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Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: Mixing Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Create meaningful illustrations to accompany stories in a web-based art and literacy lesson focused on "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. The class takes a virtual art safari with the Museum of Modern Art and then discusses how...
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Fable Writing - Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Sciences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Before writing their own fables, class members select an animal or insect to use in their story and research its character, habits, movements, etc. After reading a wide variety of fables and identifying the elements of a fable, writers...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling activity, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Popcorn

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils conduct a lab experiment using the scientific method. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students will test the difference in popping white and yellow corn. Pupils will write their lab report in their science, math, history,...
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Confetti

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Confetti. In this reading lesson plan, 3rd graders complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions,...
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Rainbow Joe and Me

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Rainbow Joe and Me. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...
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Amelia's Road: Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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Bein' With You This Way

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Bein' With You This Way. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have...
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the characteristics of effective speeches. Students find elements of good speeches in the text and in the delivery of model speeches. Students build a working three-dimensional model of an invention or an actual...
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Reflections of Hunger and Poverty: the Works of Lange, Kollwitz, and Orozco

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the Great Depression depicted in artwork. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students analyze artwork by Dorothea Lange, Kathe Kollwitz, and Jose Clemente Orozco. Students create brochures that feature details...
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Revolutionary News Network

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study events leading to, during and resulting from the American Revolution. They review elements of a political cartoon. They create and dramatize a scene from a Revolutionary War novel.
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Inventors and Scientists

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students research a scientific breakthrough. In this science lesson, students write an essay on a technology that has changed the world.
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We the People (Cultural Research)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders conduct cultural research, collect oral histories using tape recorders and cameras, and share their ancestral heritage with classmates through family heirlooms and ethnic foods.
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A is for Apple

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a variety of activities to learn about apples. Students graph apples, learn about apple uses, taste apples, and observe what happens when apples are dipped in lemon juice.
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Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.