Wilhelm Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born in Hanau, Germany in 1786.

The Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob, were famous for their collections of folktales and songs, which they compiled from oral sources. The best known of these, Children's and Household Tales, also known asGrimm's Fairy Tales, included stories such as Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White. The Grimms were the first to write down many well-known oral folktales, and their dedication to recording them as close to the original telling as possible meant that many of the tales retained violent episodes. 

ARTSEDGE 
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine created Into the Woods, a musical combining tales from the Grimm Brothers’ Book of Tales. The lesson Fairy Tale Variations with Tunes (5-8) offers students a chance to create improvised scenes and a mini-musical inspired by Sondheim's work. 

In Moving Tales (5-8), students use movement to tell a Grimm Brothers tale. 

In Cinderella Trilogy (5-8), students search through several versions of the Cinderella story to find the version that matches a given list of clues. 

ReadWriteThink 
For more on fairy tales, see the ReadWriteThink lessons Fairy Tales From Life (3-5) and Fairy Tale Autobiographies (6-8). In these lessons, students analyze fairy tales to identify common elements, and then write their own fairy tales based on their experiences. 

Xpeditions 
In the Xpeditions lessons New Takes on Old Tales (K-12) and Fairy Tales, Then and Now (3-5), students use geographic features within classic fairy tales to modernize them so that they take place in today’s world. 

EDSITEment 
EDSITEment offers the curriculum unit Fairy Tales Around the World (K-2), in which students read fairy tales from around the world and identify some typical characteristics of fairy tales. 

In Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore (3-5), students examine several examples of helpful animal tales from around the world and consider the relationship between human beings and the land and sea and the beasts that inhabit them. 

Illuminations 
The activities in the Illuminations unit A Tale of Two Stories (3-5) are inspired by children's natural curiosity about fantasy and fairy tales. The activities use The Three Little Pigs and the Brothers Grimm's Cinderella to motivate students to think and reason mathematically.