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Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school project.
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Objects as Self
Students examine how objects and setting help complete a self-portrait. They analyze Franklin's self-portraits before creating their own. They try to create the self-portrait as if they were in Franklin's time.
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Inside the Labryinth
Learners create a diagram of a labyrinth or a maze using information from their lives. As a class, students discuss the significant features and differences between a labryinth and a maze. They create the the twists and turns of the...
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Animal Encounters
Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.
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Creatures from Planet X: Spiders
Students are given a description of some fascinating animals from "Planet X". They follow the descriptions given to illustrate one of these animals paying careful attention to introduced vocabulary such as 'appendages', 'receptors', and...
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Geography: Islands and Alcatraz
Students, in groups, create maps of islands including map keys and compass roses. They compare and contrast their island communities with that of the island prison, Alcatraz. Students select from a series of projects, including writing...
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The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
Students create a set and design a costume for a musical performance. In this Life of Celia Cruz lesson, students study biographical facts about Celia Cruz on the exhibition web site. Then students share their creations with the class.
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Navajo Poetry
Students listen to Navajo poetry and create various responses to what they have heard. Students may create an illustration for the poems, create an original work of poetry, or write about how the poem relates to Native American culture.
British Library
British Library: Bodies of Knowledge
Series of illustrated essays on the different ways that the human body has been represented in art and science across history considers medieval astrology, the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, Vitruvius's notion of body symmetry,...
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World: Human Body in Egypitan Art
PBS documentary considers how ancient Egyptian artists chose to represent the human body and answers questions about how the cultural values of a society, such as the desire for order, shape its art. With close-ups of Egyptian art that...
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Smithsonian Institution Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse
Sample of early Morse Code, sent by Alfred Vail to Samuel Morse
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Smithsonian Institution Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse
Drawing of the Electromagnetic Telegraph and the Alpha Code, by Alfred Vail.
Other
The Online Anteater
This entire website is loaded with information on the various aspects of Giant Anteaters. It has a nice link resource page for further information.
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Eternal Egypt: Onion Shaped Pottery Bottle
A glazed pottery bottle with a narrow mouth, an onion-shaped body and a round base, adorned by a drawing of a winged animal. It was probably used to preserve liquids or perfume, because of its beautiful shape and small size. The...