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Writing Application: The Canterbury Tales
Students read stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and create their own tale. In this writing applications lesson plan, students read the tales and analyze the specific details that Chaucer use. Students work in groups...
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Star for a Day Name Fun
High schoolers practice introductions in a foreign language. In this foreign language lesson, students get a card with a star that they have to pretend to be. They walk around the room introducing themselves and asking other's names in a...
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Activity 5: Creative Writing/Expression About Child Labor
Students research child labor using Internet resources. They present the information in a creative writing piece and post it on Chalkboard.
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Movement Adventure
Pupils discover movement and pantomime techniques in this adventurous story telling experience for kindergarten. Assessment is done through a short question and answer session and students drawing the "adventure".
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Flames of the Tiger
Students use the differentiated instructional model based on Dr. Kathie Nunley's three layered curriculum outline. The unit is designed to individualize instruction, appeal to different learning styles, encourage critical and higher...
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Comic and Film Strip Writing
Students write a funny story and illustrate it in a comic strip. In this comic strip lesson, students study comic strips and determine the plot of each story. Students then write a short story and illustrate it using a comic strip...
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Creating an Ethnic Student Newspaper
Students examine the role of the Black Press. In this African American history lesson, students watch segments of a video titled, " Too Long to Have Others Spoken for Us." Students respond to discussion questions regarding each of the...
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Parables Extension Worksheet: the Sower and the Two Builders
In this parables worksheet, students retell the parable of The Sower and The Two Builders, write their own parable, draw pictures, and more. Students complete 7 activities.
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Imagination
Students participate in a computer game which helps them develop their hand-eye coordination and imagination. They can use this activity before doing writing activities or show and tell.
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Disneyland Celebrates 50th Birthday
In this current events worksheet, students read an article about Disneyland celebrating its' 50th birthday and answer eight true or false questions, 10 synonym matching questions, and 10 phrase matching questions based on the article.
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Emphasizing Scale When Creating a Site-Specific Work of Art
Students study art by Matthew Ritchie. Students view pictures of the artist and discuss art that is created specifically for a designated area. Students create pen and ink drawings on letter size paper. Using an overhead, students...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Cartoon Characters Wear Gloves
Have you ever noticed that a bunch of cartoon characters wear gloves? Why is that? Vox investigates. [4:56]
Library of Congress
Loc: Cartoon America
includes political illustrations, gag cartoons, Online collection that includes comic strips, illustrations, animation, and caricature.
Other
Scarterfield: Want to Learn How to Draw Cartoons?
This site offers free step-by-step lessons on how to draw various types of cartoons including animals, characters, cars, Christmas, Disney, Manga, Superheros, landscape, and much more. General information about drawing cartoons is...
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Animation Meat: Model Sheets
You can print out a variety of your favorite cartoon characters and begin practicing creating your own animations.
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Learn How to Draw With Gary Harbo
Create your own world of crazy cartoon creatures. Illustrator Gary Harbo provides simple step-by-step instructions for drawing some unique characters. Each month a new character-drawing activity goes live on his website.
Library of Congress
Loc: See, Hear, and Sing Animation
The Library of Congress takes a look at the wacky world of cartoons, beginning with George Melies, who demonstrated that objects could be animated in film with a series of drawings, each drawn with slight changes.
BBC
Bbc: Celts: Make Your Own Cartoon Strip
Create a cartoon based on the Celts during the Iron Age. Choose a background and two characters. Then type dialogue for both characters and add a title. Finally, watch the cartoon come to life. Print to share with others.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: The Museum of Modern Technology
Informative, fun, and humorous tutorial that uses cartoon characters to provide an introduction to information technology. The tutorial covers operating systems/desktops, email, the world wide web, and networks.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Students learn about solids, liquids, and gases in this interactive slide show. Animated cartoon characters explain concepts having to do with properties of matter. A self-checking quiz follows the lesson.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Bose Einstein Condensation: Temperature and Absolute Zero
From the Physics 2000 site, this page exemplifies their usual superb discussion of the concepts of heat, temperature, and absolute zero. Using an entertaining series of cartoon characters, the page gives a very understandable discussion...
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Clever Island: Dinosaurs
This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...
PBS
Pbs: The Political Dr. Seuss
Behind some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters are messages of social and political context. Explained here in detail are some examples of these types of works along with a biography.
Childnet
Childnet: The Adventures of Kara, Winston and the Smart Crew
These cartoons illustrate 5 online safety SMART rules and include a real life SMART Crew of young people, who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, and help them make safe online decisions. It includes nine links including the...
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