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Do a Ditty

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in cooperative groups to create a ditty to teach the characteristics that distinguish literary forms to younger students. The ditty is performed before the class.
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Who's Your Neighbor?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize and identify some of the fauna groups found in deep-sea coral reef communities. They describe common feeding strategies used by benthic animals in deep-sea coral reef communities.Students be able
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Newton's Second Law: Mass-Acceleration Relationship with Dynamics Carts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students form their own hypothesis about the relationships between force, mass, and acceleration for their dynamics cart system. They collect data and express it in a graphical format to visualize the relationships.
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Just Jelly

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify common gelatinous zooplankton in the Canada Basin and their ecological role. They compare and contrast feeding strategies of at least three different types of gelatinous zooplankton.
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Superbugs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research deep sea communities and discover strategies for combating antimicrobial resistance and write reports on it. They consider overprescription and prophylactic uses of antibiotics as causes for their ineffectiveness.
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Off To a Good Start

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this physical education success worksheet, students create a bulletin board outlining strategies that they can use to be successful throughout the year in a physical education class. In small groups, they discuss ways to be successful...
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Express Yourself: Make Art From Your Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and discuss various sculptures by the artist Andrea Arroyo. They discuss ways artists use symbols to express abstract ideas, design and create a plasticine plaque, and write a journal response.
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Honor Your Special Qualities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners view different sculptures from artist Ronald Baron. They discuss what the sculpture depicts. They are to create a thank you trophy for someone they know. They are to focus on that person's special qualities.
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Sounds Great

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners examine the types of sounds sculptures make. They create their own sculpture that make sound using everyday materials.
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Interactive Art: Let's Make It Happen

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine art by Christopher Janney. They discuss what the art is showing and what it means to them. They create their own piece of interactive art.
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Building on the Power of Your Ideas

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners examine a sculpture walkway by artist Jackie Ferrara and discuss the relationship of materials to function. They analyze the sculpture and answer discussion questions, and design and construct a model of a walkway for the school.
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Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.
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Good Timing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine sculptures which include animal figures made of different metals. They create their own sculptures of watches to represent a phrase about time.
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Murals That Fit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine different pieces of art that are considered murals. They discuss the differences between paintings and murals. They design and paint their own murals for different sites in their school.
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Toothpick squares

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students state the general rule for a practical situation. They describe a continuing pattern. They use toothpicks to help visualize the problem and answer it correctly.
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The Sine Function

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the concept of the sine function. In this sine function instructional activity, students use a plexiglass sine wave generator to visualize the sine function. Students use a computer program/calculator to adjust aspects...
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Structural Comparisons

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars study structural elements of a picture's composition. They scan images and compare the structural elements of the images.
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Fundamentals of Good Musicianship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how to analyze musical performances and utilize practice techniques to improve their performances. They listen and evaluate another student's performance, then reverse roles with their partner.
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Non-Objective Constructed Sculpture

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students begin their examination of non-objective artwork. Individually, they participate in activities in which they take designs within other images and use them for their focus in their art. They create a sculpture with the new...
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Creating and Designing a Database of Class Library Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are shown how to create their own database using different field types. They are taugt how to design their own layout-chaning font or size and color of text, adding background color and clipart. Students interrogate their...
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Sight Reading Rhythm Patterns

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate ability to sight read rhythms containing half, quarter and eighth notes and quarter rests; by clapping and chanting rhythms written on chart 1.
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Irish Step Dancing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore Irish step dancing and the importance of the types of shoes that are worn. They draw pictures in their journals of the two types of Irish step dancing shoes and view pictures and samples of the types of shoes.
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Warm and Cool: Sun

For Teachers 1st
First graders think about the sunshine colors and brainstorm the different colors found in the sunshine and identify warm colors and cool colors. They create a painting of a sun usin only warm colors using tempera paint and basic...
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Interpreting Political Cartoons in the History Classroom

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars analyze political cartoons. In this historical perspectives lesson, students use the provided cartoon analysis worksheet to examine the political cartoons that their instructor shares with them.