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Angles in Art Lesson
Students examine the correlation between art and math. Using their computers, students construct and measure angles. Students identify the properties of angles and polygons. They engage in the Angles program on their Palm and use the...
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PASS the Arts
Students explore math and art concepts, create digital art examples of the concepts, and incorporate these works into a PowerPoint portfolio with explanation and analysis.
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Karl Bodmer Art Cube
Middle schoolers use the internet to research the type of art done by Karl Bodmer. Using this information, they design and create their own art cube relating to the artist's life. They also write a paragraph about what they believe their...
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A Grand Showing
Students promote philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students create video documentaries based on service learning projects they completed and then share the video with their peers and community.
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That's Incredible Show!
Pupils research world records. They portray the people who broke world records. They conduct a mock interview in the classroom.
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Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya
Students accompany music to the story Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain - Kenya to show how sound and music can accompany story description. In this music instructional activity, students learn how to show sound during a story.
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Different Ways to Travel
Students use concentration and imagination to show different ways to move. In this body awareness instructional activity, students show different ways to move to music. While the music is played students move around the room...
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VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
Students create and write context sentences leaving a blank for each vocabulary word. Exchange papers with a classmate to fill in the blanks or use vocabulary cards to show answers. Students research the Isle of Wight in books on Great...
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Speech Marks
In this language arts learning exercise, learners learn to use quotation marks to show someone is speaking. Students examine 12 cartoon frames and write a sentence using speech marks. There is a word bank of more interesting words to use...
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Beginning of the Year Activity Using The Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish Big Book". They discuss how each one of them are unique in some way. They decorate their own fish to show their characteristics and shares it with the class so they are able to learn about each other.
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Identifying an Author's Purpose
Students read, "Research Shows TV PSAs Effective In Reducing Teen Marijuana Use", discuss the article with questions imbedded in the lesson and write their own PSA.
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Could You Repeat That?
Learners participate in an oral story telling activity designed to show how story embellishments occur. They read "Beowulf" and identify incongruities that suggest additions and embellishments over the years.
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Maintaining a Research Notebook During the Research Process
Students discover how to keep all of their research work in a notebook. This lesson shows students how to stay organized during the research process, as well as providing students with a graphic organizer for their work.
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Stories Reveal Character
Students research a person who had a role in the Lewis and Clark expedition. They work together to create and perform a skit showing the person they researched role. They write their own journal entries to end the lesson.
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Television and Teens
Students discuss the relationship teenagers have with the television. In groups, they watch different excerpts from various television shows and note every instance of violence including children. They also discuss the instances of...
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Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bags
Students create a to-go bag for people on the go. After cutting out the bag, lining, insulation, and the flap they apply the interfacing, then sew, add finishing touches, flap and closures. They then show their finished bags.
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Dipping Into the Pond: Transcendentalism and Us
Eleventh graders have a basic comprehension of transcendentalism and a familiarity with the principal propenents of the philosophy. They recognize of the unique role played by Concord, MA in the dispersion of transcendentalism. ...
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Chain Reactions
Students create a picture collage showing the cause and effect of events in the novel Holes. Given a set of pictures from the film adaptation, students place them in sequential order. They write a brief summary of the events and what...
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VOTE GLYPH
In this glyph (a pictorial form of data collection), students are given the word "vote" and are asked to show their responses to 4 questions about voting by following the given directions, which include coloring.
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Give a Dog a Bone! -- Full Color Copy
In this reading worksheet, students create their own book by stapling together 10 pages. Each page in the story depicts a dog who has been rewarded with a bone. The last page shows a humorous picture of a dog who has buried his master's...
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Antonym Partner Puzzle Cards
In this opposites worksheet, students discover antonyms by cutting out 16 word and picture cards. The cards can be sorted, matched, or used in a pocket chart. Some cards have full color photographs which show the word meaning.
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Better Biographies Book Reports
In this literature and literacy worksheet, students follow directions for writing a book report based on a biography. They fill in the title, author, illustrator, and publisher before listing the character traits of the person they read...
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Find the Error 38
In this find the error instructional activity, students will look at an ad produced by a bank and try to spot the mistake. The mistake is a missing apostrophe to show possession.
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The Sound of "oy" and "oi"
In this vowel sounds learning exercise, students learn the sounds of "oi" and "oy." Students circle pictures that show words with this sound and then fill in the missing letters in 10 words.