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What Is Good Use of Time?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners delve into questions about how best to use one's time-in one culture or another. They explore the kinds of choices students will make about their use of time and consider the statement: "We are shaped by the values of the...
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Early Congress Proclaims Holidays

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read about and discuss the historical effects of Congressional decision-making in the establishment of national holidays.
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PEBBLE PICTURES

For Teachers K - 8th
Students paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Muffin Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use construction paper to create muffin flowers. They use muffin tray cup liners and draw flower stems and leaves on the paper. They use the muffin liners for a 3-D effect.
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State Heads

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a narrative image that depicts a formal shape of a state. They review the state facts of whatever state they chose. They draw a person and then add text in the shape of the state they chose.
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Cow Parade

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious lesson ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The lesson includes resource links and can be adapted for any animal or...
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When is a Block, not a Block?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students demonstrate their understanding of the traditions surrounding Rosh Hashanah (food, shofar, "casting off").
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create replicas of Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers using construction paper, tissue paper, glue, and scissors in this art instructional activity for the elementary classroom. The flowers can then be displayed in the room as a...
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read and discuss the book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. They create an original story that follows the Harris Burdick formula, and illustrate the story in the style of Chris VanAllsberg.
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September 11th Writing Prompt

For Students 5th - 8th
In this daily writing prompt learning exercise, students honor those who lost their lives in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 as they make a list of everything they are thankful for in their lives.
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Twelfth Night

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Twelfth Night worksheet, learners fill in phrases which have been left out from Act One, Scene One of Twelfth Night. Instead of filling in Shakespeare's words, students fill in the given translations for the words in order to...
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Haiti: Still in Crisis, but No Longer in the News

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the Haitian crisis and learn about the needs and ways to help the situation. In this Haitian crisis lesson plan, students study the Maslow's "Needs Pyramid". Students study the media coverage of the earthquake and then...
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What Personal Journals Tell Us

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars read primary source journals from the Nebraska Western Trails Project. They work in groups to analyze the journal entries and complete a worksheet. Students then write an individual essay on the experience and consider...

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