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Red Racer

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the letter r and sound it makes in letter symbols, and with words that begin with or contain r. First, children do the proper mouth movements to making the r sound, then review a tongue twister, and write words that...
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Decision Making, Take a Seat or Get off the Bus

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the positive and negative consequences of choosing to fight against discrimination. They read the story of Rosa Parks. Students discuss the movement against segregation. Students read other books about...
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Hop Oh Bunny

For Teachers K
Students imitate, sing, move, and discuss musical techniques in this exciting kindergarten music lesson plan. Emphasis is placed on the song "Hop Oh Bunny", call and response, rhythms, tempos, and the direction of pitch movement.
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Quick As A Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of reading a story and then they reenact it while performing a pantomime. They answer questions related to the reading and then children move throughout the class imitating...
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Move Your Body- Just Like Clifford!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read the book Clifford's Sports Day. In this kinesthetic lesson, students mimic movements from the text and participate in a game of "Simon Says."
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A Round and A Round

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice singing rounds in daily warm-ups for 2 weeks prior to beginning this composition lesson. Students incorporate movement to the rhythm of each syllable, discuss syllables of words and their relationship to note values and...
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Activities Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky

For Teachers K - 3rd
Student create a fish and listen to music while imagining their fish are swimming.  In this music lesson, students identify instruments played and move their fish to the movement.  Students work with kangaroos and elephants  to music as...
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Physical Education Lesson Plan: Fortune Cookies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate movement.  In this physical education lesson, students select a "fortune cookie" made from crumpled paper and read the directions inside.  Students perform locomotor skills by following the oral directions given.
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Different Ways to Travel

For Teachers Pre-K
Students use concentration and imagination to show different ways to move. In this body awareness lesson, students show different ways to move to music.  While the music is played students move around the room changing their movements to...
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Cubism Instrument in Oil Pastels

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Shared Resource Students will be taking a journey from learning the history of the Cubist Movement to mastering the medium of oil pastels. Learning about the artists that contributed to the movement from 1907 to 1914, the passionate masterpiece of...
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Words and Pictures Connect Nature and People: The American Conservation Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research some of the men and women who help to raise the environmental consciousness of the American people through their writings and drawings. They write a persuasive piece about an outdoor place which will connect their...
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Seven

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students model the writing style of the author of a piece of literature and present them to the class.
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The Movement of Ideas

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read and analyze the literary elements of Alphonse Daudet's "The Last Lesson" and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. They compare the two works and write an essay describing the reasons they feel the authors...
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Music And The Related Arts / Fiesta

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the concept of a celebration through the experience of music and culturally relevant conversation. They have a class discussion about thankfulness and tie it the tradition of celebration. Then students listen...
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Camera Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students focus on different ways director and cinematographers use the camera to convey meaning, setting, tone, point of view, personal style, as well as telling a story.
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Language Arts- Word Origins

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders locate, access, and select appropriate information from a variety of resources, including electronic sources. They analyze the audience and purpose of the task to make decisions about content and format.
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Indiana University

World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun

For Teachers 12th
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Landscapes of the Mind

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners review Emily Dickinson's biography and examine themes and forms of some of her poems. They measure ways Graham integrates aspects of Dickinson's life and the themes and forms of her poetry into Letters to the World.
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Every Day Edit - Susan B. Anthony

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Susan B. Anthony. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Great Balls of Fire - I Got Locomotor Skills

For Teachers K - 5th
Teach and review elementary locomotor skills. Use "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis to get youngsters up and grooving to the beat! The dance steps are described in rich detail and you will have the class jumping, skipping,...
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Great Gatsby's Jazz

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As Nick wanders the grounds of Gatsby's mansion, he observes the behaviors of the rowdy guests and listens to the music pouring over the lawn. Bring the music of the jazz age into the classroom with Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues,"...
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Hero or Tyrant: Connecting Beethoven’s Third Symphony to Napoleon, Part Two

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Was Napoleon a tyrant or a hero? Answers could vary depending on the political point of view. Learners listen to Beethoven's Symphony #3 while considering Napoleon's undemocratic tyranny. They listen to the piece in five parts, each time...
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Liberty Rhetoric

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is liberty rhetoric? Examine how people have used it in four different time periods and situations. High schoolers investigate original source documents and compare them with the Declaration of Independence to decide how liberty...
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Save the Lofty Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Save the Lofty Trees, by Leslie Mills, provides the text for a study of the roles of animals and humans in the forest. Richly detailed, the plan offers two approaches to the play: as a scenario for children to imagine what actions would...

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