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Compare Fabric Materials

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify different fabrics and their properties. They test and observe the fabrics and record their results. They suggest differnet uses for them. They discover how engineers want to design products that are durable.
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TE Activity: Space Shelter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students simulate that they need to develop a new home on a different planet. They design a shelter that will ensure their survival after researching the characteristics of the other planet. They write an essay about their home design.
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Spatial Relationships: an Over/Under Dance

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the relationships of space through movement. Two perform movement improvisation based on over/under. The activity improves hand-eye coordination, cooperation, and communication skills. The timing of the dance also...
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Can I Tell You Where I am?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the factors of describing a neighborhood. They follow a set of target questions in order to obtain information about individual neighborhoods. The information is used The write...
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Look At Those Leaves!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils observe, measure, and sort tree leaves. They examine leaves individually, in groups, and in relationship to the entire tree. Pupils take a walk outside for a "Leaf Walk." Students are each given a lunch size paper bag, so that...
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Beauty of the Harvest

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars collect information from Beauty of the Harvest and Native American culture to determine what women accomplished in their daily lives. After organizing and thoughtfully considering this information, students create their...
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Animation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studnets comprehend the elements of value, perspective and color schemes. They comprehend the principles of contrast, emphasis and unity, and the expressive qualities of thematic development and sequence. Students are asked about their...
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Digital Storytelling: At-Risk Students Find Their Voices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use digital cameras and software to create a digital story which consists of a series of digital images paired with a narrarated soundtrack. They focus on relevant images and a presecribed sequence of steps to provide a vignette...
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Photo-Documenting Earth Art

For Teachers K - 6th
Students study Earth Art Sculpture and its historic perspectives. They study important Earth Art sculptors, notably Andy Goldsworthy and view works of important Earth Artists. They explore the basic use of digital cameras and journal...
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Reflective Decoupage

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students decoupage a wooden item with pictures. In this visual arts activity, students take pictures and use a computer program to print them out. This activity includes all the steps needed to decoupage. 
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore using digital cameras to take their own photograph and then download them to the school's Dell computers. They then utilize the Tool Factory Workshop program to manipulate the photograph to only a few basic colors and...
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Building Vocabulary With Digital Photos

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Student develop basic Spanish vocabulary using digital photography. In this Spanish vocabulary instructional activity, students use digital photographs to make flash cards and presentations throughout the year as they learn new words....
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Trees For Trout!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine the impact of native forests, local clearcuts and local clearcuts and local reforestation projects on the survivablity of Rainbow Trout in their area. They record and document the stages of the trout throughout...
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Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school...
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Book Making

For Teachers K - 8th
Students make connections with real life experiences and the two languages, including Spanish and English. They create their own books in this project lesson plan to take home and read with their families. Students also use a digital...
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Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars find similarities and differences between themselves and a partner using a digital photograph to illustrate them. They use Multimedia Lab to create a multi-grade interactive multimedia presentation using the digital...
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Job Transition -- The Great Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review how to use a digital camera. Individually, they document their work related experience and gathering new skills by taking pictures. To end the lesson, they put the photographs into a portfolio to show their progress in...
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Idiom Ideographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore idioms. They divide into groups of three. Each group is given an idiom and three sentence clues. They discuss the meaing of their assigned idiom. Students create a new sentence using their idiom and dramatize the...
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Rag Coat Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover ways to help those in need within their community. For this early childhood lesson plan, students gather clothing donations for use in a fundraiser for their community shelter. Students also create posters to...
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Create Your Own Easter Story

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Easter worksheet, students look at a picture of a bunny and a basket full of eggs. Students write an Easter story based on the picture.
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art Newspaper

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students create newspapers. In this technology skills lesson, students create a newspaper layout using a word processor program. The newspaper features stories regarding the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Listening to Learn: Podcasting as an Assessment Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students use podcasting and iPods to take tests rather than reading. In this podcasting lesson plan, students learn how to use a podcast rather than have a test read to them.
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Cave Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age lesson, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD about artifacts found...
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Community Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a community walk. In this communities instructional activity, students use a digital camera to take photos during a community walk. Students take photos of store signs and street signs. Students design a poster...

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