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Political Cartoons: Literacy
Readers decode and deconstruct political cartoons to heighten critical thinking, extra-textual literacy, and making meaning from symbolism and metaphor. A compatible activity to use in English class when your 8th or 11th graders are...
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Minimal Animals
Have fun creating imaginary creatures with this symmetry lesson plan! Your class will paint one half of their imaginary creature, fold their paper in half, which will result in a symmetrical figure. What a great art project to combine...
Illustrative Mathematics
Battery Charging
Your class will be very interested in the results of this activity. How long does it take a MP3 and video game player to charge? Sam only has an hour and the MP3 player only has 40% of its battery life left. Plus, his video player...
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Math: Real Time and Live
Get an interdisciplinary edge. Scholars study air contamination and slope. They record the time it takes for air fresheners to reach them at variable distances. They document their times, classify them by distance, and draw a scatter...
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A Raisin in the Sun and Dreams Deferred
To conclude a study of A Raisin in the Sun and to prepare for a visit to the Lewis Museum, class members analyze Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem." Learners then draw connections to characters in the play and to their own experiences...
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Jon and Charlie's Run
Let's use math to solve an argument. Jon and Charlie are debating about who can run farther, but who is right? That's what your class will figure out as they apply their understanding of fractions to this real-life situation. A simple,...
Teaching Tolerance
Identity Self-Portraits
What symbols represent you best? Individuals consider how they would draw peers using symbols about their identities with an interview and art activity. After conducting interviews and portraits, the art makes a great centerpiece for...
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Ratios
Sixth graders pariticipate in a lesson that focuses on the finding of a ratio and using it to set up a proportion in realtionship to creating a scale drawing. This is done using given problems. It would be valuable for students to have...
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Act It Out Word Problems
In this congruent shapes worksheet, students determine if they can us the five figures to form a figure congruent to the rectangle. Students follow the steps to solve the problem: understand, plan, solve, and look back.
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Polygons All Around Us!
High schoolers explore the concept of polygon properties. For this polygon properties lesson, students draw polygons with different numbers of sides such as pentagons, octagons, hexagons, etc. High schoolers identify different geometric...
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Teaching Imagery with Gary Paulsen
Students read excerpts from memoirs written by Gary Paulsen as examples of how to write a narrative piece. They identify figurative language used and then they write a memoir of their own that contains imagery and figurative language.
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Painting on Aluminum Foil
Students paint Haring figures onto aluminum foil. In this painting lesson plan, students use tag board, foil, white copy paper, pens and pencils, tape, tempera paint, and permanent markers.
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Skills Review Worksheet
In this skills review worksheet, students answer 10 questions that spiral review volume, unit conversions, perimeter and area of an irregular figure, and sketching views from a base plan.
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Cleopatra
Students explore, analyze and study Abstraction through an ancient Greek sculpture and then create a self-portrait utilizing geometric shapes. They actively seek how to connect the past to the present through the medium of sculpture via...
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The Chaos Game
Students measure and predict the behavior of a fractal. In this investigative activity students divide into groups, and participate in an activity that includes drawing triangles and coloring vertices.
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Geo-Mat
Young scholars review plane figures by playing a game that resembles "Twister." They listen to directions to locate a large example of the figure which is placed on the floor.
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Class Puzzle - First Day of School
Students draw talents, interests, and hobbies of themselves and a classmate. In this getting to know you lesson plan, students also state how they would resolve conflicts.
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Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail
Students draw animals and plants that are described to them as they read passages of people who traveled across the Gila Trail in the Southwest. In this Gila Trail lesson plan, students also write a letter describing a plant or animal in...
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The Three Little Pigs
Students read the story The Three Little Pigs and complete language activities about them. In this The Three Little Pigs lesson plan, students research houses, draw houses, and write alliteration poems.
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Scale Drawing
Students use ratio and proportions to solve problems. In this geometry lesson, students apply ratio and proportions to real life scenarios.
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History - Great Americans Lesson Plan
Students select and read biographies of great Americans, and develop four-paragraph reports on how these Americans contributed to our country.
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The Advantage of Machines
Show your students how to make their work easier. The first lesson in a series of 10 introduces the class to work and the way simple machines can be make work easier. The simple machines scholars can find in everyday items are...
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Foil Action Figures
Students create a foil sculpture representative of a human figure and a landscape drawing as a backdrop for their figure.
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Idiom Games
Students identify idioms as groups of words with special meanings that paint a mental picture for the reader.They compete in a game in which they draw and interpret pictures of idioms.