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Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers will learn to appreciate the civil rights movement with a focus on Little Rock, Arkansas. They will also acknowledge Louis Armstrong's unparalleled contributions to American music.
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Narrative Writing Lesson

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders experience the stages of process writing, work cooperatively, to critique and to incorporate software tools to enhance writing and problem solving skills.
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Group Rules and Expectations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore psychology by participating in a student behavior activity. For this group dynamic lesson, students identify ways to keep several learners interested and focused on one task. Students complete worksheets discussing...
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Hands are for Helping (Responsible Personal Conduct)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Youngster learn the importance of cooperation and sharing through a fun art project! Following a brief introductory discussion in which the class brainstorms how they can use their hands to share, youngster get divided into pairs to...
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Dancing Levels in Space

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice mirroring human moves by performing a dance in class.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize different spaces around them to perform a dance expressing their full motion.  Students cooperate in pairs or...
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First Come the Zebra Teacher’s Guide

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Accompany a reading of First Come the Zebra written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch with a teacher's guide equipped with before reading, vocabulary, and after reading activities. Additional social studies, science, music, art, math, and...
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Picture-Go-Round

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate how to participate in a cooperative group. In this philanthropy lesson, students create drawings by working together as a group and contributing their thoughts and feelings.
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They Put On Masks

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine Native American art. In this mask making lesson, 8th graders compare mask making traditions among different cultures. Students watch a demonstration of mask making and construct a mask of their own.
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Random Scenes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students perform a group pantomime. In this cooperative efforts instructional activity, students are placed in small groups and must work as a team to pantomime a scene chosen at random. The students will engage in a reflection and class...
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Drawing Lesson Improves Communication Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students work in pairs to improve their communication skills through a drawing activity. They draw a figure on their papers and describe to each other what was drawn.
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The Earth's Layers: Day 6: Landforms II

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students closely examine the earth's crust and various landforms. In this Earth's layers lesson students work in cooperative groups and analyze their roles and responsibilities therein. Each group is assigned a specific landform to...
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Tell Me About It: What is Design?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create and present an original design. In this visual arts lesson plan, students watch a video about design and learn the elements of design. Then students work in groups to construct and present an original design.
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Puzzles With Partners

For Teachers K - 12th
Students work together to complete puzzles. They practice their critical thinking skills and cooperative learning. They share their puzzles once they are complete.
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Season Board

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students help create a classroom display for use throughout the year in this Art-based cooperative-learning lesson. The display can then be modified for different seasons and activities. Ideas for season modifications are given.
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Cultural Creation Myths

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze various cultural creation myths, write essays on three different societal stories, and create a play based upon one of those stories in this cross-curricular Theatre project for High School students. Cooperative...
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Creative Dramatics

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars create a pantomime. In this cooperative learning lesson plan, students are given a scenario to pantomime. Young scholars work in small groups and then create and perform a pantomime for the class.
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Christopher Columbus

For Teachers 1st
Help first graders gain an understanding of the beginnings of our nation by learning more about Christopher Columbus. They begin by listening to a read aloud of Christopher Columbus and His Voyage to the New World (another title could be...
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Habitat Movies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars create movies of various habitats and animals using their knowledge of the subject and the computer program iMovie. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning and research.
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European Newscast

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in cooperative learning groups to create and perform a newscast about a European country. This geography-based technology lesson plan concludes with class presentations and student critiques.
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Sixth Graders Express Themselves

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create examples of expressionistic paintings using pastels, black paper, and chalk in this 6th grade Art lesson. Emphasis is on creating an emotion for the painting using simple lines and large shapes and cooperative...
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Learning About Occupations

For Teachers K
Students examine the occupations of a variety of community helpers such as doctors, policemen, firemen, nurses, and others by listening to a read aloud. They find pictures in magazines to glue to a classroom mural of occupations.
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Perseverance: Keep Going

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Kids evaluate world history events that show perseverance by creating artistic images. They investigate historic photographs and images which conjure up the feelings of perseverance, then utilize acrylic paints to capture the essence of...
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Dick Blick Art Materials

Painted Story Quilt

For Teachers K - 12th
Creating story quilts is a great way to combine art, social studies and literature. Kids select a story, a published one or one of their own, to illustrate, paint on a canvas square, embellish, and mount on a felt backing.
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The Role Of Japanese Women

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the role of women in upper-class Japanese society through the reading of a folktale and the study of Japanese art images. The lesson emphasizes small, cooperative learning groups.

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