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Double Exposure Lesson Plan: Eye on Your Community

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners demonstrate their knowledge of a camera by taking pictures of people, places, and things that make up their neighborhood or school. They select the photographs that tell a better story than others and explain their reason.
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A Picture-Perfect Place

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students make a post card of a special place in their community. They write about the place they have drawn, telling why they feel it's an important part of their hometown. They address and send to another school.
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Pottery Analysis

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students study how archaeologists analyze artifacts to answer questions about past cultures. They explain why pottery is important to archaeologists and how they use classification to answer their research questions.
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Women's Rights Ancient Egypt and the United States

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the rights of women in the United States and ancient Egypt. Comparisons between the two eras and countries are made as the wealth, business, marriages, court cases, divorces, and employment of women are probed.
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Write a Constitution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the United states Constitution and discuss the difficulties the framers faced in writing it. They explore ideas about the division of power, rights, and other topics contained in it.
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Black Americans in Delaware from 1639 to the Present: An Overview

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete matching activities and write an essay about Black Americans in Delaware from 1639.
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Capitol vs. Capital

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students construct time lines to show the order of significant events in Ohio history. They explain how Ohio progressed from territory to statehood.
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House Builders

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students name the workers involved in building a house. They label tools used by different workers and the parts of the house that the workers are responsible for.
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Creating Adinkra Symbols

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover examples of adinkra cloth. They explain the history of the symbols themselves. They create a larger pattern using geometric symbols. They discover how the symbols can be used to communicate with one another.
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Social Studies: When in Rome...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils conduct Internet research on selected countries. They simulate a business trip requiring airplane flights, car rentals, and hotel reservations. They present their virtual trips in written reports after sharing their findings in...
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Henry Builds A Cabin

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners listen to the book "Henry Builds a Cabin." They design a cabin using Lego pieces based on information from the story.
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The Artist As Storyteller

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners practice the art of storytelling by examining scroll writing techniques of Asia and applying them to a monthly story of their own classroom. This lesson is in two parts (Part II continues throughout the school year).
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Internment of Japanese Americans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the Japanese-American experience in the western United States during World War II. They view a video, "Japanese Relocation" and take notes on arguments in favor of internment. They share their notes and new vocabulary...
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Job Info Interview

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers conduct an interview with an adult family member. They organize the information and write a paper about the interview. They type it in a word document and practice using spellcheck.
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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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Pyramid Play

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of the Food Pyramid. They use a game as a tool of discovery in order to classify different types of food in the pyramid. Upon completion of the game the students construct their own models of it.
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Tango's Story

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to "Grandfather Tang's Story" and use tangram pieces to create animals described by the main character.
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...
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Introduction to Melodic Notation: Sol-Mi

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders sing melodic sol-mi songs for teacher and student assessment. Emphasis is placed on drill and practice while developing melodic singing skills. Students evaluate performances and activities using pre-determined rubric...
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Pathways to the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
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Consumer Education, ESOL

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss types of housing, cost, location and terminology used in classified ads. They write a paragraph describing their image of the ideal home then exchange papers and edit each other's work.
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What Does Your "Homunculus" Look Like?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students determine the density of touch receptors in various parts of the body on the right hand side. They use collected data to draw a picture of the "homunculus" of an experimental subject.
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Kids in the Classroom on Summit Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the qualifications of a Supreme Court justice. As a class, they role play the role of a justice and share with the class why they are the best qualified candidate for the job. In groups, they create a bumper...
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Take Heed, Scurvy Dogs!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the use of ghosts in shipping stories. As a class, they assign roles and they act them out in a play. They make it seem as if they are in danger on their voyage and work together to create a script. They ask questions...

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