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Digital Kids Club-Painted Faces
Students use technology to blend a photo of something they like with a picture of their face. Students work with layers, saturation, selecting tools, filters, and affects. Students use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 in order to create...
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
From Ben’s Pen to Our Lives
What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...
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Congruent Polygons: Copying Stretchy Shapes
Third graders investigate congruent polygons through dance. For this congruency lesson, 3rd graders do the "brain dance" as a warm up. They review polygon names by singing "The Polygon Chant," before mirroring congruent shapes with a...
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The Circulatory System--Part VI
Learners outline a body on butcher paper. Students fill in the circulatory system using materials of various textures. Learners decorate all the parts of the circulatory system with art articles, like buttons, yarn, etc.
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Blood Vessels
A series of diagrams and photographs is a vivid tool for delivering a lesson about blood vessels. Each slide has notes for the lecturer to use to explain each slide. Your young biologists will increase their understanding of the...
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BBC Learning English, Writing (Culture)
Include this writing activity in your lesson about essay organization. After anwering five questions regarding their culture, middle schoolers use their responses to form the basis of a five paragraph guide to their culture. Each...
Social Skills Central
Ready, Set, Respond!
When faced with a difficult situation, do you respond selfishly, face it head on, or ignore the problem? This game encourages learners to evaluate the wide range of reactions we can have to problematic situations, and how our responses...
Rochester Institute of Technology
Biomechanical Joint
Discuss mechanical advantage and how the human body moves/works. Learners focus on bioengineering, working together to build a functioning mechanical arm. Additionally, they analyze an air muscle, discussing its appropriate use in humans.
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Human Body Vocabulary
In this human body instructional activity, learners match words on the left with definitions on the right. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz, but may be used as practice/review.
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What Makes A Face A Face?
Students discuss what enables us to read a face: features, expressions, standards of beauty, age and gender. They discuss what enables us to read motion: repetition, sequence, changes in form and scene.
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Faces of Emotion
Fifth graders investigate human emotion by analyzing photographs they have taken. In this human face lesson, 5th graders collaborate in pairs to take pictures of another student while they are expressing different emotions. Students...
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Learning the Bones and Muscles of the Head and Face
Students learn about the human body. In this science lesson plan, students discover the bones of the head and face as they explore their own cranium.
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Parts of the Body and Colors (Animals)
In this animal activity, students analyze four color pictures of animals. Students answer 10 questions about the parts of the body and colors of the animals. Students choose the correct describing phrase from three choices. This page...
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Grandpa's Face
In this Grandpa's Face worksheet, students read the book Grandpa's Face and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 9 questions total.
Teach-nology
The Skating Moose
What would you do if you saw an ice-skating moose? Kids read a short, entertaining passage and use a word bank to fill in the blanks using context clues.
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Clothes, Shapes, Parts of the Body
In this describing pictures instructional activity, students practice using the words be and have. Students are given five pictures and a passage about the picture. Students are to cross out anything in each passage that doesn't describe...
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Human Body
Fifth graders determine what muscles do and identify the different types. For this muscle lesson, 5th graders discuss what they know about muscles before looking at the book, The Human Body by Jonathan Miller. They take a teacher made...
American Museum of Natural History
Differentiate! The Stem Cell Card Game
Let the games grow. Groups play a card game to grow cells. Players start growing cells from stem cells to create specialized cells in the human body. Learners use full-grown cells from the human body to create stem cells in the lab to...
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Taking Care of Your Body
Students explore what to do to take care of their bodies to honor God. In this Corinthians activity, students read the bible verse and discuss what it means to them. Students make a list of ways they can take care of their bodies and use...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Many Faces of Uncle Sam
For this historical events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons featuring the different faces of Uncle Sam. Students respond to 5 talking point questions.
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Parts of the Body (Animals) Worksheet 10
For this animal sentence completion worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences with words from the labeled diagrams of animals.
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Worksheet 13: Clothes, Shapes, Parts of the Body
In this clothing words worksheet, students analyze 5 picture clues and sentences, and for each, cross out the word that is incorrect in each set of parentheses. Each picture/sentence pair pertains to shapes or articles of clothing.
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Label the Picture - Your Body
In this body part worksheet, students practice their printing by labeling each body part pictured. Students use words from the word box to help them label.
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Human Body Group Creative Writing
For this human body writing worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to write a group story. Students have 25 minutes to write the story; all 16 words in the box must be used.