This activity is designed for a primary classroom (outdoors & indoors) investigation where students collect and investigate soil samples and describe the soils, looking for similarities and differences. Students develop a method of recording the data colleted and can present the information gathered.

This interactive PDF explains the four types of writing and their applications, and provides some free examples.

This activity is a field investigation where students gather data on physical changes of the ecosystem surrounding their school habitat.

Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.

Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.

This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.

This activity is a classroom hands-on , active learning lesson where students observe and describe a familiar item, to help them observe and describe the physical characteristics of rocks.

Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.

This is an integration of science leaf observations with musical composition for early elementary students.

Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from "The Lion King" as a way to compare standard and described programming media.

Students will learn how descriptive words make stories clearer and more interesting to read.

This handout breaks down tips for improving your descriptive writing and provides examples and explanations for each suggestion.

Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.

This activity is takes place in nature and in the classroom. Students are gathering different types of leaves and naming characteristics of each then sorting them by those characteristics. Students then make a picture with leaves and writes 2-3 sentences about their picture using the characteristic words.

In this biology lab extension, student will have already collected leaves from the playground and surrounding school areas and sorted them into categories according to leaf properties. Students will use the leave classifications/ sorts to graph the properties of the leaves.

This activity is a field investigation where students will learn the importance of detail when nature journaling.

Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.

The activity is a field trip to Minnehaha Falls where students will observe and record their findings in a science notebook.

Every student in Ms. Montgomerys class draws a picture of a monster and then writes a descriptive paragraph about it. Ms. Hoover then connects this class with another via video conference. This new class must now draw pictures based on the descriptions from the first class, who are now very aware of the importance of details in descriptive writing.

This lesson teaches students how to use old verbs in a new way, thus creating new and fresh descriptive phrases.