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Boise Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Boise Art Museum has an online gallery, organized according to "form, story telling, spirit, and place." Each enlargeable image has accompanying text. A special area for kids focuses on two artists.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Silly Story Builder: Martha Speaks

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
This activity will help children build vocabulary, become familiar with essential parts of a story, and develop story sequencing skills. They can create silly stories by drawing story parts out of a bag.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Pokot

For Students 9th - 10th
During the colonial period, the Pokot were called "Suk" by Europeans. To some Pokot, the older designation is a reminder of an era in which Africans lacked the power to name themselves; to others, it represents the clever ruse of a...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs American Portrait Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS American Portrait is a national storytelling project that invites individuals to participate in a conversation about what it really means to be an American today. To answer this question, PBS and its partners are collecting photos,...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Lesson: Exploring Russian Folktales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Expand on your middle schoolers' knowledge of storytelling with this lesson plan on Russian folktales. Provides several links to examples, assessment criteria, and a short list of other sources.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: In on a Secret? That's Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th - 10th
Christopher Warner identifies the storytelling device of dramatic irony. [2:50]
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Mousekin's Lost Woodland

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This interactive site has "Mousekin's Lost Woodland" environment game. Play this storytelling game with your friends and learn about different habitats.
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Practice and Stage Fright

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives helpful tips about public speaking, particularly about storytelling. It provides information on stage fright, and nervousness.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: Cajun Folktales

For Teachers 3rd
Through the study of trickster tales from various cultures, including the classic Cajun character Lapin the Rabbit, 3rd graders learn how storytelling can be entertaining as well as educational. Students build an understanding of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Odd Squad: Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Welcome to Odd Squad: the zaniest, craziest team of kid investigators around! Explore content below targeted at making elementary-level math a fun, imaginative experience, mixing concepts like arithmetic and geometry with fantastical...
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Left Foot Right Foot: Integrating I Movie [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This PDF document is a PowerPoint Presentation on integrating iMovie into your classroom. The five basic steps of plan, shoot, capture, edit and publish are outlined and examples of how to use iMovie in your classroom are given. Finally,...
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Other

Online Journalism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site for analyzing the effectiveness and techniques of several aspects of web news. Pop up windows guide viewers to important questions about what they will view.
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Website
Other

Bedtime Story: Whimsical Stories for Reading

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Awesome site with hundreds of stories by published and unpublished authors to encourage reading stories together and out loud. Each story also has a section titled "What's it all about" which gives background information along with...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Write Me a Picture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, 3rd through 5th graders select related pictures from magazines and newspapers, write captions for each, glue them in sequence on a poster board, and use the pictures to tell a story.
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Read Works

Read Works: Oral Histories

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of listening to and writing about people's life stories. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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The Center for Story and Symbol: Mythos: Joseph Campbell's Mythic Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical piece about the storyteller named Joseph Campbell. This piece was originally featured in New Perspectives Magazine in July 1994.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Storytime Stick Puppets Family Activity

For Students K - 1st
Make puppets of Molly and her family and friends from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, and use them to retell a story you watched. You can also take Molly on a new adventure by making up your own story. The activity also includes...
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Montgomery CountyPublic Schools

Mcps: Learn and Discuss Udl Story Telling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a topic suggested for a UDL PLS session. Teachers are asked to create a digital story highlighting examples of how they plan for and implement UDL in the classroom, then share it in the PLC.
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Name Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage young scholars in writing personal poems. Examples of personal poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson middle schoolers create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Place Value Introduction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart uses storytelling to appeal to the imagination of the child. It serves as an introduction to further exploration in numeration.
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: The Hiroshima Children's Peace Memorial

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Megan Hicks incorporates origami with storytelling to tell the true story behind the Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.

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