Writing Haiku Summaries: How to Encourage Creativity and Assess Student Comprehension
This summary haiku lesson plan goes beyond the traditional definitions of haiku to use the form as a way of summarizing students’ reading. …
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Craft Project: How to Make Pioneer Jewelry (History Themed Activity)
This fun craft project ties in wonderfully with the history of American pioneers and the students can take their project home and use it as a gift. …
Continue ReadingPaint a Sunset: An Easy Watercolor Art Project for Elementary Students
This watercolor painting project involves painting a sunset or sky background with an old fencepost and barbed wire wrapped on it, in a wheat field. …
Continue ReadingUsing Reader's Theater to Develop Fluency
Fluency is one skill struggling readers need help to develop, yet finding a way to coax these students to read aloud can be trying. How can a teacher …
Continue ReadingAn Eggs-traordinary Chemistry Project Using Boiled Eggs
Want to add some science into your Easter holiday? Try this fun chemistry science project. This science experiment using boiled eggs will put a new …
Continue ReadingCenter of Gravity: Kids vs. Adults - A Fun Science Activity
Do you know a child who is always worried that “big people” do everything better than the child does? Prove them wrong using this gravity …
Continue ReadingPassover Art Project: Moses in the Bulrushes Jewish Education
Let your students craft Moses hiding in the bulrushes as a baby. This Passover art project encourages children to engage with the story of Passover as …
Continue ReadingStep by Visual Step Watercolor Painting Project: Paint a Rainbow & Umbrella Lesson for Grades 1-8
This colorful project is to paint a rainbow on a stormy background with a child under an umbrella. The watercolor technique is simple and easy to …
Continue ReadingCreating Stained Glass Vases For Mother's Day: A Great Art Lesson Plan
Whether for Mother’s Day, a birthday or “just because,” faux stained glass vases combine an engaging craft project with a beautiful hand-made gift. …
Continue ReadingWatercolor Painting Techniques For an Easter Egg Art Project
This watercolor tutorial shows you how to make an easy and colorful art project for children in grades 1-8. Students will learn watercolor painting …
Continue ReadingScience Project: Teach Your Elementary Students How To Make a Sun Dial
We know that the Earth rotates on its axis at a constant speed; that is why over the course of 24 hours the sun has “moved” around the …
Continue ReadingTeach Density to Elementary Students With This Paper Marbling Science and Art Project
Paper marbling is an old technique used to make beautiful, fancy papers. It works because oil floats on water.
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