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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students study the discovery and import of the Scorpion Tableau. They research other examples of ancient writing systems and synthesize their knowledge of them by designing new writing systems based on these early models. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students investigate the techniques that computers utilize to quickly locate data from a large collection of information. A variety of games are used to simulate the process of halving which demonstrates that difficult tasks can be performed efficiently. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the 2004 Presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry. Using a variety of primary source documents, they discover where the candidates stood on the issues. In groups, they create a tableau in which they can use as a review sheet for their exam. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students, working in groups, act out scenes from literary sources. They use props and expression, but no dialogue. Using charades techniques, they present their secnes as classmates try to guess the piece of literature from which it is taken. The tableaus can be photographed and captions written for the pictures. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students, in small groups, are assigned parts of stories where they form "frozen pictures" with their own bodies to represent scenes and characters in the tale. Others create sound effects to accompany the tableau. The "frozen" students answer questions about their parts in the story when tapped on the shoulders. They act out other stories including"Click,Clack,Moo:Cows That Type," and "Where the Wild Things Are." They also engage in a series of "playground mysrteries." Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore brainstorming for writing. They discuss brainstorming as a way to think of many different ideas and work in small groups to create a statue scene or tableau of an idea. They discuss ways to revise their scene and answer questions from other groups. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students explore how the arts aid in brainstorming writing ideas. They read and discuss the story Freedom Summer and work in small groups to create a tableau of the next events to occur in the story. They share their tableaus and observe others while discussing what the tableau represents, what the characters may say and the focus. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students explore how writers generate ideas for writing. They read and discuss Freedom Summer and create a tableau of what events will occur next. They share their tableaus and evaluate what is occurring, the focus, tension, and title and write the most vivid images they observed in the tableaus. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students utilizing tableau explore the depth of developing characters in their narrative pieces of writings. They explore reflecting the personality of a fictional character through music, art and storytelling. In addition, they analyze different adjectives to assist them in their character creations through various means of art. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research the characters depicted, by artists who worked in the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s, in the painting, "The Fox Chase" . They develop a script and staging for a scene in which the character might have lived. They perform the tableau vivant and reflect on other group's performances. Full Review »
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