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Fish Tunes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use their musical talent to create a song for the class fishtank. In a group, they compose two or three songs about their own tropical fish in which they can use any rhythm and musical instruments they choose. They perform...
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Five "E" Lesson-Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students discuss the nature of stereotyping and prejudicial behavior and their feelings regarding people with visible disabilities. They view part of documentary Graduating Peter then work in groups to chart people's reactions and...
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Weekend With Wendell

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss prior knowledge about mice, and read a mouse poem. They listen to the teacher read "A Weekend With Wendell" and discuss Wendell's possible reaction when coming to visit the school media center. Students compose a class...
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Practicing Literary Analysis

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders analyze the poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." They read, discuss, and critique the poem in small groups focusing on plot and figurative language. They compose a short essay explaining how various literary elements...
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From Magpies to Messiaen: Birds in Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students in a music class discuss the influence birds have had on music throughout history. In groups, they create their own music using bird sounds and discuss how many composers must use everyday materials to help with their music. ...
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"Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda" from"Mother Goose Suite" by Maurice Ravel

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are introduced to the active teacher, composer and pianist Maurice Ravel and his masterpiece "Laideronette, Empress of the Pagoda", from Mother Goose Suite by Maurice Ravel. They utilize aural skills to notate the rhythm of the...
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Broccoli

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students figure out rhythm notation for phrases describing the benefits of broccoli. They compose four-measure patterns using the rhythms of these phrases.
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Ancient Music Recreated in Scotland

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about ancient musical tunes that have been found in a church in Scotland. They assess key vocabulary terms found within the article and compose lyrics for a song after...
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Escape to Freedom

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read 'They Called Her Moses," create a wanted poster for Tub man, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and in groups, create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time...
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Black, White and Digitized All Over

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the pros and cons of getting news from print newspapers and from their online counterparts, compare and contrast a printed newspaper with its online version, and then compose letters to editors of print and online...
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Webbing the Food Chain

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students compose a visual representation of the food chain cycle using Inspiration educational software.
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Painting Inside the Lines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine how freedoms of expression and religion are shaped within democracies. They consider reactions to controversial art exhibit in Moscow. They compose reaction papers supporting or refuting a quotation from the article read...
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The Crowd

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students compose and illustrate a scene in which a crowd of some kind, (people, animals, monsters, etc.), is reacting to some event happening out of the field of vision of the viewer.
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Separation of Unknowns in a Liquid

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify chromatography as method of separating the components of a liquid. Students discover that dyes are composed of more than one component in achieving a particular color in these lessons on paper chromatography.
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Singing in the H2O

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compose new lyrics to the tune of a popular song in order to teach and explain a challenging science concept being studied in class.
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Senate Confirmation Hearings on Cabinet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the confirmation process of presidential nominees to the Cabinet. They compose a list of questions to ask at a conformation hearing.
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Fossil Footsteps

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create their own dinosaur tracks using clay. In addition, 4th graders compose a story about the dinosaur / animal who created the tracks. They study photographs of dinosaur tracks before beginning.
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Long Vowel Phoneme - ea- 1 of 4

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use reading searchlights to work out new words and make sense of what they read. They compose own poetic sentences.
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Express Yourself!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study different types of poetry, compose a poem and word process it.
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Thomas Jefferson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recall the names of the first two presidents of the United States and identify the man who became the third. They compose an epitaph for Thomas Jefferson.
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The Surprise of the Blue Water

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students become aware of factors that effect drinking water quality and how this could effect the health of their school environment. Students compose a business letter reporting their school water quality results to an appropriate...
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Electricity Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students conduct experiments on static electricity using the Internet. They compose a 30 second electricity safety jingle to be aired on a local radio station.
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Postcards to Rembrandt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students "read" a work of art and infer meaning by analyzing its elements of art and principles of design. They practice creative writing by composing a postcard to an imaginary person.
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Local Heroes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify a hero in their community. They research a hero in their community. They compose an essay about their hero and present it to the class.

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