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Media Awareness: the Basics of Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore marketing techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students watch instructor-selected advertising and identify the marketing techniques used in each of them. Students then create advertisements for products.
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Propaganda: Making a Commercial

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study different propaganda techniques. In groups, they write and perform a 60-second TV or radio commercial. Classmates rate the effectiveness of the commercial and whether or not they might buy the product.
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Creating and Marketing a Commercial

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a marketing video to sell school products.
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Scholastic

Tell Us a Tale: Teaching Students to Be Storytellers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Encourage scholars to retell their favorite short story or folktale, adding personal details to make it their own. After reading their book of choice several times, story tellers retell a tale verbally to their classmates. 
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2005 Submarine Ring of Fire Expedition: What's for Dinner?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis as sources of primary production for biological communities, and describe sources of primary production observed in biological communities associated with volcanoes of the...
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Careers on Stage And Air

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and perform a scene for play using a common fairy tale for the story line. They view and discuss a video on careers in stage and radio to identify the roles and responsibilities for each of their group members.
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Sondheim: Secret Metaphors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the work of Stephen Sondheim. In this musical theater instructional activity, students examine the musicals Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George. Learners identify and anaylze linear and nonlinear...
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Portrait of a Place, Portrait of a Family

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners act out stories based on lives of famous people from Harlem. In this memoirs lesson, students compare the life of the people in Harlem in 1930 to the people of today. Learners explore how "home" is different for different...
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"Disco Sucks!"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine why disco and other forms of music were not widely accepted.
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Creating & Marketing a Commercial

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explain the four P's of Marketing (product, pricing, promotion, and place) and how they are used in business and in society. They produce the remake of an old audio and visual commercial activity as a marketing activity.
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I'll Take One!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collectively create a product, slogan, and advertisements for different types of media. They define different types of appeals such as bandwagon, emotional, glittering generalities, snob appeal, plain-folks appeal,...
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Discussing One's Health

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore common health issues.  In this health and literacy instructional activity, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations.  Students prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues...
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Biome Web Quest

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create paper mache globes, paint them and label the oceans and the continents. In groups, they research a biome, write about it and create an artistic visual representation of the biome and present it to the class.
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100 Years...100 Movies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch one of the top 100 movies to view, research critical reviews and then, write their own reviews.
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American Music Genres

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners research and listen to a variety of American music genres and create a written comparison between three of the styles.
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Advertising Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use word processing software to create slogans for products. They write their own jingles and create their own packaging for products they design. Then they write and act out their own television commercials for their products.
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Reel or Real?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare and contrast a live versus an animated performance of the same title. They view and take notes during the animated version, take a field trip to observe the live version, and write an opinion on which performance is most...
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Midterm Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a multimedia presentation. They create a storyboard using Inspiration. Students write a narrative that reflects the process he/she went through to create the presentation. They include obstacles encountered and solutions...
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Musical Form and Sibelius Groovy Music Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a song using the form ABACADAEA. Students listen to a musical piece created by Vivaldi that is an example of this musical form. Then students use software to create their own musical forms representing this pattern.
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Television and Movies

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore media.  In this television and movies lesson, 5th graders compare a variety of types of television shows and movies. 
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Movies That Rock

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch the opera "La Boheme" and the movie "Moulin Rouge" to explore the similarities and differences between them.
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Technology: Self-Portraits

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use Kid Pix to create self-portraits. Using mirrors, they create accurate renditions of themselves on the computer. They print the portraits and display them in the classroom.
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Self-Portraits

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils use a software drawing program to produce self portraits. They draw using the available tools and matching their features such as eye color and shape. They print the portraits for a classroom display.
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Oregon Education Professional Development Commission

The First Days

For Teachers K - 12th
Designed for first-year teachers, this 116-page packet has it all. Questions you should ask administrators and fellow teachers, a checklist of things to do before school starts, a school-year calendar to record special school events and...