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To Live
Students explore Chinese life during the Cultural Revolution. They read and discuss a brief historical essay on 20th century China as well as viewing a fictionalized film account of the time period titled, "To Live". They write a...
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Art Styles - Portrait Triptych
Students select one photos and creates portraits of the photo in three different styles. After making the portraits, they describe the differences between them. They place their finished product on a triptych for viewing and practice...
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Let's Meet Famours Painters!
Students demonstrate an understanding of art terms and concepts by analyzing and interpreting visual art forms that are paintings from world cultures. They practice art criticism after working on vocabulary.
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Were There Two Wars for American Independence?
Learners debate whether or not the War of 1812 can be counted as America's second war of independence. After researching the War of 1812, they complete a WebQuest designed to help them decide on the validity of the war as a quest for...
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Mystery and Mayhem
Students use literature to examine the violence and loss of innocence during the 1960s. In this U.S. history lesson, students read Robert McCammon's Boy's Life to investigate the social unrest, violence and loss of innocence in the...
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Writing to See
Learners write descriptively and creatively after looking carefully at a work of art.
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Chasing Your Dreams
Students define success. They analyze what makes people successful and develop their own plans to become successful people. After a class discussion about success, students analyze the story of a young adult who is working in the real...
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An Automobile Phylogenetic Tree
Students construct a phylogenetic tree for various automobiles and trucks after considering important characteristics of these "organisms". They work in small groups to construct the trees and complete a set of questions then they...
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Constellation Companions
Students research the star composition for a constellation after a brainstorming session suggesting why humans have organized the night sky into constellation patterns. They use the research to create their own constellation and myth...
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Basic Probability
Students explore basic probability. In this Algebra II/Geometry lesson plan, students use modeling to solve basic probability problems involving real-life applications.
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Famous Hoosiers
Fourth graders make a timeline about a famous person from Indiana. In this famous Hoosiers instructional activity, 4th graders watch a PowerPoint presentation about David Letterman's life. They make a timeline using information from the...
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The Works Progress Administration and the New Deal
Students research the Depression Era and how it contributed to the formation of the Works Progress Administration. After research, they create a skit to illustrate life during the Depression and the role of the Works Progress...
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E.B. White
For this biography worksheet, students read a short passage detailing the life of author E.B. White. Students then answer 6 questions about the passage they have read.
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Comparing Realistic and Fictional Settings
Young scholars examine setting in a work of realistic fiction. In this literature instructional activity, students read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and then write an essay that compares real-life settings to...
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Emergency Shelter Project: Empathy Unit
Learners design emergency shelters. In this designing emergency shelters lesson, students discuss living conditions of people after a natural disaster. Learners discuss the tsunami that struck East Asia. Students design...
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Sopay Water
Tenth graders design and conduct an experiment to explore the use of several substances in removing soap from water. During this activity they work with a lab partner. They keep their own individual lab notes, after they finish, they...
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Mr. P's Life -- Part I
In this Algebra I/Algebra II activity, students solve a word problem in which they must determine the age of their teacher and his children in 1987. The one page activity contains one problem with the solution.
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Comparison of Political Life
Students research and compare and contrast the political leadership of three cultures.
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Understanding Treaties: Students Explore the Lives of Yakama People Before and After Treaties
Students examine the impact of treaties on the Yakama nation. They discover the importance of land and how they felt when their land was taken away. They role-play the positions of both the Yakama and citizens of the United States.
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Cells, The Structural and Functional Units of Life
Students observe the general structure and organelles of plant and animal cells. Students prepare microscope slides of elodea, onion, check, and cork and identify the cells by size and shape as unicellular, multicellular, plant or animal.
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Cooking Crepes in Ms. Stentella's French Class
Students explore eating, cooking, and life in France and identify table-setting vocabulary and restaurant conversational skills. After reviewing the crepe recipe, students pair up and do a mini WebQuest on crepes and find cultural...
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Sherlock Holmes: Teaching English Through Detective Fiction
Students read examples of mysteries and detective fiction. With a focus on Sherlock Holmes, they are introduced to the techniques for reading properly. In groups, they define new vocabulary, make predictions and summarize the stories. ...
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Thomas Becket- Reading Comprehension/History
In this reading comprehension and history worksheet, students read a passage about the life of Thomas Becket before answering 7 multiple choice questions based on the reading.
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Modeling Allele Distribution Through Meiosis and Fertilization
The main objective of this activity is to illustrate the variation that results from crossing-over during prophase I of meiosis. Other sources of variation from generation to generation are: (1) independent assortment (223 possible...