K-6 Student Activities

The Magic Schoolbus series is a wonderful book series that allows teachers and parents to easily integrate technology, science and language arts.

"Dear Children of the Earth" is a wonderful picture book written and illustrated by Schim Schimmel. It contains a letter from the Earth to children. This activity is based on reading this book, brainstorming environmental preservation activities and then writing letters to our elected officials about the students' ideas.

Web scavenger funts are a fun way to teach research and critical thinking skills while students learn about a particular topic, such as the Revolutionary War. This article lists many fun web sites.

Computer use for kindergarteners is a great opportunity! They don't have to be stuck with just using the edutainement software, they can use drawing software to practice their letters and numbers.

Second-graders love to work with animation. PowerPoint and other presentation software, such as HyperStudio and KidPix, gives students a chance to create multi-media poetry.

Kwanza, Hanukkah and Christmas are celebrated throughout the month of December. This year Ramadan also falls during December. This article describes several resources that explain these holidays and an activity where students practice using a electronic bulletin board system.

Holidays are a great way to teach children about other countries. This lesson demonstrates how to create an electronic bulletin board using the Christmas Around the World theme.

Young children, even those who have not learned how to read or write yet, love to "read" pattern books. In this activity, we create a pattern e-book based on the pattern sequences in Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr.'s books, "Polar Bear, Polar Bear What do you hear?" and "Brown Bear, ...

Thanksgiving is almost upon us. Your students will be able to visit a web site about life at Plymoth and then compare their life to it. Your students will create a web page or a presentation about what life is like now in comparison to life in 1621.

The "Harry Potter" books have become a literature resource for many teachers. In this activity, student will be able to create a class newspaper on the computer that summarizes many of the events that took place in the book.