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PPT
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Entertainment During the American Revolution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What do people do for fun around here? Explore colonial period games, toys, and life with a look at entertainment during the American Revolution. Discover the games, sports, and songs that were popular during the time of the Revolution.
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Teach-nology

Author’s Purpose: Entertain

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
How does an author entertain his or her audience? Read a short fairy tale and find the most evocative passages to discover more about author's purpose in narrative writing.
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Curated OER

Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore how the innovations in culture and technology influenced the development of a leisure industry in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Curated OER

Entertainment and Recreation in the Early Twentieth Century and Today

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders research entertainment and recreation in the early twentieth century using primary sources and the book From the Hidewood, by Robert Amerson. They compare the rural experience of the time period to the national...
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Curated OER

Ambassador Satch, Superb Entertainer: 1950-1971

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participated in guided listening lessons of Louis Armstrong's jazz music while interpreting his lyrics. They study his life as an entertainer and goodwill ambassador for the US.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Comprehension: Text Analysis, Persuade, Inform, and Entertain Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Why do authors write? Practice determining the author's purpose with a categorizing activity. Learners sort twelve short passages into three categories: persuade, inform, and entertain.
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Curated OER

Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at the Turn of the 20th Century

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students inquire about the history of enterntainment and flim. The development of the modern industry of entertainment is done from reflecting upon its roots and background. The discussion is leading to answering how Americans have...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Tudor Entertainment

For Students 5th - 6th
In this facts about Tudor entertainment worksheet, students read illustrated facts about Tudor sports, banquets, theatre, and public execution and create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting them with entertainment today. Students...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Entertaining Films Vocabulary

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary in conversation about entertaining films online/interactive activity, students fill in the blanks to complete sentences with the vocabulary words in the word bank and click on the "check" button to check their answers....
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K20 LEARN

Bear Tale: Author's Purpose - Informing Or Entertaining

For Teachers 2nd Standards
After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett, scholars discuss the author's purpose. Small groups compare and contrast a book written to entertain and a book to inform, then create a T-Chart detailing the characteristics of each. Learners...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Technology and Invention in Entertainment

For Students 4th - 5th
In this technology and invention worksheet on entertainment, students describe the features of a gramophone and record player shown in a photograph. Then they identify and list what inventions have replaced them for listening to music...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Art & Entertainment in the Late 1800's to Early 1900's

For Students 6th - 8th
For this arts worksheet, students find the words that are related to arts and entertainment. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Curated OER

To Entertain

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders consider the author's purpose for writing a text. In this author's purpose lesson, 2nd graders discuss reasons why author's write a book and how it can often be for entertainment. Students read a book, provide two examples...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Arts Entertainment

For Students 4th - 5th
In this arts worksheet, students find the words that are related to arts entertainment and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Organizer
Curated OER

That's Entertainment - Classification Activity

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this classification worksheet, students brainstorm what they like to do for entertainment while the teacher records their ideas on large paper. They use strips of the paper that the teacher has cut up to classify the entertainment...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The History of The Cyclorama and Moving Panorama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here is a lesson designed to acquaint learners with two amazing forms of entertainment from the 19th century: The Cyclorama and the Moving Panorama. After seeing what these two contraptions were all about, pupils make their own version...
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Curated OER

Writing Author's Purpose

For Teachers 8th
Write in all three authorial purposes (persuasive, informational, entertaining) with this lesson. Young writers consider a time when a friend of theirs helped them out and gave them advice on something. They write a short paragraph (no...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tudor Entertainment Crossword

For Students 6th - 7th
In this English history instructional activity, students read 20 clues about entertainment in the Tudor culture. Students complete a crossword puzzle with their answers.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Entertaining Films: Vocabulary Skills

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding entertaining films. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Great Depression: Entertainment

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners explore forms of entertainment during the Great Depression. In this 1930's America lesson, students consider what they do for fun today and compare to what Americans did for fun during the depression.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

America in the 1950's

For Students 5th - 8th
In this America in the 1950's worksheet, students read about housing, education, entertainment, and the Cold War in the 1950s. Students then answer 5 questions about this time.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

That's Entertainment

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view examples of active lifestyles in works of Robert Harris, and list and graph their daily activities to see if they lead active lifestyles. Students then name forms of entertainment that require practice,...
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TED-Ed

How Many Ways Can You Arrange a Deck of Cards?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Entertain and grab your learners' attention with a short video clip that engagingly teaches the concept of a permutation and how a factorial is a wonderful shortcut for theoretical probability calculations.
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App
Mind Snacks

Learn Italian - MindSnacks

For Students 1st - Higher Ed
Once your class samples these games, they won't want to stop learning Italian. Eccellente! Effective for beginning and intermediate Italian learners, picking up new words and phrases through this app is an entertaining task.

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