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Painted Chairs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students evaluate visual arts by creating furniture designs. For this three dimensional art lesson, students utilize the web to examine different artist renderings of furniture, sculpture and architecture. Students utilize paint to...
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Monkey Mosaic

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use tiles to create a mosaic of haring people based on Keith Haring. In this mosaic lesson plan, students first draw the design and then create the same design with tiles.
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Haring Art Work

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study Keith Haring and his paintings, and then create their own pastel haring posters. In this haring people lesson plan, students also write their opinions of Keith Haring and his work.
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Haring Inspired Drawing and Sculpture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research art by identifying the work of Keith Haring. In this sculpting lesson, students utilize the web to examine sculptures and drawings in the style of Keith Haring. Students utilize sculpting wire, foil, pencils, glue and...
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Painting Pictures with Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop their own smilies and metaphors. They examine writing of the Poet Laureate. They identify philanthropy in quotations of others.
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At the Crossroads

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore where South Africa is and then research details about the country to fully assess the background to the book, "At the Crossroads." They receive a map of Africa and color in the country of South Africa and list five...
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African Art: Ntan Drum

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students study African history, anthropology and culture using the lens of the art object, Ntan Drum. Lesson and instruction is differentiated for elementary, middle and high school students.
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The Grand Canyon

For Students 7th - 12th
In this geological processes worksheet, students use Google Earth to access pictures of the Grand Canyon. Students look at the layering of rock over time. Students complete 2 short answer questions.
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Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak: Interruption

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the works of Holocaust artist Samuel Bak. For this Holocaust lesson, students analyze and interpret the works of Bak that feature his first-hand childhood experience of the Holocaust.
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Stitching Truth Lesson Two: The Arpilleristas in Pinochet's Chile

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze arpilleras. In this Chilean history instructional activity, students examine social justice issues as they read and interpret arpilleras. High schoolers study the tapestries to learn about Augusto Pinochet and his...
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Helping Students Do History on the First Day of Class

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students watch a video about Barack Obama and problems he faces as the president. For this president lesson plan, students write their own list and then compile a class list of problems and discuss them.
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Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Pupils review basic knowledge of similes and engage with similes on a more abstract level. In this similes lesson, students define similes and identify examples. Pupils read and analyze the similes used in poetry by Derricotte, Frost,...
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Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners explore the basis of Iago's persuasive power by analyzing Shakespeare's use of rhetoric and figurative language. In this Othello lesson, students analyze Iago's rhetoric in monologues and dialogues with other characters....
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Allegorical Meaning in Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders recognize the allegorical meaning in The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders analyze a poem for allegorical meaning.
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Poetry Unit Test

For Students 5th - 12th
In this poetry instructional activity, students complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.
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The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention: The Issue of Suffrage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover details about the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention. In this Kansas history lesson, 7th graders tackle civil rights concerns as they draft persuasive speeches to secure the rights of young voters in the state.
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Critical Analysis: "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" by Jessica Mitford

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" worksheet, students analyze the purpose and the meaning as well as summaryize the text.  Students determine three elements that the author used to make her point. 
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Understanding Irony

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss irony. In this language arts lesson, students identify irony and give examples of irony from their lives, a book, and current events. Students classify types of irony.
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Looking Back to 1980

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those conclusions.
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Deer Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use satellite images to track to movement patterns of deer and examine deer behavior. They write stories about a day in the life of a field scientist.
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Haikus for All Seasons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers venture outside and take notes on what they observe through their five senses. They use the Olympus D-545 digital cameras to capture pictures that they feel best represent the current season. Students write one to the...
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Albert Schweitzer: Darkness And Light

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a documentary which examines the life and work of Albert Schweitzer. Specifically, it explores the controversy surrounding Schweitzer. Darkness and Light would be useful for classes on World History, African History and...
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Geography: Snow Cover on the Continents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create maps of snow cover for each continent by conducting Internet research. After estimating the percentage of continental snow cover, they present their findings in letters, brochures or Powerpoint presentations.
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Fujiyama

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine and discuss Mt. Fuji (Fujiyama) and its effect on the culture and philosophy of Japan. This high school instructional activity is ideal for a Social Studies, Humanities, or Asian Studies class.

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