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Using Picture Cues to Read Unknown Words
Help readers identify new words. Learners will use illustrations in the story From Head to Toe by Eric Carle to help them with unknown words. As they read new vocabulary words, they will use pictures on the imbedded worksheet...
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Family History Through Art
Students discuss various ways families and communities pass down oral and visual art forms to younger generations. This multi-subject introductory lesson prepares students to create a project about their own families.
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Compare and Contrast Art
Practice the skill of compare and contrast. First, show learners the different pairs of artwork in the project packet (included). Then, each learner chooses one of the pairs and finds the similarities and differences between the...
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Five Quick Games Build Reading Skills
Build reading skills with these five quick games! Whether you're hoping to build grammar, syllabication, or word recognition skills, this resource has options for you. Kids will love taking a break from the mundane to play these...
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Easter Visual Addition
A colorful display of Easter eggs will aid young mathematicians in solving 6 problems. They are required to solve each of the 1-digit equations using counters, or in this case, Easter eggs. An answer key is also provided.
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Career Visualization
Students examine the different career choices available. In this career choice lesson students complete several activities including a visualization lab.
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Strategies for Determining the Meaning of a Word
What does that word mean? I can sound it out, but it just doesn't make sense. Teach your class a sure fire strategy to combat those pesky unknown words. You'll introduce the concept of context clues through metacognitive modeling,...
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Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing
Students explore connections between non-verbal language and art. In this visual and auditory art instructional activity, students investigate the science of sound and principles of drawing. They then use various genres of music to...
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Using Logic
In this using logic instructional activity, students are given a variety of methods used to solve problems based on logic. They read about cause and effect relationships and finding solutions to problems. They are given three problems to...
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The Princess And The Painter
Students discover Baroque art techniques through the research of Diego Velasquez' work "Las Meninas" and other Baroque art. This leads to an exciting creative art project of "everyday life" by each student.
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Design a Book Cover
Learners explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict for a book that they are reading. Sample book covers are provided and students apply what they have learned by designing a book cover.
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Perception is not Always Reality
Seventh graders explore explanations of natural illusions. In this perception lesson students solve a problem by applying the process of science.
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How We See
Students study how images they see are transmitted to the brain. In this sight lesson students complete several activities that have to do with visual pathways and field defects.
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Ask the Oracle
Pupils invent an imaginary character that has the ability to time travel to China and create stories in the tradition of a traveler's tale, whereas their characters visit China's capital city, Beijing, and go to the Great Wall of China...
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Visual Puns or Composite Imagery
Students discover art that contains composite imagery and visual puns. They create their own picture of composite imagery and explain the visual pun. Students develop skills using the drawing media.
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The Ideal Home
Fifth graders design their ideal home. In this ideal home lesson, 5th graders illustrate and describe their ideal home. Students present visuals to their classmates. Lesson is part of a unit.
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The Great Debate
High schoolers research and debate the British Museum's ownership of the friezes from the Parthenon and Acropolis. Art controversy is discussed in this one-day lesson involving three groups of students within the class.
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Sedimentary Structures- An Adventure in Painting and Collage
Students identify and interpret concepts about how the Earth was formed and convey some of these ideas in a painting.
Students experiment with different types of paints and paint applicators to achieve a variety of visual textures....
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An Introduction to Collecting:
Young scholars create webs about collecting and classify ideas into categories . Students develop rationales for collecting from an artist's perspective, Young scholars collect and present objects based upon assigned criteria. ...
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Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
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Thinkmap Inc.: Visual Thesaurus
The most visual thesaurus you will ever see! Watch words become alive and move in front of your eyes. This resource offers a trial version free, which only allows you to look up a certain number of words before it makes you pay....
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Kids Health: Ascariasis
This site answers any questions you might have about Ascariasis. This site has four pages of information written for parents.
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Uen: Independent Learners
In this lesson, students will learn about the skills of visualizing and verbalizing. Both skills will be used to help the students become independent learners.