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Designing Families
Students design a tee shirt that depicts some aspect of their family history.
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 2
Students use appropriate terminology to describe the instrumentation and style of a musical example. They identify common elements between musical styles and vocal styles.
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Watery World
Students brainstorm to develop resource/reference charts for later use. they are introduced to Microsoft Word and to an internet movie site. They use prepared chart headings, to respond to questions posed on each chart such as: Where do...
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GIS Mapping: Special Instructions for Using Digital Orthophotos
Students practice cartography using GIS technology. They create a map of Austin using GIS and aerial photos.
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Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
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Computer Multimedia and Animation Technology: Video Capture
High schoolers explore multimedia and animation technology. They create an autobiographical film of themselves and an album cover for their CD case. They watch a video and take notes to discover the five camera placements in their...
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Urban Concentration and Racial Violence
Young scholars research one of the many urban race riots in U.S. history, from the New York City riots during the Civil War to the "Red Summer of 1919" or the hate-strikes of 1943. They present their findings in the form of a newspaper's...
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Technology - Identity - Watercolor
Students use a grayscale digital photo of self and draw the texture of their hair in a linear fashion. They create a background which relates to the PTA Reflections contest using the internet as a resource.
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Rabbit's Good News Activity
Students read a book and predict what the rabbit in the story will do next. They identify the objects he finds and how they are all related. They create their own butterflies to be put up on a bullentin board.
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Scented Cool Whip Painting
Students practice their writing skills by "painting" pictures and writing letters in Cool Whip on paper.
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Y is for Yarn
Students practice saying the sounds of the letter Y. They create a poster of the letter made out of yarn. They identify the shape and identify other words that start with Y.
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Mixing Paint - Learning About Colors
Students mix different colors of paint while observing and recording the results. They use the new colors of paint to design a picture.
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Sorting Lids
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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Scrapbook
Students, using photos as their inspiration, develop six personal narratives, then edit and revise them.
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Karl Bodmer Art Cube
Students use the internet to research the type of art done by Karl Bodmer. Using this information, they design and create their own art cube relating to the artist's life. They also write a paragraph about what they believe their...
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Tube Construction
Students are encouraged to recycle. They are provided the opportunity to construct a paper sculpture in the round. Students apply recycled products to create their sculpture. They share their creations with the class.
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Listening Logs Rubric
In this listening log rubric worksheet, students are assessed on their understanding of and presentation on musical landscapes through several categories: Locating and Collecting, Listening and Responding, Analyzing and Interpreting,...
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Autumn Learning Fun
Students discuss autumn. In this language arts lesson plan, students discuss words that are associated with the season of autumn. Students read books about autumn.
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Rainforest Exploration
Fourth graders learn the simple concepts of the rainforest and its inhabitants. They create a 3-D rainforest using one of the animals learned about.
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Oceanography Class Quilt
Pupils create and observe a collage of oceanography topics that be placed on quilt tiles in a culmination art project to represent information learned.
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Using Children's Literature to Teach Writing: Oh, Tucker!
Students are read the book "Oh, Tucker". They write a paper about the positive and negative aspects of having a dog as a pet. They use a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts and they edit them the next day in class.
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Fish Aquarium
Students make an aquarium for fish out of construction paper. They count the number of fish in their aquarium, as well as, recognize the colors of their fish.
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Brain and Nervous System
Third graders study the physical characteristics of the brain and identify its parts through this series of lessons.