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Investigating Factors That Affect Rate of Enzyme Action

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the properties of enzymes. In this chemical reaction lesson plan, students explore enzymes through a Web-quest and investigative study. Students will collect and summarize data and create a class presentation. This...
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Narrative pantomime

For Teachers K
Assign parts to read aloud Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag and have your young mimes act out their roles. This story focus on how beauty within is more important than outward appearance. Conclude by having your class provide an illustrated...
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Breaking the Code: Actions and Songs of Protest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students listen to and discuss the purpose of protest music. They analyze an editorial cartoon related to Jim Crow and read questions from the literacy tests given to African-Americans. They work together to write a song about the...
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Action/Reaction: Art and Politics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine three images that were responses to social and political turmoil World War I and II. In this political art lesson, students analyze and discuss the example art. Young scholars create a word poem, a collage, and...
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Class Action

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design learning laboratories for their school in a variety of subject areas. They present their ideas to members of their community for feedback.
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Who's the Fool in King Lear

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students complete close reading and character analysis for Shakespeare's King Lear. In this play analysis instructional activity, students reenact scene 1, Act 1 and pick only the lines that demonstrate action. Students act out the scene...
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20th Century American Art

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
See the changes, controversy, and innovations that define postwar American art. The onset of the modern art era in American history is well-defined in this slide-show. You'll see how Abstract Expressionism shifted into conceptual, pop,...
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Elements of Drama

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Introduce young actors to the key elements of performance with this handout that defines key staging terms and activities.
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You Bleed, You Learn?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Jump back into the 90s with Alannis Morissette's song "You Learn." After hearing the song, small groups analyze the lyrics and write an essay about a mistake they've learned from. Use the example sentences to identify the denotative and...
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Writing to Photography/Photography to Writing

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars improve their' writing by incorporating photography into descriptive and narrative writing exercises. They write descriptions of various professional photographic collections. Later they use their own and other classmates'.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students dramatize incident that started the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s: Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Life is Starting to Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the tough economic times by discussing supply and demand.  In this economics instructional activity, students read a news article and identify specific examples of the oil crisis that has touched their lives....
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Origami Flight: The Physical Setting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the forces that move certain objects.  In this physics instructional activity, 6th graders design and create paper flying objects using origami methods, which they practice flying in different conditions....
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Swirling, Twirling, Glistening Jewels... Glass Art In Words

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine the art form of the glass sculpture. After viewing a three dimensional object, they write creatively describing the object through the use of metaphors. They use peer editing to check for grammatical and spelling errors.
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Irish Literature Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders locate and evaluate various books, journals, anthologies, and Internet sources that contain information that may be used in answering the scavenger hunt questions related to Ireland and Irish literature.
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Recreating A Mission

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers role-play a satellite recovery mission. They explain and appreciate the complexity and planning involved in carrying out a shuttle mission.
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Linking Rembrandt and The Odyssey

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students apply knowledge of the style and techniques of Rembrandt to illustrate characters from The Odysey. They respond critically to a variety of works in the arts.
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Words and Music - Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the relationships among cultural values, freedom of artistic expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.
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Race, Culture, And Identity in Daughter From Danang (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine cultural identity. They watch and discuss the second half of the PBS documentary, 'Daughter From Danang,' and write an essay addressing ethnic and cultural identity and how a film would portray their own cultural identity.

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