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Arts Now Learning: Discover the Art of Playwriting [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students participate in interpersonal warm-up exercises to awaken their bodies and prepare them for collaboration. Next, they go through brainstorming exercises to stimulate their imaginations, and this leads into...
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Arts Now Learning: Acting Out the Adverb, but What About the Adjective? [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students will compare and contrast adjectives and adverbs. They will explore how acting out an adverb is easier than an adjective. While they can reach for the adjective, they are often difficult to physically...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Trash Matcher
Got Trash? Who doesn't? You can turn it to treasure by using the Trash Matcher. Click on the type of trash you have to find directions for fun projects that will use up your recyclables.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dr. Seuss on the Loose
In Dr. Seuss' first published children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Marco, inspired by the passing of a horse and wagon, imagines a series of increasingly incredible sights on his way home from school. This...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...
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Arts Now Learning: Adventure Island [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will study examples of treasure maps and make a list of features and symbols. They will use their imaginations to create their own treasure maps and compose narratives to describe them.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Vocabulary Fashion Show
Inspired by Debra Frasier's clever vocabulary fair from her book, Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, individual students will imagine what a vocabulary fashion show would be like. Assuming the role of a fashion show announcer,...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 3: Fifties/sixties Musical Playwriting
This unit appeals to multiple intelligences, encourages interdisciplinary learning, reinforces self-confidence, and stimulates creativity, co-operation and critical thinking. Using songs with a strong narrative, students are asked to...
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Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, young scholars will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's...