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What Does This Song Really Say?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate communication by analyzing lyrics from a song. In this music arts lesson, students discuss slavery, the Underground Railroad and African American traditions while listening to a song called "This Train." Students...
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Langston Hughes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify similarities between Hughes' poetry and music (jazz and the blues).
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September 27th Writing Prompt

For Students 5th - 8th
For this daily writing prompt worksheet, students learn that September is Classical Music Month. Students use resources in the classroom to learn 5 facts about a classical musician and summarize them in their own words.
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Who Rocks Your World?

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students develop their writing skills. In this business letter lesson, students write a letter of nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame regarding a music artist of their choice. Students read their finished letters to their peers.
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  In this physical education lesson plan, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Students perform a sing along and march...
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Rather Than

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, learners use gerunds and infinitives. Students insert to or rather than to complete sentences. The learners indicate whether gerunds, infinitives, bare infinitives, or nouns are being used in sentences.
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The Beautiful People of Africa

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars discover the people of Africa by creating a PowerPoint presentation.  In this African culture lesson, students utilize the Internet to investigate a specific African tribe and their specific location, culture, and way of...
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Horatio's Drive

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students assess the literary quality and elements of Jackson's journey to write a ballad about his automobile adventure.
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A World of Taste--Louisiana Gumbo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the multicultural contributions to New Orleans gumbo through participation in cross curriculum activities. In this multicultural diversity and New Orleans history lesson, students shade regions of a map according to a...
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Like Me or Not Like Me?

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this getting acquainted at the beginning of the year worksheet, students fill in the blanks about themselves and another classmate regarding school subjects and friends and then compare them. Students fill in 12 blanks.
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Christmas Around the World

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore Christmas celebrations in different countries. They create presentations giving information about Christmas celebrations in different countries. They compare and contrast traditional Christmas celebrations around the world.
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Ancient Greece

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Ancient Greece worksheet, students read a 3 page article on Ancient Greece, answer 3 facts about Ancient Greek with multiple choice answers, answer 4 statements as true or false and answer 4 fill in the blank facts about Ancient...
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Different! Diverse! Dynamic! Lesson 2: Teaching Peace Through Literature And Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate bullying and discrimination and draw pictures of a personal response to being bullied. They read Thank You, Mr. Falkner by Patricia Polacco, to determine the philosophic act that the main character performs. They...
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A Differentiated Way through Think Dots

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners examine reasons that led people to explore, identify "West" as defined following Revolutionary War, explain importance of finding natural resources, develop time line of dates and events leading up to Lewis and Clark Expedition,...
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Underground Railroad

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the Underground Railroad.  In this U.S. history and technology lesson, students research an assigned topic related to the Underground Railroad, such as "abolitionist," "conductor," or "station houses."  Students design a...
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Understanding Story Elements-Who, What, Where

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a rap using story details.  In this creative writing lesson, students examine the use of rap lyrics to list important details of stories.  They view a video example, and use their notes to create their own raps based on...
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Newspaper Article

For Students 5th - 6th
For this newspaper article worksheet, students read the newspaper article, "The Bears Beat the Sharks", answer 10 questions with multiple choice answers and put 8 events from the article in chronological order.
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One Word Posters

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students explore the universal themes they find in the complete set of One World Posters, including art, history, literature and music.
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The Joy of Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars begin to build friendships with people of all ages. They identify their misconceptions about people when they first meet them. They interview an elderly person and draw a picture of them. They develop a slideshow of the...
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Wagon Train

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...
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Myths

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students complete activities using a software program that allows them to read about myths, magic and monsters, and answer multiple choice questions about main idea, prediction clues, details and sequencing. They participate in a number...
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Yingtao's New Friend

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literature worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to a piece of literature and music. There are ten words located in the puzzle.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #129

For Students 5th - 6th
In this spelling activity, students practice reading and writing given words. The look up each word in the dictionary and identify the guide words on the page. All 11 words are music terms.
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Ace of Base

For Students 4th - 6th
Even if learners are not familiar with the band Ace of Base, they can use this resource as a way to practice important skills. The answers to this 10-question quiz can be found using the Internet, and can cement learners' research skills.