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"I Believe..." Podcast Style

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Use this communication skills lesson to emphasize evaluating a speaker's main point and argument. After reading Martin Luther King's, "I Have a Dream Speech" and John F. Kennedy's speech, "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of...
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A Picture Book of Helen Keller

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students advocate for people with disabilities. In this Helen Keller lesson, students listen to the story A Picture Book of Helen Keller by David A Adler. Students discuss how Helen Keller learned to communicate and became an advocate...
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: GREAT TO COMMUNICATE

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Humans love to communicate and they do it in so many different ways. The class investigates how people have used new inventions and technological innovations to communicate. They are divided into groups of three or four and given the...
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Mary Todd Tours the World

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils analyze how distinguishing another culture encourages us to respect each other. They research culture and all its avenues, recognizing and comprehending the relationship between people and geography. Ultimately, they can apply...
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Communicating Values and History through Masks

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils create an African style mask that depicts a value or character trait that is important in their community.
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ANCIENT ART/ABORIGINAL BARK PAINTING

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore Aboriginal art and how it is used in communication and story-telling. They create their own Aboriginal art out of brown paper, incorporating designs and patterns.
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of communication. In this communication lesson, students create collages featuring their likes and dislikes. Students present the collages to their classmates. 
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Treasure Hunters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design an on campus treasure hunt to find various architectural vocabulary words which they then create definitions for on the blog page on the Environmental Design website.
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Nature Poems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the visual, auditory, and verbal worlds offered by iLife applications to create a project that engages all learners and learning styles. They create a class book and CD of nature poems and artwork.
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Bust Of Virgo, Bust Of Pisces

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners analyze the relief designs of Petra and design their own personal sacred image in the same style using plaster of Paris or Model Magic. This instructional activity should be completed within 45-minutes of starting construction...
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African Masks And Their Impact On Western Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Explore the influence of African-style masks on Western art. Learners create individual masks using construction paper. They discuss and explore the techniques used to create these types of masks. The resource includes links to...
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The Art and History of Japanese Calligraphy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Chinese and Japanese calligraphy is beautiful and significant in both culture and tradition. Engage your class in this expressive fine art form through a activity on using, holding, and creating brush strokes common to Japanese writing...
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Odyssey of the Mind

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: From a Distance

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Challenge your class with an amazing set of ideas that really put the project back into project-based learning. It all starts with a whole class research task. Each learner will look up and take notes on multiple facets of things that...
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Collage

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine different buildings with the same architectural style. They make a collage of structures built that represent one architectural style.
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Costume And Make-Up Shakespeare Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create original costumes and make-up for a puppet presentation of a scene from Shakespeare in this week long creative project. Performances of the Shakespeare scenes end this lesson geared towards state and national standards...
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The Latest Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a contemporary collage of a Northern Renaissance theme/story in an exciting group project. Through in-class examples and student work, the art of the Northern Renaissance is studied and analyzed.
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Waves of Radios

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students grasp the fundamentals of radio/sound communication technology. They research why the size of radios has gotten smaller through advances of technology...from large radio tubes through transistors through microchips. Students...
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Kuba African Cloth

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars identify four different African cloth design styles and associate them with the cultures examined in this lesson plan. The lesson plan also includes a creative project where each student creates their own cloth design.
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Give It All You’ve Got Heroes and Visual Art

For Teachers 5th
Sure, your young artists probably know Van Gogh and Picasso, but are they equally as familiar with Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol? Small groups examine the work of famous artists. Then, they create their own hero portraits in Cubist style...
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From Formal To Slang

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders define the term slang, explaining its various social, historical, and racial contexts, so as to articulate when it can be appropriately used as a means of effective communication. They use their own personal slang lexicon,...
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Communication 3: Taking "No" For An Answer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners play a rejection game and fill in sentences about taking and accepting "no" for an answer. In this taking "no" worksheet, students also discuss how asking more than twice is aggression.
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Blogging My Life 24-7

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students write sticky blog entries to practice instant communication that is simple, concrete, credible, and emotional. In this blogging lesson, students discuss blogs and visit examples to find 'sticky' writing examples. Students write...
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Word Picture - Communicating Visually

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how words and visual images are used to influence people. They choose a word to illustrate using both lettering and visual images. They present their work and it is critiqued by a peer review.
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VAN GOGH LESSON

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create their own versions of Starry Night and practice the use of expressive style. They discuss the lines, colors and shapes used by van Gogh in his work.

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