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Sole People

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create "sole people" using tempera paint, drawing paper, and shoe prints in this multi-level art lesson. The lesson can be combined with a brief history of the African-American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger, who created the...
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Language Arts: What Is a Family?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the attributes of a successful family after listening to the poem,"What Is a Family?" After sharing information about their own families, students work in groups to act out scenes from books that were previously read...
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Theatre Lesson Plan- Tableau (part 2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore tableaux.  In this social studies and fine arts cross curriculum lesson, students work in groups of four to create "frozen" stage pictures (tableaux) representing vocabulary and concepts from a "From Farm to You"...
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Lesson: Nimble Symbols

For Teachers K - 5th
Comparative thinking is one way to build critical analysts. Budding artists discuss symbols and how they represent concepts, beliefs, or ideas. They compare the symbols found on an ancient Egyptian mummy case to those found in...
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A Picture's Worth 1000 Words: Decoding Intercultural Symbols

For Teachers K - 8th
Students interpret a set of pictographs, defining what each image means and create their own set of symbols as an alphabet. They then write using their own symbolic alphabet using pictures.
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Thanksgiving Placemats: A Community Service Project

For Teachers K - 12th
Students complete a community service project to brighten the holidays. They work together at a food kitchen or shelter. They reflect on their experiences.
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December Concentration Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students play the classic game of Concentration using cards with December holiday and weather pictures on them. They research different December holidays and adapt the details to the game of concentration.
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How We Are Alike And Different

For Teachers K
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the similarities and differences as part of knowing other children. They use examples of different drinks to illustrate the differences or similarities that are present...
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Life-Changing Events

For Teachers K
Students investigate the life changing events that can take place in the life of a school age child. They conduct class discussion about some examples of life changing events. The lesson is targeted towards counseling or opening days of...
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Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic in the One-Room Schoolhouse

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, through historic photographs and stories, discover the world of the one-room schoolhouse and compare it to their school experience.
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How I Act Is Who I Am

For Teachers K
Students discuss the roles people have and how the people they know act after watching a puppet show. Puppets and teacher lead discussion with class and ask them to provide examples of being responsible , cooperative, respectful, and...
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 1)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the roles and responsibilities of various school workers. They identify implications of what would happen in the school community if a school worker did not complete that role or responsibility.
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Life Before Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students investigate the life that takes place before going to kindergarten. They brainstorm about some of the key events that are common for children entering school. Students create two drawings about life before kindergarten and...
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Career Investigators - Jobs of Family Members

For Teachers K
Students investigate the concept of a job and how they can differ for each household. They examine a tool box filled with different tools and identify the types of jobs could be done with them. Then the teacher conducts a class discussion.
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Conversation Heart Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Primary learners play conversation heart bingo in order to write common phrases. They will create a bingo card with common phrases from conversation heart candy. The teacher calls out phrases and the learners cover them with conversation...
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What is an Initial Public Offering (IPO)?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn the difference between primary and secondary stock markets. Obviously, students explain that it is difficult, if not impossible, for individuals to get shares of an IPO at the offering price.
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Jobs I Like At Home and At School

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore jobs at home. They name a personal strength, indicate interests, and explain the importance of jobs to home and school.
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Our Classroom Party

For Teachers K
Students are shown the importance of planning events in the context for having a class party. The counselor comes to the class to take a survey of how many students are interested to have a party. The teacher can use this lesson to help...
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Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Leaders' Decisions and Actions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Community leaders try to make choices that protect the community and the environment. Little ones learn about how tribal communities look to their chief to guide the decision-making process. Your class will become part of the community...
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Holi-Days

For Teachers K - 4th
Students research an event, celebration, or observance from a culture with which they are not familiar and present their information to the class in this cross-curricular look at festivals and celebrations. The lesson includes an option...
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The Designed World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students visit a school or public library and study how information is organized. In this information management lesson, students answer a group of questions about the organizational method of the library. Students then practice sorting...
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African Dogon Rabbit Mask

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to the Dogon Society of Africa and view examples of African mask art. They use grocery bags, paper and glue to make a mask that represents an animal and then stage a dance to imitate the characteristics of their...
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Bodhidharma/Daruma Doll Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study Japanese Daruma dolls and the Legend of Bodhidharma. They create their own Daruma Dolls.
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Making Rose Petal Beads

For Teachers K - 12th
Students make homemade beads from flower petals while exploring Native American history, culture, and art.

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