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Eckstine, Stayhorn, and the Dorseys: Masters of Swing
Learners explore the history of swing music. In this music history activity, students research the Dorsey Brothers, Billy Eckstine, and William Strayhorn to learn about swing music. Learners define swing, develop a timeline of events in...
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Create Your Own Sporting Event
Learners use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event lesson, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Learners categorize the...
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Thomas Edison, electricity and America
Students will examine Edison's application of electricity and the concept of the American Consumer Culture and what thay means. Students will evaluate how these ideas and concepts led to change.
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Creating War Propaganda
Learners analyze propaganda techniques using posters, speeches, and other examples of this type of persuasion. They use this information to design their own examples of propaganda. They focus on propaganda techniques used during war.
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Why Not Visit My Country?
Middle schoolers research a country using the Travel Languages Web site. Using MS Publisher, they create a travel flyer about the country. Using Inspiration, they develop a concept map of what they learned about their country.
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Uncle Sam Wants You!
Learners examine several narratives exploring attitudes to World War II involvement at the time. They develop their own opinions and write a fictional personal narrative to record their observations.
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FCE Use of English Part 5: Word Formation
Students examine a paragraph on the topic of Spam to highlight and analyze some of the most common mistakes made by exam candidates. They fill in the blanks, identify parts of speech and discuss multiple forms of several words.
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Finding Yourself Through Autobiography
Students read the writings of individuals whom they know and admire. They see that writing about themselves is worthwhile and important and helps them become better writers. They share their own life experiences, write about personal...
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B is for Banana
Learners practice and perform the song "B is for Banana" using their knowledge of basic rhythms in 4/4 and student-created rhythm accompaniment based on speech. This excellent lesson is provided by the MENC (National Association for...
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Stuff Gods Are Made Of
Students examine different myths of various cultures around the world. Using artwork, they discuss the artistic designs and develop hypothesize about their importance. They use the internet to research myths they are aware of and share...
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Poetry and PowerPoint
Third graders read and discuss the poem, "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes. After brainstorming examples of vivid verbs, figures of speech, language patterns, and imagery used in the poem, 3rd graders write a poem on a topic of...
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Oral Cancer
In this health learning exercise, students find the words that are related to developing oral cancer and the answers are located at the bottom of the page.
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My Family
In this ESL family worksheet, students will focus on basic vocabulary development of family members. Students will complete 8 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and...
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Animal Matching
In this ESL animal vocabulary activity, students will focus on basic vocabulary development of animal names. Students will complete 5 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct...
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Clothing
In this ESL clothing vocabulary worksheet, students will focus on basic vocabulary development of clothing names. Students will complete 6 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct...
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Fruit Matching
In this ESL fruit vocabulary worksheet, students will focus on basic vocabulary development using names of fruits. Students will complete 10 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct...
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Clothing
In this ESL clothing vocabulary activity, students will focus on basic vocabulary development using names of clothing. Students will complete 10 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the...
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Rooms in the House
In this ESL home vocabulary worksheet, students will focus on basic vocabulary development pertaining to rooms in a house. Students will complete 6 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the...
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Objects in a House
In this ESL objects in a house activity, students will focus on basic vocabulary development pertaining to objects found in a house. Students will complete 6 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them...
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Bullying
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet , students will focus on basic vocabulary development with words pertaining to bullying. Students will complete 10 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the...
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Food Matching
In this ESL food vocabulary learning exercise, students will focus on basic vocabulary development with words pertaining to the names of different foods. Students will complete 9 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one...
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Writing Newspaper Articles
Students write newspaper articles regarding their service learning experiences. In this writing skills instructional activity, students review the writing process skills to develop high-quality articles. Students write articles regarding...
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Gender Disparity on Display
Young scholars explore an article and discuss what gender differences. In this exploring gender lesson students divide into groups and develop a social theory.
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Read and Review
Pupils create presentations to discuss a book they've read using a video format. In this reading and speech lesson, students video tape a presentation about a book they've written a summary for. Pupils then produce an in-house morning...