Themes by Topic
Missouri 1 Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
1.5 Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to comprehend and evaluate written, visual and oral presentations and works
- Africa: History and Culture
- Alaska
- American Sign Language
- Anatomy: Circulatory System
- Anatomy: Heart
- Anatomy: Muscular System
- Anatomy: Skeletal System
- Ancient Civilizations: China
- Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient Western Civilizations
- Animal Adaptations: Physical and Behavioral
- Animal Tracks
- Animals: Ants
- Animals: Bees
- Animals: Black Bears
- Animals: Bobcats
- Animals: Coyotes
- Animals: Dogs
- Animals: Elephants
- Animals: Farm Animals
- Animals: Frogs, Snails, and Fiddler Crabs
- Animals: Guide Dogs
- Animals: Horses
- Animals: Hound Dogs
- Animals: Identifying Bones
- Animals: Jaguars
- Animals: Kangaroos
- Animals: King Cobras
- Animals: Koalas
- Animals: Ladybugs
- Animals: Mammoths
- Animals: Martens
- Animals: Mice
- Animals: Mink
- Animals: Missouri Fox Trotting Horse
- Animals: Mountain Goats
- Animals: Ocean and Sea Creatures
- Animals: Paint Horses
- Animals: Penguins
- Animals: Praying Mantis
- Animals: Reindeer
- Animals: River Otters
- Animals: Roaches
- Animals: Sharks
- Animals: Vertebrates and Invertebrates
- Animals: Whales
- Animals: White Tigers
- Architecture
- Architecture: Skyscrapers
- Arctic Explorers
- Arctic Inhabitants
- Art Museums
- Art: French Art and Artists
- Art: Middle Eastern Geometric Art
- Assembly Line Production
- Atomic Bomb
- Australian Aborigines
- Author Study: Arnold Lobel
- Author Study: Audrey Wood
- Author Study: Barbara Park
- Author Study: Beatrix Potter
- Author Study: Beverly Cleary
- Author Study: Bill Martin
- Author Study: Chris Van Allsburg
- Author Study: Clyde Robert Bulla
- Author Study: Cormac McCarthy
- Author Study: Cynthia Rylant
- Author Study: David Shannon
- Author Study: Dr. Seuss
- Author Study: E. B. White
- Author Study: Edgar Allan Poe
- Author Study: Emily Dickinson
- Author Study: Eric Carle
- Author Study: Gail Gibbons
- Author Study: Jane Yolen for Elementary Students
- Author Study: Jonathan London
- Author Study: Laura Numeroff
- Author Study: Louis Sachar
- Author Study: Mary Downing Hahn
- Author Study: Mem Fox
- Author Study: Patricia Polacco
- Author Study: Roald Dahl
- Author Study: Scott O'Dell
- Author Study: Tomie dePaola
- Author Study: Vicki Grove
- Author Study: William Steig
- Aviation: Activities for Junior and High School Students
- Barbarian Invasions in the 4th-6th Century
- Black History Month
- Building Bridges
- Calendars
- Career Cluster: Architecture and Construction
- Career Cluster: Health Science
- Career Cluster: Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security
- Cartoons for the Classroom
- Cells: Mitosis
- Changes in America since 1900
- Chemistry: Atoms and Elements
- Children Around the World: Child Labor
- Children Around the World: School and Daily Life
- Chromatography
- Civil Rights Movement
- Classroom Design: Layout
- Classroom Design: School Furniture
- Continent: Asia
- Cool Websites for Kids
- Country: Afghanistan
- Country: Bangladesh
- Country: Bolivia
- Country: Ecuador
- Country: Germany
- Country: Guatemala
- Country: Honduras
- Country: Iceland
- Country: India
- Country: Iraq
- Country: Italy
- Country: Madagascar
- Country: Malaysia
- Country: Peru
- Country: Philippines
- Country: Russia for Elementary Grades
- Country: South Africa
- Country: South America: Pampas and Gauchos
- Country: South Korea
- Crafts: Around the World
- Crafts: Dioramas
- Crafts: Hands-On Activities
- Cyberethics: Downloading Music from the Internet
- Debate
- Debate Topic: Year Round School
- Decade: 1910-1919
- Decade: 1920-1929
- Decade: 1930-1939
- Decade: 1950-1959
- Decade: 1960-1969
- Decade: 1970-1979
- Decade: 1980-1989
- Dictionary Skills
- Disability Awareness
- Dragons
- Economics: Basic Concepts
- Economics: Personal Finance and Budgeting
- Ecosystems: Animal Survival
- Egypt: Ancient Culture
- Egypt: Modern Culture and Lifestyle
- Electricity: Circuits, Conductors, and Batteries
- English: Basic Language Skills for ESL Students
- Espionage and Spies
- Explorers: Mountain Men
- Famous People: Albert Einstein
- Famous People: Amelia Earhart
- Famous People: Artists
- Famous People: Benjamin Franklin
- Famous People: Composers
- Famous People: Duels: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Famous People: Explorers of North America
- Famous People: George Washington Carver
- Famous People: Jackie Robinson
- Famous People: Johannes Kepler and Laws of Planetary Motion
- Famous People: Kurt Warner
- Famous People: Magicians
- Famous People: Norman Rockwell
- Famous People: Ozark Mountain Region in Missouri
- Famous People: Pocahontas
- Famous People: Rosa Parks
- Famous People: Ruby Bridges
- Famous People: Scott Joplin
- Famous People: Sir Isaac Newton
- Famous People: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Famous People: Vincent Van Gogh
- Famous Technological Disasters
- Fashion and Costume Design
- Fishing
- Folktales: Fables
- Folktales: Fairy Tales
- Folktales: Pourquoi Tales
- Folktales: Tall Tales
- Genetics: Blood Types
- Genetics: Inherited Blood Diseases
- Genetics: Punnett Squares
- Geography: Ocean: Fishing and Oil Drilling
- Geography: Pacific Coast Region
- Germany: Politics
- Government: Democratic and Communist
- GPS Systems and Geocaching
- Grammar: Capitalization
- Grammar: Commas
- Grammar: Compound Words
- Grammar: Paragraphs
- Grammar: Parts of Speech: Interjection
- Grammar: Parts of Speech: Nouns
- Grammar: Parts of Speech: Prepositions
- Grammar: Parts of Speech: Verbs
- Grammar: Possessive Nouns
- Grammar: Proofreading and Editing
- Grammar: Verb Tenses for Upper Grades
- Habitat: Deserts
- Habitat: Forests
- Habitat: Ponds and Lakes
- Habitat: Tundra
- Habitat: Wetlands
- Health: Diet and Nutrition
- Health: Physical Education
- Health: Polio
- Health: Smoking Dangers for Elementary
- Health: Smoking Dangers for Upper Grades
- High School Journalism
- Holiday: Arbor Day
- Holiday: Christmas Around the World
- Holiday: Christmas Games and Crafts
- Holiday: Christmas Traditions in America
- Holiday: Cinco de Mayo
- Holiday: Columbus Day
- Holiday: Constitution Day
- Holiday: Earth Day
- Holiday: Easter
- Holiday: Groundhog Day
- Holiday: Halloween
- Holiday: Hanukkah
- Holiday: Independence Day
- Holiday: Labor Day
- Holiday: Mardi Gras
- Holiday: Memorial Day
- Holiday: Passover
- Holiday: Thanksgiving
- Holiday: Veterans' Day
- Hot Air Balloons
- Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Human Body Systems
- Human Body: Support System
- Immigration: Angel Island
- Immigration: Ellis Island
- Industrial Revolution
- Inventions: Ice Cream and Ice Cream Cones
- Jury Duty
- Landscape Design
- Lewis and Clark Expedition: Louisiana Purchase and Exploring the West
- Lewis and Clark Expedition: Sacagawea
- Lewis and Clark Expedition: York
- Lewis and Clark: Seaman
- Library Skills: Information Searching Strategies
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Children's Fiction
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Children's Fiction 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Children's Fiction 2004-2005
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Young Adult Books 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Young Adult Books 2004-2005
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Young Adult Books 2005-2006
- Literature Awards: Caldecott Medal 2004
- Literature Awards: Coretta Scott King Award 2005
- Literature Awards: Coretta Scott King Awards
- Literature Awards: Gateway Readers Award Nominees 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Gateway Readers Award Nominees 2004-2005
- Literature Awards: Gateway Readers Award Nominees 2005-2006
- Literature Awards: Mark Twain Award Nominees 2002-2003
- Literature Awards: Mark Twain Award Nominees 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Mark Twain Award Nominees 2004-2005
- Literature Awards: Mark Twain Award Nominees 2005-2006
- Literature Awards: Michael L. Printz 2005
- Literature Awards: Michael L. Printz Award
- Literature Awards: Newbery 2004
- Literature Awards: Newbery 2005
- Literature Awards: Pura Belpre Medal 2004
- Literature Awards: Show Me Readers Award Nominees 2002-2003
- Literature Awards: Show Me Readers Award Nominees 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Show Me Readers Award Nominees 2004-2005
- Literature Awards: Show Me Readers Award Nominees 2005-2006
- Literature Themes: Survival
- Literature: "A Boy at War" by Harry Mazer
- Literature: "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck
- Literature: "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
- Literature: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry
- Literature: "A Taste of Blackberries" by Doris Buchanan Smith
- Literature: "A Year Down Yonder" by Richard Peck
- Literature: "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
- Literature: "Animal Farm" By George Orwell
- Literature: "Artemis Fowl" Series by Eoin Colfer
- Literature: "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
- Literature: "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
- Literature: "Call it Courage" by Armstrong Sperry
- Literature: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
- Literature: "Dear America Book: West to a Land of Plenty" by Jim Murphy
- Literature: "Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie" by Kristiana Gregory
- Literature: "Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White
- Literature: "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Literature: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Flat Stanley" by Jeff Brown
- Literature: "Flip-Flop Girl" by Katherine Paterson
- Literature: "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Grandfather's Journey" by Allen Say
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
- Literature: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling
- Literature: "Harry Potter" Books by J.K. Rowling
- Literature: "Henry and Ribsy" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell
- Literature: "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
- Literature: "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Koala Lou" by Mem Fox
- Literature: "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Literature: "Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Math Curse" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
- Literature: "Mr. Tucket" by Gary Paulsen
- Literature: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
- Literature: "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
- Literature: "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Ramona the Brave" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
- Literature: "Series of Unfortunate Events" Series by Lemony Snicket
- Literature: "Sign of The Beaver" by Elizabeth George Speare
- Literature: "Soldier's Heart" by Gary Paulsen
- Literature: "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
- Literature: "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
- Literature: "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
- Literature: "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
- Literature: "Superfudge" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock
- Literature: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Best Halloween Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
- Literature: "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
- Literature: "The Castle in the Attic" by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Literature: "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" by Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Literature: "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
- Literature: "The Diary of Anne Frank"
- Literature: "The Empress of Elsewhere" by Theresa Nelson
- Literature: "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline Cooney
- Literature: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- Literature: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Literature: "The Great Turkey Walk" by Kathleen Karr
- Literature: "The House of Dies Drear" by Virginia Hamilton
- Literature: "The Hundred Dresses" by Eleanor Estes
- Literature: "The Kid in the Red Jacket" by Barbara Park
- Literature: "The Last Safe House" by Barbara Greenwood
- Literature: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
- Literature: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
- Literature: "The Lucky Baseball Bat" by Matt Christopher
- Literature: "The Man Who Loved Clowns" by June Rae Wood
- Literature: "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
- Literature: "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "The Wanderer" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
- Literature: "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
- Literature: "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelson
- Literature: "Trouble River" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
- Literature: "Under the Blood Red Sun" by Graham Salisbury
- Literature: "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "Whatever Happened to Janie" by Caroline Cooney
- Literature: "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
- Literature: Award Winners
- Literature: Book Activities
- Literature: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
- Literature: Cinderella Stories
- Literature: Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Literature: Mystery Books
- Literature: Online Stories for Children
- Literature: Reader's Theater
- Literature: Story Elements
- Mackinac Bridge
- Magic: History
- Magic: Tricks and Illusions
- Maps: How to Use Them
- Maps: Missouri
- Maps: U.S. Time Zones
- Masks: Ceremonial and Cultural
- Math: Bar, Line, and Picture Graphs
- Math: Conic Sections
- Math: Counting Money: Intermediate
- Math: Everyday Uses
- Math: Geometry: Angles and Triangles
- Math: Geometry: Lines
- Math: Geometry: Shapes
- Math: Virtual Manipulatives
- Mayflower Voyage
- Medieval Castles
- Medieval Feudalism
- Missouri Compromise
- Missouri Regions: An Overview
- Missouri Regions: Chariton Valley
- Missouri Regions: Kansas City
- Missouri Regions: Lake of the Ozarks
- Missouri Regions: Mark Twain
- Missouri Regions: Osage Lakes
- Missouri Regions: Ozark Heritage
- Missouri Regions: Ozark Mountain
- Missouri Regions: Pony Express
- Missouri Regions: River Heritage
- Missouri Regions: St. Louis
- Missouri Regions: Taney County
- Missouri: City of St. Louis
- Missouri: Explorers
- Missouri: Facts
- Missouri: Famous People
- Missouri: Famous People: Dred Scott
- Missouri: Famous People: Mark Twain
- Missouri: Famous War Heroes
- Missouri: Galena, Abesville, and Ponce de Leon
- Missouri: Geography and Landforms
- Missouri: Interstate 70
- Missouri: Juvenile Justice System
- Missouri: New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12
- Missouri: Platte Purchase
- Missouri: Regional Foods
- Missouri: Springs
- Music: Genres
- Music: Instruments
- National Symbols
- Native Americans: Adobe Houses
- Native Americans: Choctaw
- Native Americans: Iowa Tribe
- Native Americans: Missouri Tribes
- Native Americans: Mound Builders
- Native Americans: Navajo
- Native Americans: Origins
- Native Americans: Osage Tribe
- Native Americans: Paiutes
- Native Americans: Plains Indians
- Native Americans: Shoshone
- Native Americans: Totem Poles
- Newspaper Production for Elementary Classrooms
- Newspapers: Classroom Activities
- Newspapers: Political Cartoons
- Nobel Prize
- Olympic Games: Bidding to Host Olympics 2012
- Olympic Games: History
- Parts of a Book: Nonfiction
- Pearl Harbor
- Peer Pressure
- Performing Arts: Drama
- Photography
- Physics: Buoyancy
- Physics: Current Electricity
- Physics: Forms of Energy
- Physics: Gravity
- Physics: Potential and Kinetic Energy
- Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony
- Pirates
- Pony Express
- Profiles of International Terrorist Organizations
- Quilts: Past and Present
- Reading Skills: Fact and Opinion
- Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students
- Reading Skills: Vowels
- Reading Strategies for Elementary Students
- Revolutionary War: Battles
- Revolutionary War: Biographies
- Revolutionary War: Choosing Sides
- Rivers: Mississippi River
- Safety: Outdoor Fun
- Schools in the Nineteenth Century
- Science Fair Projects: Ideas and Organization
- Science: Bubbles and Water Tension
- Science: Caves
- Science: Dinosaurs
- Science: Nanotechnology
- Science: Northern Lights
- Science: Plant Science: Teaching with Comedy
- Science: Robotics
- Science: Rockets
- Science: Science Fiction
- Science: Weather Instruments
- Scientific Method
- Seasons: Autumn: Changing Leaves
- September 11
- September 11: One Year Later
- Shadows
- Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
- Shakespeare: "Julius Caesar"
- Shakespeare: "Macbeth"
- Shakespeare: "Othello"
- Shakespeare: "Romeo and Juliet"
- Shakespeare: His Life and Times
- Shakespeare: The Globe Theatre
- Shoes
- Slavery: Slave Trade
- Slavery: The Underground Railroad
- Solar Car RAYCES
- Solar System: Jupiter
- Solar System: Mars
- Solar System: Mars Exploration
- Solar System: Mercury
- Solar System: Neptune
- Solar System: Planetoid Sedna
- Solar System: Planets
- Solar System: Pluto the Dwarf Planet
- Solar System: Rotation and Revolution
- Solar System: Saturn
- Solar System: Sun
- Solar System: Uranus
- Solar System: Venus
- Space: Asteroids
- Space: Constellations
- Space: Living
- Space: Meteors
- Space: Nebulae
- Space: Observatories and Planetariums
- Space: Stars
- St. Louis World's Fair, 1904
- State Quarters
- Teaching Tips: Inquiry-Based Learning
- Teaching Tips: Literature Circles
- The Crusades
- Thirteen Colonies: Daily Life
- Timelines
- Transportation: Covered Wagons
- Transportation: Flying Cars
- Transportation: Trains
- Trees: Redwoods
- U.S. Armed Forces
- U.S. Flag
- U.S. Government: Legislative Branch
- U.S. President: Jimmy Carter
- U.S. President: John F. Kennedy
- U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
- U.S. Presidents
- U.S. Symbols: Liberty Bell
- Vietnam War
- Vikings
- Virtual Field Trips
- Weather: Basic Concepts
- Weather: Hurricanes
- Weather: Lightning
- Weather: Snowflakes and Frost
- Web Design: Buttons, Bullets, and Bars
- Web Design: Creating a Web Site
- Web Design: Examples of Elementary Classroom Sites
- Web Design: Examples of Elementary Student Pages
- Westward Expansion: California Gold Rush
- Westward Expansion: Mormon Pioneer Trail
- Westward Expansion: Oregon Trail
- Women's History Month
- World Records
- World War II for Elementary Students
- World War II: Guadalcanal
- Writing: Advertisements
- Writing: Alliteration, Idioms, and Hyperbole
- Writing: Biographies
- Writing: Fiction
- Writing: Letters: Friendly, Business, and Thank You
- Writing: Memoirs
- Writing: Mysteries
- Writing: Nonfiction
- Writing: Personification
- Writing: Persuasion
- Writing: Realistic Fiction
- Writing: Research Papers
- Writing: Similes and Metaphors
- Writing: Text Structures
- Zoo Animals
- Technology: Computer Basics
- Technology: Inspiration
- Teaching Tips: Reading Comprehension Strategies
- Teaching Tips: Reading in the Content Areas
- Teaching Tips: Writing Assessment Tools
- Teaching Tips: Learning Disabilities
- Teaching Tips: Skim Reading
- Teaching Tips: Guided Reading
- Teaching Tips: Inference
- Math: Pattern Blocks and Tangrams
- Math: Money Facts
- Math: Tessellations