One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.

This work, “Bobby’s Lost Toy", is a derivative of “The Lost Toy" authored by  Sam Beckbessinger, illustrated by Amy Slatem, used under  CC­-BY­-4.0. The text for the adapted story “Bobby’s Lost Toy” was written by a team of educators during a short course on “Application of Open Educational Resources” in May 2022. The course was developed and delivered by the USAID LAC Reads Capacity Program and hosted by the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

This activity allows students to practice describing pictures. Based on level, students will either describe what the image is showing, create a caption for the image, or tell a story behind the image.

Students will review ASL idioms and use them in context. Students will take pieces of information (setting, time, activity, item) and create a story to share in American Sign Language. 

 Students will be able to practice translating written English to ASL with a focus on directional verbs and classifiers in storytelling. 

Students will get the chance to learn some new emotion vocabulary. Students will tell stories about different emotions they have. They will learn to identify and express different emotions.

Students learn about applied forces as they create pop-up-books the art of paper engineering. They also learn the basic steps of the engineering design process.

The solar system has smaller objects like asteroids, meteors and comets that make a big impact. In this story we learn more about these small but interesting objects.

In this story, Lou goes to an air show at the local airport, and the Three Friends are inspired by the fast flying jets and their cool maneuvers to create high flying kites

This story is about the incredible flying circuses in the pioneering days of flight.

This story is about the pioneering pilot Bessie Coleman, with sketches by museum educator Diane Kidd.

At Ruth's birthday party the friends play with balloons and bubbles that float in the air.

This story follows the Three Friends as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station and build their own space station.

The friends are inspired while cleaning their rooms to return to their fantasy space story and imagine how their robot and alien characters could clean up space junk.

When the Three Friends and Mo visit the zoo, they are inspired by animals that fly like hawks and eagles, little birds, bats, butterflies, and dragonflies to make winged costumes.

National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story Fly and Float, a story about seaplanes.

Gather your little ones for a special Halloween-themed story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari reads an original story and leads us in a craft.

In this story, the three friends and Mo are inspired by the Memorial Day Parade.

Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Homebuilt Airplanes," which tells the story of three friends who build their own airplane out of items in their home.

The Three Friends have trouble playing a flight video game and then have more fun creating play cockpits where they can pretend to be pilots.