive words in an expository format to describe a food that they hate.

• Design a Character (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Upon completion of the novel, [The Witch of Blackbird Pond], students write a character sketch about one of the two main characters, Kit or Hannah Tupper.

• Destination Outer Space (Authored by Michelle Barlow.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to use effective writing skills, their imagination, and their knowledge of the nine planets. Students use these three items as they create travel pamphlets to the planets in our solar system.

• Details and Observations IQ or the Eyes Have it (Authored by Colleen Starr.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: After studying Chaucer as a master of details, student partners exercise powers of observation to create a short story linking unrelated details into a logical plot with a clear setting and established characters.

• Diagramming Annabelle Lee (Authored by Susan Taylor.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a Story Diagram Chart and a K-W-L Chart, students examine the parts of the Edgar Allan Poe poem, “Annabelle Lee.”

• Different Strokes for Different Folks (Authored by Rhonda Cawthon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students are taken to the media center to review various genre of literature, apply information and concepts to evaluate examples and locate specific genre, and search for materials for reading enjoyment.

• Dino’s Diner (Authored by Susan Mercer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create a modern day dinosaur menu to generate creative ideas regarding what dinosaurs would eat at an imaginary restaurant.

• Direct Express (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Day 3 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will explore speaking for different purposes (i.e., to inform, to express ideas, and to entertain).

• Disasters - Where, When, Why (Authored by Irving Kohn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student uses electronic technology to create and develop a database for U.S. disasters in the 20th Century and writes a paragraph.

• Disect a Toon (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is an engaging way to introduce students to the literary elements of setting, plot, and character development.

• Do a Ditty (Authored by Catyn Coburn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Music (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to create a -ditty- to teach the characteristics that distinguish literary forms to younger students. The ditty is performed before the class.

• Do They Agree? (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review and practice subject-verb agreement by cutting and pasting (using a computer spreadsheet or a print out), and by writing a simple paragraph in which the subjects and verbs agree. (This lesson only addresses subject-verb agreement) Students need prior knowledge of basic paragraph structure and knowledge of technology such as how to cut and paste text in a document.

• Do You Haiku? We Do! (Authored by Judith Rose.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you ever used Math to write poetry? Try your hand at it, writing Haiku, a form of Japanese poetry. Haiku is usually 17 syllables in three-line form, with a first line of five syllables, the second of seven syllables, and the third of five syllables. It is most often about nature, but can be expanded to include other subjects, which allows integration with almost any content area. This simple way of combining creative, yet informative, phrases, results is a fun way to teach this simple poetry form. Encased in tattered backpacks sit many sleeping pencils tools of creation. --adapted from Howard Yosha, Iam72hrstv@aol.com

• Do You Judge a Book by Its Cover? (Authored by Patti Cogburn.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Following a class discussion about stereotypes, students cut pictures out of magazines that relate to their lives to glue on bags to share with the class.

• Do You See What I See? (Authored by Shelia Scofield.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students develop an awareness that a person's perspective affects what they think they see and what they really see.

• Do-deca-he-dron-It’s Greek to Me! (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is great for reinforcing and demonstrating knowledge of the elements of a short story. Students create a “visual” report of the literary elements with a short story. The report is a 12-sided ball called a dodecahedron.

• Does One Tree a Forest Make? (Authored by Linda Kitner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the schoolground.

• Does the Decimal Point Really Make a Difference? (Authored by Sharla Shults.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: What’s the problem with cheeseburgers advertised for .99 cents each or colas for .89 cents each? Students study the decimal dilemma and discover major math mistakes in the real world.

• Does Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will work in groups to rank a list of words from one extreme to the other, such as cold-hot, love-hate, etc. Groups will share their results with the class. After discussion and upon reviewing model descriptive writing, students will apply their knowledge by making more specific word choices to complete a descriptive writing assignment.

• Dog Gone Good Note Cards (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research a dog breed and create at least three note cards detailing information obtained about the dog breed. This is the first of three lessons that are part of a unit called, "Dog Gone Paw-erful Writing and Presenting with PowerPoint."

• Doing Dewey (Authored by Alice Clark.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Doing Dewey reinforces the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Students will apply their basic understanding of Dewey decimal classification to the process of book organization.

• Don't Eat Your Words (Authored by Farica King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using different shapes of macaroni dyed various colors, students work in pairs to apply knowledge of punctuation rules to sentences.

• Don't Let Computers Bug You (Authored by Martha Todd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use the computer, an Internet encyclopedia, and word processing program to write a paragraph about a bug.

• Don't Throw Away That Junk Mail! (Authored by Cheree Brown.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students will use old junk mail to identify techniques used to attract and hold the reader's attention.

• Doodle Bug Family Web (Authored by Nancy Strong.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students doodle to create a web about their family to prepare for writing. All bugs are worked out prior to the final draft.

• Down by the Bay (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will engage in a predicting and counting activity through simulated fishing as a way to identify the bluefish of St. Andrew Bay.

• Down the Knoll Without the Water (Authored by Lee Strain.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students revise fairy tales or nursery rhymes using a thesaurus. They give synonyms for a selected word.

• Drawing Bugs Game (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore probability by predicting the likelihood of rolling any one number on a fair die, graphing data, and analyzing the results of playing a drawing game.

• Dream Killers (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: What is a dream killer? A person? An idea? Students continue their exploration of figurative language and point of view in the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved].

• Dreaming to Come to America (Authored by Diane Krapf.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students examine reasons for immigration to America, including economic, political, and religious considerations and conduct research to determine immigration history of students' families and compare reasons other groups have come to America.

• Dreams, Stars, and Beaches (Authored by Bobbi Shapiro.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson, students compare their own lives with that of a girl in a tenement building in New York City. Through reading -Tar Beach,- a story by Faith Ringgold, students better understand the hopes and dreams of the less fortunate.

• E.T. Write Home (Authored by Susan Mercer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reading [The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System,] the students will pretend they're E.T. writing letters home describing his adventures through the solar system in a journal format.

• Earth Bags (Authored by Ronja Ashworth.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will write and illustrate ideas for helping our environment on paper grocery bags that will be distributed at the local grocery store.

• Easy Essays Step 1 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the first lesson of a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay to students.

• Easy Essays Step 2 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is the second step in the UnitPlan: Easy Essays in Three Steps. Students participate in mini- lessons which will encourage better essay writing.

• Easy Essays Step 3 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the third step in a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, which has been designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay format to students.

• Eating More or Less? (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate by using the Internet to research the types of eating disorders and summarize their effects on the body by creating a PowerPoint presentation or poster presentation.

• Efficiency (Authored by J.P. Hamilton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work cooperatively to investigate the efficiency of various household appliances. They share their findings in three to five minute oral presentations.

• Eight Stars in the Night Sky (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Can you count eight stars in the night sky? This eighth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting continues students’ exploration of the day and night skies. A page for the number 8 is added to students’ counting books.

• Elaborate Cupcakes (Authored by Judy Fox.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is a delicious fun way for your students to gain a better understanding of how to use elaboration in their writing. Students use several of their senses in this lesson.

• Elaborate It (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students add personal anecdotes to expository responses in order to elaborate on a central idea.

• Electromagnetic Spectrum (Authored by Carol Houck.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum.

• Email Buddies (Authored by Carol Rine.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Teachers set up an e-mail system whereby students in different classes or schools can communicate research-based questions and answers on a given topic. (NETS for Students: 4.1)

• Environmenal Detectives at Work (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Environmental Detectives at Work engages students in an investigation of the influence of one human on our natural world.

• Environmental Quality in Our Own Backyard (Authored by Daric White.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is a research project designed to increase student and community awareness and participation in local environmental issues.

• Environmentally Friendly (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The focus of this lesson is to practice researching a project and write a formal letter. Students research using computers to gather information on wildlife management and use the information to write a letter to an agency.

• Escape to Freedom (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read “They Called Her Moses,” create a “Wanted Poster” for Tubman, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and work in groups to create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time period.

• Espresso Your Feelings in Poetry (Authored by Dee Camp-White.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students discover that using descriptive, figurative, and vivid language to write “free verse” can be a fun form of self-expression. Students create poems using online resources and share their creations in a “coffeehouse” setting.

• Estimate a Dinner Plate (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. Estimation strategies are reviewed and practiced to help students determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.

• Ethos, Logos, and Pathos (Authored by Laura Childers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: After teaching ethos, logos, and pathos, students read -Letter From a Birmingham Jail- and -Civil Disobedience- to identify these appeals and write a comparison/contrast paper connecting these two essays, which were written a hundred years apart.

• Euro English (Authored by Peggy Craig.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read a short essay and cull out the directions. Then the students rewrite the essay using standard English spellings.

• Every Vote Counts (Authored by Brenda Heath.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is a multi-phase activity designed to increase student awareness and participation in the voting process.

• Everybody Else Has One! (Authored by Farica King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Commercials have an amazing impact on buyers of all ages. By creating a commercial, students become more aware of the propaganda techniques used to impact the buying power of the consumer.

• Everyday Use (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: While reading a short story, students make notations about characters on small, sticky notes that they will use in a comparison/contrast essay.

• Expert Review (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is for Day 13 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will review both social studies and language arts unit concepts.

• Explorers of the New World (Authored by Pam Kennon.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students researchan explorer and learn how his exploration affected the Western Hemisphere. They demonstrate competency in using Encarta, information software and present a Power Point presentation to classmates with two scanned drawings.

• Exposing Expository Text Structure in a Rainforest Setting (Authored by Laura Hobbs.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson represents the first two days lessons of an expository text structure unit. In this unit students explore expository text structure through the creation of a thematic booklet containing examples of different types of expository text structures. Students use graphic organizers that correspond to a particular text structure and aid in clarifying meaning. Students locate, record, and apply their knowledge of signal words in both teacher-selected expository text and their own writing of expository text. This project culminates in the student’s reflection of their knowledge of the different types of expository text structure.

• Express Yourself (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This language arts lesson is for Days 9-10 of the unit [Native Americans]. Students will practice speaking to a small group about their favorite part of a Native American tale. Peer partners will assess each other’s performances.

• Express Yourself! (Authored by Alicia Allen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist.

• Eye No the Write Won! (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students practice with synonyms, antonyms, and homophones.

• Eye Spy! (Authored by Polly Beebe.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using a Mystery Bag, the What Do You See? game, and an on-campus field trip with Eye-Spy binoculars, students have the opportunity to use descriptive words in many fun ways.

• Fable Writing (Authored by Farica King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using fables, students determine the moral or -central theme- of a piece of writing. Students create their own personal fables, editing for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

• Fabulous Alliteration (Authored by Madonna Scime.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students explore an alliterative tale called [Four Fanished Foxes and Fosdyke]. They listen to the story, then brainstorm their own lists of alliterative words and make their own alliterative tales.

• Fabulously Famous ABC’S (Authored by Christine Broyles.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Surf the Internet, library or even a textbook to find famous individual for a talk show at your school. Write script for an imaginary two-minute radio interview with this famous (past/present) individual.

• Fact and Opinion Detectives (Authored by Sarah Hebert.)

Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this les