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Kaboom: Creative Expression

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Creative expression helps children articulate their feelings and thoughts. Encouraging creative expression is easy in both indoor and outdoor play spaces. This article discusses how art, music, and dance can encourage creative expression.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Writing Expressions

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders determine the expression using properties of operations.
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Stone Soup: How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Video Game Scores

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Standard 5.OA.2 asks students to "Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them." This task asks students to exercise both of these complementary skills,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Distance to School

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This task asks young scholars to find equivalent expressions by visualizing a familiar activity involving distance. The given solution shows some possible equivalent expressions, but there are many variations possible. Aligns with 6.EE.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Triangular Tables

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This task provides a good opportunity for group work and class discussions where students generate and compare equivalent expressions. In class discussion, students should be asked to connect the terms of an expression with quantities...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Crude Oil and Gas Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students write expressions that describe the relationship between quantities. The task looks at the amount of gas produced by a given number of barrels of crude oil, the number of miles a vehicle can drive on a quantity of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 3

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent. Aligns with 6.EE.A.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.3: Profit of a Company

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This task compares the usefulness of different forms of a quadratic expression. Students have to choose which form most easily provides information about the maximum value. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.
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National Park Service: : Compare and Contrast the Art of the Hubbell Collection

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
At the end of this lesson, students will reflect on and express concepts and ideas associated with unfamiliar images and art styles. They will increase visual awareness and appreciation for a variety of styles, subject matter, and...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Telling a Story Through Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan from ArtsEdge, students focus on the ballet, "Nutcracker," while learning about storytelling through dance and movement. Provides assessment criteria, a list of sources and links to use for references.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your learners a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 11. Powerful Presentations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Tired of writing all the time? Would you like to express yourself through a presentation instead? During these Quests, you are going to learn how to present your ideas creatively through Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. At the end...