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Principles of Design (Flowers)

For Teachers Higher Ed
Explore the art of floral design throughout history with these detailed slides. Information is provided about the use and design of fresh flowers in cultures such as Egyptian, European, and Asian. Images to demonstrate these floral...
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Influence of Beauty, The Beauty of Influence

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the influence of art on modern societies. Through the internet, they assess paintings of advertisements for commercial products and social-political beliefs. Using spreadsheet software, the class compares and...
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World of Fashion — Vocabulary Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
Make sure your fashionistas know how to talk about all the latest and oldest styles. Partners work together to define 18 fashion-related terms, ranging from style to home furnishings. Definitions are included on the second page of the...
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Lucha Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers listen to four styles of Mexican music, and create percussion instruments which they use to play each style. Additionally, learners create Lucha Libre masks which are also a part of the colorful culture of Mexico. These...
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Protists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
With this collection of slides, future biologists get to view photographs of protozoans from different phyla. Interspersed with the photos are bullet-style notes listing characteristics of each group. Unfortunately, most of the pictures...
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 1

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Appeal to your music lovers with this lesson. Middle and high schoolers listen to and describe music from contrasting styles. They identify the common elements between gospel and bluegrass music and have a class discussion regarding the...
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Novel Ideas: History of the American Novel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the history of the American novel in the contexts of literature and US history. How does a novel or piece of writing from a particular time showcase the mood during that historical period? After conducting research and discussing...
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Research, Production, and Presentation of Abstract and Pop Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. They view and discuss artworks by Warhol, Lichenstein, Pollack, and Kandinsky, research a specific artist, and create an art piece in the style of their chosen artist.
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Types of Journal Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Examine with your class the practical uses of journals and discover how journal writing can help academically and personally. Pupils discover the different types of journal writing and decide which style works best for them.
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Bulleted Lists: punctuating items in vertical lists

For Students 7th - 10th
What is easier to read: a bulleted list or a block of text? Look at different examples with your class and then go over the style guidelines for vertical lists. 
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"Mummies--The Great Cover Up"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students wrap their mummy, use canopic-style jars for the preserved chicken organs and design and decorate a sarcophagus. They collect data by weighing, measuring and graphing their "mummy" and its organs.
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Poetry Appreciation – "The Raven"

For Students 7th - 9th
Introduce your class to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe with this series of activities, exercises, and worksheets. Class members examine an image, analyze a movie trailer, read a prose version of the poem, look up vocabulary, and pick out...
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 17: Obituary

For Teachers 6th Standards
The Cay has been criticized by groups such as the Council on Interracial Books for Children because of the way race is portrayed. Explore the argument against the book while taking the author's perspective into account. Class members...
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The Personal a

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Introduce your Spanish class to the personal a, used when the direct object is a person or personified thing. You can show the provided presentation first and direct them to the other two tabs on this webpage for reference and additional...
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Cell Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Combine art and science with this cell structure assignment. Learners depict a cell diagram, including the organelles, imitating a specific artist's style. 
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Locational Writing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students go outside to the playground and write a piece in the style of beat poets based on what they see and hear outside.
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Writing the Newspaper Article

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
The class reads several newspaper articles and analyze them for purpose, style, tone, length and organization. They interview each other about important events in their lives and write journalistic articles.
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Be a Celebrity and Share Your Life with Us

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Sixth graders discuss their likes, dislikes, hobbies, goals, and special events in their lives. They write a five paragraph autobiography focusing on style, transitions, and details. This is well-suited for either explanatory or...
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Letter Writing - Formal

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Although rarely used these days, letter writing is still a form of writing reviewed in schools. After examining written letters, middle schoolers discuss characteristics of a formal letter and its parts. They choose a famous person to...
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Review of World History I for Lifeskills Students

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders play a Jeopardy style game to review World History. In teams, 9th graders choose a category and a value for their question. Students are given an answer, and they give the correct question to match the answer.
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Write like David Shannon

For Teachers K
Students distinguish various books by David Shannon from other authors, compare three of Shannon's books for similarities, list various possible settings for stories, integrate Shannon's pattern of writing into their own, and formulate...
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When You Reeeaaallly Want to Say Something

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Kids paraphrase an entry from The Elements of Style, and then revise a sentence. They use the Visual Thesaurus and find synonyms for the phrase very pretty, brainstorm a list of intensifiers (as alternatives to really and very),...
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Introduction to Animals

For Teachers 7th
The details about invertebrates and invertebrates give valuable information about the characteristics of multicellular organisms. Examples of nutrition styles and symmetry are interesting. Also, these slides are clear in presenting a...
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Medieval Art and Architecture

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Detailing the characteristics of Medieval art and architecture, including Romanesque and Gothic architecture, these slides provide incredible views of some of the most famous buildings, cathedrals and castles in the world. A few slides...

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