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Milton Hershey Quilt Activity

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students extend their understanding of Milton Hershey. For this notable figures lesson, students create a paper quilt about Milton Hershey. Students use the template provided to design their own quilt square, including an illustration...
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Deforestation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the different tropical rainforests in the world using a map. In this ecology activity, students describe the different methods of deforestation. They create a memo and present it to class.
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Lecture 6 - Oral Interpretation - Verse

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss how oral interpretation varies with prose and poetry. They select a piece of prose or poetry to present to the class, and then assess each other on the organization and delivery of their speech as well as on their...
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Adventures in Wonderland: A Genre Study

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore the concepts of fantasy writing through this nine lessons unit. The unit presents semantic mapping, discussions, comparisons of various works of fantasy, and the opportunity to create their own fantasies.
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Radio Free School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. In small groups, students develop and write news segments for a student-centered radio program.
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Civil Services

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate important themes, figures, and events of the Civil Rights Movement. They create a class mural that demonstrates their understanding of the continuing impact of the movement on American society.
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Soaring High with Kites

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students make kites from patterns. They write haiku poetry. They listen to stories about kite festivals in different countries.
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Linking Up the Food Chain

For Teachers K
Students to the book, Life in a Pond, then discuss the food chain and create a food chain mobile. On one strip of paper students draw and label a pond plant, on another a tadpole, on another a fish and on the last a person.
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Patchwork Quilting

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use symmetry to create their own small quilt squares. They attach all of the squares to create a large class quilt.
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Multicultural Attire

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Learners research the native attire of a chosen culture, write an essay reflecting the role of the attire in the given culture, and create a significant piece of attire from that culture that be modeled in a fashion show.
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Storytellers: Bruce Springsteen

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use the music of Bruce Springsteen to learn literature techniques.
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VH1 AIDS: A Pop Culture History Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the relationship between music and culture, and how music conveys thoughts and emotions. They write their own song.
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Songwriting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners watch the "The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A to Z" video and brainstorm what the songs may be about. They choose a theme for a song, write a short topic-related poem, and compose music for it.
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Surveys and Graphing

For Teachers 1st
First graders survey different classrooms to determine types of products students would like to see sold at school, and create graphs based on survey results.
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Migration from the Dust

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students trace their own family's migrations and history. They listen to the story, 'Blue ow.' They design a plate which is shared at an open house.
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Estamos en la granja (We are on the farm)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students receive a blank farm scene and a baggie of animal cutouts with names on them. They sit back to back so they cannot see each other's farm scene, then place 3-4 animals on their farm scene. They ask each other if their animal is...
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Muslim Arab/Spanish Connection

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch the video, 'El Cid.' They participate in teacher-led discussion about the beliefs, customs, goals, and heroes of both Spaniards and Moors. They create and present an artifact to the class showing the results of their...
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A Closer Look: Unemployment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars view a video clip about unemployment. They research data and create a scatter plot graph. They discover the importance of graphs and what they can tell us. They create their own publication on unemployment.
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Naming New Species

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore science of taxonomy and the Five Kingdoms of life, categorize organisms into Kingdoms, and create multi-media presentations illustrating knowledge of a Kingdom. They collect data and related pictures on the Internet,...
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Protecting the Past: Give a Hoot, Don't Loot!

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars, in small groups, simulate an ancient civilization and the art they created, another group represents vandals, and the final group represents archaeologists who try to figure out what life was like for the "ancient...
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Saving An Endangered Species

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a fundraiser for an endangered species. They evaluate websites for animal adoption/sponsorship, select an endangered species, and develop, advertise, and implement a fund-raising plan for their selected...
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students improvise then compose and notate melodies with appropriate accompaniments that are inspired by events that transpired during their summer vacations. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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Gettysburg Movie

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a movie that includes both sound and pictures of the Gettysburg Address using iMovie, digital cameras, and copies of the Gettysburg Address. Extensive examples of student works are given.
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Marketing Research Projects

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research customer service offerings of a particular business and present their conclusions to the class using PowerPoint and additional visual aids. The guidelines for this activity can be found through the National DECA.

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