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Storytelling: Using the Arts to Enrich the Curriculum...

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the art of storytelling and stories from various cultures. Students experience Japanese and Chinese culture as well as Greek mythology. Students create and present their own Greek mythology topic to the class.
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Multimedia Urban Stories: "This is who I am"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a photo essay. In this lesson plan encouraging self-expression, students view and reflect upon photo essays. Then, they go out into the community and create their own photo essay complete with captions. Students publish...
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What's In A Name

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a paragraph about their findings on what their name represents. In this writing lesson plan, 2nd graders will research their name and why they were named that. They will draw a picture that represents them along with...
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CREATING A CLASSROOM HOLIDAY

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.
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What in the World Is Snowboarding?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars research the sport of snowboarding in-depth, and divide into small groups to create an entertaining, multimedia newsletter on the sport.
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Help Me Learn About the Holocaust

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young readers select a book from a provided list to use as the basis for an intensive class study of Holocaust novels. After completing their novels, groups create a multimedia presentation highlighting the elements of literature...
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Reviving the Renaissance

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Bring the Internet and the Renaissance together in this presentation assignment. Middle schoolers give a presentation on the Renaissance, using computers to both research and create the slides. The lesson includes a short assessment as...
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Student E-mail

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Guide your pupils through the process of creating a free e-mail account on Gaggle.net. Once the accounts are established, class members contact authors and practice letter writing techniques. This lesson includes resource links and is...
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Penguin Books

An Educator’s Guide to Ruta Sepetys

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Historical fiction novels give readers a chance to step into someone else's shoes. An educator's guide from Penguin Common Core Lesson Plans provides resources to accompany three historical fiction novels written by Ruta Sepetys: Between...
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A Power Point Slide Show for Third Graders

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore PowerPoint.  In this technology lesson, 3rd graders select a topic of interest and follow a guided lesson researching their topic.  Students complete storyboards, introductions, table of contents and expository...
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Media Literacy Skills

For Teachers 3rd
You're on camera! Third graders find a news story and research it to get more information. Everyone uses their found information to write a script and create their own news broadcast!
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National Wildlife Federation

Massive Migrations

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Turn your students into flocks of migratory birds for this fun lesson on animal migration. Prior to the activity, the teacher creates four different migration routes in the classroom or any available open space, labeling nesting...
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Civil War Trust

Transcribing Civil War History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Primary sources are valuable for understanding the context of historical events, but the diction and dialect in these documents can be difficult to understand. Middle and high schoolers participation in a transcription process in which...
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Creating a Literacy-Rich Learning Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in a teacher education program use a jigsaw method to identify the six areas of language arts to be taught in an early childhood classroom. They describe their vision of a literacy rich environment and practices uses a KWL...
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The Necklace Of Teeth Comic Strip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a comic strip which identifies the major events in a story of the teacher's choosing in this upper-elementary classroom language arts lesson. The lesson is highly adaptable and can be used in another content area if...
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What Does This Song Really Say?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars investigate communication by analyzing lyrics from a song. In this music arts instructional activity, students discuss slavery, the Underground Railroad and African American traditions while listening to a song called...
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Creating a multimedia showcase

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a multimedia project using PowerPoint. They retell factual information and create a report using PowerPoint. Afterward, they invite parents and other classes in for a PowerPoint theater.
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A Native American Cultural Exchange

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders communicate with members of Native American tribes via email, exchange original poems with epals, and create multimedia presentations to share with classmates.
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Breaking the Codex

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students work with an online multimedia show to study the life of Leonardo da Vinci in Renaissance Italy. They explore different writing systems and create an advertisement for one of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions.
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Making a Travel Brochure of a Louisiana Parish

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Although the attachments for this travel brochure project are no longer linked, you can still use the idea here and create your own assignment sheet and rubric. Learners choose a parish in Louisiana (or a city in your state) to research,...
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Poem Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils create iMovie presentations that represent favorite poems chosen by the students in this language arts lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. The lesson includes resource links to find poetry and requires computers and movie...
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A PowerPoint Slideshow for Third Graders

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a multimedia presentation about their favorite things.  In this multimedia lesson plan, students create a multimedia presentation and add transitions, a table of contents with bullets, slides with pictures and animations...
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Executive Exchanges

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the April, 2006, overhaul of the White House staff. They research the positions in transition and stage a press conference to introduce these changes to the public.
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Exhibiting Hope

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students watch a video clip about the effect of Hurricane Katrina. They examine the challenges that New Orleans still faces a year after the hurricane. They work together in small groups to create a museum exhibit on a topic of interest...