Curated OER
Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 1
Students study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that students of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Looking Critically at Picture Books
This site describes several ideas and activities to use with picture books and intermediate/middle school age students. Specific title to use are also given.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Buddies Create Power Point Stories
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to create PowerPoint presentations about shared experiences like field trips or other activities. Students take pictures of what happen, and then explain the sequence of events in words...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
A 7-lesson unit where students critically analyze how a film adaptation portrays a novel to see what impact it had on the retell of the story. They then design a movie DVD cover and write a DVD insert based on what they have learned. The...
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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this activity, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Photo Analysis Presenting the Statue of Liberty
The ability to examine a primary source is a gateway to building critical thinking skills and constructing knowledge. This lesson plan provides the learners an opportunity to observe similarities and differences between 2 visual images,...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.