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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Circular "Mandala"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a nonobjective design from a magazine photo (or personal photograph) using a view finder. By using colored pencils the drawing use layers to recreate the colors in the magazine picture.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

You Light Up My Life

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in various experiments involving light. They demonstrate how light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object. Students show ways that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Human Rights: What Will Students and Teacher Do?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." In this human rights lesson, students explore the text of this document and watch Amnesty International videos about human rights. Students then locate and discuss articles on...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Creative Process

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students demonstrate the steps of the creative writing process. In this creative writing lesson, students brainstorm ways to come up with an initial idea and ways to express their ideas. Students write a description of their idea and a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Posting Personal Testimonies on the Web

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read literature based on family heroes. They discuss the concepts of friendship, loyalty and death. They write their own stories of courage and post them to a webpage.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Studies: Grab Day at the Pueblo

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils develop a cultural understanding of "Grab Day." Using magazines, they clip out pictures to make collages of items thrown down to people on this day. Students label the items in their collages.
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Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Notion of Line Symmetry and Plane Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Definitions are provided line of symmetry, line symmetry, and plane symmetry, and several nice examples are provided that illustrate these definitions.
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Activity
Other

Escolar.com: La Luz

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief summary and illustrations of light and how the lights rays are reflected and bent.
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Primary
British Library

British Library: The Leonardo Notebook

For Students 9th - 10th
Page through one of Leonardo's notebooks, in which he works out his observations about weights, measures, reflections, and similar material matters. Interesting examples of the master's characteristic "mirror writing" and of his...
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Website
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics: Reflection From Mirrors

For Students 9th - 10th
Included here are illustrations of reflections from a plane mirror, a concave mirror and a convex mirror.