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Alphabet & Number Books for Young Children

For Teachers 1st
First graders create either an alphabet or number book using Kid Pix software. In this alphabet and/or number unit, 1st graders design a themed alphabet and/or number book using the Kid Pix software over the course of three weeks....
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Jack and the Beanstalk

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a creative interpretation of Jack and the Beanstalk. In this artistic expression lesson, students paint the stages of the beanstalk plant as a storyboard and create song about how the seed is growing.
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Seeking Shakespeare in Local Communities

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore where Shakespeare exists in local community plays. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a documentary to define the existence of Shakespeare in their community drama activities. Students participate in community...
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Writing From the Heart

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners improve their writing skills by identifying people, places, ideas, and things that are important to them. In this writing skills activity, students discuss things that are important to them. Learners use the heart map template...
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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie -The Story

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore lighthouses in literature. In this reading lesson plan, students read Keep the Lights Burning, Annie as well as Birdie's Lighthouse. Students participate in pair/share activities regarding plot and literary devices....
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Using Facebook with Literature

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students use online social networking to learn about characters in literature. For this literature and technology lesson, students visit Facebook website and set up character profiles for a piece of literature they've read.
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On This Day in History

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students research the Internet to learn historical events that share their birthday. In this birthday research lesson, students use the given websites to research important events that share their birthday date. Students create a poster...
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Land Use and Lawmaking in California

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students read writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson to analyze transcendentalism and analyze photographic essays depicting environmental issues. In this art and history lesson, students read excerpts of Nature by Emerson to identify...
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All About Me Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this biography/autobiography lesson, students read a few biographies and discuss the term and it's characteristics. Students then brainstorm what makes a good biography/autobiography and create an 'All about me' poster. Suggested...
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The All About Me Poster

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover the literary genre of biographies.  In this creative writing lesson, students write about their own life experiences and personal stories.  Students create a poster about their lives, a biographical collage. 
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What's in Our Woods?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students observe their local forest and document the change that occurs over the school year.  For this forestry lesson, students utilize a GPS to mark a certain area of the woods as their study area for the remainder of the year....
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Hero Holiday and Portfolio Completed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students summarize the unit on heroes and present picture books to younger students.  In this hero lesson, students compile their portfolios, in which they have presented heroic characteristics of their own classmates.  Students bind...
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Defining Technology

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore technology by completing word processing assignments in class. In this software instructional activity, students utilize the software KidPix and familiarize themselves with the options, techniques and content the program...
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Dog Care Booklet

For Teachers K
Students complete a dog care booklet. In this language arts instructional activity, students discuss what needs to be done to care for a dog. Students write a dog care booklet and write a story about their pet.
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Diazo Prints and Technology

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders watch a demonstration and then they make photographic prints using Diazo paper and ammonia. They photograph the demo, compile the pictures, and add text to make a PowerPoint presentation of the original demonstration.
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Autograph Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write narrative essays about getting a famous person's autograph (a classmate) and then combine their work with pictures to enhance the stories. This technique can be used with any writing project.
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Writing Crazy Crayons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe the workings of an assembly line. They classify old crayon pieces by color, melt them in candy molds, package them, and produce advertising literature to sell the product. Students share their work with the class.
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Community Search

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students, as a class, brainstorm a list of possible jobs in the community to explore. Working in teams of two (writer and photographer), students choose their interview assignments-e.g., preacher, principal, basketball coach, postmaster,...
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Effective Photojournalism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers determine what makes a quality photo and take and edit appropriate photos that relate to their assigned articles. They select good pictures for their publication.
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Research Lesson on the Dust Bowl

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders connect art (photographs) to the historical period and conjecture about conditions during this era in American history, sharing ideas in class discussion. Each student completes a project on a period depicted in one of...
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Endangered Lands & Threatened Species Collage Mural

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a class collage mural illustrating endangered lands and threatened species. They also write letters protesting the exploitation of endangered habitats and the destruction of flora and fauna.
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The Quatrain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners analyze the quatrain structure and rhyming in the song, "Puddles". They use this format to create their own quatrain lyrics for a song then they share their song ang revise it.
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The Cinquain

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore writing a cinquain. Students engage in a pantomime experience. They observe and describe bubbles. Young scholars compose a cinquain and illustrate their work with bubble art.
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Constructing a Newsletter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm names for a class newsletter. They perform the job of journalists by interviewing, writing paragraphs, and editing. Students scan photographs, add appropriate graphics and look for errors in the final copy.

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