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Introductions

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students introduce themselves to the teacher and the class by completing a variety of surveys, interest inventories and questionnaires. They interview several others and then introuduce one of the people they inerviewed to the rest of...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students introduce themselves utilizing an alliterative descriptor. They begin building a nurturing learning community and follow multi-step directions for preparing applications and completing forms. Each student also demonstrates how...
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Critical Consumerism

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the role of advertisements in their environment. In this advertisement lesson, students find advertisements in their classrooms and discuss them. Students write a definition for advertisements and identify related...
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Who am I?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice their writing skills by creating a character sketch of themselves. After viewing portraits, they select one personality trait and put their own picture into the painting of their choice. They include a conversation with...
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The Three Dimensions: Health, Wealth, and Wisdom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine seven lifestyle factors. In this personal health lesson plan, students will examine healthy lifestyles and create a personal health, wealth, and wisdom calendar.
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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Dwellings - The Message of Houses and Their Contents, 1780-1820

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore how architectural styles of the times reflected the economic status and taste of the individuals who owned the houses and how changes in the landscape and in material wealth reflect changes in technology and in...
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Dressing in Early American Times

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, by doing research and seeing actual and simulated artifacts, gain knowledge of and make comparisons about clothing in the Colonial and early Republican eras with attire of present time.