Float Your Boats!
Want to excite your students with an integrated curriculum project?  Come see how to have your students create scale models of boats. Students will then make full life size boats out of cardboard, integrating all subject areas!  The culminating activity is to actually FLOAT in these boats at your local swimming pool! (All core Areas NCLB)

Revolutionary Bio’s Come ALIVE!
Meet a Historical figure! (Well, close) We will show you how to integrate literature and history into biographical sketches that come alive! This activity allows students to become the figures from the past while learning history, writing, and public speaking skills. (History/Language Arts NCLB)

“Here Lies” Biographies
This activity is a creative way to make learning about historical figures fun. “Memorialize” a historical figure and nurture your students Multiple Intelligences at the same time. The culminating activity is a memorial day with music, drama, eulogies and more! (History NCLB)

Starting The Fire!
This is a great opening or closing year activity. The students research and build on Billy Joel’s song “We didn’t Start the Fire.” Through this activity, the students learn recent history facts, analyze the video for meaning, discover famous historical photos, and create their “own history” using writing skills. Music can be a great way to motivate students to discover their past. (History NCLB)