To test and create the writing spirit among the 4th or 5th graders, medieval era can be of great inspiration. As among the fourth and fifth graders in Chandler, Arizona activities given underneath provided the students with enough information on Middle Ages and also came out to be a great topic to test their personal researching and writing skills.

The activity began as the kids read Marguerite de Angeli's award winning book "The Door in the Wall" that explains a story of a boy who grew up in medieval Europe. As the reading session was over children picked appropriate topics for them selves and started their personal research upon it, using library and web resources.

After the researching was over then came the time for writing. Kids chose whatever writing style they were comfortable with, however, their teacher still asked them to pay attention as they go through their lead. She was of the view that she worked pretty hard to teach the kids of her class of how they can make their leads interesting. The techniques she used for teaching them of how to make their leads more appealing started of with the study of first page of the book that the researched and gathered their info from. Then she showed them the file that she had compiled of previous students who wrote short yet appealing leads, to show them the potential that kids of their ages can have.

As the writing session was over, learning process still proceeded as the teacher required of the students to publish their research on a web page by giving them the know how of HTML tagging, let them selecting the backgrounds of their pages and search images for their pages. Hence children created their very own web pages except the main page which was made by the teacher.

Apart from the creation of HTML tags and web pages. The topic of Middle Ages can provide the students with lots of other activities that can test their reading, writing and researching skills. That could easily be done by reading them a book regarding Middle Ages and assigning them with some topics for which they would have to do their own personal research and then later on compile their research's raw material into an organized form.

From the study of middle ages, students can also be organized in groups to study for the history of technologies that were there and what have they turned out to be in the modern ages. They can go throw the small inventions like horse and a wheel up to the massive inventions like blast furnace and arrange some of the major inventions on the time line starting from 500 A.D to 2000 A.D.

Study of middle ages and history can also help planning out the future. Kids can also be arranged in the activity of studying the history of kingdoms and how they used to predict future, by observing their resources and interests and all other factors, and how they used to plan for future accordingly.