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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Tips for Using Movie Maker

For Students 9th - 10th
A printable handout providing information on accessing and using Windows Movie Maker software. Lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Drive in Movies

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the "The Drive-In Movies" by Gary Soto, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Movie Going in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of a research study performed in the 1920s, individuals were asked to write about their experiences with movie-going. This is an excerpt from that study by a high school girl, who tells about what the movies mean to her.
Handout
IMDb

Internet Movie Database: Fred Astaire Mini Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet Movie Database provides a 'Mini biography' of dancer Fred Astaire, including career highlights and trivia.
Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Teacher's Guide to Making Student Movies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Video examples and plenty of information about how to make movies are included in this resource for teachers.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Mildred Pierce, 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes detailed summary and production information on this adventure movie, Mildred Pierce.
Website
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Movie Speech: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

For Students 9th - 10th
A photograph, an audio mp3, and a transcript of Atticus Finch's monologue as he delivers the closing arguments in Tom Robinson's trial in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Adverbios

For Students 9th - 10th
This reosurce allows you to view a movie and then fill in the blanks with the appropriate adverb. The adverbs relate to what took place in the movie. If your computer doesn't have the right requirements for viewing you can click on the...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
Interactive
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Showbiz Safari

For Students 1st - 4th
Lights! Camera! Action! Our movie director needs your help! Help Walrus pick actors based on the traits that best fit the movie role. Which furry mammal will get the most wanted role in the blockbuster film "Paws"? Which water loving...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Divorce: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan utilizing movies and music to explore divorce and its effects. Students use what they learn to create a parenting guide and podcast. (Note: Music and movies are not available through the lesson plan.)
Handout
New York University

New York University: About Water and Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Page uses movies and 3D images to explain how properties of water relate to polarity and hydrogen bonding.
Lesson Plan
Other

Montana State University: How Much Would You Weigh on Distant Planets?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource contains a lesson plan in which students study the effects of gravity on the planets of the Solar System. They will view movies from the lunar Apollo missions, calculate their own weight on other planets, and propose what...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Lyme Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
KidsHealth describes how to avoid Lyme disease. Features include a movie clip showing how to remove ticks from skin.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Video Blues

For Students 9th - 10th
The poet describes how it makes her feel that her husband has a crush on the actress Myrna Loy and it makes it hard to enjoy movies together because she can't compete.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Knight Errant by Ethel M. Dell

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1920, one work featured is The Knight Errant by Ethel M. Dell. This novel was part of the Swindler and Other Stories Series and was made into a movie...
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Wuthering Heights (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource provides an in-depth summary, poster and production information about the 1939 Hollywood classic film, Wuthering Heights.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: To Have and Have Not

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides the plot summary of and dialogue from To Have and Have Not.
Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Dark Victory (1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the film Dark Victory.
Handout
abcteach

Abcteach: Valentine's Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] How do you plan on celebrating Valentine's Day in your classroom? This resource provides links to activities and information that will aid you in your planning. This site features crossword puzzle, math...
Handout
PBS

Classics for Kids: Scott Joplin

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short biography of Scott Joplin (1868-1917 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
Article
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Star Cross'd and Starry Eyed

For Students 9th - 10th
From the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows what lies in store for the tragedy's title teens: that these two "star-crossed lovers" are doomed to die. By the end of the play, an "ancient grudge"...

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