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Japanese Tall Tales
Students read the tale of 'Three Strong Women' looking for facets of culture that create a 'face' of the Japanese people. They create a Venn Diagram comparing Japanese tall tales with factual research about Japanese culture. One side...
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Studies of the Ancient World
Sixth graders, after taking a pretest, write a paragraph describing the difference between Athens and Sparta and write an article about the ancient Phoenicians, describing their contributions to world history. They compare democracy in...
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Historical Witness: Social Messaging
Young scholars create political cartoons that feature satire. In this political cartoon instructional activity, students examine examples of satire and caricature prior to creating their own political cartoons that feature the French...
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Flat Earth Society
Students explore map distortion. In this geography lesson, students compare Mercator projection maps to globes in order to understand the strengths and weaknesses of projection maps.
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Sprouting Artwork
Students complete activities to study seeds sprouting and plant growth. In this plant science lesson, students use mustard seeds and sponges to study the seed sprouting process. Students observe their seeds for several days and complete...
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Are you in Golden Shape
Learners solve and verify the solution for unknown measures. In this geometry lesson plan, students identify the properties of circles. They use the arc, angle and segment relationship to find the missing measures.
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Rocket Construction
Students create rockets out of wood. They practice using comparison words to describe the differences in height. They also color pictures of rockets from different countries.
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Sculpture Shapes
Students reconstruct an ancient Greek sculpture using various geometric forms and explore different geometric forms. They create an abstract human form out of geometric shapes and create other representations out of the same shapes.
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Animal Encounters
Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.
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Käthe Kollwitz: Never Again War!
Students explore Kathe Kollowitz and other Holocaust artists.
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Performance Standards/Competencies
Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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San Diego Architecture
Eighth graders study the cultural and architectural history of San Diego. After study they create a design of a home based of features from historical and modern homes found in their research.
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Dog Salmon Lesson Two
Students identify the inside parts of a dog salmon in English and Athabascan. They weigh each part of the salmon and determine the percentage of the whole that the part represents.
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Hide and Seek Rocket
Students cut out and color their own rocket. They use clues in relation to numbers and words to find hidden rockets. They ask each other questions to determine the exact location.
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Materials 1: Materials and Manufacturing
Students examine the properties, limitations, and durability of a variety of materials, then evaluate which of the materials would be best for building a model house. If used in its entirety, this lesson could take several science class...
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Bio
Students define their goals, aspirations, and strategies for attaining based on the goals and aspirations of Keith Haring. In this goals lesson plan, students hypothesize goals and solutions on how to get there.
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Properties of Fractals
Students build a working definition of regular fractal, look carefully at the concepts of dimension and scale, and are introduced to logarithms. They solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial and error and using...
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Real Estate Project
Learners develop their dream house complete with a real estate ad. They examine actual real estate ads on the internet to compare their house.
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Mapping the Changes
Students research an aspect of life of their choosing of a western state either before the Civil War, after the war or today. They are to write about the aspect they choose and make illustrations.
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A Change of Scene
Students create their own optical illusions by making something look big and then changing what's around it to make it look little.
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A Change of Scene
Young scholars are challenged to create optical illusions using using cut-outs. The activity provokes thoughtful discussion about scale.
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Properties of Fractals
Learners build a working definition of a regular fractal, they measure the concepts of dimensions and scale, they explore the concept of a logarithm and they attempt to solve simple exponential equations for the exponent both by trial...