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VH1 Road to Fame: Harry Connick Jr. - Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sing a vocal improvisation on a 12-bar blues progression. After watching a video on Harry Connick Jr., students try their own scat singing on the two-measure break.
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Go Fish

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore rhyming words. They listen to the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and discuss the rhyming words. After being placed into groups, they play the game, "Go Fish" and find matching rhyming words. They...
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Color, Count and Think

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, students practice counting and following directions to color a specified number of boxes the color indicated. Example: Color 3 boxes orange and 2 boxes blue. There are 24 problems with ten boxes in each.
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars observe that there are myriad combinations of rhythms to choose from when improvising jazz and blues music, and recognize that while the variations seem infinite, they are in fact finite. They notate a 12 bar blues...
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Acids and Bases

For Students 7th - 10th
For this acid and base worksheet, students test 13 different substances to determine their pH, the type of acid or base they are, the color the universal indicator turns, the color red litmus paper turns, and the color blue litmus paper...
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Visual Arts Lesson: Pear-Shaped Bottle

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine how art from China arrived in Mexico during viceregal period, create blue monochromatic designs in wash by direct observation to illustrate simple objects from nature, and create vase or bottle shape that...
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and...
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Colorful Partners

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this addition worksheet, students study a 25 square grid with addition problems. Students color sums of 7 red, sums of 8 blue and sums of 9 green.
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Pre-Primer Sight Word Bingo 4

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this sight words instructional activity, students participate in a sight word bingo game where they match up the sight words away, blue, come, down, funny, jump, make, play, three and two to sentence strips on a game board.
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Act 3: New York Introduction 1924-1925, Louis Armstrong

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students listen to and examine jazz recordings and listen for features (breaks and obbligato) that are typical of jazz music. In groups, they make up a short blues song of their own.
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Area by Design

For Students 4th
For this grid worksheet, 4th graders make a three-color design on a grid. Students use the color blue twice as much as red and the color green three times more often than blue. Students fill in three blanks with the area covered by each...
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Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read facts about the origin of blue jeans and assess reading and vocabulary comprehension. Students answer nine multiple choice questions.
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Indicator Sponge A Discrepant Event Demonstration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the use of acid and base pH indicators. The teacher saturates an indicator sponge with congo red solution. Afterwards, the sponge is placed in a blue base solution. Students observe that the blue sponge actually turns...
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Densities

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept of density. In this density lesson plan, students determine the density of a crown and a sample of clay. They hypothesize about the densities of 4 liquids they are given including molasses, cooking oil, a red...
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Properties of Soaps

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate 3 types of soap. In this properties of soaps lesson plan, students test soap with pepper and observe the reaction between the two. They make observations of the 3 types of soaps and make a chart to compare each. They...
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Cabbage Juice Lab

For Students 6th - 10th
In this acid and base worksheet, students use cabbage juice as an indicator to test the pH of various solutions. Students complete a table with the solution name, the color red and blue litmus paper turns, the color the cabbage juice...
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Picture the Process

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students read Chasing Vermeer and relate the book to the author .  In this writing process lesson, students view Blue's Photo Album and see how the author writes and revises her work. Students discuss the process that all good...
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Migration from the Dust

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students trace their own family's migrations and history. They listen to the story, 'Blue ow.' They design a plate which is shared at an open house.
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Identifying and locating the continents and oceans of the world.

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders physically construct a balloon replica of the world globe by coloring, correctly labeling, and cutting out the seven continent shapes from the worksheet, gluing them onto their correct locations on an inflated blue balloon....
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Nemo Tag 2

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Several students are chosen to be taggers (and wear goggles), 2 more are chosen to be Dorie (and carry the blue fish), and Merlin (and carry the orange fish). The rest of the students are Nemo's. The Nemos begin on one of the mats...
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Science Experiment: Take a Rainbow's Temperature

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this science experiment worksheet, students gather materials and perform an investigation using thermometers and prisms. Students are asked if red is hotter than blue. They answer 6 questions.
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Make a Pictograph

For Students 2nd
In this pictograph worksheet, 2nd graders create a pictograph involving colors they see the most often in clothing, recording marks and placing those marks in three boxes labeled red, blue and green. Students cut out squares for each 5...
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Segregation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider the implications of prejudice. In this segregation instructional activity, students experience a simulation that has school staff favoring students with blue eyes. Students discuss the simulation experience, watch "The...
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The Planning Commission

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design a sound community. In this communities lesson, students take on the role of city planners and identify the needs of the community. Students develop a blue print to meet the needs of the community and include new...