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Let's Make A Dill

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students perform an "autopsy" on a dill pickle to determine its' cause of death. After finding "clues" inside the "body," students organize facts and use their imagination to write an epitaph. As an alternative, students may view a...
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J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Sarabande and Gigue form Partita no.4 in D major, BWV 828

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
Challenge your music students with this worksheet, which includes twenty-one questions about J.S. Bach's Sarabande and Gigue form Partita no.4 in D major, BWV 828. Students compare the two sections (bars 1-12, bars 13-38) by answering...
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Brass Instruments

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music activity, students read about the 4 main brass instruments in the orchestra: trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba. Students also write the missing words into 8 sentences.
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Timbre II

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this timbre of instruments worksheet, students explore the concept of timbre meaning four different kinds of sounds: string, brass, choral and percussion. Students locate those concepts in a word search puzzle.
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Learning about Tint and Shade- Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore tint, hues, and shades of color. In this art and color lesson, students observe and discuss Van Gogh's artistic style. Students mix paints to create a single hue background and add details to paint a nightscape of...
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Transcendentalism and Epiphany in Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the characteristics of transcendentalism. In this transcendentalism lesson, 12th graders determine what this type of writing entails before reading a passage from, Ray Bradbury's, Dandelion Wine. They cite three...
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What is Timbre?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners analyze the differences in similar songs.  For this music appreciation lesson, students discover the meaning of timbre and how it can drastically change similar pieces of music.  Learners sing two pieces of music with the rest...
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4th Grade Science

For Teachers 4th
In this physical science worksheet, 4th graders complete multiple choice questions about force, simple machines, communication and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Phase-locked Loops

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students examine how phase-locked loop circuits works and answer 8 short answer questions about it. They explain how FM radio communication works.
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Diary of Anne Frank: Act 1 Scene 1 & 2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read act 1 scenes 1 & 2 of the play Diary of Anne Frank. In this Diary of Anne Frank lesson plan, 8th graders discuss how the setting of the play affects the mood of the story and answer short answer questions.
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Personalities, Perspectives and Agendas

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students debate the causes of the American Revolution. In this American history lesson, students conduct research to determine how bias and perspective have made their way into historical documents. Students compose essays about the 2...
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Book Illustration

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view a video and discuss what illustrations in a book show and don't show.  In this observation lesson, students look at the details on a page in Alice in Wonderland and create an illustration.
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Conferences With Parents Who Don't Get Along

For Teachers K - 6th
How to deal with parents of a student who don't get along with each other.
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Combing Through the News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Sean 'Puffy' Combs trial to compare how and why various media cover a news story differently.
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Comparing Shakespearean Film Adaptations

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Though this lesson deals specifically with Hamlet and its themes, many of the strategies and approaches here may be used with most any of Shakespeare's plays that have been adapted to film. Viewing clips of the same Shakespeare scene in...
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Water Fitness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a series of aerobic exercises in water to help improve fitness.
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Tour Guidance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners research, write, edit, illustrate, and compile a traveler's guide to their town or community for students or teenagers their own age. They read and discuss the Times article, 'Learners Visiting? Just Invoke Auntie Mame.'
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Code Black

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders gain an awareness and an appreciation of slave spirituals as part of their American Literature/American History heritage.
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Every Vote Counts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an activity designed to increase student awareness and participation in the voting process.
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Poetic Math Greeting Cards

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in groups; collect data in a survey; depict in tables, charts, or graphs the results of the survey; and make predictions. They use creative writing skills and computer skills to generate a greeting card of their own.
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Looking at Photographs

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate photographs as historical documents and photographs as propaganda.
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Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain insight into the unusual, solitary world of Beatrix Potter's Victorian childhood and can compare/contrast it with their own world to explain why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than...
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Shaping the View: Symmetry and Balance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how artists structure their compositions to convey a sense of symmetry and balance. They analyze various paintings, identify objects and figures in the paintings, conduct Internet research, and evaluate paintings.
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Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and analyze the poem, "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning. They examine the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic device, and write a character profile of the Duke.

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