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Looking At Illuminated Manuscripts: Exploring an Illuminated Manuscript Page

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars investigate illuminated manuscript pages from the Medieval period. In this illuminated manuscript lesson, students examine 13th century pages and compare them to modern printed works. They describe the details of an...
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History of Television

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the history of Television by using the Internet.  In this timeline instructional activity, students discuss and take notes on the 10 main events in Television history and create a timeline through education software....
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Superman: Modern Mythology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss what characteritics belong to a hero. They examine different mythological stories and identify the theme of each. They compare and contrast the origin of Superman to the mythological stories and report their findings to...
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Modern Culture and Society

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate different cultures by comparing the United States to Europe. In this social structure lesson, 6th graders discuss the economies, religions, languages and cultures in the Americas and Europe and define their...
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Trey and Dave go to Africa: Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Trey from Phish and Dave from the Dave Mathews Band took a trip to Africa to explore music, culture, and history. Your class watches this episode from VH1's Music Studio to understand how African culture and music have influenced modern...
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Mapping the Human Journey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a migration of people with their surname. As a class, they define key vocabulary and identify the different types of movementbs of people in history. They examine the reasons for the migration and use the internet to...
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A Conventional Family

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore writing techniques by analyzing their own families. In this family values instructional activity, students view the film "The Incredibles" in class and discuss the different types of modern-day families. Students write...
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The Bean Growth Experiment

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use modern technologies which allow them to gain a new, dynamic, and intersting understanding of themselves, their community, and the world. They focus on environmental education and the effect of the environment on plant...
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Fairy Tales, Past and Present

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the different elements of a fairy tale. They discover why setting, characters, problems and solutions are important in a fairy tale. They recreate the fairy tale in modern times and create a storybook to accompany their...
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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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The Golden Spike

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate modern transportation in the 19th century by examining artifacts.  In this U.S. history lesson, students read the story Joseph's Railroad Dreams, and discuss the Golden Spike used in the first transcontinental...
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The Designed World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students visit a school or public library and study how information is organized. In this information management lesson, students answer a group of questions about the organizational method of the library. Students then practice sorting...
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The Arts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East: An Exploration of Art, Music and Film

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the arts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. After viewing films, they discuss the views of the various characters and identify the differences in the cultures presented. They also use the internet to evaluate various...
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Who Was Sacagawea?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Explore famous women in U.S. history by creating a Venn Diagram, The focus of this Sacagawea biography lesson is for students to discuss the triumphs and contributions of Sacagawea's life and compare her to an average 21st century woman....
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Classroom Idea: Building a Road

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore technology by conducting a infrastructure role-play in class. In this road building lesson, students identify the techniques and manpower used to build a modern day road. Young scholars utilize building blocks to...
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The English Sonnet: Michael Drayton

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discover literature by conducting a free writing experiment. For this sonnet lesson, students read the sonnet "The Parting" and compare it to modern-day songs about breaking up. Students listen to pop music in class and complete...
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Allusion in Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Emerging writers identify allusion in poetry by listening to recorded poems, like Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town. They also discuss what makes writing satirical and how writers use allusions to make satirical points.  
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The Rumpelstiltskin Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Why didn't Rapunzel's hair stop growing?  Why did it take the fairy godmother so long to intervene in Cinderella's affairs? Young writers consider unanswered questions like these and compose news articles investigating the true story...
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The Learning Network: Poetry Pairing July, 21, 2011

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Although not a complete lesson plan, this set of emotionally powerful texts could be used in a variety of lessons. From The New York Times' Learning Network site, the resource includes a poem, an excerpt from a New York Times article and...
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Teaching “Level of Difficulty” through Close Reading, Reflection, and Performance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What makes a poem difficult? Explore that topic and more with your class as you work through the lesson detailed here. Using materials from Poetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest, individuals or small groups examine poems and...
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A Sample of What?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students are introduced to the connection between women and the textile industry. Using primary source documents, they complete a handout on how gender roles have changed over the years. They examine a sampler which is connected to the...
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils design objects in the Museum of Modern Art's collection of simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students explore the machine age in the MoMA's design collection. Pupils identify simple machines and the elements in...
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Changing Images of Childhood in America: Colonial, Federal and Modern England

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners compare and contrast maps of New Haven, Connecticut from today and the past. After taking a field trip, they draw sketches of the types of architecture and discuss how the buildings have changed over time. They read journal...
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Rap as a Modern Poetic Form

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars write and listen to rap songs. They discover how common themes in rap are indicative of the problems, as well as the empowerments, that can be seen in our urban cultures today. They discover how rap is actually an...

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