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- 2nd - 4th
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Students identify cause and effect relationships in a short story. After reading a short story, they participate in a discussion of how one event in a story can lead to several others. Students are then paired for a matching task that requires a student with a cause sentence to find their matching effect sentence. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students explore parts of the electromagnetic spectrum by conducting various experiments using prisms and thermometers. Students imagine what it would be like to see in infrared, and explore radiation as a means of determining planetary temperatures. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students conduct research on various poets and poetry. They conduct Internet research, select a poet or a theme and select five poems that fit that category, and create a seven slide PowerPoint presentation on their selected poems. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students brainstorm a list of images, people, and emotions that they associate with news stories that are particularly moving. They explore how the play "The Laramie Project" presents the events surrounding Matthew Shepard's death. Students create an artistic representation of news events that have strongly impacted them. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Identify their feelings about Shakespeare's plays, addressing their readability and relevance to their lives. 2. Explore the effects of remaking Shakespeare plays in a modern context, as well as differences that emerge when a play is turned into a film, by reading and discussing "A Simpler Melancholy in a Different Denmark." 3. Modernize a scene from "Hamlet" by setting it in modern times. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students explore the many faces of America through the video, "This Land Is Your Land." They discuss places they may have visited and record their responses. Students create symbols that respresent the riches of America. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students explore colors through art, literature, science, and movement. They wear the color of the day, and explore the color yellow by analyzing and creating their own version of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers." Students also paint a giant flower and read the story "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students examine the dynamics of change and compare and contrast it with other cultures. They cite examples of how people change over time and explain why it is necessary. Students organize a skit, Webpage, or Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate how they can personally effect change. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students will review poetic terms we have already studied and see them function in a poem. Understanding is established with the connections between poetry and song lyrics. They will practice applying poetic and rhetorical terms in writing. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students read the novel "Red Cap" by Clifton Wisler. Using the text, they identify the survival tools the Union drummer used in a southern prison during the Civil War. They use the internet to research General Sherman's reasons for marching through Georgia. Full Review »
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