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PowerPoint Presentations

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this PowerPoint lesson, students create a storyboard about themselves. They use this storyboard to turn into a presentation with seven slides.
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Summarization

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students summarize a selected piece of text using the five Ws. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a selected piece of nonfiction text. They write a summary paragraph using a process outlined by the instructor.
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Worksheet for Analysis of a Motion Picture

For Students 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis activity, students respond to 14 short answer questions that require them to analyze the motion picture of their choice.
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Fractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, while in the computer lab discuss Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy, practice solving problems involving fractions. They explore non-unit fractions by describing parts of a set utilizing their attributes to categorize the...
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Quiz: Weather Phenomena #1

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders focus on the weather. Students respond to ten multiple choice questions about various aspects pertaining to our weather.
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I Can Dance to the Music of Everything

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine Keith Haring's art work. They apply visual imagery to rhyming, rhythmic words with Haring's "Dance" book. They make impressions on styrofoam plates to explore printmaking process.
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HALLOWEEN - HOLIDAY FINE ARTS ACTIVITIES

For Teachers All
The pupils will demonstrate their understanding of crescendo; to achieve dramatic effect in singing the Halloween Song (basic technique used to provide mood in Music).
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Sorting Lids

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students practice sorting lids in different ways so that each group determines a sorting pattern. They examine how to work in groups while sharing ideas. They establish group work relationships that become apparent to the teacher in this...
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Interrelationships Within the Marine Community

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create an electronic story showing the interrelationship of species within the marine environment. They utilize the educational software, 'Destination Ocean' during this engaging lesson.
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Talking Turkey: Crossword

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this crossword activity, students use a set of 18 clues about turkeys to complete a word search puzzle; answers are given on page 2.
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Mystery Box

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a icebreaker activity that is meant to introduce curriculum areas at the beginning of the school year. The teacher prepares several different boxes filled with items that are to be studied during the year. Then...
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What will you be for Halloween?

For Teachers 1st
First graders construct a story sticking to the topic with 2-4 sentences.
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Celebrate the Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the responsibilities of people working in advertising. They create a campaign to support the arts including advertisements in several different media. Length of unit depends on number of projects completed.
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Miami Dade College: Vic 1000 Visual Comm Lecture Notes Chapters 4 and 5 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
These are the lecture notes from a course on visual communication that uses Herbert Zettl's book "Sight Sound Motion." This PowerPoint outline (in PDF format) identifies the key points in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 4 looks at the...
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Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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BBC

Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse: Physics: Reflection and Refraction

For Students 9th - 10th
All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explain how people see images, color and even optical illusions. This tutorial discusses each concept and presents an experiment to try...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Questions: Easy Light, Sound, Color

For Students 1st - 9th
Test your knowledge of light, sound, and color with these practice science questions.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Practice Science Answers: Easy Light, Sound, Color

For Students 5th - 9th
Take this quiz that contains basics questions on light, sound, and color.
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Espresso Graphics: Html Tips and Tricks

For Students 9th - 10th
A very complete selection of tutorials on HTML, including tips and tricks on working with sound, adding a webpage counter, using meta tags, web site promotion and much more.
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Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sounding an Alarm on a Growing Epidemic: Blood Sugar Rising

For Students 6th - 8th
In this short interactive lesson, students learn about the severity and prevalence of diabetes, particularly for people of color.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Asians of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
The Asian population of Africa is a small but significant minority. Whereas there have been Asians, primarily merchants, who lived on the east coast of Africa for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, a great influx of Asians came to...
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Starfall

Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
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Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Musica Educa (Spanish)

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site is about music in general to be viewed by children as something natural and easily accessible. It contains various interactive activities with sound files and also an application to color.