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Vanity Fair Part 5

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the fifth part of "Vanity Fair." students answer and discuss questions relating to this section of the film.
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Integrating Target Structures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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Disguise! Disguise!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore how some animals disguise or camouflage themselves as a form of protection.
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Coordinates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use cartesian coordinates (x,y,z) in 3-dimensional space. [Optional: appreciate there exist two ways of defining the z axis, and which of them is used.] They become familiar with the tools and terms used by surveyors.
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Geology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders devise a workable inch-to-inch scale for a geologic timeline sequencing the eras covered in the unit. They hypothesize from descriptions of dinosaur fossil evidence.
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Whooping Crane

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, in groups, discuss clue phrases from a poem.
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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore conflicts that occur in the school setting.
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Raising the Bar While Hogging the Ham (Radio That Is)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a bar graph that communicates an amount without the need to know the exact data, determine what scale to use to best represent the data and use their bar graph to persuade others.
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Wacky Weather Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe, identify and creatively express their ideas through literature and dramatize an original story that features a type of weather in the plot.
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, in groups, make chocolate chip cookies following a recipe.
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Big and Small Decisions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design a restaurant and investigate how group members work together when making decisions.
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Togo's New President

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read an article about Togo's new President. They locate Togo on a map. They practice using new vocabulary they find in the story. They also complete worksheets.
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Words in the News: Togo's New President

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss how Americans elect a new president. They locate where the country of Togo is on a world map. In groups, they work together to match new vocabulary words with their defintions. They read an article about Togo's new...
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The Penny Press, Walt Whitman and the War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Penny Press and how it began the era of mass circulated newspapers. They use the internet to research the writing style of the paper and write a short article using that style.
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Liza and the Lost Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create and develop a play for "Liza and the Lost Letter". They discuss the setting and assign roles. They answer comprehension questions to end the lesson.
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Traveling the Tokaido Road

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the significance of the Tokaido Road by studying Ando Hiroshige's woodblock illustrations of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. This lesson includes a list of possible extensions.
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The Lunar Calendar

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the Chinese calendar and Zodiac signs in this early elementary lesson on calendars and culture. Discussions on cultural beliefs and values are emphasized and could be controversial.
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Animals in Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students look at how animals are shown in literature and art as representing emotions, telling a story, or sending a message in this elementary school Language Arts and Visual Arts lesson.
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Playing in China

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create their own Chinese tangrams using in-class direction and prior knowledge in this two-day lesson for the early elementary classroom. Chinese toys are also explored.
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Allison the Alligator

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the concepts of greater than and less than. This leads to the use of inequalities. The teacher tells the story about an alligator in order to create a fun environment for practicing the objectives of the...
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The Colonies: An Adertisement

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the early colonies of American settlements. After researching important characteristics such as land, politics, economics, and educational opportunities, students create their own advertisement for one of the colonies.
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Similarities Attract

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars research all the ways people seek their soulmates. The question if opposites attract or those with similar attractions is studied in depth. Compile all the many steps a scientist must often take to answer what looks like a...
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Beginning Reader

For Teachers 1st
First graders work in an individual tutoring atmosphere. First the student reads books with the teacher. The student sorts words found in the books using phonetic similarities. Finally, the student writes sentences summarizing the book.
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Language of Poetry

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students demonstrate a higher level of thinking in writing a poem that delivers a message of wisdom and is metaphorical in meaning. They study the use of metaphors in poetry as well as the meaning and use of concrete and abstract words...

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