What makes you happy? What makes you sad? Connecting words to feelings enriches vocabulary and helps with concept development.

What is it like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? Students find out in this lesson in which they "become" the characters in Judith Viorst's book.

Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.

Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.

Give students an authentic reason to read and write by researching blogs written by their peers around the world and then writing their own.

Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.

Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.

Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.

Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.

Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.

Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.

Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.

Students use a Discussion Web to engage in meaningful discussion of the question, "Are people equal?"

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.

Students learn haiku write descriptive poems and share with the class.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.

Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.

Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.