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Creating with Alice
Students explore Alice Programming Software. In this exploratory lesson, students design a unique storyboard which will guide the creation of their Alice World. Students write and create their own films.
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How To Read A Movie
Ninth graders respond to films they have seen using literary, dramatic, and cinematic terms. They reevaluate their role as a moviegoer. Students analyze their favorite film in order to discover what good films have in common.
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Darfur Now Lesson One: Introduction to Darfur Now
High schoolers view a brief film and define vocabulary terms related to genocide. In this civics activity, students discuss motivations of people to take action against the crisis in Darfur. High schoolers write responses to the film and...
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From the Four Corners 1
Students view a film looking at government propaganda during WWII. They look at the portrayal of Commonwealth tropps in "From the Four Corners." Students are asked to evaluate the utility of the film as evidence of why Commonwealth...
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Phenomenology Lesson Plan #2: Content Part #1
Young scholars examine different types of media. They identify the bias in film and share them with the class. They also examine their personal biases and write about them.
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Preventing Water Pollution
Fourth graders write at least two ways to clean the water and two ways to prevent pollution with appropriate guesses, striving not to create any more pollution in the water. They understand how pollution affects water as well as the rest...
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The Wave Chapters 1-4
In this history worksheet, students complete the questions for the book study of The Wave. They also define the words from the list given.
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Thank You, Mr. Edison
Students read a letter to Thomas Edison and search for advertisements of the period. They review primary sources and photographs of items made available in the 1920's. They interact on the American Memory Collection website.
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United States -- Soviet Cooperation
High schoolers examine the competition between the United States and Russia to put the first man in space. In groups, they use the internet to identify areas in which the two countries cooperated with one another to promote space...
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Create Your Own Photoessay
Learners create a photoessay that describes an aspect of the community in which they live. They participate in a photography clinic and then use digital cameras to visually document their community.They also create a narrative writing...
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Non-Defining Relative Clauses
In this non-defining relative clauses worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss what non-defining relative clauses are and how to use them in writing. Students answer six questions regarding relative clauses.
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Movies Are Us
Students watch a movie, and answer teacher created questions in order to explore the brain.
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Space Invaders-Unwanted Neighbors
Learners view a short film "If It's Green, It's Good?" and review the characteristics of a healthy ecosystem. After review, they contrast the healthy ecosystem to an unhealthy ecosystem that has been invaded by exotic plant species....
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Let's Shake Up Shakespeare!
Stray from the traditional by trying this modern approach to exploring history's distinguished bard.
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State Sovereignty and the Ethics of Intervention
Students study the history, ethics, politics and law of state sovereignty and its limits. In this investigative lesson plan students listen to a lecture, discuss then complete a few assignments.
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Was the Iraq War a "Humanitarian Intervention?"
Learners debate the intent of the Iraq war. For this humanitarian intervention lesson, students each research a view point and defend it in a class room debate. Learners defend the views points of Terry...
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American History Digital Movie
Fifth graders create a video. In this historical presentation, 5th graders watch a video clip of a dramatization of a historical event in American History. Students discuss how this video was put together. Students divide into small...
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Dogs- Canine Familiaris
Learners research dog species and breeds. In this dog lesson, students discuss breed of dogs, their personal experiences, and complete a Venn Diagram comparing breeds. Learners use the research to analyze television shows or movies which...
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Into the Wilderness: Habitat vs. Development
By studying the once-assumed extinction, then rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, learners look at the physical changes that have occured in habitats throughout Arkansas. This outstanding lesson is chock full of terrific...
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Self Esteem
To middle schoolers, there's nothing worse than being excluded from a peer group. Developing important self-esteem skills can not only get them through awkward adolescent times, it can carry them through the rest of their lives as...
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Lesson Ideas for Comparing and Contrasting Content
Here are three lesson ideas to help students learn how to compare and contrast information in any content area
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Minorities in Mainstream American Society
So many people fought for Civil Rights in the United States. Read about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and discuss what the act guarantees. Then pass out a slew of magazines and encourage them to observe how often minorities appear in...
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Compare and Contrast Composers
Students identify various pieces of music that are familiar to them and define how the music made them feel. Then they select their favorite piece of music heard and the activities in which they like to do. Students also attend a...
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Complete the Sentences
In this sentence completing worksheet, students read 11 sentences and fill in the blanks with a vocabulary word from the word bank. There is no apparent connection between the words.