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Facing the Day
Young scholars utilize magazines to find pictures that display emotional states/moods. Each student creates symbol cards using magazine pictures to help indicate how they are feeling on a given day. Individuals are instructed by the...
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Communication - Found Art
Students describe the function of art in daily life in various cultures. They describe ways that works of art produce feelings that enable viewers to reflect on their own responses to art.
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Say It Like A Character
Middle schoolers read a story and retell it to the class by role-playing one of the characters. In groups, they use the correct facial expressions along with body language and voice to convince the others in their group that they are...
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Cubist Self Portraits
Young scholars investigate how other artists have expressed their ideas in a visual way. They practice on how to use oil pastels. Students consider what ideas about them are important and what ideas they want to visually communicate...
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Using Literature as a Tool to end Name Calling
Students use bibliotheraphy or the guided use of books to help solve problems. They support targets of bullying as they express their feelings and learn coping strategies. By using books, students can then identify, catharsis and have...
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Being an Insider/Outsider to Judaism
Students explore and analyze the history of Judaism with all its ups and downs throughout history as well as its traditions and cultures that have survived a lifetime of ridicule and controversy. They relate the feeling that the majority...
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What is Drawing?
Students examine different types of drawings. In this art activity, students experiment with different tools for drawing and view many examples of what can be created with each type of tool. Students also experiment with how certain...
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Respecting Differences
Students move around the room to express opinions on specific questions. For this opinions lesson, students explore their feelings about the opinions they express.
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Violence on TV and Our Response
Students examine violence on television. In this media awareness lesson, students discuss the types of fictional and realistic violence shown on American television. Students participate in a Congressional simulation activity on the...
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Blooming with Self-Confidence
First graders read "Leo the Late Bloomer" and discuss what it feels like when they are struggling to master a new skill. They make flowers showing several things they all ready know how to do and one thing they are still learning.
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Functions
Students explore a variety of functions. They recognize and describe functions and use linear functions to describe situations. Students find the domain and range of linear functions and graph rational expressions.
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Making Connections Activity: Seeing Connections Among Works of Art
Students view images from fine and decorative art galleries in the Museumlink Illinois website. They make connections regarding theme, mood, or emotional expression. They present their findings orally and display their images.
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My Story, Our Stories (Rights and Freedoms)
Students research the Canadian rights and freedoms and express one of their freedoms by sharing a story about their family
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Goal Setting
Pupils are introduced to how to set their own goals. As a class, they explain the difference between short and long-term goals and give examples of each. Individually, they write their own goals down being sure to give it a timeframe....
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Associative Properties
Students investigate the associative property of addition. In this associative property of addition lesson, students work in pairs and build addition problems with six blocks. They sit on either side of a desk so that they can "read" the...
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Introduction to Symbols
Pupils study the concept of picture symbols as a way to express ideas without using words. In this picture symbol lesson, students place symbols on a U.S. map according to meaning. Pupils then review various symbols representing...
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The Personal Touch: a Lesson in Expository Writing
Shake hands with all of your class members, sending a different verbal message as you go along. Give them practice in expository writing by having them describe the handshake and how it makes them feel. This is an exploration of...
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Sculptural Heads
Students create sculptures of a human head with Sculptamold. They comprehend and apprecitate portraits and sculptures of the human face as art forms and the opportunity to incorporate human feelings and emotions in their own art....
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Interjections
In these interjections worksheets, students review examples of interjections and introductory words and phrases. Students then complete three pages of activities that help them understand and use interjections.
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Thoughts to the President
Students write a persuassive paragraph to the President stating their opinion on a topic. To do this, they start the message with a topic sentence such as "War is _____." The blank should contain a word or phrase expressing the student's...
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Topic 1: Life before the Holocaust - Question:1
In this Holocaust survivors worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer that requires them to note examples of anti-Semitic acts committed against 5 survivors.
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium According to Hoyle:
Students gain a feeling for the significance of the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium without using algebra but participating in an interactice game.
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Drawing Emotions
Students examine how artists have expressed emotion thru use of line, color and shapes. They communicate a variety of emotions using line, shape and values to create form.
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My Inspiration Project
Students reflect about decision making in their lives and explore their feelings about these life events. They create 100 word narratives and poems with specific details then create Power Point presentations of their project.