NOVA's Mystery Site : Create a DNA Fingerprint
You'll find out by solving a mystery -- a crime of sorts. Solving the mystery involves creating a DNA fingerprint (we'll supply the lab and all necessary materials) and comparing this fingerprint to those of the suspects

Opposites : First Grade Lesson Plan

Language Arts
Several lesson plans for different grades

Ask ERIC : Enigmas
The learner will demonstrate creative thinking skills to find many, varied and unusual solutions to mysteries. The learner will be able to relate two or more remote or commonly unassociated ideas. The learner will develop research skills needed to discover the elements of a mystery. Grade Level : 4-5

CEC - Language Arts Lesson Plans K-12
Choose from one of these many lesson plans available.

CEC - The Alphabet Game by Joyce Bean
3-6 Grade. This exercise may be incorporated into spelling lessons, geography, social studies, any lesson that would be helped through spelling of words. It also may stand alone as a fun exercise.

Grade 5 Learning Activities
Lots of activities available here.

English@Work : A Passport to Cyberspace
Online English lessons. Interactive activities.

Interactive Word Wall
Guidelines on how to make your own interactive word wall

Working with Words
Pictures and ideas on how to make a word wall

POETRY

A Simile and Metaphor Sample Lesson Plan for Teaching Similes and Metaphors
Adaptable to fit a poetry class in grades 5-12. Goal: Students should be able to use their knowledge of similes and metaphors to promote their appreciation and understanding of poetry.

Teaching Parts of Speech with Poetry Lesson Plan
PURPOSE: Review parts of speech by rewriting a poem. Replace selected parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns or prepositions to create a new poem.