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Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
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Striving for Success

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore their own talents and create interview questions for a peer involved in a particular extracurricular activity. They write newspaper articles based on the interviews.
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Definition of Philanthropy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read literature and discuss occurrences of people sharing their time, talent, and treasure. Students respond, in writing, to the theme of philanthropy in a...
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Pop on the Block

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider what makes a movie, television show, musical talent, or artist a cult classic and create descriptive lists of items from these phenomena that may be sold at auction.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning

For Students 4th - 5th
In this problem solving worksheet, students use logical reasoning to solve each of 4 problems. The word problems pertain to the position of people in line, theater seating and identification of who plays what instrument in a talent show.
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Susan Boyle's at No. 1 - 'I Dreamed a Dream'

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students reflect on the overnight success of Susan Boyle, a contestant on "Britain's Got Talent."  In this lesson plan, students read a short history of the rise of the star, then complete numerous activities that reinforce their...
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Learning the Beat

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify gifts found in folktales. In this folktale activity, students read the Hindi folktale "The Drum" and discuss the value of gifts such as time, talent, treasure, etc. Learners also create drum beats.
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Helping Others

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read The Seven Chinese Brothers, identify the elements of the story, and then go out in the world to help others by sharing their talents.
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style....
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Making Mind Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students interact with the strategy of visualization to better understand what is happening in a story. They assess the poem, "Talented Family," and the book, "Sarah Plain and Tall," to visualize and imagine in their minds pictures of...
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Doo-Wop Pop

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Doo-Wop Pop, by Roni Schotter is story that focuses on music and performing arts. Language arts activities include phonics, music, writing about dreams, poetry, and writing a letter are included in this literature guide. Furthermore...
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Reflective Journaling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write to influence positive change. For this service learning lesson, students reflect on their service learning experiences as they journal about sharing their time, talent, and treasures. Students share their journals with...
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Images as Messages

For Students 4th - 10th
Your class watches a video about Chris Jordan, a talented photographer and activist who tries to get an environmental message out by his work. As a cross-curricular project, have your class imitate his style of art with an object that...
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My Talented Coeval

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students share stories of positive youth throughout the world who are making a difference. They use the Internet to learn more information about them. They write essays on the modern contemporaries.
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"The Royal Raven" Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete two activities related to their reading of The Royal Raven by Hans Wilhelm. In this interdisciplinary literacy lesson, students explore their own talents, interests and the external differences found in others based...
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Philanthropy in Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define the term philanthropy and find examples of it in everyday life. In this philanthropy lesson, students try to define philanthropy and illustrate it. Students then work in groups to define the term and create a web for the...
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Service Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a service project. In this community service lesson, students use their special talents to help others. Students draw or write about the service they've provided. The class turns this into a class book.
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Those Wacky Greek and Roman Gods: A Quick Cheat-Sheet

For Students 6th - 10th
Here's a handy two-page reference that briefly identifies major Greek and Roman mythological figures.
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Writing Riddles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What's got 60 eyes, 150 fingers, and an endless number of ideas? Your language arts class! Challenge young writers to come up with clever riddles with an online poetry lesson.
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A Story of Philanthropy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Help your class define philanthropy and recognize philanthropic activities. Ask them to identify examples of philanthropy in literature and explore the philanthropic deeds of themselves and others. To wrap up, create a class display with...
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I'm Really Good at ...

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this writing worksheet, learners are asked about their personal abilities and talents. Students read the story starter and write about what they are really good at.
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Pick It Up!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate recycling by creating receptacles that can hold trash or recyclable items.  In this graphic design lesson, students encourage their classmates to help save the environment by using a recycling receptacle they have...
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Song Singing Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars discover their musical talents by singing with their class.  In this musical appreciation lesson, students attend a camping trip with their classmates and sing songs from memory around the campfire.  Young scholars are...
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Conversation Lesson – Music

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss the type of music they listen to and discuss a set of music related words put on the board by the teacher. In this music lesson, students work in pairs to discuss words and complete an activity asking questions of...

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