TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Three Meals for Gregory
Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through lesson) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, young scholars create healthy meals...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
Other
Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers
IJIMS is a project designed to introduce students from underrepresented populations to digital, web-based journalism opportunities. Participants create an online magazine to learn computational thinking via digital media, interactive...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Pen Pals Around the World [Pdf]
Students improve skills in all subjects and connect with other students while learning about another country. The students began by researching our country. The students chose which topic they wanted to present in our video. During our...
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Art Inspired Writing
This resource maintains a gallery of artwork created for the magazine by children from all around the world.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Biological Energy Food Chain Practice
After reviewing the roles of consumers, producers and decomposers, you'll create your own food chains using pictures from magazines. The site also has 18 questions to see if you can identify the ecologic role played by various organisms.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Srt Ask the Pilot
In the July 2013 issue of United Airlines' Hemisphere Magazine, a pilot responded to a question about how far in the distance he could see at different altitudes. The solution involved right triangles, lines of tangency to a circle, and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students create a visual representation of themselves using collage with magazine cut-outs and write a detailed description of it.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Character Metaphors the Great Gatsby
The students will explore characters by creating metaphors with pictures. Using a gingerbread styled template and pictures collected from magazines, clip art, or other sources, the students will paste pictures which represent specific...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Advertising: Can You Put It All Together?
Students will create a one-item, full color magazine advertisement for a product. This is a Commerce and Information Technology Lesson Plan.
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T. Skinner Business Education: Desktop Publishing
Are you looking for desktop publishing resources? Tonya Skinner is a business educator who has compiled resources to enrich the business classroom. Resources include: lesson plans, activities, and desktop publishing links.