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Growth Mindset Toolkit

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
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Museum of Modern Art

Modern Art and Ideas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The Museum of Modern Art provides this educators' guide to Dada and Surrealism. Featuring the works of such artists as Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Meret Oppenheim among others, the guide is ideal for art history and...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Modeling Motion: Rolling Cups

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Connect the size of a rolling cup to the size of circle it makes. Pupils view videos of cups of different sizes rolling in a circle. Using the videos and additional data, they attempt to determine a relationship between cup...
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In Search of Caesar's Ghost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers collaborate in small groups to choose a scene that they write in place of a scene in Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". In this dramatic expression lesson, their scripts include roles, lines and stage directions. Students...
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Westward Ho

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine primary sources regarding Western migration. In this Manifest Destiny lesson, students determine why the pioneers moved west and what the trip was like as they examine sources and write journals based on their...
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Exploring Film Genres for Telling Hero Stories: Experimental Shorts

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Pupils design and create an experimental film to express a theme or concept regarding heroism. They establish shots of locations, write dialogue, create montages and subjective footage.
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Be a Weather Reporter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners pretend they are a weather reporter and write out a script that they would use to tell about today's weather including their name, the date, and what the weather is like today. They then make a prediction about what the weather...
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Making Addition Sums

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this addition learning exercise, students complete a set of 10 problems, writing 2 pairs of problems with the same given sum. A website reference is given.
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More Counting On In Tens

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting on worksheet, students count in tens from one given number to another and write how many tens they counted. A reference website is given.
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Understand Division As Sharing

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this division worksheet, students "share" pieces of candy equally in given numbers and draw them in boxes below, writing how many "sweets each." 
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Daily Actings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view clips of Anna Deavere Smith's work. They interview people on video or audiotape to learn their lines, dialect, and syntax to assist them in theater. They create a play which emulates the people in which they interviewed.
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Fun Plays on Famous First Ladies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers inquire about the lives of the First Ladies in our country. In this First Ladies lesson, students build knowledge about the contributions of First Ladies and how their childhood made them the person they are. Middle...
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John F. Kennedy Center

Acting Up, A Melodrama: Performing Like Jo March and Her Sisters in Little Women

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Lights, Camera, Action! Pupils read Little Women and create, act, and direct a melodrama that Jo March and her sisters would enjoy. The lesson plan comes complete with resources for the educator on melodrama as well as examples...
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Top 10 Games of 2007

For Students 7th - 10th
In this top ten games of 2007 instructional activity, students review each game and its genre and then answer four discussion questions, complete a writing task and then write an outline for a computer game story with a script.
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Adapting Shakespeare's Classic from Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a new adaptation of composer Charles Fran¿¿ois Gounod's opera "Romeo and Juliet", based on Shakespeare's 16th-century play. They conduct research on the era in which Shakespeare lived, write and respond to letters from...
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Bee Dance

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Everything a bee does serves a purpose. Learners in grades one through five explore the behaviors of bees through reading and dramatic puppet play. First children will create honey bee puppets, then they will discuss how bees dance to...
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Text Elements—Vampires

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the tone and style of passages from horror genre literature. In this literary elements instructional activity, students read The Vampire by John Stagg and the War of the World script by H.G. Wells, Students write about...
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TV ATTACK ADS AND THE VOTER

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about the history of negative political advertisements in U.S. elections. In this politics lesson, students view several ads for opposing candidates and analyze and discuss the content. Students write scripts for candidates...
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Writing a Class Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view a short play and explore the United States constitution relating it to the importance of rules in the classroom and in the community.
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Researching and Writing Travel Brochures

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars design a travel brochure. In this travel brochure activity, students review travel brochures and discuss a travel adventure they would like to go on.  Young scholars prepare an outline of their own brochure with...
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Three ways into the play 'Stone Cold'

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders, in groups, write pieces of a script in a particular style that they are introduced to. They also study how tension and irony work together in scripts.
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Acting Out

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate peer pressure, gangs, drinking, and using drugs. In small groups, they conduct research, develop, edit, and write a three-minute script, and perform the script for the class.
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It's About You

For Teachers K - 4th
Students build connections between census information and community decision-making by reading a reader's theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice reading fluently and learn about the government. The reader's...
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The 32-Second Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a very short script synopsis of Macbeth. They read the script, in small groups, trying to break the 32-second record, then write their own 32-second versions of one act from Macbeth.

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