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These Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties (94)
Students write creative accounts of the Battle at Rivers Bridge after studying historic accounts and looking at images in this series of activities.
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Optical Images
Ninth graders study optics and the law of reflection. In this optical images instructional activity students use a laser and conceptualize the law of reflection.
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Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical (concave side), and Spherical (concave side) Mirrors
Young scholars study mirrors and see how images can be reversed. For this reflection lesson students demonstrate that all mirrors reverse images and that the apparent right to left reversal in a plane mirror is a result of that reversal.
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Third from the Sun
Students examine images from space. Â For this third from the Sun lesson, students examine images from, Landsat, the satellite launched by NASA in 1972. Â Â
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Laws of Reflection
Students experiment with mirrors to explore the Laws of Reflection. In this experimental instructional activity students develop their own experiments and follow a list of assigned steps then report what happens in their activity.Â
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Translations
High schoolers explore the concept of translations. In this translations lesson, students discuss similarities and differences between images and pre-images. High schoolers apply translations to coordinates of figures. Students use patty...
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Judaism - Hanukkah
In this symbol learning exercise, students recognize two important Jewish images. These symbols help students develop their understanding of the religion.
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Judaism - Hanukkah, Images for cards
In this symbol worksheet, students demonstrate their knowledge of the Jewish faith through symbol recognition. Students are challenged when comparing these symbols to other religious images.
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Paint a Picture
Students participate in a visualization exercise. Then listen to an excerpt from a story and discuss what they 'see.' Finally, they read silently and draw a picture of what they visualized in their heads. They explain their pictures,...
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Mussel Identification Activity
Young scholars identify given species of animals, such as various
mussels, by sets of physical characteristics as they use a key. They also read about mussels on the Illinois River and look at mussel species in the online database. ...
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Career Scrapbook
Pupils investigate a variety of career options. They conduct research into different types of occupations to find descriptive information. Students present a career of choice in the target foreign language. The use of visual examples is...
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Developing Cause & Effect Understanding in Severely Multiply
Students with severe multiple impairments determine ways to use a single access switch to create sounds and images on the computer screen. They follow a variety of teacher cues to access the sound card and images until they reach an...
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Community Construction Kit
Students engage in a lesson designed to be used with the Print Gallery section in the Community Construction Kit. The Print Gallery is a library of photographs, which provides students with an auditory description of each dwelling...
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The Power of Images
Tenth graders create images based on an understanding of historical and contemporary images and issues that reflect an understanding of responsibility to the context of a specific audience.
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Imagery on Fabric
Students practice placing images on their completed quilts. Using their quilt they made in an earlier lesson, they print off photographs from a printer and use heat to transfer them to the fabric. They share their quilts with the class.
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Miss Alaineus: A Recipe for Disaster
Students listen to the story, "Miss Alaineus: A Recipe for Disaster" and then participate in a series of activities designed to introduce new words to the class.
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Images As Persuasion
Young scholars examine how images can persuade or influence an audience. They discover how the message an image sends depends on the perspective of the audience.
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Structural Comparisons
Students study structural elements of a picture's composition. They scan images and compare the structural elements of the images.
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Studying the Great Depression Through Novels
Eighth graders view pictures of life in a small town during the Great Depression in Illinois to gain an understanding of living conditions during the era. They read novels based on life of this era.
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How Do Satellites Work?
Students model how satellites transmit data by using numbers not images.