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I am Indopino: Or, How to Answer the Question, "Who Are You?"

For Students 6th - 12th
In our increasingly multi-ethnic society, many students find it difficult to identify themselves as belonging to any one ethnicity. Gene Tagaban, a Tlingit, Cherokee, Filipino offers his personal experiences with these questions in his...
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Legend of the Bluebonnet

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary lesson, students read The Legend of the Bluebonnet, listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and students...
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Teaching With Pourquoi Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and discuss several Pourquoi tales--legends that explain why certain natural events occur. They complete a variety of activities surrounding each tale and then write their own Pourquoi tale.
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Where Am I: How to Read a Map

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop an understanding of maps. They explore what a map is, who uses maps, and how to use maps. Students investigate the compas rose. They create a compose rose which illustrates the cardinal directions. Students practice...
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Help! I Am Lost at Fox Chapel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create a map to locate places on campus and share the map with another student. The other students use the map to locate certain places and validate for accuracy via a checklist. The parents use the completed map at open...
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Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read literature and view other media to discover how print and non-print texts answer the thematic question: Who am I? students compare the ways ideas are presented, and create their own portfolios or personal Web pages...
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Have I Got A Story For You - Folklore of Utah

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the clues that folklore provides about Utah's past. They create a piece of folklore for a place or event in or near the community. They see that the legends and traditions we pass to one another are also sources...
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Kitchen Math - Levels I & II

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars examine mathematics as an important component of nutrition management and food preparation.
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Other Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the variety of 'other worlds' in fiction and their uses in reflecting our own. They explore the role of myth and legend as the basis for modern story telling. Book extracts are provide for classroom use.
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Soul Legend Wilson Pickett

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students analyze the lyrics to the soul music of Wilson Pickett as a step towards the exploration of the life and talents of the man. The language and expressions utilized in a descriptive article about the composer form the basis of the...
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American Dragon: Jake Long

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students, after viewing the film "American Dragon," by Jake Long, explore and analyze the importance of legends and the unique cultures others grow up in. They stress the need for having a good self-esteem and assess how to work together...
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Rock Art

For Teachers 1st
First graders create and share their own rock art. They listen and read stories: "Mathematics from Many Cultures" and "The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush."
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Is That How it Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Younsters are exposed to classic stories of Arkansas Folklore including The Arkansas Traveller, and Davy Crockett. They discuss if the stories they hear are examples of folklore, or some other kind of story. Then, each puil is required...
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Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read and complete an article filling in the blanks to make predictions before reading the full article. In this predictions lesson, students compare predictions to the actual parts of the article. Students discuss the main idea...
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Introduction to Traditional Oral Narratives

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students are introduced to the idea of traditional oral narratives and divide them into genres. They explore the genres of context, motifs and variants. Each student finds oral narratives in their own lives and practice retelling them in...
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Trips of Culture: The Statue of Liberty

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students take a pre-trip quiz about the Statue of Liberty and take a photo tour on the Internet. They then produce a grid drawing of an object and use a known measurement to estimate unknown measurements.
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Number Problems

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students write equations for problems. In this number instructional activity, students add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers to solve for a variable. They rewrite word problems using algebraic symbols.
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Origami Paper Cranes

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Young scholars complete cross-curricular activities to study the culture and humanity in Japan. Students read the book Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes and complete social studies and art lessons related to the book as well as develop an...
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Places in My World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore where they are located on the globe. For this maps and globes lesson, 2nd graders use a map to show where they live and  show the cardinal directions. Students identify characteristics of mountains, flat land,...
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White Bear Lake Fitness Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in fitness challenge. After choosing a destination they would like to visit, students record their mileage to their destination after riding on bikes and walking on treadmills. Students receive an incentive...
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Discovering the Oasis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students focus on the types of vegetation and animal life living around local water sources. This lesson plan can be adapted to any local water source, whether it be a lake, a river, stream or ocean. It has a particular focus on the...

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