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Your Attention Please: Iatmul Orator's Stool

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate art by observing historical sculptures from New Guinea. In this art history lesson, students observe pictures of the "Orator's Stool"from Papua New Guinea, while identifying the small details that make it unique....
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Native American Clay Pots

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore world culture by conducting an art project in class. In this Native American culture lesson, students identify the types of materials American Indians utilized in their artistic endeavors, specifically clay. Learners...
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And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Learners use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....
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Making Sense of Homographs

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
What is a homograph? Develop your students' vocabulary with a word association tool.   Language arts classes discover what a homograph is and how it can be used as a visual thesaurus. They discover the other uses for homographs such as...
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Take the Prefix Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students form words using prefixes.  In this prefix lesson, students compete in a "prefix challenge" to see which team can combine a set of twelve prefixes with a set of twelve words fastest.  Students enter their words in a word log and...
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What is a Paragraph? Part Two

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Paragraphs are simply visual cues to separate information. Briefly display the different types of paragraph organization with these slides. A good tool for beginning readers and writers.
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Cardboard Radial Weaving

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore cultural history by participating in an arts and crafts activity. In this weaving activity, students identify the many cultures that used weaving methods and local plant life to create baskets and other useful tools....
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Describer-Drawer Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
What's life with out a little fun and games now and then? This game helps kids practice many different skill sets. Child one takes a card then attempts to dictate how to draw the object to child two. Child two draws an object based on...
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Drawing with Wire

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify visual arts by examining visual models. In this art analysis lesson plan, students discuss the history of Keith Haring by researching information on the Internet. Students view images showing Keith Haring's work and...
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Hues and Bridges: Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet.  In this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout.  Students create their own painting of a famous...
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Commas in a Series; Making an Advertisement!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Language arts learners practice using commas in a series while designing their own advertisement! This creative assignment calls for learners to create their own visual advertisement describing a product of their choice. Their poster...
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The Past Tense -- Simple Past

For Students 3rd - 5th
A quick review of the past tense begins this instructional activity. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified....
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Building Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Decode and acquire new vocabulary! Readers use new vocabulary in their writing and use synonyms to determine meanings. Visual learners label pictures and group words together to increase understanding.
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PPT
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Standard Punctuation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Clear up the confusion that comes with the question, do I use a comma or a semicolon? This presentation provides examples and reasons for using particular end marks, apostrophes, commas, or semicolons. Information is presented in a well...
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The Lightning Thief: Vocabulary Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Take an in-depth look into the vocabulary from the novel, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With a list of words to choose from, scholars discover the definition, origin, stories associated with the...
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Breaking the Chains, Rising Out of Circumstances

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate a sculpture from the 17th century.  In this art history lesson, students examine Bust of a Man by Francis Hardwood and discover the meaning behind it.  Learners create their own portrait bust of somebody they admire.
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Mexican Charades

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore communication by participating in a game of charades. In this visual storytelling lesson, students utilize their acting abilities and physical prowess to communicate Mexican imagery to their classmates without the use of...
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The Eight Parts of Speech

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Presented as eight slices of a whole pie, here is a nice graphic organizer for your young grammarians to complete and keep handy as they learn about the eight parts of speech: interjections, nouns, conjunctions, pronouns, adjectives,...
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Commonly Confused Words

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Test your scholars' knowledge of commonly confused words with this grammar activity. With multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank options, this ten question activity is certain to express your learners' understanding. 
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Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
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Tell Us a Tale: Teaching Students to Be Storytellers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Encourage scholars to retell their favorite short story or folktale, adding personal details to make it their own. After reading their book of choice several times, story tellers retell a tale verbally to their classmates. 
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Creativity Exercise - Describe the Sky

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars stretch their writing muscles with an exercise that asks them to describe the sky using similes and metaphors. 
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The Power of Words in "Charlotte's Web"

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students analyze the text in Charlotte's Web. In this language arts lesson, students dissect the passages from Charlotte's Web, specifically the adjectives Charlotte used to describe Wilbur. Finally, students play a game using "word...
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The Farmer Cares for the Land

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore farming by creating visual demonstrations. For this agriculture lesson, students read assigned text about a farmer's duty and identify the events that have taken place in the history of agriculture. Students collaborate...

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