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Lesson: Paul Chan: 1st Light and 5th Light

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Paul Chan's latest exhibit includes seven manifestations of light. Today, kids analyze the pieces 1st Light  and 5th Light. They consider the concept of opposed or dualistic realities found in literature, society, and Chan's work. They...
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The Battle on the 5th of May

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the origin of Cinco de Mayo. In this Mexican history lesson, students research the battle on the 5th of May in Mexico and create artistic pieces that represent their findings.
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Let Freedom Sing: A patriotic Program for Grades 1-6

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students understand information and stories contained in patriotic songs. In this patriotic music lesson plan, students participate in grade appropriate lessons to understand the music and lyrics of patriotic songs. Students perform the...
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Sample Lesson Plan, 3rd-5th grade, Interpretation

For Teachers K - 8th
Students become acquainted with the art and literature of artist/author Faith Ringgold.
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Let Freedom Sing: A Patriotic Program for Grades 1 - 6

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore the history, meaningful background, and significance of Patriotic songs in the eight lessons of this unit. Each of the different grade levels experience a different amount of lessons all culminating in a Patriotic Program.
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Fifth Grade Photoshop: Change That Background

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the Photoshop program. In this technology lesson, students use cropping tools to crop photos out of the background on a Photoshop file. Students edit and paste a picture onto a new background.
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African Ceramic Mask Making

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate a variety of African mask types, design several masks, and create an example of an African ceramic mask in this 5th grade through High School Art lesson. The lesson can take anywhere from 6 lessons to 16 lessons.
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Beethoven’s 5th

For Teachers 3rd
Time to pick up an instrument and practice the first part of Beethoven's symphony No.5. Young musicians discuss melody, rhythmic pattern, dynamics, and movements found in symphonic and orchestral pieces. They then practice and play the...
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Mesoamerican Codex Books

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recreate Mesoamerican Codex Books using brown paper bags, paints, glue, an iron, and books on Mesoamerican Glyphs in this 5th grade lesson in the Art classroom. Resource links and book references are provided for lesson...
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T-shirts for Change

For Teachers 5th
Can school children change the world? With a social or environmental issue in mind, 5th graders use what they know about advertising media to make t-shirts that have something to say. They research the issue they'd like to focus on,...
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Similes with Energy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write or dance a simile to show the relationship between two unlike nouns. In this simile and grammar activity, 5th graders explore dance movements and identify smooth and sharp energy examples. Students review similes and...
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The Important Thing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a list of "Important Things" about being a fifth grader. In this important things lesson, 5th graders create the script and make a movie about important things in fifth grade. Students share their movie with incoming...
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Meet The Instruments Of The Orchestra

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students identify brass, woodwind, string, and percussion instruments and group them into appropriate families in this technology-based Music lesson for 2nd through 5th grades. Each students is required to have a handheld device or laptop.
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Scrapping the Biomes

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders investigate biomes of the earth. In this biomes lesson, 5th graders explore eight different biomes which include the tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, grasslands, and taiga. They design an artistic scrapbook that...
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A Tree is a Friend

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the value of trees in our society.  In this ecosystem instructional activity, 5th graders read the book, A Tree is Nice, and discuss with classmates how trees are essential to our existence due to creating oxygen...
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Fifth Grade Music: An Ancient Round, Vocal Music in the Renaissance

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders sing the melody for Sumer Is Icumen In, in unison and as a two-part round. They listen to a madrigal from Renaissance Italy and a lute song from Elizabethan England.
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Area of Fruits

For Students 5th - 6th
In this area activity, students put the fruits in order from greatest to smallest area. Students then measure the fruits and write the amount of counters it takes to cover each one on the lines. Students them reorder the fruits based on...
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Expression And Joy With Line, Shape And Color

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create positive and negative art shapes and compose a piece of Expressionistic art using those shapes and the ideas of color, line, and shape in this 5th through 8th grade Art lesson. Options are available for individual or...
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The Middle Passage

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore slavery conditions by viewing a video clip on the Internet. In this slave ship activity, 5th graders discuss the transportation of black men and women from Africa to the United States in the 1700's and how poor the...
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Midland Independent School District

Drama

For Teachers 5th Standards
Ten drama lessons are the perfect addition to your language arts or theater class. With a focus on script elements, plot development, and parts of a dramatic story, the lessons guide young playwrights through the steps of telling a story...
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Using an Old Brush in a New Way

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use toothbrushes, scissors, tag board paper, pencils, drawing paper, tempera, water color kits, and water. They draw a simple contour shape on tag board and cut it out in one piece. Students identify the positive and negative...
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Pollution is Not a Solution

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the environment by completing science worksheets in class. In this water conservation lesson, students identify ways water is used in our society and how we abuse the privilege. Students discuss methods to reduce water...
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Montana Animal stacks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars view Ode to Chief Seattle and create an animal sculpture.  For this art lesson, students choose a variety of materials for creating an animal sculpture using flora and fauna and other environmental images.  Young scholars...
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Linear and Locomotor Movements

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students develop locomotor movements. In this dance movement lesson, students identify lines and develop creativity while performing to "Cha Cha Slide". Students discuss how to create dances and difficulty of movements. 

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