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Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore triptychs.  In this art history lesson, students define the terms "photograph" and "triptych".  Students discuss changes that occur between mothers and daughters and create an original triptych using...
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Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 4—Everybody Celebrates

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a celebratory hat after viewing images of artwork depicting people celebrating an event. In this artistic perception lesson plan, students discover why people celebrate their accomplishments and how to express feelings...
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Traveler's in Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze artifacts to become familiar with the Great Migration.  In this migration lesson, students read an article and answer comprehension questions. Students role play a migration scenario using an artifact to help...
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Go Fly a ( Tetrehedral) Kite!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the tetrahedral kites invented by Alexander Graham Bell. In this components of flight lesson, students examine the kites made by Bell and his team. Students create their own kite and add them together as a class to...
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Inventions Change the World: The Enigma Machine

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore WWII by analyzing technological advances. In this invention instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss the use of the Enigma machine which decoded private German messages that communicated with U-boats. Students...
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Understanding and Supporting Our Peers with Cognitive Challenges

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore different federal laws promoting the education for the handicapped. In this literacy lesson, students brainstorm how they can help individual with Down syndrome. They read a fiction book related to the topic and...
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create instruments to capture different types of insects. In this The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals lesson, students compare the attributes of certain insects and record the data on a chart. After catching...
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Interactive Whiteboard Lessons Made Accessible

For Teachers 1st - 6th
You can inspire students with exciting new technology and tools.
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Physical and Chemical Changes

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders view a PowerPoint presentation that assist them in distinguishing between physical and chemical changes. They compare their observations of demonstrations to a list of clues recognizing types of changes.
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Social Studies: Community Posters As Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine posters as art and create their own examples featuring locations or events from their community. They display their works in their schools and discuss their cities and school environments in a live chat setting with...
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Native American Interdisciplinary Educational Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research various Native American stories and legends. They participate in reader's theater, write original legends, cook Native American foods, construct dioramas and view Native American art and artifacts.
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Alicia Screams for Ice Cream!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Student make ice cream and study the chemistry of how it is made and frozen.
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ESL Reading Comprehension: "Brown Widow" Spider

For Students 7th - 9th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read an article about the discovery of the "brown widow" spider and complete a set of 15 comprehension questions.
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1st Grade - Act. 06: Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify, create, and label simple patterns.
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Interpret Remainders-Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this interpret remainders worksheet, students read a word problem at the top of the page and answer 2 questions, then write a problem of their own in which the remainder is the answer to the problem.
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Bringing the Holocaust Unit to Closure: Implications For the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the relevance of the Holocaust to the present and future. They watch an excerpt from the movie, 'Schindler's List,' participate in a discussion of the movie excerpt, view and discuss a speech by Elie Wiesel, and write a...
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Free Activity Schedule

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading a schedule worksheet, students read the information about free activities for various scheduled events. Students then fill in the table for the name of the activity, dates of the activities, and time of the activities.
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Chalk Drawings

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students create their own chalk drawings on a chalk board inspired by the work of Keith Haring. In this chalk drawings lesson plan, students draw symbols and lines in different colors.
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Sand & Water: Shape Search

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students act as amateur archaeologists as they participate in their own "dig" to explore and record unusual shapes. In this shape exploration lesson, students use trowels and shovels to dig, and learn to sift the dirt with screens to...
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Unit 6 Arithmetic: Multiplication of Decimals

For Students 5th - 7th
In this multiplication of decimals worksheet, students complete 6 sets of problems. The first two sets of ten problems involve whole number computation. The final four sets involve decimal multiplication. There are a total of 59...
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One Hundred Hungry Ants

For Teachers 1st
First graders represent 100 using various groupings of objects.
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Tell About the South : The Story of Modern Southern Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after viewing the video "Tell About the South," discuss and analyze Jean Toomer's mixed heritage and how it affected his artistic voice. They evaluate how the character Toomer was an excellent example of America's melting pot....
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THE FUGITIVE POETS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after viewing the video "Tell About the South," critique the section on the Fugitive Poets. They brainstorm why this unique group of poets might have formed and became so influential in the south. In addition, they focus on how...
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EUDORA WELTY

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers, after viewing the video "Tell About the South II: Poets and Prophets," analyze the section on Eudora Welty and her photography work and writings. They focus on photojournalism and its enlightenment regarding cultures that...

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