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Show, Then Write What You Learn

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
After reading a text or covering a new topic, have class members fill out the four boxes on this page with facts. Individuals can use words or drawings to represent the facts.
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Transparency

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover proper use of quotation marks. They examine conversations between characters in comics and magazines. In pairs, 8th graders punctuate sentences correctly. They create a story, with dialogue, involving people in a...
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At What Price the Truth?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read President Kennedy's speech to the nation on October 22, 1962. Using the text, they identify the deception by the Soviets. In groups, they create a comip strip showing what they believe might have happened had there been no...
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Adding Snap to Language Arts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students take photographs of themselves, animals, and objects and used these photos as springboards for writing stories, plays, photo captions, comic strips, ads for products, and greeting card messages.
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Mythology Newspaper....The Trojan Times

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students are assigned to a writing group: news stories, obituaries and births, classifieds, comics, gossip, sports and editorials. The newspaper covers mythological figures in history. This is a very clever, meaningful lesson in mythology!
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Journey on the Rock Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rock cycle worksheet, students imagine themselves as rocks and write about their experiences as they journey through the rock cycle. Students create a comic strip illustrating their adventure.
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Looking through the Sands of Time: 80's Decade

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students view the comic "Time sliders" from the Celebrate the Stamp Unit from the 1980's. They discuss what the comic magazine contains. Students listen to a speaker from the post office discuss how stamps are selected. They use...
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Art & Drama for Middle Grades

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students define humor and consider how people have different senses of humor and therefore different ideas of what is funny. They explore improvisation, cartooning, comics, body language and storytelling as the means to express humor.
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How Do You Interest Others in Fair Trade Chocolate?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars design a presentation intended to interest others in Fair Trade certified chocolate. They research Comic Relief's similar competition and perform their presentation for the class.
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Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the field of animation to describe characters and express opinions. They view pictures of cartoon characters, clips of British animation, and read about the making of Valiant. They design their own cartoon character...
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Day #8 - Fractals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore fractals and draw fractal curves. To assist in remembering the methods, they sing a song about fractals, watch a video, and create images of fractals on dot paper. Students observe and discuss a comic strip about...
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Lesson #100 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and Area Under the Curve

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and apply the properties of definite integrals to solving equations. As a class, they explore formulas to use in evaluating integral yields in regions above and below the x-axis....
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Who Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students utilize the tools and elements available in a multimedia application to create a 1-page document, presented in comic book form, about a famous person. The document they create may be part of a multi-faceted research project that...
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Heritage: Famous People of the West

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the impact of Brigham Young and Jim Bridger on westward expansion. They conduct research, develop a class information chart, and create a cartoon strip depicting what happened when Jim Bridger and Brigham Young...
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Study Guide for the 2009 Richard Gray Visual Arts Lecturer: Jules Feiffer

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze the cartoons of Jules Feiffer and the art genre to then create their own comic book-style spread. For this cartoon art lesson, students read about the work of Feiffer and identify the techniques of the art. Learners...
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Paper Mache Caterpillar

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and practice fine motor skills by using scissors and newsprint strips, and balloons to create paper mache caterpillars.
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Heritage: Famous People of the West

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine two famous people, Brigham Young and Jim Bridger, who made an impact on the westward expansion, and create cartoon strip using the information.
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Shakespearean Comedy on Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This lesson will focus on the aspects of Shakespeare's comedy that become more evident in performance. By viewing clips of the same Shakespeare scene in different film versions, high schoolers have the opportunity to engage in a close...
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Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students read and discuss Socrates's "Crito" and examine the arguments he made supporting his own death penalty. They consider the still-relevant debate between the rights of the individual and the rule of law.
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Comedy Across the Curriculum

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The New York Times Learning Network provides the resources that permit pupils to examine and then write and perform a fake news broadcast in the vein of “The Daily Show” or “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update. The generated reports...
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Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Reading Literature - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce’s short story, is used to model how structural moves, the decisions an author makes about setting, point of view, time order, etc., can be examined to reveal an author’s purpose. Groups...
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Media Literacy

Good Versus Evil: Exploring Popular Children's Animation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Dora, Buzz Lightyear, Mufasa. Swiper, Dr. Porkchop, Scar. The six lessons in this unit packet focus on how good and evil, and violence, are portrayed in children's animation. The lessons encourage kids to consider how violence is...
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University of Kansas

Newspaper in the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Newspapers aren't only for reading—they're for learning skills, too! A journalism unit provides three lessons each for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades. Lessons include objectives, materials, vocabulary, and procedure, and...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Resolving Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Win-lose, lose-lose, or win-win? The final instructional activity in the "Resolving Conflict Module" brings together all that participants have learned in the module. They first list and prioritize the steps in conflict resolution, then...

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