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POETRY AND ME
A visual arts lesson plan combined with language arts, where the students will create a visual poem using crayons. Students are asked to make a connection to an important aspect or event their lives.
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Permeability of Earth Materials
Students observe and classify the permeability of a variety of materials.
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TISSUE PAINTING
Students designs a unique tissue painting by filling in the sketch with selected colored tissue paper and its placement.
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Graphs And Ellipses
Students become acquainted with linear graphs, the parabola and the rectangular hyperbola. Also prepare tables of paired values as preparation for plotting a line. They study the cartesian equation of an ellipse, with a worked example.
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Inspired Science
Students explore the history of inventions and their difference from discoveries. They create timelines of inventions, demonstrating their connections to each other.
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Optional Laboratory: Calculating Board Footage in a Tree
Students work together to complete an experiment calculating the amount of board footage in a tree. They record their data and answer questions at the end of the lesson plan. They create their own hypothesis as well.
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Telling Teachers About Bullying
Students examine what a bully, victim, and ally are. They discuss various methods that can be used to deal with bullying. Students reflect and evaluate on how their behaviors affect others.
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Elements of Music
Young scholars identify three of the essential elements of music: rhythm, melody and harmony. They discover a simple song which will illustrate these three elements separately and bring them together in a final form. They analyze and...
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Folk Art In Response to Folk Music
Learners respond to the song, "This Land is Your Land" in writing and create an original painting in the style of folk art. They identify the characteristics of folk art and identify how the works of folk artists reflect the culture of...
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Integtrating Chinese Dance
Students investigate the concept of Chinese dance and how it developed. They practice some of the dances and conduct research the contributions of major choreographers. Students describe the history and cultural significance of each dance.
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Boundaries
Pupils identify and analyze the boundaries which exist between urban and rural, wildness and country and among rural areas, country, town, and city. Students actively participate in planning, obtaining materials, setting goals and...
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Our National Parks
Students create a report about State or National Parks. The research is done on the Internet in order to integrate technology into the curriculum. Students also produce a newsletter about their findings.
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Where will "Brave Irene" take us today?
The learners listen to and discuss the book "Brave Irene." The students then participating in creating a class web about a snowstorm. The learners then independently journal about bravery. They conclude the lesson by creating an...
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Summarizing the American Flag
Third graders brainstorm and write summary of things they learned about American Flag, edit another student's summary, rewrite their own summary, and conference with teacher before writing final copy.
Stanford University
Many Valued Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Explains the logical theory of "many-valued logic," a modern alternative to classic logic. Sections address its history, notation and proofs, and applications to linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. For the...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Play Ball
Make a table to figure out if a baseball valued at $3000 in 1927 is worth more than a baseball valued at $3 million in 1999. Which is a better investment?
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Miser and His Gold"
Read this illustrated fable "The Miser and His Gold" to learn about a man who valued his money for the wrong reasons. Then read the same tale with different illustrations for a new perspective.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cultural Communication Styles: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that communication symbols and styles vary in meaning and application between cultures. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Cultural Communication Styles."