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Spicy, Hot Colors

For Teachers K - 1st
Students demonstrate an understanding of colors. In this visual arts lesson, students read the text Hot, Spicy Colors and name their favorite colors. Students complete a bar graph to show the data. Students discuss how each color can...
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Water Fitness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a series of aerobic exercises in water to help improve fitness.
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Africa: The Middle Passage and 19th Century America

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a series of activities to explore the lives of slaves in 19th century America. They examine the design of slave ships, the hardships endured, and the ways that owners depended on slaves for their economic survival.
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Movement-Proportion-Greek Vase Figure Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students begin the lesson plan by drawing figures doing different activities. As a class, they view artwork on Greek vases and discover how the political situations affect the drawings on the vases. They draw their own scene to place...
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Learning Crescendo and Decrescendo

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the sounds and notes for crescendos and decrescendos. They attend a concert by a symphony orchestra and when they return to the classroom they identify the crescendos and decrescendos in music they hear.
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Summer Safety Activity: Stop, Drop, and Roll!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice stop, drop and roll. In this fire safety lesson, students learn to stop when the music stops, drop when the music stops, and then roll when the music stops. That can be translated to stop, drop, and roll in case of a...
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Masks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine how weather masks were used and design their own. In this weather mask lesson plan, students look at examples of weather masks before planning one of their own. They sketch the mask on the associated template and build...
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Masks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create weather masks. In this social studies lesson plan, students discover the history behind the weather masks used by Native American cultures and then create their own.
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Flying The Friendly Skies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars investigate the science of flight while creating their own gliders and test them with the lift supplied by wind in the outdoors. They create a chart to make observations of the flight patterns of different gliders taking...
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Verbs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game. In this grammar lesson, students play charades where they must act out a verb that has been written on a piece of paper.
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Fancy Footwork

For Students Pre-K - K
For this painting worksheet, learners remove their shoes and put their feet in a tray of paint. Students paint an abstract painting with their feet. This worksheet is geared to the adults who will be guiding learners.
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Fortune Cookie Warmup

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in various physical warm-up activities after reading their "fortune."
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Writing Inequalities

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the concept of an inequality. They begin the lesson by covering relevant vocabulary. They write an inequality for each word problem given. Then they translate problems from words to algebraic inequalities.
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Nebraska's Wild Weather

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the weather in Nebraska. Using this information, they describe the cause and effect relationships in the environment based on these changes in weather. They write various types of poems with weather themes and share them...
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Chinese New Year Celebration

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils prepare for the Chinese New Year and celebrate. They assist in planning and preparing for the celebration. Students work together cooperatively in small and large groups. They discuss the symbol "fu", good luck, when hung upside...
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discuss various features of a book, aspects of the story, and then engage in a retelling of the story. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify the author, illustrator, and title of a book, Joseph Had a Little...
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Understanding Folklife and Folklore

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Student examine the basic characteristics of folklore. In this folklore instructional activity, students complete activities to identify two kinds of folk, folk groups, and folklife. Students list daily activities in their home, identify...
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Flying the Friendly Skies

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate aerodynamics by comparing and contrasting the flight of two gliders. They make prediction and observation charts and test a variety of hypotheses using paper gliders.
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Pipe-Cleaner Stick Figures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create puppets out of pipe cleaners and, in groups, put on a puppet show based on a section of a story they have read from their readers.