A collection of digital learning objects to teach descriptive writing skills.
In this activity students will explore leaves using inquiry and their senses.
Working in small groups, students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Students create their own monster trading cards using "powerful," vivid language to describe their creatures.
This assignment is geared toward helping students improve their narrative essays but can be used with any writing assignment.
This inquiry lab activity involves students working to understand that sound is made from vibrations.
Students learn glacial landforms and create a landform map including a location grid (eg. position A2) and map key.
In this lesson, students write a draft to plan for a brief expository composition.
Students will complete a series of tasks to build skills in preparation of writing a descritpive/narrative essay.