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Missoula Art Museum

Dance with Your Fingers, Draw with Your Toes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pair dancing, music, and art into one elementary lesson. Using the work of Henri Matisse and Rudy Autio as inspiration, kids spend a few days listening to music that fits the moods of various pieces of art, then work on their own...
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The Ellipse

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This is a practical sheet with the instructions to draw a set of ellipses. After following the diagrams, there are ten questions to complete, with calculations expected for alternate orbits and comparisons related to actual planets in...
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Insurance Quotes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
You're in high school and you just got the coolest car ever! But, now you need to start thinking about car insurance. Luckily, your teacher prepared you by engaging you in a life skills lesson like this one. The class actually calls...
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Charles Darwin Meets John Paul II

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
If you teach AP English language and composition and are looking for a way to address the differences between written and spoken arguments, consider this lesson. Over the course of three days, class members research Charles Darwin or...
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Plant Diversity

For Students 9th - 12th
Here is an all-encompassing overview of the plant kingdom! In this worksheet, beginning botanists describe characteristics of the four different plant phyla, explain various life cycles, differentiate between monocots and dicots, and...
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Magnetic Levitation

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A thorough investigation of magnetic levitation; this activity has four parts. First, physical scientists play with a wooden dowel and three disc magnets to review polarity and repelling action. Then they experiment with the strength of...
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Greece - Architecture

For Teachers 6th
This presentation has a comprehensive description of the use of columns in Greek architecture. With pictures and diagrams, the presentation not only shows a comparison between the three types of columns, Ionic, Doric and Corinthian, it...
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Chapter 17: Economic Growth and the New Economy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Is economic growth necessary to remain a relevant world power? These slides discuss the definition and implications of growth economics, complete with global comparisons and ways to account for growth. Graphs and charts are easy to read...
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Lord of the Flies

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Address the ways Piggy and Simon try to prevent the other boys from becoming savages in William Golding's Lord of the Flies with an informative slideshow presentation. The slides portray an in-depth comparison of the two characters. 
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Even the youngest kids can make scientific comparisons using collected data. They read The Tiny Seed, then discuss the essential nutrients and elements needed for a seed to grow into a blooming plant. They plant seeds and track their...
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Comparing And Ordering Decimals - Alternative Lesson 3.3

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this math worksheet, learners complete 11 problems where they use comparison symbols with decimal numbers. They order decimal numbers from least to greatest. Examples are provided in this well-designed worksheet.
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Science Geek

The Ideal Gas Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When doing a gas lab, you might feel under pressure. A short presentation discusses the Ideal Gas Law. It begins with the units for each variable, then describes the behavior of real gases. The lesson concludes with a comparison of...
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Comparativos y Superlativos

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Comparative and superlative adjectives are so simple in Spanish! Help your learners understand the basic principles behind comparisons and then reinforce their learning with practice sentences provided on the last thirteen slides. 
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Media Smarts

Violence on Film: The Ratings Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learn about film and TV ratings systems in Canada (includes a comparison to the MPAA system) and how they influence appropriate viewing for youths. A detailed commentary about the film Seven pointed at revealing flaws in ratings systems...
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Organizing and Understanding, Step-by-Step

For Students K - 1st
Use this number comparison and counting worksheet as an overhead projection for the whole class, because the answer is explained on the bottom half of the sheet. Cover the answer and reveal it once learners have tried it themselves. They...
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Poems: Identifying Patterns

For Students 3rd Standards
Here is a great learning exercise that contains two short poems to compare and contrast. Children will read each poem out loud and then complete three comparative analysis questions which focus on rhyme, structure, and language. Note:...
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Comparing and Ordering

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Before handing out this number comparison activity, ask scholars to pick a number between 20 and 50. Could they do it? Explain that they chose a number greater than 20 and less than 50, which is exactly what they will be doing next. Each...
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Comparing

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Practice the comparison words lighter, heavier, longer, shorter, smaller, and bigger using this visual chart. For each set of three objects, pupils order them according to one of these terms. The six terms are illustrated above for...
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Greater or Less?

For Students 1st - 2nd
These crocodiles are hungry for the biggest numbers they can find! This is a fun way to illustrate number comparison; use crocodile mouths as the greater than and less than symbols. There are two examples (with teeth and eyes included)...
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Bite on This!

For Students 3rd - 4th
Different types of teeth have different roles. Third graders study how molars, incisors, and canines function in a rabbit skull and a cat skull. After answering some questions about the teeth of herbivores and carnivores, kids...
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Shakespeare in American Life

"We Few, We Happy Few": Motivational Speech in Henry V

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Class members may "think themselves accurs'd" when they first hear of an assignment that asks them to create a motivational speech. After studying the Saint Crispin's Day speech from Shakespeare's Henry V; however, they will count...
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Shizuko's Daughter: Concept of Definition Word Map

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Help your class use critical thinking when it comes to unfamiliar words. With vocabulary from Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter, kids write the word in the center of a graphic organizer, and find its category, comparisons, examples, and...
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To Dorm or Not To Dorm

For Teachers 11th - 12th
For some of our students, college is right around the corner. Provide a bit of thoughtful information to help them (and their families) decide if dorm life is right for them. Included here are a list of pros and cons for living both on...
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Comparez les animaux

For Students 7th - 9th
Beginning and intermediate French language learners use the phrases plus que, moins que, and aussi que to compare animals with a one-page learning exercise. After comparing a list of animals provided, writers are encouraged to craft...

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