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Sadorus Photograph Collection Activity: Analysis of an Historical Photograph
Learners retrive social, cultural, and historical information from a photograph by analyzing the contents. Data about the subject's culture, people, events, and place is explored.
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Birds of A Feather
Students observe and record the many types of birds they see in a month. They discover the many patterns birds follow and compare their results with other classrooms. They complete a field assessment as the final activity for this lesson.
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Four Seasons From Laguna Pueblo
Pupils study seeds and spring planting. They plant corn, chili, watermelon seeds in a local field and then invite a farmer to come to discuss the preparation, caring and planting of seeds in a field.
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Our Cultural COmmunity
Students create tiles to create a project that helps students to reflect upon culture. The concept of multicultural education is necessary to help create a community of learners. Brainstorming is the main skill that is used for students...
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Recognizing Lifestyle Changes
Students discuss the changes they are going through in their lives. Using literature, they relate the stories to their own lives and discover how to properly deal with them. They also make a list of how the scenery, transportation and...
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Taking a Stand
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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Take a Ride on the Underground Railroad
Young scholars explore the issues of American slavery, the abolitionist movements, and the pursuit of freedom that is found in art, literature, and music from that period in American history. Students determine the major personalities...
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Creating a Nation
Pupils investigate the move to federation by the Australian colonies was abject of the displays of nationalism that characterized similar movements in other nations. Most notions regarding federation were treated with little serious...
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What is a Pest?
Students investigate whether rabbits should be considered pests even though they make good pets. They extend this to determine what, when, and where other organisms are considered to be pests, and examine why the concept of a pest is a...
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Wisconsin Through the Ages
Fourth graders research Wisconsin explorers. They analyze sources for information related to a Wisconsin explorer or missionary. They create a rough draft and edit and type a final draft including a profile of their explorer and...
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Yesteryear and a One Room School House
Fourth graders explore a one room schoolhouse at their school. They write questions to interview teachers and administrators involved in preserving the one room schoolhouse. They create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast information...
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Diseases Are Real
Eleventh graders research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point...
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Sowing Seeds of Service
Third graders use metric measuring for model and actual plan in designing a roof garden. They photograph the process, record results in a journal, and plant seedlings in small containers. Finally, 3rd graders complete an acid rain...
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Sharkland Wiki
Students, while researching the waters around southern Africa and viewing a video of the episode "Sharkland" from Thirteen's series NATURE, critique reliability of online resources and analyze the various components of a wiki. They...
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The Compost Bucket
Students recognize that plants and soils have a close relationship. They view a photo essay on the common practice and natural process of composting. Afterwards, they observe the process of plant decay over the course of several days.
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On the Mayflower Lesson Plan
Learners build a model of the Mayflower inside of the classroom in order to learn about the voyage of the Mayflower and the hardships faced by its passengers. For this American history lesson, students work in small groups to construct...
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Artists in Power Point
Young scholars create a Power Point presentation on a famous artist. In this research lesson students are assigned an artist to present to their classmates. The presentation follows a format.
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The Three People I Would Like to Invite for Dinner
Students identify and research three figures that are their personal heroes based on their characteristics of a hero. In this research lesson plan, the hero categories are a historical figure, a contemporary figure, and a person the...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography
American Experience offers a comprehensive look at George Eastman and his development of photography. Included are a timeline, biographies of important people in Eastman's personal and professional life, discussions in the history of...
PBS
Pbs: The Shape of Life
Companion site for the 8-part PBS series, "The Shape of Life." Each section focuses on a different phylum, from porifera through chordata. This site is highly informative, with beautiful photography.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: In Focus: Still Life
Enter the J. Paul Getty Museum to visit the exhibition, Still Life. This exhibition takes a new look at still life by examining the genre as portrayed in photography. Many examples from the 19th, 20th, and even 21st centuries are shown,...
Other
Their Circular Life
Travel to five different locations in Italy and, through time-lapse photography, get a feel for what it would be like at that spot over a 24-hour period.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Future Life: Let's Get Real
This instructional activity requires learners to select a career and explore the requirements for their potential job. They will work with a reality life situation of married versus single, number of children and challenge events....
EL Education
El Education: Seasons of Life
Students make multiple visits to a nursing home to develop a relationship with one person and learn about his or her life. Then students use a combination of illustrations, photographs, digital pictures, and biographical text to create a...