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Acting Like a Third Grader (Part 1)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, after brainstorming the positive and negative types of behaviors, become aware of the right and wrong way to behave as a third grader. They perform a skit that demonstrates the skills and behaviors used by third grade...
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News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Although students are aware of news as information that influences their perceptions of the world, they are often unaware of the various ways to present that information. Encourage them to investigate, discuss, analyze and make valuable...
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Aerial Photography

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders compare the artistic values of Terry Evans' photography with LandSAT images and other images made for purely scientific, government and commercial purposes. They consider the artistic choices made in aerial photography.
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Wavelengths of Light

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Explore physical science by participating in a visual spectrum experiments. Budding scientists identify the colors in the color spectrum and view the colors in class by utilizing cellophane, flash lights, and other arts and crafts...
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Monster Mash

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students brainstorm ideas for an original product with the same name, "Monster Mash" and find a unique way to market their invention. They create a prototype of the package in which their product could be sold and focus on marketing...
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Selling Solutions

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify, design and present specific information to sell their idea for reducing the impacts of climate change. Students create a television or print advertisement. Students utilize technology to create a final project....
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Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of classmates. In this portrait analysis lesson, students define portrait and discuss two images of Lange's. Learners interview a classmate and use Lange's...
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Recognizing Advertising Techniques

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore advertising techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students read articles about foods and their links to childhood obesity. Learners also discuss propaganda techniques that advertisers use to sell certain foods. 
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Lady Macbeth's Cure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students role-play the position of Lady Macbeth's nurse. They are to create a project or service that can cure her sleepwalking. They create their own commerical to sell their product.
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Media Literacy and Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Investigate ways to persuade by introducing learners to the three rhetorical appeals (Pathos, Logos, Ethos). Pupils receive a worksheet for their definition development of the terms and coinciding vocabulary words. The activity continues...
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Fact V. Opinion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use statements out of newpapers to distinguish between facts and opinions. They discuss these differences as well.
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"Planet" Vacation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students research a location of their choice using the internet. They list the characteristics of the location and why they chose it as their ideal vacation spot. Using maps, they pinpoint their destination and trace their route. They...
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Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe: What is Beautiful?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider the notion of beauty and what impact the media and popular culture have on it. In this cross curricular instructional activity, students examine print ads, write down and share their thoughts on them. Then students form...
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Warhol and Collaboration

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view images of Warhol/Basquiat collaboration and discuss them using the questions listed in the lesson. They work in groups to choose a theme or topic relating to American culture and discuss ideas about symbols that could be...
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We Love to Read Bulletin Board

For Teachers K - 5th
Young artists create a bulletin board based on books they have read. They complete a book report and share the information with the class, and use different types of technology to help finish the board.
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Coast-to-Coast Book Design -Part 2: What is Design?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of design, and identify items in their lives that have been designed. They explore the concept of book design and create and arrange their own page layout.
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Commemorating a Tragedy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read newspaper articles and watch segments on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. In groups, they discuss how each media outlet presented the material and decide which one was more productive. As a class, they...
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Magazine Mania

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the components and structure of magazines. In groups they develop a magazine based on the novel of their choice. Comic strips and promotional advertisements about the novels are included in the magazine. Students...
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Connecting the Dots: Workers and Their Importance

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the role of workers and their jobs in the community. They write a friendly letter to a community worker expressing appreciation for the work they do and their importance to the community.
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Progressing Towards Graduation

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders write a paragraph about what they are going to do after graduating from high school. As a class, they share how they are going to meet their goals and discuss other options other than going to college. To end the lesson,...
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What's the Purpose Anyway?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Examine author's purpose in newspaper articles, comic books, cookbooks, encyclopedias and other forms of written materials. Working in groups, middle and high schoolers read teacher-selected articles and write an explanation of the...
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Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Myself. themselves, himself. Class members engage in an intensive study and reflect on the uses of reflective and intensive pronouns.
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Peer and Self-evaluation in Spoken Tests: Tools and Methods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, each take a different role and are to either ask or answer questions. They explore how to effectively evaluate themselves and others.
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What's Your Style?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete a learning style assessment and evaluate the information gained to determine accuracy in terms of what they know about themselves as learners. They then identify and implement strategies related to their preferred...

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