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Tennis Backhand
Students learn the backhand for use in a tennis match. They complete a proper backhand stroke successfully without feeling frustrated or confused.
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Storytellers: Coldplay
Students use the music of Coldplay to inspire them to create a visual about their favorite band.
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Storytellers: Coldplay
Learners discover the importance of lyrics in the successful combination of music and words in the process of composing a song. They discuss how emotion-based lyrics influence the creative aspects in composing a song.
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VH1 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons Lesson 2
Students discuss pop culture, pop culture icons, and female composers.
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Reach and Grab
Students examine the different types of marine life and participate in an activity to show the many arms of an octopus.
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Instruments of the Orchestra Race
Learners receive a musical instrument of the orchestra and the family it belongs to. They run when the teacher calls either the instrument or the family.
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Summertime - Miles Davis
Pupils examine the George Gershwin opera, "Porgy and Bess." The rhythms to some of the musical pieces are mimicked and identified as belonging to the music of jazz.
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Literature Connections Further Reading Related Reading The Diary of Anne Frank
Young scholars read and discuss The Diary of Anne Frank, a diary of a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazi's in Holland. The research the Holocaust and express their feelings in artwork.
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VH1 Driven: Jamie Foxx, Lesson 3
Students examine the blues, poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and the 12-bar blues form. They watch a segment from the video, "VH1 Driven: Jamie Foxx," participate in a class discussion, and listen to songs by Ray Charles and a poem by...
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Variety is the Spice of Life
Students explore Gregor Mendel's work with genetics. They complete a survey of their friends and family in order to identify dominant and recessive traits. Once their surveys are complete, students discuss the ways in which dominant...
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Creating a Television Commercial
Fifth graders discuss commercials they remember seeing, and reasons they remember them. They write and perform their own television commercials designed to "sell" a compound machine.
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Black Hawk Island Hike
Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...
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Patricia's Garden
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a three paragraph story and answer three comprehension questions provided at the end of the story. The directions ask for complete sentences.
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The Five W's
In this writing worksheet, 4th graders identify the 5 Ws in each of 9 sentences (who, what, where, when and why). A sample sentence is provided.
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Conjunctions
In this conjunctions worksheet, students choose the best conjunction out of three that fits each of ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Opera
In this history of opera worksheet, students explore and research what an opera is and then answer four questions regarding the history of opera in complete sentences.
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Test Your Research Skills - Things to do in London
For this research skills worksheet, students complete sentences by inserting names of places in London. A word bank of twenty words is given for twenty questions.
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Baseball Crossword Puzzle
In this baseball crossword puzzle activity, students solve 11 clues to fill in the squares across and down in this puzzle. They determine words such as bat, infield, team, and umpire.
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Present Continuous Worksheet
In this ESL present continuous verb tense worksheet, students read 9 sentences that have missing verbs. Students insert the present continuous form of a verb from the word bank to make each sentence complete.
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What is Opera?
In this opera worksheet, 8th graders read about the history and evolution of opera as a type of theatre. They answer 4 questions based on the reading using complete sentences.
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Contractions With Be
In this grammar worksheet, students use the correct contracted form of the subject pronoun + be to fill in the blanks in each of the 13 sentences.
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Can/Can't Practice
Verbs are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students fill in 8 blanks in 8 sentences with "can" or "can't," and make sure each answer is true. Students then use "could" or "couldn't" to complete 6 additional sentences.
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Parallel Verbs
In this parallel verbs instructional activity, students complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in parenthesis. There are 9 sentences to complete.