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The Best of Baroque

For Teachers 6th
Students study about listening strategies, as well as the culture, music and two prominent composers of the Baroque period, namely J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. They demonstrate their understanding of the content through several assessments.
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Mission Accomplished

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe the impact of certain figures in United States history, including Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. They describe experiences of early American explorers and compose narratives from the perspectives of others.
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students improvise then compose and notate melodies with appropriate accompaniments that are inspired by events that transpired during their summer vacations. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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WRITE A STORY

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compose two or more simple sentences in response to a picture. They construct sentences and produce captions with 3 or more sentences that extend the subject/verb pattern. They demonstrate age appropriate correct use of...
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The Making of a Star

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create schematic diagrams of the new Russian space station module. They compose an imaginary yet realistic series of diary entries from the point of view of an astronaut living on board the completed space station.
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A Nobel Cause

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the lives and accomplishments of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and compose stories about what the world would be like without the accomplishments of these scientists.
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UV: Use Caution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of skin cancer and its relation to using tanning beds that expose people to artificial ultraviolet rays. They research the effects and look for ways to prevent the onset of skin cancer from the...
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White. They create a comic strip based on the characters, setting, and plot of the story, and examine the author's writing process. In small groups...
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Mate Selection: Characteristics, Qualities, and Values

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a personal philosophy about marriage while participating in power point presentation, classroom activities, and discussion. They compose a personal list of characteristics, qualities, and values desired in a marriage...
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Writer's Notebook and Haiku

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars, after viewing various examples from students around the world, as well as writing in their Writer's Notebook, create, compose and revise a Haiku poem that sketches a "snapshot" or image in time. They incorporate the theme...
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Sequencing Our Day

For Teachers K
Students focus on translating the real experience of an ordinary day into a representation of it to assist with recall and stimulate expressive language. They compose picture captions to match visual representations of events of the...
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How Does Your Ecosystem Grow?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider that under certain conditions in nature tend to remain the same or move toward a balance. They observe populations and determine the functions (e.g., de-composers, producers, consumers) they serve in an ecosystem. They...
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Poetry Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compose a piece of poetry modeled after the poetry of Carl Sandburg and share their poem(s) with their colleagues. They use a cluster diagram to organize their thoughts and brainstorm their ideas.
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"What is an American?"

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders ponder about what it means to be an "American." They discuss the impact of an author's word choice and sentence structure on text. They identify some major themes and development of the Letters... Compose paragraphs and...
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Building an Ecosystem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research a variety of local and world ecosystems. Students will create a collage to represent the biotic and abiotic factors and interactions important to their given ecosystem.Students will understand that an ecosystem is...
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The Posse in Austrailia

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the use of commas and periods. They compose a friendly letter without commas or periods to give to a partner to revise. In addition, they discuss how these punctuation marks helped readers better understand the meanings...
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Ocean Floor Model

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a simulated model of the ocean floor in a shoe box. They determine that the floor of the ocean is composed of hills, plains, ridges, trenches, and sea mounts. They draw out a plan for their ocean floor which includes...
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Bathymetric Mapping

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw contour lines based on NOAA soundings on a nautical chart. They color the contours and glue label tags for topographic features. They determine that the floor of the ocean is composed of hills, plains, ridges, trenches,...
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Forming a League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify and research the original language as composed by Woodrow Wilson in his League of Nations. Then they identify and describe the revisions of the original League of Nations as the United Nations was created....
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How Much are You Worth?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this body elements worksheet, high schoolers use a table given the percentage of each element that composes the body to find their worth. The value of each element is given and students calculate what their bodies would be worth if...
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Global Music Patterns- Islamic Art

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students compose music using Islamic patterns. In this cultural arts lesson, students examine Islamic art and analyze the patterns. Students incorporate various Islamic patterns into a musical composition.
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Poetry With the Sages

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students write poems and input them into a word processing program.  In this poetry lesson, students listen to Chinese poems and draw mental images. Students compose poems and illustrate them. Students share their work.
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Writing Mythological Narratives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students compose a creative writing piece based on a painting of a mythological scene. In this creative writing lesson,  students write about the scene in the painting and tie in  their original stories into tales from the life...
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Rhythm Stars

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen, clap, compose and identify various rhythms.  In this rhythm lesson plan, students practice rhythm with rhythm cards.  Students become familiar with stick notation. Students glue Popsicle sticks to illustrate...

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