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Playing Historical Detective: Great Grandmother's Dress and Other Clues to the Life and Times of Annie Steel
Students draw conclusions about an mystery person based on documents and artifacts provided. In this drawing conclusions instructional activity, students become detectives by reading and analyzing evidence provided. This instructional...
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Nature Art Exploration
Students draw a nature landscape using watercolors. In this life science instructional activity, students share their personal experience on the beauty of nature. They create clay models of different native animals.
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"Body Awareness and Self-Esteem"
Students realize that they are unique individuals who have strong bodies which they can manipulate to move through space.
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Management Stop and Go
Students discover the go command and the freeze command for the management of the class. They go out into personal space on the go command, and walk around playing the name game, introducing themselves to the rest of the class.
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Pulsating
Students explore how activity and lack of activity has an effect on a persons' heart rate. They receive instruction and practice in taking and recording their pulse rate. Students also incorporate a variety of music while taking their...
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Cartoon Challenge
Pupils practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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Parallel Lives
Pupils research the life of an important person in the Civil War on each side who had basically the same responsibilities. They create a timeline based on their lives and present their findings to the class.
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Minnesota-China Connections: Mental Maps
Students examine the concept of mental mapping. They draw a map of their school, before and after touring the space they draw. Then they draw mental maps of China and Minnesota, before and after seeing actual maps of the areas.
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom:
Students analyze personal perception of gender role assignments. They complete their "personal" point of view, then complete the "societal" view as a group.
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Web of Life
Students work together to create a web of life. In groups, they put on nametags and form a circle. They toss the ball to a random person in the group and they make a connection between the person throwing the ball and the person...
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Introduction to Melodic Notation: Sol-Mi
Second graders sing melodic sol-mi songs for teacher and student assessment. Emphasis is placed on drill and practice while developing melodic singing skills. Students evaluate performances and activities using pre-determined rubric...
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Gravity Gets You Down
Students investigate the force of gravity and how it effects different objects that are put into acceleration when applied the experiment of free falling. They drop different objects that have a variety of masses and some that cause air...
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Collage Technique
First graders listen to the story The Hungry Caterpillar, then sequentially organize their own re-writing and re-creating of the story. They construct illustrations for their book using the collage technique Eric Carle used in his...
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Scattered Square Dance
Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing lesson. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus is on learning...
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Soccer - Lesson 19 - 2nd Round of World Cup
Lesson 19 out of 20 soccer lessons is round 2 of their class world cup tournament. There is no skill teaching here, but hopefully some assessment can be done during this tournament. All players are occupied, either playing or refereeing.
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Volleyball - Lesson 9 - Winning the Point
Pass, set, spike! Putting all these skills together and running some practice drills is what lesson plan 9 is all about. It's not as easy as it sounds. Passing with accuracy, setting where the hitter can spike, timing the hit. It all...
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Volleyball - Lesson 3 - Setting Up to Attack
The focus of Lesson three in this 20 lesson volleyball unit is setting the ball. Proper technique for hand position, contact position, stance, and facing direction are reviewed. These skills are practiced individually and in small...
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Lead Up Skills fo Tchoukball
A simple lesson to practice the throwing and catching skills for the game of Tchoukball. There are several warm-up activities to have the class practice tossing a ball around. Then the main drill is organized much like a basketball...
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Bear Hunt
Pupils are introduced to the technique of pantomime. In groups, they take a story and create a pantomime for it to perform in front of the class. They also practice ways to change their body posture and facial expressions to illustrate...
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"Spatial Awareness" Dance Lesson Plan
Seventh graders explore spatial awareness and then choreograph a dance.
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"Orientation to Dance" Dance Lesson Plan
Students learn their rights and responsibilities within the context of the dance class.
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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"Creating Movement through Literature" Dance Lesson Plan
Students listen to a story and then use the words from the book to generate dance movements.
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Management Stop and Go
Students discover the proper directions to follow when participating in an activity. As a class, they only move when given the correct command when playing the name game. To end the lesson, they stop playing the game when directed to and...