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Curated OER

Eggs for Fitness

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students actively participate in a fitness-enhancing activity.
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Curated OER

Creating Clinflict Through Gibberish

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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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Curated OER

Cool Line

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn foot and arm patterns, then sequence those patterns into a line dance.
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Curated OER

The Laser Spider Web

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.
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Curated OER

Madagascar Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners play a tag game. They are divided into zoo keepers, penguins, and lions. Each group has different responsibilities such as skipping, galloping, and jumping. Students perform different locomotor skills each time they are tagged.
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Curated OER

How Are Boundaries Made, Kept, Broken?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners perform raps and analyze issues among the rich and poor. They explore how countries are labeled as "third world" and "first world." They create a dialectical journal and examine the country of Nigeria through the reading of...
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Curated OER

LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...
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Curated OER

Ethnic Culture and Identity in the Columbia River Basin, 1850-1950

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore cultural history of immigrant groups that settled in the Columbia River Basin from 1850 to World War II, and examine various primary sources to explore role cultural and social customs played in keeping alive immigrant...
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Curated OER

Environmental Destruction in Vietnam

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars watch video clip on Environmental Destruction of Vietnam, select and discuss passages from essay, Resuscitation of the Dead Earth, that emphasize destruction to the land, and write essay on whether United States should...
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Curated OER

Far AwayTo encourage children

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners move as safely through general space as possible.
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Curated OER

Positive Comment Walk-A-Long

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students find a partner, take a walk, and tell their partner something nice they had done or seen during the day or the week.
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Curated OER

Songs of Protest/Songs of Unity: 1865 to the Present

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study song-poems from 1865 to the present. They explore the works of Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers (including Pete Seeger).
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Curated OER

Los Angeles Tourist Brochures

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study the history of Los Angeles and make a tourist brochure for the city.
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Curated OER

Mr. Tape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice identifying the correct body part called out by their teacher. They must place the body part on a piece of masking tape on the floor.
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Curated OER

Los Angeles Tourist Brochures

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate the history of Los Angeles. They conduct Internet research, select a specific topic, and create a tourist brochure that includes information, pictures, and maps.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Musical Math Facts: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Combine mental math with physical activity to engage young scholars and increase overall fitness. This lesson plan describes a twenty to twenty five minute series of activities that require pre-made math flashcards that can be easily...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tour Through New York State Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
This lesson is a cool and hip way to tour across New York State. The teacher takes students on a virtual tour of NYS while using music and movement.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 46: Feminism Does Not Have to Be an F Word

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The women's liberation movement of the 1970s is suffering a tremendous backlash and is frequently viewed as obsolete. Many young people feel as though feminism is irrelevant and sexism no longer impacts their lives. Through the...
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PBS

Pbs: Jazz Music and the Crisis Over School Desegregation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working in cooperative groups, your young scholars will learn how jazz musicians expressed the Civil Rights era in their music. This lesson focuses on the Civil Rights movement in Little Rock, Arkansas. Also, they will learn to about the...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Freedom Riders and Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Learning the Blues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan introduces students to the blues. The origin and development of the blues is explored as well as its distinctive structure.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Civil Rights Movement Photo Story Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role of...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Fly Butterfly, Fly!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a fun, creative lesson relating movement to music for very young kids. If done properly, it should enable kids to get a sense of musical form while listening to a Chopin waltz.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: February One (Lessons on the Greensboro Sit in of 1960)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the Greensboro Four, whose sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter was a key event in the unfolding history of the civil rights movement. The lessons ask pupils to...