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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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PBS

Pbs: Creativity and Play

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How can we as parents foster creativity and self-expression in our children? Peruse these ideas from PBS such as encouraging different types of creative play.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.a.2: Equivalent Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This problem expects students to choose an operation in response to a question about structure. A-SSE.A.2.
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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: 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: A sse.a.1.b and a sse.b.3 Increasing or Decreasing? 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this task is to help young scholars see manipulation of expressions as an activity undertaken for a purpose. Aligns with A-SSE.B.3.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Crude Oil and Gas Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, young scholars 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...
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Goshen College

Visual Art: The Conversation Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.
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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: N rn.a.2: Kepler's Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to solve some expressions requiring fractional exponents in the modeling context of planetary motion. Aligns with N-RN.A.2.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Increasing or Decreasing? Variation 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task asks students to examine an expression that has a denominator represented by the addition of two fractions. Each of those fractions has a denominator that is a variable. They are asked to analyze the structure of the expression...
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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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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Comparing Graphs of Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal of this task is to use appropriate tools to compare graphs of several functions. In addition, students are asked to study the structure of the different expressions to explain why these functions grow as they do. Aligns with...
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Curated OER

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: Navajo Weaving

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

Read Write Think: Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the structure of a list poem, students combine creative expression with poetic techniques and language exploration in order to write group poems about what really matters in their lives.
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PBS

Pbs: Multimedia Storytelling (A Lesson Plan Family Memories)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for exploring the use of multimedia presentation techniques in effective storytelling. Design, write, storyboard, and create a multimedia presentation of a story about an important family event or memory.