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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

For Teachers All
Dramatic activities promote enjoyment of literature, increase reading comprehension, and help develop oral expression. It is important for children to engage in activities which help to develop their creative potential. Drama allows...
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Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research the growth of unions due to issues related to the Lattimer Massacre. They research primary source documents and create posters, skits and role plays.
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Selecting Judges: Playground Bullying - Judicial Fairness

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss behavior. In this judging fairness lesson, students discover how there are different perceptions on what is the most fair way to solve a situation. They work in small groups and as a class to role play and discuss this...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Health Education: Bullying

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate steps to take if someone is being bullied. In this health lesson plan, 2nd graders role play situations that call for them to sop bullying behavior. Scripts and tips are included.
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Naguib Mahfouz

For Students 4th - 8th
For this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Naguib Mahfouz  and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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A death in the Royal Family: Dealing with Loss

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and discuss the story "Prince Talks About Magical Grandmother." They list ceremonies of traditions associated with emotional times in their lives. Students prepare a script for a video message to Prince Charles designed to...
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Newscast From An Ancient City

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders produce a newscast from an Ancient Roman city. In this journalism and history lesson, 7th graders work in groups to dramatize a historical event from the Roman Empire. students sequence the events, role-play, and create...
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Vote for Me!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students conduct a mock presidential interview. In this US presidents lesson, students research the lives of former U.S. presidents and then role play interviews of the "presidents."
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Performing Sonnets

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use Shakespearean sonnets as part of a poetry analysis lesson. For this sonnet lesson, students perform a sonnet by Shakespeare but treat it as a script to be acted out. Students work in pairs to create motions for two lines...
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Food Preferences and Healthful Eating

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss healthy eating habits. In this food preferences instructional activity, students read a scenario about teenagers visiting a restaurant.   Students role play the story and complete a graphic organizer.  
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Fairness and Justice

For Students K - 5th
In this fairness and justice worksheet, learners read a list of steps about how to be a fair person and complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced video program. Suggestions for related activities and writing are also...
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Healthy Living

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students awareness is raised about the importance of dies and how to make simple choices to improve your health and well being. They reflect on things they eat, what they watch on TV, what they say to others, have a group song, and a...
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Pollination Station

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate why and how bees pollinate flowers and other plants. They define pollination, and read and sing along with the song "Yo, i'm a Flower." Students examine a diagram of a flower, simulate bees pollinating flowers, and...
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How to Write Your 60 Second Shakespeare Newsletter

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students become playwrights. In this Shakespeare lesson plan, students paraphrase familiar Shakespearian scenes that they perform for their classmates in 60 seconds.
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Theatre

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners identify and create flashcards of important key terms as related to theatre. Students observe and write a 1-page summary of events seen at the High School Musical production using at least 8 vocabulary words in your summary....
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YOU CAN BE A WOMAN MOVIE MAKER

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research and participate in activities to find out more information about women movie-makers.The use of reading a script and making storyboards are just a couple of examples.
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Lose the Lute!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use Shakespeare's plays to add modern music to match the mood in the play. They assign adjectives to the original songs of the play and find a song with the same mood. They work together to role-play the play with new music.
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"I am Not Well": Unspoken Endings and Unscripted Scenes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze Act 4, scene 1 from the play, Merchant of Venice. They hypothesize the content of an unscripted moment and response, look for evidence in the text to support their hypothesis, rewrite the scene, and perform it for the...
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Fire Safety

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students cut out pictures and put them into sequential order including the captions that match to the pictures. In pairs, they role-play calling the Fire and Rescue Service using the Big Book and complete the "Who Said What?" worksheet....
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Back to the Past

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What was the Untied States like in 1938? What were the concerns of Americans in the post World War I era? What were their fears? What were their sources of news and entertainment? To understand the reaction to Orson Welles' radio...
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Lights, Camera, Action!

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Indians at Arras

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the role played by Britsih Empire troops in the First World War. They analyze the natrue, origin and purpose of propaganda. Students watch the "Newsreel", they are asked to write down everything that they can...
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Bandhavgarh: The Tiger's Domain

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate where royal Bengal tigers roam freely. Students create a project to educate people about Bandhavgarh and write a script combining the human and natural history of this area.