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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students read and watch a video about the life of Jimmy Chin, a professional climber, explorer, and photographer. They reflect upon and analyze Chin's photographs and examine how people's occupations and hobbies intertwine. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students study how to transition between elementary school and middle school. They view a Power Point presentation to discuss learning styles, strengths in learning, areas of support, social information, hobbies, and subjects of interest. They create their own Power Point presentation and present it to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students participate in an introduction activity in which they make a PowerPoint presentation. They work with a partner to include the partner's background and hobbies in the presentation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students complete Meyers-Briggs Survey over three class periods, and consider how personality differences affect career choices. They use word processor to write essays about their personalities based on results of survey. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students discuss favorite hobbies. They use the attached brain handout, and draw or paste a photo that represents themselves or their interests in the middle. Students use the Sparktop.org site to participate in a blogging activity. They create a brain that reflects their hobbies, interests, and likes on-line. These are saved for other students to view. on-line. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students in an ESL class practice speaking in front of others. In order to build up confidence for speaking out in class, they practice asking other students in their class simple questions such as What is their favorite hobby? They also participate in partner conversations in front of the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students create an acrostic poem as a class and then illustrate it individually. They also hold a Poetry Cafe Day, in which they sit in small groups to read various types of poetry, serve cookies and punch. Finally, students students create vocabulary word cards on different colored index cards, with each word on one side of the card and a student-generated illustration on the other side of the card. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - Higher Ed
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Students use writing and research strategies to explore their interests and reflect on what makes them unique. They use the website "Shutterfly" to create a classroom profile. They create a personal collage highlighting what makes them unique. These collages are then posted on the class profile. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students brainstorm hobbies and discuss them. After a demonstration by the teacher of writing sentences, pairs of students create a Mind Map and use transitional words to write short sentences about hobbies. They share their information with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students design a creative fishing game in which they measure pieces, sculpt a pond scene and write details about themselves. They seek out new friends by playing a game to discover other students with similar interests and hobbies to become friends with. Full Review »

