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Cursive Writing Lessons
While cursive writing lessons may seem to be outdated, they are still an important part of the class curriculum.
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Landmarks of the Underground Railroad
Students explore Civil Rights by reading several books in class. In this Underground Railroad lesson, students discuss The Story of Henry Box Brown and identify the location and functionality of the Underground Railroad. Students answer...
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The Treaty Trail: U.S. - Clothing That Talks: Meaning and Material Culture
Learners investigate the cultures of Native Americans and Euro-Americans through their clothing. In this photograph analysis instructional activity, students observe historic photographs and analyze the style of clothes people wore and...
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My Animal Symbol
Here is an art lesson plan that combines visual arts and language arts into one very nice package. In it, youngsters study a fascinating painting called Painting of Bear and Sun Dances. They begin to understand the importance of...
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Women's Votes, Women's Voices
Young scholars investigate Women's Suffrage by analyzing images from the past. For this equal rights lesson, students read biographical work about Emma Smith DeVoe, an activist who fought for women's rights. Young scholars view a comic...
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Your Attention Please: Iatmul Orator's Stool
Students investigate art by observing historical sculptures from New Guinea. In this art history lesson, students observe pictures of the "Orator's Stool"from Papua New Guinea, while identifying the small details that make it unique....
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The Words that Surround Us
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents. Students...
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Life Sentence
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction. In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition. Students...
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How To Teach How - To Writing
Students practice their writing skills by creating "How To" articles. In this journalism lesson, students grab tasks from a hat and are asked to explain orally how to complete these activities. Students complete flow charts with their...
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A Piece of the Puzzle
Discover the process of writing a story by comparing it to a puzzle. Begin by examining a diagram shaped like a puzzle which contains important elements of a story. Learners mix and match the pieces with elements of a story they are...
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Dear President Obama
Students write letters to the president as he begins his term. In this letter writing lesson, students discuss goals they hope the president will consider, and send good wishes to the president and his family. After the letters are...
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The Art of Simple Machines
Students investigate the inventions of simple machines in our past and how they affect us today. In this engineering lesson, students discover who Rube Goldberg was and his ideas about complicated machines performing very simple tasks....
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Words into Pictures
Students discover the history of writing through images, and the universal themes that are still relevant. In this communications lesson, students analyze a group of symbols on the black board and must translate them into a complete...
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Money Matters
Learners practice working with real money by keeping records of purchases. In this economics lesson, students gather money either from home or a school fund raiser and purchase items at a grocery store for people who need help....
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Art and Writing
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art. In this art analysis lesson, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before. Students create...
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Rice Nutrition
Third graders investigate nutrition by researching rice. For this food lesson, 3rd graders read about the healthy aspects of rice and how many people in the world eat it. Students read nutrition labels and discuss the different energy...