Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Hawaiian Islands

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders present information of people, places, and environments. They collect, organize, and analyze date to use with these representations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lessons From the Lorax

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars read and discuss Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. They explore the changes the characters could have made to preserve the environment and relate the plot to real-world places and events.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Online Collaborative Social Studies Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create newspapers and post them online for others to see.
Lesson Plan
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Video Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze a poem of their choice to find the meaning. They break the poems into sections and add images and sounds to make it into a video. They show their video to the whole school if possible.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Race, Culture, And Identity in Daughter From Danang (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine cultural identity. They watch and discuss the second half of the PBS documentary, 'Daughter From Danang,' and write an essay addressing ethnic and cultural identity and how a film would portray their own cultural...
Lesson Plan
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Introduction to Biometrics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet to research how biometrics is being used in the real world today. They work together to research hand geometry applications. They share their findings with the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Are Boundaries Made, Kept, Broken?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students perform raps and analyze issues among the rich and poor. They explore how countries are labeled as "third world" and "first world." They create a dialectical journal and examine the country of Nigeria through the reading of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Actings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view clips of Anna Deavere Smith's work. They interview people on video or audiotape to learn their lines, dialect, and syntax to assist them in theater. They create a play which emulates the people in which they interviewed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Constitution Day

For Teachers K
Students discuss the need for rules in their community and classroom. Using this information, they identify the authority figures at their house, at school and in the community. They are read a book about following the rules and listen...
Lesson Plan
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Develop Your Own Interpretation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use pieces of Andy Warhol's art to write critiques. Using different points of view, they answer discussion questions and share them with the class. They also interpret the art from a historian and artist point of view. They...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Studies: Community Posters As Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine posters as art and create their own examples featuring locations or events from their community. They display their works in their schools and discuss their cities and school environments in a live chat setting with...
Lesson Plan
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Social and Cultural Issues in the Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the society and culture during the times of the Civil Rights movement. They view video clips and answer comprehension questions. They work together to research different authors and musicians sharing their...
Lesson Plan
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Video Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students analyze a poem to find meaning by breaking it into scenes and supporting the text with appropriate images and sounds. They use Frames to create their video poem. Once students have an image, place them all into one folder. ...
Lesson Plan
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A Poster is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list observations of PSA posters. They provide evidence/examples of their observations through class discussion. Students explore public health posters. They investigate historical public health campaign posters.
Lesson Plan
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Scientific Images & Animations

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students view a variety of scientific images and animations. They explore the world of science and visual art. Students enrich their knowledge through animation examinations of thoughts and feelings and awesome color rainbows of...
Lesson Plan
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Social Studies: Heroes in American Culture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners examine heroes and discuss their characteristics, values, and actions. They produce Powerpoint presentations on real-life and fictional heroes. Students interview veterans for an oral history project.
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Insect Safari

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders name and identify three body parts of an insect, identify the characteristics that insects have six legs and one pair of antennae and categorize insects as to whether they are helpful or harmful.
Lesson Plan
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Launching Your Ship with Citizenship Lesson 4: Hoisting the Flag

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the U.S. electoral process and brainstorm solutions to increase voter turnout in their community. For this democratic citizenship lesson, students identify keywords in speech and video related to freedom of speech and...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different types of poetry and illustrate their own experiences through creating their own poem. In this getting to know you lesson plan, 3rd graders create and recite their poems with a self-portrait.
Worksheet
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The President Wants YOU!

For Students 5th - 8th
In this earthquakes worksheet, students answer short answer questions about earthquakes to provide information to the President. Students complete 8 questions.
Lesson Plan
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Pausing to Breathe

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and summarize the critical aspects of each of the four topics on air pollution. They present these critical components in an interesting and creative manner to class members.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Musical Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on musical analysis. Includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
Online Course
Yale University

Yale University: Open Yale Courses: Listening to Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty-three university-level lectures on how to listen to and how to appreciate Western music. Emphasis is on classical music but jazz, pop, the blues, and rock are also considered.
Website
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science of Music: Accidental Scientist

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning about the science of music is what this site is all about. With clever activities that lead to writing, mixing, and experimenting with music; with videos that explain tuning, stepping (or rhythmic movement), instrument building,...