Themes by Topic
Missouri 2 Students in Missouri public schools will acquire the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively within and beyond the classroom.
2.4 Students will demonstrate within and integrate across all content areas the ability to present perceptions and ideas regarding works of the arts, humanities and sciences
- Alamo
- Amish People, Life, and Culture
- Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia
- Ancient Rome
- Animals: Bottlenose Dolphins
- Animals: Farm Animals
- Animals: Guide Dogs
- Animals: Mice
- Animals: Whales
- Architecture
- Art Museums
- Art: French Art and Artists
- Art: Middle Eastern Geometric Art
- Atomic Bomb
- Author Study: Beverly Cleary
- Author Study: Bill Wallace
- Author Study: Chris Van Allsburg
- Author Study: Dr. Seuss
- Author Study: Eric Carle
- Author Study: Judy Blume
- Author Study: Laura Numeroff
- Author Study: Peg Kehret
- Aviation: Wright Brothers
- Black History Month
- Book Week Celebrations
- Cartoons for the Classroom
- Changes in America since 1900
- Cool Websites for Kids
- Country: Italy
- Country: Madagascar
- Country: Mexico: Traditions and Holidays
- Country: Russia for Elementary Grades
- Crafts: Dioramas
- Crafts: Hands-On Activities
- Cyberethics: Downloading Music from the Internet
- Dance History
- Debate
- Decade: 1910-1919
- Decade: 1920-1929
- Decade: 1950-1959
- Dragons
- Egypt: Pyramids
- Famous People: Artists
- Famous People: Benjamin Franklin
- Famous People: Norman Rockwell
- Famous People: Sojourner Truth
- Famous People: Vincent Van Gogh
- Folktales: Fables
- Folktales: Tall Tales
- Grammar: Compound Words
- Grammar: Parts of Speech: Pronouns
- Health: Physical Education
- Historic Documents: Declaration of Independence
- Holiday: Halloween
- Holiday: Lunar New Year
- Holiday: Presidents Day
- Immigration: Angel Island
- Immigration: Ellis Island
- Latin American Culture
- Lewis and Clark Expedition: Sacagawea
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Children's Fiction 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Beehive Award Nominees for Young Adult Books 2003-2004
- Literature Awards: Caldecott Medal 2004
- Literature Awards: Coretta Scott King Awards
- Literature Awards: Gateway Readers Award Nominees 2003-2004
- 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: Michael L. Printz Award
- Literature Awards: Newbery 2004
- 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: "Antigone" by Sophocles
- Literature: "Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days" by Stephen Manes
- Literature: "Dear America" and "My Name is America" Civil War Books
- Literature: "Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
- Literature: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" by Lois Duncan
- Literature: "Judy Moody" by Megan McDonald
- Literature: "Koala Lou" by Mem Fox
- Literature: "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse
- Literature: "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" by Patricia Maclachlan
- Literature: "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Literature: "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
- Literature: "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
- Literature: "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock
- Literature: "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
- Literature: "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
- Literature: "The Diary of Anne Frank"
- Literature: "The Empress of Elsewhere" by Theresa Nelson
- Literature: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Literature: "The Kid in the Red Jacket" by Barbara Park
- Literature: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
- Literature: "The Lucky Baseball Bat" by Matt Christopher
- Literature: "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
- Literature: "The Wanderer" by Sharon Creech
- Literature: "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
- Literature: "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" by Louis Sachar
- Literature: "Trouble River" by Betsy Byars
- Literature: "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi
- Literature: "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
- Literature: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
- Literature: Cinderella Stories
- Literature: Reader's Theater
- Magic: History
- Masks: Ceremonial and Cultural
- Math: Geometry: Shapes
- Medieval Castles
- Medieval Feudalism
- Migrant Farm Workers
- Missouri Regions: Chariton Valley
- Missouri: Artists Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham
- Missouri: City of St. Louis
- Missouri: Facts
- Missouri: Famous People
- Music: Genres
- Native Americans: Navajo
- Native Americans: Trail of Tears
- Newspapers: Political Cartoons
- Nobel Prize
- Performing Arts: Drama
- Photography
- Physics: Force and Motion
- Physics: Forms of Energy
- Physics: Light
- Physics: Sound
- Quilts: Past and Present
- Science Experiments: Earth Science
- Science Fair Projects: Ideas and Organization
- Science: Plant Science: Teaching with Comedy
- Scientific Method
- September 11: One Year Later
- Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
- Shakespeare: "Julius Caesar"
- Shakespeare: "Macbeth"
- Shakespeare: "Romeo and Juliet"
- Shakespeare: His Life and Times
- Shoes
- Solar System: Mars Exploration
- Space: Constellations
- State Quarters
- Statue of Liberty
- Transportation: Automobiles
- Transportation: Mass Transit
- U.S. Flag
- U.S. Government: Executive Branch
- U.S. Government: Judicial Branch
- U.S. President: George Washington
- Ventriloquism
- Weather: Clouds and Cycles
- Weather: Thunderstorms and Lightning
- Web Design: Examples of Elementary Student Pages
- World Records
- Writing: Mysteries
- Writing: Persuasion
- Writing: Research Papers
- Writing: Similes and Metaphors
- Zoo Animals
- Technology: Microsoft Publisher
- Teaching Tips: Writing Assessment Tools
