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- Grade Range
- 6th - 10th
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Students are introduced to the following characteristics of a news story: presents infromation with description and fact, explains how something works, shows how to do something, and communicates specific procedures or steps. They compare and contrast sets of written directions with text or video examples of procedural stories such as a cooking segment from a local newspaper. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students are shown a variety of art that shows different aspects of family life. Individually, they write down their predictions of the artist about where they are from, what their painting makes them think about and the importance of the art to the artist. To end the lesson, they reflect their own culture in a form of art. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students complete an activity that illustrates the concepts of giving accurate instructions and computer programming. They also identify the relationship of the instructions/code to computer programming. Students then create a peanut butter sandwich by writing an HTML web page and use programmable robots. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast life in the United States and Japan. While the teacher holds up word cards, they decide where to categorize them under Japan, the U.S., or both. As students assemble their diagrams, they add their own words to them. Finally, they write about what they have learned in the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students explore numbers in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. They discuss numbers and practice writing and speaking numbers 1-10 in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. As they create a chart of the three countries' numbers, they discuss the meanings behind the Chinese numbers and create origami fortune tellers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students identify main idea and supporting details of a science story. After reading story about frogs and toads, students identify vocabulary, and the life cycle of a frog by making posters, using modeling clay, and making puppets. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students list the steps of Darwin's natural selection. They demonstrate the process of natural selection in a predation activity. Students create paper origami frogs to race across the floor and analyze the differences in the shapes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students read the book "Horton Hatches the Egg". They identify how they can give their time to someone as a gift and create a way to present their gift. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 6th
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Students observe and demonstrate quilling techniques for creating beads. They discuss and view art pieces on a field trip to a "Design Made In Africa" touring exhibit, then use simple quilling techniques to produce beads for a variety of jewelry pieces. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students create a roundral pattern using their own name. They look at patterns done in Islamic art adn then create their own pattern. Finally, they can also create their own kaleidoscope using mirrored sheets, carboard tubes, beads and plastic. Full Review »

