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Japanese Family Crests

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students create an artistic crest that represents either themselves, their group of friends, or their their family.
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Indiana Travel Guide

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a travel guide about the state of Indiana with 100% accuracy. They label the capital within the travel guide with 100% accuracy. Students label one major river in the right location with 100% accuracy. They circle...
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El Joki Poki (The Hokey Pokey)

For Teachers 1st
First graders sing and dance the Hokey Pokey bilingually. They read and sing the Spanish words for prepositions and act them out as they sing and act out the motions to the song, "El Joki Poki" (The Hokey Pokey).
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Cultural Survey : Using Verbs, Infinitives, and Gerunds

For Students 3rd - 7th
For this ESL activity worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer questions and then ask a classmate the same questions in order to help them practice using verbs, infinitives, and gerunds.
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Take Heed, Scurvy Dogs!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the use of ghosts in shipping stories. As a class, they assign roles and they act them out in a play. They make it seem as if they are in danger on their voyage and work together to create a script. They ask questions...
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VH1 Legends Sam Cooke Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils examine the reasons and controversy regarding Sam Cooke's transition from gospel to pop.
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Just Dancing Around? Trisha Brown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video clip highlighting the work of choreographer Trisha Brown and read her biography. They complete a table to summarize her work and they discuss their answers.
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Parenting Styles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the traits of different parenting styles and discuss how they effect the students that are raised in that manner. They present their observations to the class.
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Access All Areas:'hunting for the moment'

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students understand the professions of record producer and orchestral conductor. They complete musical exercise that includes skills of both conductor and producer. They keeo a diary of a producing project that tracks skills needed to...
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Spark Activity: Snakes and Lizards

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are divided into 2 groups: "snakes" and "lizards." Lizards move about the room in a way designated by the teacher, while snakes remain on their "rock" holding a given object and perform a balancing movement. Lizards guess what...
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PBS Kids Go Buster Buster and Beatrice/ The Giant Pumpkins

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders visit San Antonio, Texas and Mt. Hood, Oregon in these two episodes of PBS Buster Go Kids. They examine the music and food that is local to San Antonio by looking at images and pretend to play instruments. They use...
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Paul Robeson: The Renaissance Man

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the life of athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist, Paul Robeson. They answer the question, "Which was most important to American culture -Robeson's work as a scholar, a performer, an...
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Dialogue: Traditions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this dialogue about traditions worksheet, students participate in a question and answer session on the subject of traditions.
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Ethnic Culture and Identity in the Columbia River Basin, 1850-1950

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore cultural history of immigrant groups that settled in the Columbia River Basin from 1850 to World War II, and examine various primary sources to explore role cultural and social customs played in keeping alive immigrant...
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Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discuss key events of Abraham Lincoln's life. In this Civil War lesson plan, students discuss the major events of Abraham Lincoln's life and role during this time through a song.
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Newscapade

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars work in teams to research specific eras of American history focusing on important events, sports, entertainment, music, games, books, famous firsts or quotes, science and technology or trivia. They prepare presentations...
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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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How Are Boundaries Made, Kept, Broken?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the works of Noam Chomsky. They collaborate in small groups to read and identify vocabulary words and historical questions. They answer their questions and role-play as emissaries to locate remaining answers. They...
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Family Bowling Night

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars and their families visit a pretend bowling alley created in an activity room at school. They help their family members to bowl, set up pins and have fun without keeping score to engage the students and culminate the end of...
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Movement And Rhythm In Modern Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students gather around the three selected paintings. The teacher guide students in looking at different elements of the paintings and help students make the connections between the visual art and movement skills.
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Noh Theater

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the roles in Noh drama and the significance of Noh masks while creating their own version of a Noh play in this High School lesson adaptable for either the Language Arts or Theater classroom.
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Sterotypes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a variety of activities in order to explore the concept of a stereotype. The concept of diversity is also mentioned to contrast a stereotype. The goal of the lesson is to create an understanding of how cultures...
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Superhumans and Bionics: Building Hi-Tech Exoskeletons

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore how the body works. Students experiment and participate in activities to compare speed to stride length. Using the data collected, students draw conclusions about the biology of dinosaurs, their speed and stride length.
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Mozart

For Students 5th - 9th
In this music worksheet, students read a brief excerpt about Mozart's music and life. They respond to 11 questions in complete sentences related to the excerpt on Mozart.