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Visual Arts - Mexican Indian Yarn Painting

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Have you ever seen a Mexican yarn painting? They're beautiful! Create a Mexican yarn painting with your class using this lesson. Start by discussing Mexico's culture and viewing different yarn paintings. After reading about important...
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Measuring Up

For Students K - 12th Standards
Teach the basics of measurement and conversion with a five-lesson resource that builds an understanding of proportion and measurement conversion from elementary through high school. Initially, young scholars use ratios to determine soup...
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The Twits - Muggle-Wump Has an Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
If a bar of chocolate was on the floor, would you try to pick it up? What if it was covered with glue? The eighth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl has scholars imagine crazy scenarios. The...
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Advanced Presentation Boards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the proper way to make presentation boards. Individually, they use the elements of design to make a presentation board for one room and create a legend. To end the lesson, they present their boards to the class.
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Art Careers: Interior Decorator

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils redesign specific areas of their school using interior design techniques, magazine ideas, and cooperative learning groups in this middle and high school level instructional activity. Emphasis is on examining the career...
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Minnesota Floor Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the physical geography of Minnesota, work cooperatively to design a map of Minnesota and develop spatial and relative location of Minnesota landmarks and physical characteristics.
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Interior Design, Lesson 6

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners summarize information learned from previous lessons, and apply them to their own project: redesigning their own bedrooms. They discuss the uniqueness of the place where one lives and its importance and apply all they have...
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Walls, Floors, Windows, and Doors

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners develop an understanding of how outer walls, doors and windows are added to construction. They examine the jobs of specific construction workers and how they bring the job to completion. They design a brick laying pattern.
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Gravity Gets You Down

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design an experiment to investigate how objects with different masses fall. In this physics lesson, students predict how these objects will fall in a vacuum tube. They write a report explaining experimental results and conclusion.
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Constructing a Building

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students work with big boxes to connect big ideas. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students develop social, language, math, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work together to plan and design a...
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Chess Math

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars review angles. In this geometry lesson, students become chess players on a floor chess board. When they make a move, they need to identify the angle of their movement. In the lesson plan it says the "degree" of the angle,...
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A New Twist on the Keyboard

For Teachers K - 5th
Elementary learners design and construct a diagram of a keyboard on the floor of the classroom. They outline the keyboard in masking tape by estimating size, proportion, and key position. Then they can interact with the giant keyboard as...
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Using Bean Bags

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Here is useful lesson plan which demonstrates how bean bags can be used to develop manipulative skills. Young learners gain awareness of their bodies by taking part in this exercise. They also respond to a whistle, and focus on following...
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Construction Ahead!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work together to develop a new design for the three little pigs house. They create a floor plan and work with a fictionious budget. They present their new design to the the class.
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Library Media Center Orientation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders demonstrate the ability to follow the library media center floor plan and use directional symbols and guides. They also use after-reading strategies to increase understanding and learning from content area texts.
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Housing: Types of Shelters

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students experiment with the construction of shelters and the various types of architectural designs.  In this shelters lesson, students draw the building they live in.  Students compare and contrast buildings made today and...
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Furniture Construction and Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the different type of construction for a variety of furniture pieces. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, they discuss how to select the appropriate furniture for various floor plans. To end the instructional...
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"Orientation to Dance" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students learn their rights and responsibilities within the context of the dance class.
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"Creating Movement through Literature" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students listen to a story and then use the words from the book to generate dance movements.
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Team Handball Lesson Plan 3

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the sport of handball. In this physical education lesson plan, students review the overhead pass and waist pass. Students also practice the bounce pass and dribbling.
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Safety: Fire Drill Escape Plan

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students review fire safety procedures by identifying items that are hot and by discussing what to do with matches and lighters. they sing a fire safety song and individually choose questions from the fire safety box to answer. As a...
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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Cornell University

Bridge Building

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum — Lesson 3

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Curator, artist, art handler, archivist, conservator-restorer, guide. Who would have thought there were so many different kinds of museum professionals? After a visit to an art museum, class members reflect on the role of the museum in...

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