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Bowl of Love Lesson 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the concept of having a fundraiser to benefit a local soup kitchen. For this fundraising service project lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history and making of clay pottery, service...
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Watercolor Painting- Pointillism with Fruit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore pointillism painting techniques. In this pointillism painting instructional activity, 5th graders paint fruit using shades and tints. Students use the pointillism techniques along with watercolors to create a...
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Midwest Hospitality

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create snowflakes using the ideas of symmetry, perpendicularity, and regularity in this Art lesson that incorporates Mathematical concepts and artistic design. The lesson includes a materials list, vocabulary list, and possible...
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The Leaf Cafe

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore, research and study about the common local insects that eat leaves. They demonstrate their assessment of plant-eating insects by creating a Leaf Cafe. Each student also makes a chart showing which insects eat other...
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Coil a Portrait

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research and compare modern culture with African tribal cultures by assessing how individual and group identity are expressed through hair arrangements. They investigate the practice of hair sculpture in African tribal cultures...
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Discovery Education

Mood Music!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Grouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop their own...
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Assessing Women's Past Through Art -- An Interpretation Activity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine art from a certain period. They write a story recreating the life of a woman. They examine pictures and answer questions related to each one.
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The Pony Song

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students sing "Three Little Pigs", the "Pony Song", and "The Animal Blues" in this elementary school music lesson. National and State Standards are addressed. Assessment rubric is included for grading and student evaluation.
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Creating a Government of the People

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research Penn's model for the government of Pennsylvania. Through assessment of this framework, students create a class constitution and working government.
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MAP Test Tips

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students visit sites designed to prepare them for the Missouri Assessment Program tests. They visit Web sites containing skills practice for the test.
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Lincoln Public Schools

Cereal Box Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Berkshire Museum

Camouflage!: Collecting Data and Concealing Color

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Help young scholars see the important role camouflage plays in the survival of animals with a fun science lesson. Starting with an outdoor activity, children take on the role of hungry birds as they search for worms represented by...
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Music Teaching Resources

Note Naming Worksheet 1

For Students 3rd - 6th
Can you name this note? Young musicians are asked to name each of the notes pictured on a music worksheet and then to place these notes on a staff.
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Contemporary Arts Center

Sultan and Donovan Printmaking: The Collargraph

For Teachers 4th - 12th
As part of a study of printmaking, class members study the works of Tara Donovan and Donald Sulta. They go on to build a printing plate using glue, textured paper, and found objects.
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Interactive
Hookshot Creative

Compose Your Own Music

For Students K - 12th
Channel the masters with an interactive music composition activity! Learners use the online tool to create their own masterpieces one measure at a time.
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Concordia College Archives

Our School Song

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Show your school spirit! Class members use instruments or sing along and employ what they have learned in the two previous lessons to perform their school's songs.
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Smithsonian Institution

American Sabor: Word Search #1

For Students 2nd - 8th
Find la guitarra and el charango with a short and straightforward word search focused on Latin American music. Learners check through a list of popular instruments and dances before delving into the puzzle.
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Original Rhythm Compositions for Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create and perform original musical compositions using poetry as a basis for the creative process. This cross-curricular two-day lesson can be done in two 45 minute class periods. Students evaluate performances as part of...
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Powers of Observation - HANDS

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create individual works of art using human hands as the subject. The lesson plan is for a single 45-minute class. Rubric on student assessment is addressed in this standards-based lesson plan.
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Dancin' to the Times

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups in order to research a specific music era or dance style to share with the class. They have studied different music styles that are included in the lesson and now they have the choice to research one. There...
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Reading Artifacts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils explore and analyze categorizing objects, material culture artifacts, from a variety of perspectives, to consider the story behind each one. They research skills by assessing how to look at artifacts as cultural outsiders would....
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Helping with Math

Identifying and Writing Decimals up to Tenths

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
When beginning to teach you math class how to write decimals, this assignment will support the first step. On it, learners examine sets of blocks that include wholes and tenths, and then the write the value of the number. Use this as an...
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Global Peace Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recognize the characteristics of poetry. In this poetry lesson, 5th graders listen to poetry by Dionne Brand and discuss the meaning of the poems. Students construct their own poems and present them as an assessment.
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Can You Believe Your Eyes?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate hidden messages by analyzing images.  In this art analysis lesson, students assess specific photographs by their use of light, framing, distortion and size.  Students create their own juxtapositions in images and...

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