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Career Skills

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders work together to focus upon the skills needed for career development. They work together to find the kind of responsibilities that are needed in the contexts of home, work, and school. They create a poster based upon the...
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Sequencing Stories

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama lesson, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Learners role play, pantomime, and add sounds to  create a...
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Going on a Bear Hunt

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate pantomiming by going on a fictitious bear hunt.  For this performing arts lesson, students collaborate in groups to sing songs and perform pantomimes based on a hunting trip.  Students create their own dance to...
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Gymnastics Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners investigate the importance of having a healthy body by performing gymnastics.  In this physical education lesson, students utilize their flexibility and body strength to perform intense physical gymnastic maneuvers with the help...
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Wild Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders use action spelling. For this high frequency words lesson students are read the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Students add words to the classroom wall that are in the book. Students act out words from...
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Animal Movements

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils will explore animal movements. They will compare movements and relate them to where animals live and how they obtain food.
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The Ingredients Needed for a Musical National Park

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify musical sites that are worthy of being included as units of the National Parks System. They anthologize American music from primitive times to today.
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Poetry in Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create individual poems containing varied line lengths, punctuation, and rhythm, and explain how each contributes to overall effect of the poem.
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The Poetry of Woody Guthrie

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students develop oral fluency through reading and singing. They sing "This Land is Your Land" and discuss what the pictures and words mean in the song. They connect the song and poem and previous learning and write a journal.
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The Art of Paraphrasing

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders participate in an activity in which they practice paraphrasing sections of primary and secondary documents. They are to share their paraphrasing with the class to help with their confidence speaking in front of a group.
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A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students create story telling plates based on David Stabley's technique. They incorporate art history and aesthetics with hands on activity.
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Mi Casa es Tu Casa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make animated houses using slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They treat the surface of the house with a technique known as majolica.
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Animal Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss the behavior of different animals and how they move. They explore the ways that this helps them live and find food in their environment. They participate in a game that requires them to mimic the ways in which animals move.
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The Presidential Physical Fitness Test

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice skills of physical fitness to prepare for The Presidential Physical Fitness Test. They practice daily using specific exercises like curl ups and the one mile run/walk. The lesson allows students to project a profile...
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Creating Fitness Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a fitness goal to include one of the following: muscle building, cardiovascular development or healthful diet. They utilize a daily calendar to record progress. They utilize the Internet to research proper ways to reach...
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Scream Run

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the rules and procedures of the game Scream Run. Individually, they scream at the top of their lungs and run when given the signal by their teacher. To end the lesson plan, they try to sing a song while...
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Dream Streets

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct research on the internet to discover the principles of drawing using one and two point perspectives. After examining street scenes by Edward Hopper and postcards of Main Street USA in Disney, they write about and...
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Little Train of Caipira

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils listen to the "Berry Pickers' Song" on the piano twice. They practice the song several times to become familiar enough to recognize it in the piece. They listen to the CD and recognize the tune by raising their hand and tell what...
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Recreating Chinese Bronze Vessels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are shown how to make Chinese Bronze Vessels using coil or slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They are given an overview of the history of Chinese Bronze Vessels and given examples. Students are shown photographs, and they take...
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Clouds

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore clouds. In this clouds lesson plan, students talk about, write about, and paint clouds to gain an understanding of clouds.
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As Large As Life. . . A Poster of a Human Body System

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the major systems and functions of the human body. In this anatomy lesson, students make life-size outlines of bodies, diagram body systems, and present their work to their classmates.
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Families of Instruments

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify families of instruments. In this music lesson, students read Berlioz the Bear and identify the families of instruments. Students sing "Mr. Gus Goes Goofy," and listen for the sounds of the instruments.
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Circle Sculpture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the Theatre of the Oppressed. For this diversity lesson, students practice confronting injustice as they participate in "circle sculpture" to role play performance models that deal with social justice issues. Students...
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Vishal Ramani & Shri Krupa Dance Foundation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the art of Bharata Natyam Indian dance. In this Indian dance lesson, students read text about Indian dance Bharata Natyam dance. High schoolers may create their own dance and a television story about the topic.

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