Powerpoint: Show Your Gratitude

Readers decode and deconstruct political cartoons to heighten critical thinking, extra-textual literacy, and making meaning from symbolism and metaphor. A compatible activity to use in English class when your 8th or 11th graders are...

Students analyze and identify visual symbols in everyday life and during a museum visit. For this visual symbol lesson, students study associated vocabulary such as analyze and interpret. They find and note attention getting symbols...

Student are assigned one of the sections on whole numbers. After reviewing the content, they teach their assigned sections to other class mates. They publish their findings on a PowerPoint slide show to use when they teach their section.

Surrealistic painters like Marc Chagall and Wendy Rouse show viewers an expansive world in a small area. Young artists have a opportunity to create their own surrealistic paintings in response to a study of works by Chagall and Rouse.

Learners complete a community service project to brighten the holidays. They work together at a food kitchen or shelter. They reflect on their experiences.

Students work cooperatively to create a classroom thanksgiving tree in this November art lesson for the elementary classsroom. Included with the lesson is a short resource list of books that contain more Thanksgiving craft ideas.

Students explore symbols and what they represent. In this visual art lesson, students collect various symbols and discuss what they represent. Students create and discuss personal symbols which represent themselves.

Young scholars examine the most common symbols of Canada and explain their importance. In this Canadian culture lesson, students identify the beaver, maple leaf, and Inuksuk and discuss why Canada feels these are representative symbols...

Students experiment with the Powerpoint program and create a presentation based on a subject they are studying.

Students discover the meaning of symbols, artifacts, and other architecture in the church.  In this church symbolism instructional activity, students work in groups to research symbols and images and present their findings to the class. ...