English Language Support Programme
Traditional Irish Music
Celebrate sean-nós, céilí, and the lilting music of the Emerald Isle with a set of language arts activities! Learners complete word puzzles, vocabulary exercises, and comprehension questions about traditional Irish music.
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Sports Action Figure
Fourth graders identify art elements and design principles in art such as movement, unity, space and color planning.
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Let's Create! Pottery HD
Using a potter’s wheel to make functional art is an experience not common to most people. Provide your learners with a chance to see what pottery making is all about with an app that allows them to create pots, fire them, decorate them,...
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Successful Art Class Critique
Students follow a teacher directed process to complete an Artwork Critique Form. They select another student's work to critique. After jotting their ideas on the worksheet, they consult the teacher. When the teacher has determined there...
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Beadwork: Creativity Booster and Stress Reliever
Invite students to experience the benefits of making and working with beads.
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Preschool Color Fun and Activities
I can't stress enough the importance of songs and rhyming chants to the development of early literacy skills. To reinforce color recognition, little ones sing, count, move, and create. All you have to do is choose which of these great...
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Prepositions
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!
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Clay Animal Whistles
Investigate North Carolina pottery history by creating clay animal whistles, a traditional leisure activity in the region. They research a particular animal and jot down its attributes to include in their project. Find step-by-step...
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Singing Patriotic Music
Students sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of patriotic music, including "America" and "The Star Spangled Banner," to sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
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"The Party"
Students are introduced to the world of drama and explore and discuss the prospect of being an "outsider." They are encouraged to look into another person's experiences with drama. Each group of students act out short scenes to be...
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Overcoming Pressures
Middle schoolers view a video that presents the musical career of vocalist Josh Groban and pay special attention to his performance anxiety and how he has dealt with these fears. They identify ways in which they can combat other types of...
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National Craft Month
Incorporate National Craft Month into your daily lessons with these great ideas.
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Cable in the Classroom
Students understand how to successfully work in a group. Students create and perform their own autobiographical rap songs. Students conclude how rap music and music in general can help us to deal with emotional issues.
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Men, Women, and Careers
Teach young learners that they can have any job they want, no matter their gender! An elementary lesson emphasizes that while some jobs may be more closely associated with men or with women, people of either gender can complete...
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Creating a Story that "Stacks" on Itself and Repeats a Catch Phrase
Students explore language arts by reading a classic children's story in class. In this story structure lesson plan, students read the Judith Viorst book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Students discuss the...
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Computer Applications: Using Paint Shop Pro
Students refine their knowledge of HTML, placing special emphasis on using graphics in their pages. They become familiar with the program Paint Shop Pro and develop original graphics using Paint Shop Pro that they can use on their own...
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My Feelings!
For this feelings worksheet, students view ten pictures of people showing different types of feelings the left of the worksheet and match the pictures with the actual words on the right.
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Pencil Holder
Students construct a pencil holder. In this visual arts lesson, students create a pencil holder from a soup can, glue, and spray paint. Students decorate the pencil can with decorations. They can use this pencil holder as a gift for...
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Painted Lodges
Students explore lodge construction as a representation of culture. In this cultural diversity and Native American history lesson plan, students listen to a narrative explaining the origin of Native American painted lodges. Students...
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Musical Rhythm Instruments
Students design a unique instrument using containers, beans, markers, crayons and colored construction paper. At the end of the lesson each student have a working rhythm instrument decorated with at least two colors.
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Create Your Personal Shield
Fourth graders create a poster in the shape of a shield, which represents their individual lives by using art, photographs, magazine and newspaper graphics.
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Using Onomatopoeia to Tell the Story of an Imaginary Field Trip
Students explore language arts by utilizing word choice to compose a paragraph. In this phonetics lesson, students discuss the importance of a "voice" in their writing as they read the book Rattletrap Car. Students write paragraphs about...
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Tints, Tones, & Shades Painting
Students experiment with color mixing, using paints as the medium to discover tint, tone, shade, value and intensity.
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Digital Self Portraits
Students use digital cameras and computers to create their own self-portrait. After taking their picture, they download the image and use brush and shape tools, colors and the elements of design to create a distorted portrait of...