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Playing with Language: Tall Tales and Codes
Young scholars interpret and identify the elements of folktales, with an emphasis on tall tales, in this lesson. Students utilize brainstorming techniques to list ways people communicate. Young scholars also read and create a time line...
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Media as a Representation of Reality
Students examine different viewpoints and representations of events. They discover that viewpoints are constructed from different points of view. They also examine how they represent real events.
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The Growth of Islam
Seventh graders gain insight into the daily lives of Muslims and to develop empathy for them by studying the Islamic world and creating presentations.
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Racism No Way
Young scholars explore different cultural influences and their contribution to Australian identities. They reflect on their own backgrounds and making links with their peers, reflect on our heritage. Students view My family- My...
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Values and Beliefs
Students create a poster containing details about a value or belief of the Medieval times. In this values and beliefs of Medieval times lesson, students study the Apostles Creed and discuss its purpose. Students then work in...
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The Envelope Please
Students research an animal of the rainforest. They create a computerized claymation to present their research.
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Create a World
Students combine imaginative powers with known map-making techniques to create a whole new world.
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Tree Cookies
Students identify heartwood, sapwood, and a tree's annual rings, infer from a tree's rings what damage or stress might have occurred in its life, and make a time-line of human history that coincides with a tree's rings.
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Teeshirt Printing
Students become responsible and involved citizens. In this t-shirt printing lesson students design and create a teeshirt with a message about citizenship and responsibility. Natural objects are used as stamps.
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Animal Adaptations
Fifth graders discover the adaptation of species through analyzing pictures. In this scientific discovery lesson, 5th graders discuss the concept of adaptation in order for survival. Students view many images of extinct...
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ARTQUARIUM
Students identify different underwater creatures, explain the importance of recycling in the community, plan preliminary sketches on paper, and construct and sculpt with chosen materials to create creature in paper mache.
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Math Name Tag: An Introduction Project for the First Day
Eighth graders introduce themselves to the class by using a creative display of magazine cutouts, pictures, and drawings on a math symbol that represents who they are.
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My Feet
Students examine the various parts of the feet. They listen to the book, My Feet, by Aliki, discuss the different parts and purposes of the foot, trace one of their feet on paper, and compare the foot tracing to another tracing several...
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Unesco: Carcassonnne
A very complete and very user-friendly website that includes a lot of historical information (about the Cathari, the art of war in the Middle Ages, the activities in the Medieval city, etc.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Joust Challenge
Test your knowledge of medieval knights and armor by playing this interactive jousting game.
Other
Porta Lde Arte: Educacion Artistica
This is an educational portal which contains learning activities in the area of visual arts for middle school age students.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Peninsula Iberica en La Edad Media
This website reviews the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the middle ages and Christian kingdoms. It provides historical atlas, activities, self-assessment, as well as art and theoretical content.