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Mound Cities
Students learn about Mound Cities and how they both started and stopped. In this Mound lesson students explore how Mound Cities did not succeed and why. Students dig deeper then the lesson as they discuss defeat and relate it to their...
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Colors and Mural Painting
Visual arts lesson featuring a group mural that is constructed by each student soda straw paintings that reflects the use of shape, color and hue.
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MOSAICS
Visual arts lesson emphasizing pattern and design in individual student mosaics made with paper and reviewing line, shape, space, and color. The individual mosaics will be used to create a border for a group mosaic in another lesson.
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Performance Standards/Competencies
Students research how children dressed during Colonial times. Students design and create life-sized likenesses of themselves, dressing the paper dolls in colonial dress.
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Colors and Mural Painting
Fifth graders identify shape styled by color and hue techniques, and individually design a variation of color mixtures once positioned on paper.
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Anne Frank: Timeline
Learners brainstorm all they know about World War II and Anne Frank. They create a timeline of the events that occured. They research the events on the timeline in their own family history.
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Lesson Overview for Confucian Ideals: "The Analects" and "Miss Li"
Students read and analyze various sayings by Confucius. They view a Powerpoint Presentation, answer discussion questions, complete a translation activity, and write an essay.
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Time Line Of Chinese And Japanese Art
Students create individual time lines placing various works of Asian art into chronological order. The information gathered is used to create one class time line for display.
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SHOW 303: The Channel Island Fox
Students explore how archaeologists and other scientists use different clues to piece together a picture of the past. Students perform activities that allow them to conduct three types of scientific research. They discuss their...
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Need vs. Wants in Creating Sustainable Communities
Ninth graders create a T chart of their needs and wants. In this environmental science instructional activity, 9th graders brainstorm ideas on how to create a sustainable community. They decide what they would give up and keep to make...