Trail of Tears Webquest: The Indian Removal Act
Learn about a sad era of American history with this Trail of Tears webquest. Encourage your students to work together to design a striking memorial to …
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Character Trait Description, Types of Characters & Examples Lesson
This lesson plan on character traits will explain traits that characters have, character types and archetypical characters. Activities on how to …
Continue ReadingAssigning Research Projects in Middle School: Tips for Teachers on Teaching the Proper Structure of a Research Project
When assigning a research paper, teachers need to list step-by-step directions, give students examples of an exemplary paper, create a grade sheet, …
Continue ReadingComputer Projects for Middle School: Current Events Show
Middle school students can use the computer to tape, edit and make a show that focuses on current events in the news. Students will work in small …
Continue ReadingMiddle School Projects: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Middle school projects can go one of two ways: wonderful or horrible. Knowing the pitfalls of projects in advance can help teachers to avoid them in …
Continue ReadingArt Lesson Plan for High School: Heroes and Clay
Students will have a blast with these clay lesson plans! In this art lesson, clay will be the medium for learning about heroes and interviewing one …
Continue ReadingFlowers for Algernon Activities and Lesson Plans
This unit in our 8th grade Reading curriculum, covers ‘Flowers for Algernon’ and includes great ideas for teaching the short story.
Continue ReadingA Career Research Project for Middle School
This project is aimed at helping middle school students to do some research on possible future careers and then present their findings to the class. …
Continue ReadingA Family Tree School Project for Middle School: Tips for Teachers
Teach students to make a family tree that will include research from primary and secondary sources. The end project will be colorful tree that …
Continue ReadingA Jigsaw Lesson Strategy
The jigsaw method is a great way to allow students to work together in cooperative groups to learn core material. In this middle school language arts …
Continue ReadingAlexander The Great WebQuest Assignments for Students
Alexander the Great lived to be only 33, but in that short life he amassed an empire, opened the western world to the east, and vice versa, changing …
Continue ReadingPre-assessment Quiz for A Misummer Night's Dream
Before jumping feet first into the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, give students a pre-assessment of the play. This quiz will allow you to …
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