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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students analyze, synthesize, and use the elements of various US cultural folk tales to describe the elements of fiction in general and in folk tales specifically. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine some old wives' tales and folk remedies related to health, explore the science behind why people might believe them to be true, and investigate the real scientific causes or reasons for their effects. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students read different folk tales and discuss them. They are given a templete of a letter and they are to write a friendly letter. Special Educaton students are paired with advanced students to help them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create tales about items that might belong to fairy tale characters. The items and writings are displayed in a class-created museum for parents to visit and observe. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the dangers of lead exposure to children and identify the sources of lead in the environment. They describe any risk factors that indicate children should be tested for exposure. They also make suggestions about how screening for exposure may be improved. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students listen to a variety of folktales sharing experiences of slavery. As a class, they compare and contrast reading a story and telling a story. They participate in a role play activity to discover the journey of a slave and reflect on the activity in their journal. After watching a video, they discuss how point of view influences ones view of history. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students participate in a lesson guided by an essential question: in what ways does choreographer, Mark Morris' work, "The Office," reflect Eastern-European traditional folk dance? During the lesson's first sessions, students physically learn two to three traditional folk dances from selected regions in Eastern Europe. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students fill in the KWL chart, indicating what they already comprehend about curanderismo. They are divided into groups of four or five. Students read a section the selected text. Each group appoints a recorder and a reporter-one students to write a synopsis of reading and anothe to report to the entire class their summation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students conduct team interviews outside the classroom, either within the school or beyond, as part of a fieldwork project. They use reasoning skills as they formulate questions, plan, predict, hypothesize, and speculate about the interviews. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students collect and compare folk beliefs and sayings about health and healing as well as folk remedies. Then they investigate local graveyards, analyze their findings, and compare graveyards in Louisiana. Students also engage in an intergenerational exchange with older citizens in their communities, swapping personal experience narratives about rites of passage. Full Review »
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