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The Poetry Archive
Learners discover how to express their feeling poetically. In this poetry instructional activity, students discuss their feelings, descriptive language to describe these feelings, and create poems.
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Entry-Level Job Interviewing
Students discover specific information to remember when preparing for an interview and create a presentation based on the information
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VH1 AIDS: A Pop Culture History Lesson 1
Learners observe and discuss the relationships between music, media, and popular culture.
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VH1 Storytellers for Save the Music Starring Billy Joel
Students examine recordings of Billy Joel.
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Let's Paint!
Learners read Jonah Winter's book, Frida, and Thomas Locker's, Miranda's Smile, and talk about the artists' styles. They practice their own painting styles.
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Fastest Way to a Full Belly
Students create a scale model of a cafeteria. In this scale lesson, groups improve their actual school cafeteria layout by taking measurements of the structure and redesigning furniture and food serving lines. They create a scale drawing...
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Murals in my Neighborhood
High schoolers use rubrics to grade murals in their city. In this mural design lesson, students learn about the design of murals and explore their city to find murals. High schoolers grade the murals based on design and representation of...
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Redesigning the Classroom
Students redesign the classroom space. In this geometry lesson, students part take in making classroom rules and assigning value to the space in the classroom. They investigate measuring and problem solving in this lesson.
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BUDDHISM
Young scholars engage in a variety of activities that investigates the religious and cultural practice of Buddhism. The emphasis is upon students comprehending the Eightfold Path of Buddhism.
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Hiroshima, From All Sides
Students comprehend how the Atomic Bomb affected humanity and ended WWII. They comprehend how the Atomic Bomb affected: scientists, Japanese citizens, and US leaders. Students receive a copy of Hiroshima, Readers Theater Rubiv. They...
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Nutrition Dictionary
Learners look up nutrition vocabulary words in the dictionary and write a nutritious fact they learned about each of the words. In this nutrition lesson plan, students also play pictionary with the words.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Fourth graders read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow aloud, make predictions, compare characters, discuss plot and setting, and rewrite the ending to the story.
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Yaba "Data" Cereal
Fifth graders create and modify a database using information from cereal labels.
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Listening Skills Self Evaluation
Listening is a skill that is often overlooked and it can have everything to do with how someone views you. This site provides an evaluation that allows the user to analyze their ability to listen in a thoughtfull manner. The evaluation...
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Spanish in Tx: Listening Comp Beg: La Primavera Que Viene Voy a Estudiar en Esp
In this lesson, students will watch a video [00:54] of a native speaker of Spanish who is sharing her excitement about studying at the University of Seville in the upcoming summer. Students will answer comprehension questions when they...
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Uen: Reader's Theater
To improve oral reading and listening skills, groups students will alternate performing reader's theater plays.
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Uen: Choose Your Attitude
This lesson engages students in determining the importance of attitudes on many facets of life. Students will view movie clips, view PowerPoint presentations, discuss how attitudes can change and influence people's lives, and look at...
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Uen: Facs: Communication
This lesson plan is to help students identify good listening and talking skills. The different kinds of communication are verbal, written, and non-verbal. Included in this instructional activity are activities for each type of...
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Better Lesson: Intro to Accountable Talk With "Big Anthony and the Magic Ring"
In this lesson, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
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Uen: Show and Teach
This lesson plan engages students in classmates sharing their talents. Students will communicate information about their talent and then teach their classmates.
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Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #2/Narrative Prompt
This lesson engages students in listening to one or more narratives, Then students will engage in the writing process to develop their own personal narrative. Exemplar narratives are provided.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Maps
Lesson designed to introduce maps and the cardinal directions. After listening to the teacher read aloud or tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood, students retell the story and use cutouts of landmarks and arrows to create a map of...
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon
Lesson that helps students understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to describe the...