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Linear & Exponential Functions

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Positioned inside the framework of linear and exponential functions, this lesson is more of an investigation into the effects of changing variables and constants inside an expression. The author takes familiar formulas, those for...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.6

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Here's an exercise designed for the Common Core Literacy Standard L.11-12.6 that asks learners to demonstrate their ability to put together all they have learned about language. The first activity is based on a passage from Rosencrantz...
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Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals

For Teachers 3rd Standards
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
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Exercise for Writing a Summary Paragraph

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine how to write article summaries of abstracts. In this writing skills lesson, students edit the noted sections of an abstract that is already written on the Old Testament Abstracts.
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Color and Environment

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners compare two abstract paintings of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman and examine their artistic process. In this abstract art lesson, students consider the choices artists make using color, shape, composition, proportion, style, and...
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Cloud Painting

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore clouds and abstract thinking through painting. This lesson uses higher thinking skills and encourages self expression.
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Mood In Art And Poetry

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of mood and how it influences various types of art. They create an abstract painting and demonstrate how mood is present in the work. Also, 7th graders construct poems using word choices to set...
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Discovering Art - Scott Gallery: Shape

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils study geometric, naturalistic, and abstract shapes in art. They review the names of shapes and name them in the portrait, Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt. They simulate a baby as in the portrait and discuss the shapes. They...
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Ahimsa in the Real World: Truth, Love, and Nonviolence

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create an abstract painting that conveys feelings of nonviolence.  In this visual arts lesson, 2nd graders read "The First Step of Jainism" and discuss honesty, watch a digital story, discuss feelings after watching...
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Monoprint

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review Gerald Ferstman's work and discuss abstract art. They design and create monoprints on Mylar. They reflect on their work and write about the experience of creating the piece.
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Sports Participation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research statistics about sports participation in references such as the Statistical Abstract of the United States. They make and analyze a list of the 10 sports that the highest number of Americans participated in on an amateur...
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Mysteries of the Past-An Artistic Expedition

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore expression in artwork. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students travel to ancient Egypt to examine abstract art of the Nile River valley through several hands-on activities.
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Using Personal Connections to Build an Understanding of Emotions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make happy and sad masks to examine their personal emotions, allowing them to verbally express their feelings and learn abstract concepts. They use their masks also to help them categorize their emotions and later chart them.
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Atoms and Molecules

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can use hands on and kinesthetic activities to teach abstract concepts, such as atom and molecule lessons.
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It's Just a Game?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider their attitudes toward concrete and abstract violence in the media before developing hypotheses that assess the effect of gender and age on people's attitudes toward such violence and designing a survey to test those...
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Patterns and Possibilitiies

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students gain an understanding of the value and importance of patterns in mathematics. Through video, interaction and hands-on activities, students identify concrete and abstract patterns incorporating logic and deductive and inductive...
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Accounting Concepts: M & M Closing Entries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use M&M's to learn the abstract concept of Closing Entries, while simultaneously working with T-accounts on the board..
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Paper Mache - Identity

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify characteristics of art of Ken Parker, create hand sculptures inspired by Ken Parker's work, develop skills related to working with paper mache, and create abstract versions of their hands.
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Bag the Beans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are exposed to a wide array of concrete representations to help develop a foundation for the higher abstract ideas associated with mathematical inquiry. In this lesson plan, students will work with manipulatives (beans) to...
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Simulation of Gene Splicing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the exercise as a prelude to a "wet" lab or as a substitute for such a lab. It correlates well with colony transformation labs. This lab is recommended for students what have difficulty with the abstractions that...
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Time Conceptualization

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use this activity to establish a new mode of reference to the conceptualization of time. To present hominid evolution in terms of millions of years and endosymbiosis of eukaryotes in billions of years carries little meaning to...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify organisms and processes involved in three cycles: the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the nitrogen cycle. They produce a pictorial or abstract water cycle, and appropriately place life forms onto an existing...
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Structure and Function

For Teachers 8th
Structure and Function SynopsisStudents choose some biological object, examine its structure, and identify or speculate on one particular function. Next they create a blueprint of the object, focusing on the particular function. Then...

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