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Life in Pictures
Students share opinions about the typical images that represent life in New York City. They create their own scavenger hunts to find images that represent the intrinsic character of their respective communities.
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Total Physical Response Storytelling
Fifth graders are introduced to the strategy TPRS (Total Physical Response Storytelling) for studying world languages. They utilize this strategy as a vehicle to storytelling and expand their vocabulary by contextualizing it in high...
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Encouraging Writing Through Combined Photos
Students practice writing skills through using photography to help create a writing prompt. They investigate how images can be used to create new ones that related to each other. This is similar to making a collage except now the images...
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Imagiste
Students grow toward a fuller understanding of what poetry and time is like as well as a better understanding of their own life by creating a poster poem with images of their own lives.
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Resolution Box
Students decorate a shoebox with New Year's decorations. In thiis art lesson, students discuss what a resolution is, write down their resolutions for the coming year, and sign a paper dating it showing when the resolution was made.
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Student Voices
Students create a video based on their own interests. In this language arts and technology instructional activity, students take pictures and compile them so as to create a storyboard on whatever each student wishes. Additionally,...
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Television and Movies
Fifth graders explore media. In this television and movies lesson, 5th graders compare a variety of types of television shows and movies.
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Family Picture Quilt
Learners explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt activity, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things that are...
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M'Liss Rae Hawley's Round Robin Renaissance
Students practice transfering photos to pieces of fabric. Using different techniques, they use their quilt making skills to create a design. They watch a demonstration by their teacher first and then make their own and share it with...
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A Focus on Values
Seventh graders develop and print their own photos to be used with the poems in class booklets.
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MONTAGE
Fifth graders create montages using photographs or pictures. They wil use the montages to perceive and describe visual elements such as line, shape, and space.
Other
Ngaio Press: Photo by Thomas Annan in High Street Slum
Photograph by Thomas Annan "Close No.31, Saltmarket",1867
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Pictures of the Year
For over 63 years POI has offered photographers to submit their images to be judged on an international level. It also provides an archive of incredible images for all to see.
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Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
This spectacular site is filled with information about Oates, her work and scholarship about her work. Includes extensive bibliographies, full text of many different works, photos, interviews, and a biography.
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Bike ride.com: Bicycling Events Calendar
This resource lists cycling events for the entire U.S. and Canada. There is a searchable database that allows you to put in the city you want and how many miles away you are willing to travel for all types of cycling events.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Exploring Community Through Local History
Guidelines for exploring local history and culture through examining a collection of written and spoken stories, landmarks, and traditions, such as food, festivals, and events. Students will research a variety of primary resources and...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Portraits Are to Daily Faces
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Portraits Are to Daily Faces", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.
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Leather Puppets of India
Use this site to learn about the fascinating world of Gypsy-made leather puppets. This nomadic tribe is always on the move carrying their puppets and musical instruments seeking permission from village leaders to perform for monetary...
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Amp: Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
At this site from the American Museum of Photography, you can discover photography of Southworth and Hawes, "technical and creative innovators who sought to be recognized as artists." Read about the process of creating daguerreotypes and...
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Lunar and Planetary Institute: Oceans From Space
This collection of photographs from space-shuttle missions shows some features of oceanic circulation that simply cannot be seen from any other vantage point. This site is a great resource for many different topics of study.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: John Steinbeck
This site features lesson plans for several of John Steinbeck's books. Not surprisingly, most resources relate to "The Grapes of Wrath."
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The University of North Texas Libraries: The Portal to Texas History
The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials where students can discover anything from an ancestor's picture to a rare historical map. From prehistory to the present day, students can explore unique collections from Texas...
Library of Congress
Loc: Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
Over 49,000 digitized primary documents having to do with the Wright brothers and their work with flight. A timeline of the brothers' work, a family tree, and other special presentations are offered.