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Reading Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use and recognize new vocabularies of the weather and a simple writing structure --Today is __________.
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Reading and Writing

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students memorize their colors in English and practice by asking simple questions like, "What color is this?" and answering "This is green," etc.
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Scanning Text

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners search for particular piece of information in text. They develop skills of looking for information and finding specific data without reading the whole text.
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Voicing and Syllable Length (Using Rubber Bands)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify voiced and unvoiced sounds. They practice using short and long vowel sounds. They identify consonants only after paying attention to the length of vowels. They use rubber bands to help them determine the difference...
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Listening Comprehension - Newspaper Articles

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students demonstrate listening comprehension skills. They listen to an audio reading of two newspaper articles, identify verbs, answer discussion questions, and complete a cloze activity.
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Understanding Reduced Forms of Words

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine reduced forms of words. They listen to a radio advertisement, identify reduced forms used in the ad, and write the full form of reduced words in sentences.
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Overcoming the Fear of "Unknown" Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars practice different techniques to become a better reader. They practice using new vocabulary and are encouraged not to be afraid of learning new things. They answer questions about flyers to end the lesson.
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Exploring Our Solar System #1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the different theories on how our solar system was formed. They discover the order of the nine planets. They also identify the surface features of each planet.
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Leaders in a Media Age

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify ways in which the president can use various media to communicate his messages and intent. They demonstrate ways in which the news media can create public opinion.
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Finding Yourself in a Landscape

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students view landscape paintings. They recall a landscape that has meaning to them and describe it to the class. They complete a worksheet.
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Commission Statement

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils write a formal letter to an artist using art vocabulary they have reviewed in class. They commission a portrait from the artist. They share their letters with the class.
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Creating Your Own Story

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students think about a dramatic moment in their lives and imagine how to translate it into a work of art. They write their own personal experience as a story. They describe a visual image of their personal experience and/or story.
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How Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students read a visual image very much like they would read words in a story. They write about portraits using new portrait vocabulary. They, in groups, use their written analysis to hypothesize about the story of the sitters in the...
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What Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make connections between their personal experiences and portraits. define a portrait and identify different kinds of portraits in artworks and their own lives. They look closely at a portrait using visual analysis to describe...
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Exploring Homes and Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners search for images of and information about the exchange country's environments and housing, using a variety of sources, and evaluate primary sources of information in terms of accuracy and usefulness.
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Imagining Homes and Environments

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss relationship between environments, natural resources and housing, establish connection with students in classroom or school there, and paint pictures of what they think homes look like based on basic data about environment.
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Art Across the Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils create drawings of their own homes and those that they imagine might be found in a foreign country, conduct research on that particular foreign country using exchange artwork and questions with another group of students in that...
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Democratic Process, Constitutional Issues, Local Government

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders engage in the decision making process so as to encourage them to become active citizens upon graduation from high school.
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Looking at Photography Lesson 1: The Elements of Photography

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore and discuss the process of taking a photograph.
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Looking at Decorative Arts Lesson 2: "Reading" Objects and Their Owners

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the connection between a person's home and his or her personality. They practice new vocabulary.
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Looking at Decorative Arts Lesson 1: The Function of Furniture

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify different types of decorative arts objects and their functions. They investigate the difference between aesthetic uses and functional uses.
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Looking at Still Life Lesson 2: How Artists Assemble Still Lifes

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify and discuss the basic shapes used in artistic still-life compositions.
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Japanese Women - ESL Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read two articles discussing traditional and modern gender roles in Japan. Students complete a worksheet and participate in a discussion about the articles, clarifying some of their own opinions about gender roles.
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Plain English

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the June 2, 1998 Associated Press article "Bureaucrats Must Use Plain English" and discuss correct English.