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A Year to Remember
Students create calendars. In this technology skills lesson, students collaborate to prepare calendars that include special days of the year as well as digital photograph collages.
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Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World
Young scholars explore reasons that people immigrate to the United States. In this Statue of Liberty instructional activity, students read a handout regarding immigration, analyze the poem, "The New Colossus," and complete the provided...
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Vegetable Faces: A Guiseppe Archimboldo Portrait Study
Students create drawings of vegetable faces.In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various vegetables, which they use as models to create drawings. Students experiment with the vegetable drawings by adding faces to their...
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Time Capsule
Students consider the plight of Jewish children caught up in the Holocaust. For this Holocaust lesson, students create time capsules that include items that students print or download during their research.
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The Aerial Age
Students infer America's attitude towards aviation in the early 1900s. In this The Aerial Age lesson, students analyze early 1900s literature, music, advertisements, and popular culture in reference to aviation. Students represent their...
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Partner Switcheroo Stunt Hunt
Young scholars practice tumbling skills. In this physical education activity, students use their flexibility skills in order to follow the provided procedures to play Switcheroo Stunt Hunt.
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Mathematicians Research Projects
Learners research a famous mathematician and create a presentation of their research. In this famous mathematician research lesson, students decide on a famous mathematician that they would like to learn more about. They conduct research...
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Oceanography Class Quilt
Pupils create and observe a collage of oceanography topics that be placed on quilt tiles in a culmination art project to represent information learned.
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PEBBLE PICTURES
Students paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Muffin Flowers
Students use construction paper to create muffin flowers. They use muffin tray cup liners and draw flower stems and leaves on the paper. They use the muffin liners for a 3-D effect.
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State Heads
Students create a narrative image that depicts a formal shape of a state. They review the state facts of whatever state they chose. They draw a person and then add text in the shape of the state they chose.
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Montage
Fifth graders create unique montages based on a theme, using pictures from magazines with each montage taking up the specified space determined by the background paper.
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Fish Collages
Students discuss sea life and what lives in the ocean. They examine patterns, and create fish collages using ripped construction paper.
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Mixed-Media Self-Portrait with Symbols
Learners watch segments of a video to explore portraits. They create a self portrait using mixed-media.
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Harriet The Spy
Fourth graders investigate the style of diary writing as its own genre of literature. They read Harriet The Spy in order to have a text for this literature study. Students use the skill of prediction to preview the story, and then...
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Posing for Rembrandt
Learners consider the elements of costuming and posing in Rembrandt's work. They collect various costumes and experiment with poses in the theme of the painting "Night Watch". Students take photographs of poses and write accompanying...
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Thanksgiving Web Quest
Students review the reasons why Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States. Using the internet, they research the history of the holiday and discover what the first Thanksgiving was like. They also examine a typical menu for a...
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Selling Spelling
Learners participate in activities to practice their spelling words. They create advertisements to accompany their spelling words. They present their ads to the class and take a practice test. Their goal is to have everyone with a...
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What Makes A Face A Face?
Students discuss what enables us to read a face: features, expressions, standards of beauty, age and gender. They discuss what enables us to read motion: repetition, sequence, changes in form and scene.
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Eco-Poetry
Young scholars explore the Earth's various biomes and ecosystems using Internet research. They create a multimedia poem using the photos, sounds, and vocabulary from their research.
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Independent Reading Responses
Pupils participate in independent reading activities by reading a book at their independent reading level and selecting activities to complete after reading. Activities are broken up into C Level, B Level, and A Level activities.
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Blowing Bubbles, Blowing Colors
Young scholars examine the properties of bubbles by testing different bubble making materials. In this scientific experiment lesson, students create a bubble brew with different soaps while observing the different strengths and...