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Art Emphasis:
- A good Halloween idea called Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO
- A good Art-focused lesson on Painting, the Elements of Light, and Studying Countries
- Use this back-to-school art activity to review writing paragraphs
- This lesson uses Impressionist Van Gogh's Starry Night to teach the hatching technique (cross-curricular ideas included)
- This outstanding 3-week multi-discipline fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
- Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this lesson
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Language Arts Emphasis:
- A lesson using Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Japanese History
- This Spelling Relay Game could be used in PE and a variety of grade levels
- Below are the parts of an in-depth thematic unit on the book Ben And Me
- This lesson plan is on Canada's Nortwest Rebellion and uses the poem "Dialectics"
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Summer Song," written by the author
- A collection of teaching ideas for the book "Libby Bloom," written by the author
- A very thorough lesson on creating an Alphabet Book and Research
- Here's a Teaching Guide for the book "The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel," written by the book's author
- This big, multidisciplinary lesson called "Night Before Christmas" is on Writing and Much More
- AIMS SURE COUNT - A simple Acronym to help learn Reading Skills
- Here's a large and in-depth unit on Writing About The Holocaust:
- The Poem "Phenomenal Woman" is used here as part of an exploration of Women in Society
- A "Swat Game" for Learning Vocabulary in various subjects
- A "Daily Quotes" idea that can be used as a filler before class
- Music students love to create these rhythmic syllable sentences
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- After reviewing You are Special, students create and write about a "just like me" marionette
- Here students design candy bar wrappers after reading "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of "voice" in books, music and art
- After this nature hike, students identify, write about and make a shadow box with their outdoor treasures
- This lesson is an introduction to Australia's indigenous culture through poetry
- Students craft "double entry responses" in their personal journals here
- The assignment here is to create a propaganda piece and write about an American Revolutionary War colonist who is influenced by it
- In these Writing Workshop activities, students create a newspaper about their most admired person
- This is a program for writing and illustrating a hardbound class book
- Students create a topic specific newspaper here using a template
- Students explore word play devices and the mystery genre along with researching and drawing animals, and much more in this "The Hamster of the Baskervilles" multidisciplinary unit
- Use this clever "Vocabulary or Sight Word War" card game to teach the "new words" in any subject
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Social Studies Emphasis:
- A Geography lesson on current events
- Another Geography lesson on ideas and culture
- An interesting unit on the Colonization of Australia (invasion or settlement?):
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Here's a well-written unit on Native Americans, their culture, and Americanization
- Below is a short unit on National Parks:
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- This lesson looks at the Jamestown Colony and Fact Vs. Fiction
- Here's a good filler idea called "Today in History"
- This 50 States Research Project helps students learn more about the different parts of the US
- This idea is called "Veterans In My Family" and is great for Veteran's Day or Memorial Day
- Below you will find selected lessons from a Civil War Unit:
- Here are several good ideas for a unit on the Trail of Tears
- Here's a great Community Thematic Unit:
- In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- In this lesson, students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project on Ancient Egypt
- If you are looking for project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- This empowering lesson plan utilizes an economically-centered African American board game
- An immigrant group's "culture capsule" is created in this multidisciplinary lesson
- Here student "Sports Illustrated" reporters tour the U.S. and its National Parks following their team
- Here students make a PowerPoint on the history, art, literature, and culture of a Spanish-speaking country
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- This "Youth and the Civil Rights Movement" research project uses Kuhlthau's ISP and subject directories
Other Emphasis:
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