How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to investigate chemical elements and their properties?  Continue reading...

How can playing the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee help students improve their spelling?  Continue reading...

How can a presidential candidate's linguistic patterns in a debate further reveal his or her political agenda?  Continue reading...

How can students analyze and write "found poetry" based on particular prose passages?  Continue reading...

How can the Visual Thesaurus help students better understand the language of mathematics?

In this lesson, small groups of students will use the Visual Thesaurus to explore the multiple meanings of some common math terms. Then, groups will synthesize this knowledge by coming up with examples of the words in both mathematical and other contexts.  Continue reading...

How can the Visual Thesaurus help students replace trite words of emphasis with "words strong in themselves"?  Continue reading...

In this lesson, students identify the algorithm behind Fibonacci's sequence of numbers and then read a New York Times article about how blogger Gregory K. Pincus invented a poetry form based on this number sequence. Students then synthesize their knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence and the VT to create their own "Word Fib" poems that explore the multiple connotations of some challenging one-syllable vocabulary words.  Continue reading...