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The Teaching Challenge: Lynne Truss
Students watch movie featuring Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and scour community pointing out bad punctuation to shopkeepers and restaurateurs.
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Concert Suite from Dances With Wolves
Young scholars complete a unit of lessons that prepares them to perform, 'Concert Suite From Dances With Wolves,' at a public performance. They analyze the emotions depicted by music, view excerpts from the movie, and perform the music.
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Cultural Representation in "Spellbound" Part 1
Pupils watch the film "Spellbound". They analyze concepts of how the media represents race. They discuss how the movie depicts race after the film.
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Wild Swans
Students, watching the movie, "Wild Swans," explore a writer's journey of discovery about her mother, grandmother, and herself. They also study the Chinese culture and history of the last 50 years.
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Women And Leadership
Students view scenes from movie Whale Rider, research roles of women in Maori society, examine roles of women in relation to Paikea's predicament in Whale Rider, compare roles to those of women in American society, interview two or three...
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Is Radio 1 British enough?
Learners read the story Radio 1 defends not playing enough UK tunes. Students are then asked: What are the benefits of having a mix of musical cultures in a country?, Do countries lose a sense of identity when other cultures are added?...
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Tall Ships
Students watch a videotape about a voyage aboard a "tall ship." They watch as young, inexperienced sailors overcome seasickness, fear, and lack of experience and come together as a team to operate the sailing vessel. They discuss the...
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The Conncection Lesson
Fourth graders see how electricity can flow through objects and can be used to do work. They construct a working circuit of their own and explain why it is able to do work. They get students familiar with what it takes to create a movie.
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Visions of Pigs
Learners examine the importance of silent reading before practicing the technique of visualization. They listen while the teacher leads they through a visualization exercise in which they imagine they are at the beach. Next, they...
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Typical Day
Students practice speaking in simple sentences. As a class, they describe their typical day and a day of one of their friends or movie stars. They all must speak in front of the class and use the correct verb tense.
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Moving in Outer Space
Students participate in a lesson that demonstrates the concepts of rotation and revolution as they pertain to the Sun, the moon, and the Earth. They examine the relative sizes of each. They watch a computer based movie at a subscription...
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Holes
Students watch the movie Holes. They list 5 key events from Holes and use a pyramid to rank the events in order of importance to the story. They determine cultural differences between the character and themselves.
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Cora Unashamed
Students watch the Masterpiece movie " Cora Unashamed." They study American social history, race relations, and investigate Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. They have a discussion before and after viewing the film.
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"Escuela" Debate
Learners observe a documentary on "Escuela" to explore the life and education of migrant families. After discussing the related topics in the movie, students share their conclusions migrant farmworkers. Using the Internet and other...
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"I, Robot"
Seventh graders define vocabulary and discuss the characters in a movie. For this solar station lesson students explore robots on the Internet.
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Represent Rational Numbers
Students identify expanded notation and scientific notation. In this rational numbers lesson, students use a calculator to discover the powers of 10. Students practice writing numbers in expanded notation using powers of 10. Students...
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Ready SET go!
Students practice writing numerals and finding their values. In this numeral practice instructional activity, students write numerals in sequence and draw objects to show the value of the numeral. Students use digital cameras to create a...
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Animated Cartoons
Students draw ten frames for a cartoon and then use iMovie to create an animated movie in this technology-based art instructional activity. Transitions and audio tracks can be added to enhance final products.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video
Learners practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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Past Imperfect: Examining Secondary Sources of the American Revolution
Ninth graders respond in essay form to the following writing prompt. Mel Gibson, star of The Patriot, is quoted as stating, "If one were to adhere to historical accuracy all the way, you'd probably have the most boring two hours on...
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Spanish-American War: 3 Day Lesson
Why did the United States choose to invade Cuba in 1898? As part of a 3-day lesson, your young historians will first develop working hypotheses to answer this question, then work with a variety of historical primary source documents that...
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Oh, I Believe in Yesterday
Who is Aimee Mann? Read the New York Times article "P.S. I Loved You," included here, and have your readers answer a series of reading comprehension questions. Afterward, encourage your class to brainstorm ways in which they...
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Spanish-American War: 1 Day Lesson
After analyzing newspaper articles portraying different perspectives of the explosion of the Battleship USS Maine, your young historians will take a stand on which position is the most believable in both discussion and writing.
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Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Using Algebra Tiles
Students add and subtract polynomials. For this algebra lesson, students use algebra tiles to perform operation of polynomials. They model their problems and understand how to combine like terms using tiles.
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