Engage teens in this activity in which they use photographs to examine and write about courage on a blog.
Invite teens to explore issues that are important to them, and then write a script and film a video public service announcement.
In this activity teens are encouraged to explore their reading history as they remember books they liked reading as children and then revisit these old favorites.
Explore how music can have an emotional impact on a scene in a movie, then help teens write and film a scene of their own.
This activity invites children and teens to explore various careers and then write about what they might want to be when they grow up in a blog.
Let children practice using different types of words in a fill-in-the-blank-story game before making their own word list for a magnetic poetry set.
While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.
Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.
After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.
Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.
Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.
Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.
Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.
Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.
Work with teens to learn about family members' significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.
This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.
In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
This activity will help pairs or groups of teens explore a hands-on approach that lets them become both comic book writers and comic book artists.
Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members.
Work with a teen to create a wiki with everything people should know about the teen's top ten favorite songs—and your favorite songs as well! Then invite friends to add their favorite songs too.