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How'd They Do That?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students research the movie production occupation and careers in the industry. In this movie careers and effects activity, students watch a video about special effects used in movies and scale. Students draw a building to a specific...
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Layering the Soil

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study and classify soil. For this soil science lesson, students classify soil by texture and size and study soil horizons. Students label the soil types with their specific soil horizon and learn about permafrost. Students...
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African Mask

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research the importance of masks to the African culture.  In this African mask lesson, students design original masks using a variety of materials.  Students use the template provided to create their masks.
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Effect on Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the effect the change of dimensions causes for the volume and surface area. In this geometry lesson, students compare perimeter, area and volume as they play around with the dimensions of the polygons. They discuss...
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More Prisms/Nets

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the volume and surface are of three-dimensional shapes. In this geometry lesson, students use the nets to prove their calculations of shapes. They identify the different parts of a solid using the nets.
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Make a Cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex Fossil

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the formation of fossils and list the different types. They make cast model of a dinosaur fossil. They write about conditions that are necessary for fossils to form and create a model of a buried fossil.
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Children of the Earth and Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the culture and traditions of Native Americans. After reading "Children of the Earth and Sky," students discuss the lives of Native American children in relation to their own. They create replicas of Hopi...
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SHOW 303: The Channel Island Fox

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners explore how archaeologists and other scientists use different clues to piece together a picture of the past. Students perform activities that allow them to conduct three types of scientific research. They discuss their...
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Drawing as a Foundation - Activity 1

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create sketches of animals in preparation for canvas paintings in this introductory instructional activity on Drawing. This week-long instructional activity includes a video and research ideas for students.
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Understanding Cultural Diversity

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine different types of art to help them explain the idea of cultural diversity. This is a unit focusing on works of art.
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Decomposing Artifacts

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in an experiment in which they calculate the time of decomposition of different materials. In groups, they fill bags with different materials and cover them in soil. After six months, they create a line graph...
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Class Tales

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners improve their reading comprehension by role-playing a bear hunt story. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students pretend to go on a bear hunt and complete an art project for the story.
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Downhill Discoveries

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.
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China's Ancient Tomb Culture

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and discuss Chinese history through the examination of ancient tomb artifacts. Emphasis is placed on the creation of student posters displaying "what they would put in a tomb".
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Paper Sculpture Habitats

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop skills in sculpture. They acknowledge that sculpture can be made in a variety of ways. Students encounter different ways paper can be manipulated. They gain experience in collaboration.
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Build an Exhibit

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discover the importance of keeping the water in the water supply clean. Using the internet, they complete an activity in which they record their answers on a worksheet. In groups, they create their own exhibit on...
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Kindergarten Geometry

For Teachers K
Students choose a square of any size and use yarn to show that all 4 sides are the same. They sort the traffic sign cards into groups of squares and non-squares. Also they make a square using Q-tips; tell how you know it is a square.
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Make It All Better!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm ideas to solve a problem. In this technology lesson, students share their ideas to class. They research innovations that could benefit the community.
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Make It All Better!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design an innovation that could help their community. In this technology lesson, students identify problems that could be solved by innovation. They present their ideas in class.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Clay Animation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a hands-on, technology-based project to incorporate creative writing and technology in the classroom. Clay Animation is one way of presenting a story in a nonverbal way. [Requires QuickTime.]
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Library of Congress

Loc: Origins of American Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
An amazing collection of 21 animated films which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings, and early silent films.
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Animate clay.com: Clay and Stop Motion Animation Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A totally cool site on clay animation. There are tips on how to make your clay objects come to life!
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the classroom....
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New York Times

New York Times: Feats of Clay

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch this short commentary about the character development of the people and creatures from the claymation film "Wallace and Gromit Includes images of how the clay characters were made.

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