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Mythology

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read Edith Hamilton's, Mythology as a summer reading assignment. They characterize one of the gods or goddesses they read about and create a presentation.
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Be An Incredible Songwriter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write songs about something incredible they have experienced or know about. They consider topics of events, dreams, ideas, feelings, or animals. They accompany themselves with small musical instruments while performing the songs...
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Challenge to Communicate

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine the journals from Lewis and Clark and identify how they spoke without using words. They participate in a game in which they use non-verbal communication with each other. They write their own journal entries to complete...
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Women With a Pink

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe the portrait Woman with a Pink by Rembrandt. They determine how the artist uses symbols to portray his character. They write poems using symbols.
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Refugees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the affect of refugees have one their host country. They examine where refugees go and decide on things that might be affected by their influx such as medical care, moral issues, economic issues, and language barriers.
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...
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Hidalgo's Fight for the Independence of Mexico

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study and examine the life of Miguel Hidalgo while working to identify major themes. Small groups create sequence of event chains, analyze and label maps of Hidalgo's travels, and work together to create giant chalk maps...
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Mood and Tone

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students describe their current mood in several complete sentences. They compare their moods with moods set by authors through the tone of their writing. Students read a teacher prepared handout about mood/tone of writing. They write...
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Seeing Both Sides of an Issue

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop arguments on both sides of an issue to see how it feels to understand opposing views. They try to think of all the reasons they might take the opposite position on the same statement: My way of doing things is the best...
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Doctor Mae C. Jemison - First African American Woman in Space

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders trace and analyze the life of Doctor Mae C. Jemison and the circumstances that enabled Dr. Jemison to achieve her goal of becoming an astronaut. They explore the role of NASA in the development of America's Space Shuttle...
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Poetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders preview different poetry selections form different poets to narrow their criteria for a favorite poem. They use the web and written sources to find a favorite poem and then give an oral interpretation of their poem in class...
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BBC Learning English, Vocabulary (Crossword)

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this vocabulary worksheet, students solve a crossword puzzle with 13 clues. This crossword puzzle emphasizes vocabulary found in the Language and Body Language sections of the BBC Working Abroad series.
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BBC Learning English, Vocabulary (Crossword Puzzle, with help)

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle using the 13 clues. Help is provided in the form of first letters in each word. The relevant vocabulary is found in the Language and Body Language sections of the Working...
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Writing About Art: Comparing Portraits

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students write a composition comparing and contrasting two portraits. For this comparing and contrasting lesson, students will observe two portraits and compare them through their writing. They then will write a letter to the artists...
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Historical Witness: Social Messaging

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create political cartoons that feature satire. For this political cartoon lesson, students examine examples of satire and caricature prior to creating their own political cartoons that feature the French Revolution or Industrial...
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Journal Response to Art

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe various photographs by Dorothea Lange and write reflections in a journal. In this photography lesson plan, 4th graders interpret photographs and do a variety of writing responses to the photographs they observe.
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Reduce and Respect!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how to reduce trash to help the environment. In this environment lesson plan, students listen to the story, The Wartville Wizard, before thinking about how they can reduce trash. They decide why it is important to reduce...
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Our Space Station Earth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discover ways to preserve the Earth's resources. In this natural resources activity, students investigate how many gallons of water the average American uses per day and then total their estimated usage. Young scholars...
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Volunteering Our Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a service learning project. In this philanthropy lesson, students volunteer their time at a local soup kitchen and reflect upon the experience in a journal.
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What About Us? Women in the Civil War

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research the role of women in the Civil War. In this Civil War unit, students research the role women played during the war. This unit includes eight different activities including vocabulary, writing prompts and a literature...
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Final Performance of a Play

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study theatre by designing a play, studying actors, and work in partners to create a story to perform. In this theatre study lesson, 2nd graders discuss theatre as live theatre, television, film, and radio. Students act...
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Author Study - Mo Willems

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
  Students listen to books written by Mo Willems each day and discuss the story elements of each.  In this reading strategies lesson plan, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their favorite...
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Cricket in Pakistan

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars investigate sports and recreation in other countries. In this current events lesson, students analyze a photograph of of people playing the game of cricket in efforts to determine what was taking place when the photograph...
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Explore, Analyze and Imagine: The Importance of Body Language

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners develop characters and role-play. In this character portrayal lesson, students analyze the importance of body language, develop a character to portray and interview another learners character.

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