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Students research and create public service campaigns to inform different populations in their community about avian flu, a current global health concern.
Observe images and discuss what messages they convey. For this critical thinking lesson plan, students determine whether works of art are trying to persuade their audience. They also consider the media and how they communicate messages to viewers.
Help young children learn to add and subtract using cereal. Your class will practice number families from 0-18 through examples using cereal pieces.
Students draw on their own experiences with health care to create educational skits to better doctor-patient relationships. For homework, they create guidelines and write recommendations for an appropriate government role.
The feelings and attitudes of African-Americans during World War II are examined by high schoolers. After watching various clips from "The War," they answer comprehension questions for each section. In groups, they create their own Double V campaign to promote equal rights. They end the instructional activity by comparing the African-American experience to other minorities during the war.
Students propose and create documentary films depicting a slice of "ordinary" life that reveals something unique or surprising about its subject. They, in groups, make films and present them to the school.
Learners view a video clip about how men and women are portrayed in the media. They gather examples from magazines and graph the results. They discuss body image to end the lesson.
Students examine the trials and executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In groups, they use the internet to research the impact of the executions in the shape of political cartoons and writings. They discuss an article to end the activity based on the anniversary of their deaths.
Students explore anthropomorphism. In this literary devices lesson, students listen to the story The Wolf's Chicken Stew, then define and give examples of anthropomorphism, which is "a literary device in which animals are given human characteristics." Students view a related video clip and PowerPoint presentation. Students write a paragraph about the Marc Brown character "Arthur" and his friends explaining what the animal characters might be saying and doing in a picture.
Students discuss American symbols and specifically the Statue of Liberty. They brainstorm lists of monuments and other American structures and the importance of those structures to the American people. Working in groups, they plan memorials to commemorate the events, victims, and heroes of September 11.
