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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing Application: The Canterbury Tales

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students read stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and create their own tale. In this writing applications lesson, students read the tales and analyze the specific details that Chaucer use. Students work in groups to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flames of the Tiger

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Website
Other

Scarterfield: Want to Learn How to Draw Cartoons?

For Students 1st - 9th
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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Activity
Other

Learn How to Draw With Gary Harbo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Cartoon America

For Students 9th - 10th
includes political illustrations, gag cartoons, Online collection that includes comic strips, illustrations, animation, and caricature.
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Activity
Other

Uncle Fred: Draw and Color

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site shows children step-by-step how to draw many different "Cartoony," characters created by Fred Lasswell.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: See, Hear, and Sing Animation

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Activity
Other

Animation Meat: Model Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
You can print out a variety of your favorite cartoon characters and begin practicing creating your own animations.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain:diary of a Wimpy Kid

For Students 3rd - 5th
Click through the pages and read this web version of the best selling novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Read straight through each day, or click on any day in the calendar feature to go straight to that entry. The main...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Free Graphics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.