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Finding Your Feelings
Students examine different slides of artwork from different artists. They discuss how art can show feelings and emotions. They share their opinion of the artwork.
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News: Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Students discuss annoyances and read an article about intermittent explosive disorder. They complete worksheets and devise survey questions about annoying situations. They have classmates rate them from least to most bothersome.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode One - Rhythm
Students investigate the role of music in their lives. They examine rhythm as the building block of music and examine how to appreciate music. They investigate music as a tool in health and healing.
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Students examine the history and geography of Martinique and Algeria, with an emphasis on broader issues of race and colonialism. They list some reasons that violence is or isn't a legitimate force in the struggle for people's freedom.
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Creating Clinflict Through Gibberish
Students explore ways to communicate and solve conflict. At the beginning of class, students must communicate emotions without using words. They brainstorm important relationships in their lives. Next, groups of students create a...
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Exploring Nebraska Art and Architecture
Students explore the art and architecture of Nebraska. Using the internet, they view artwork by various artists and analyze it by using a form given to them by their teacher. They share their analysis with their classmates and discuss...
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Creating a World of Peace at Home and Abroad
Students are introduced to the various lives of children in other countries. Using current events, they compare and contrast the events in America with that of the country they chose. They review the importance of peace and the spirit...
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Artist & Attitude
Students understand the importance of tone in a piece of artwork. They become more aware of purpose before they evaluate any form of art. Students use tone to help establish the success of a written story.
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Destructive/Constructive Communication
Students are introduced to the characteristics of destructive and constructive communication. In groups, they send I-messages to other groups of examples of each. To end the lesson, they participate in role-play activities to practice...
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Fantasy Fusion
Students create a fantasy/fairy tale book, with them and their reading buddy as the main characters. Using the Olympus digital cameras available, the older students photograph the younger students and have pictures taken of them reading...
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Good Mental Health Word Search
In this word search learning exercise, students identify fifty words related to good mental health in a word puzzle. Examples include hormones, self esteem, and depressed.
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Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy activity, middle schoolers look for the words that are related to the theme of the activity. They also work on the skills of spelling and word recognition.
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The Lion and the Mouse: Reading Comprehension
For this comprehension worksheet, students read a selection about The Lion and the Mouse, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
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Health: Emotional Effects of Segregation
Students examine the emotional effects that African Americans experienced in the 1960's and make a connection between segregation and racism. In this segregation lesson students divide into groups, discuss the movie then complete and...
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Breaking News English: Philippine President Faces Impeachment
In this English worksheet, students read " Philippine President Faces Impeachment," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Vocabulary for Robin Hood
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences from the story Robin Hood. Students complete 24 problems on this worksheet.
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Scientific Inquiry
Middle schoolers make inferences about what activities occur at different places in school. They form a hypothesis as to how space is used. They simulate how archeaologists explore past people by designing and conducting a research project.
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The Power of Words: Male Bashing and Gender
Students brainstorm words that typically describe men or women. They also brainstorm words that are insulting to both genders. They answer questions about the activity and discuss their answers.
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Misplaced Blame
Students, after researching a variety of resources, paraphrase examples of how it feels to be wrongly blamed or accused of an incident today, yesterday and in the future. They list the consequences of such actions. In addition, they...
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"Carnival Overture"
Students assess that music can be used to express feelings and create a story portraying many different feelings based on "Carnival Overture," by Antonin Dvorak. They become more educated listeners as they listen to and interpret...
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History-5 Word Search
In this literacy learning exercise, students find the words that are in the word search puzzle that focus upon the vocabulary that is from the theme of the sheet.
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Word Choice: Loss and Lost
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and then complete each sentence with the word loss and lost.
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The Supreme Council of the Treaty of Versailles January, 1919
In this Treaty of Versailles worksheet, 10th graders take the parts Wilson, Clemenceau, George, and Orlando, as well as ambassadors, to read the parts in the play based on Versailles negotiations.
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Then and Now: Tolerance as a Casualty of War
Students compare terrorist attacks on the US. In this instructional activity on tolerance and war, students use various resources and links to examine the concept of toleration during war. Students will focus on the attacks of Pear...