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Grades
K - 2
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Take a Closer Look: Write Around the Room

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

Grades
1 - 4
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Become a Young Archaeologist

Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.

Grades
7 - 12
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children's Book about the Weather

Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.

Grades
K - 6
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The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show

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.

Grades
9 - 12
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Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic Scrapbook

Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.

Grades
9 - 12
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Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events

Work with teens to learn about family members' significant personal experiences by interviewing them and sharing their stories with the rest of the family.

Grades
9 - 12
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Children's Book Project

This activity can help teens create picture books that a teen caregiver can then share with children.

Grades
9 - 12
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Soundtrack for My Life

In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.

Grades
9 - 12
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Comic Book Show and Tell

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.

Grades
9 - 12
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Recording Family Stories

Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members.

Grades
9 - 12
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Personal Playlists: Ten Favorite Songs

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.

Grades
9 - 12
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Speak Up! Writing a Review

This activity gives teens an opportunity to write reviews on the movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and books they love—and hate!

Grades
9 - 12
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Telling Good from Bad in Movies and Television

In this activity, you can discuss with teens how they can tell the "good" characters from the "bad" ones by watching for clues that the movie makers have left.

Grades
9 - 12
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Writing a First Resume

This activity will help teens create a professional resume that effectively presents their skills and talents to future employers.

Grades
9 - 12
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Connecting with Young Adult Authors through Writing

This activity guides teens in reaching out to authors of books they love by composing personal letters or connecting to authors through their websites or blogs.

Grades
K - 2
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Reading Signs and Labels

These activities will have children reading signs, logos, brand names, and other words all over their home and community.

Grades
K - 2
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Let's Play Bingo!

Work together, create a bingo board that can be played while walking around town, going to the zoo or a museum, or traveling on a vacation.

Grades
K - 2
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Let's Go on a Reading Hunt!

In this activity, children go on a hunt for places where they can read and enjoy books: on a family road trip, at the pool, at the doctor's office.

Grades
K - 2
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Note Writing at a Message Center

In this activity, children write short everyday notes, to remind, plan, request, or compliment others.

<em>Where the Sidewalk Ends</em> by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
Grades
1 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.

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