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- Poetry through music: "Smooth"
- This lesson draws students into a study of poetry, using Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" as an entry point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Andrea Belletti.
- Point of view
- Students will consider how point of view affects the meaning and interpretation of a work of art. They will view a sculpture of a Palmyran woman dated between 150-170 C.E. Students will consider three different points of view, analyze each of these views, and discuss what aspects of the sculpture would be highlighted and neglected when considering these different points of view.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- By Amanda Keller.
- Post-EOG activities: Student products
- In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Geneva Williams.
- Postal polynomials
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 2.6
- In this lesson, students use polynomials to solve problems, and discuss how polynomials are relevant in some careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 and 9 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Brooks, Peggy Dickey, and Jan Sullivan.
- The problem with parallax
- Students will increase their understanding of astronomical measurements by using parallax to measure distances on their school campus. They will also gain an appreciation of the difficulties with such measurements by statistically analyzing the class' results.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 and 9–12 Mathematics and Science)
- By Mark Clinkscales and Carrie Palmer.
- Problem-solving careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.7
- In this lesson for grade seven, students analyze information about various careers to determine how people in those occupations use problem-solving skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jen Presley.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- A protist protest
- In Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit, page 1
- This lesson is part of the unit "Proto-ZOO-ology: A problem-based protist inquiry unit." In this lesson, students learn about the six characteristics of living things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Science)
- By Cate Colangelo.
- Quad soccer
- This is a fun variation of indoor soccer. There are four goals and teams instead of only two.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Healthful Living)
- By Clay Mohr.
- Reading guides
- Groups will develop a Reading Guide for each non-fiction resource book for units in science, social studies, and other curriculum areas. Students will identify useful features each book and where the important information will be found. Reviewing non-fiction features of print resources will familiarize the class with material on reserve for the unit. Overviewing and identifying text features will help students determine how to approach the various formats of text relevant to the topic.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Elizabeth Hubbe.
- Regions of Nepal: A virtual trek
- This lesson for grade seven helps students understand the connections between geography and culture. Students experience a virtual trek through the different regions of Nepal, conduct research about the ethnic groups living in each region, and maintain travel logs documenting what they've learned.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Resource recon
- Teams of students will search for the answers to questions using various information resources. The questions will be in categories such as: biography, current events, historical events, geography, language. Besides competing for the fastest answer, the students will learn (1) how to use the resource effectively and (2) which resource is best for finding different types of information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Keith Dudley.
- Resources of South America
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.9
- In this lesson for grades six and seven, students will research the resources of a South American country and will create a map illustrating those resources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Social Studies)
- By Shea Calloway and Joann Via.
- Respect and responsibility character traits: Cut and paste activity
- Using 20 different quotations that are out of sequential order--each with a relationship to the respect and responsibility character traits--students are to cut and paste the text in ascending sequential order, save, and print.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Jane M. Harris.
- Respecting differences
- This guidance and drama unit offers students the opportunity to identify prejudices and understand how certain character traits such as tolerance, respect, and kindness affect their choice of behavior. Since this lesson addresses sensitive issues, teachers should avoid situations that could be hurtful to individuals or groups. This unit can be adapted to almost any age group or ability level.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Development, Guidance, Healthful Living, and Theater Arts Education)
- By Daryl Walker and Judy Peele.
- Rest in peace, dead words!
- “Dead words,” by my definition, are words students “use to death” in their writing samples. As Language Arts teachers, we can generate a list of such words a mile long. Examples would include: pretty, nice, bad, a lot, and good. This cooperative learning activity is designed to eliminate those repetitious words by providing students with a word bank/wall they can refer to when given a writing assignment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Cynthia Cook.
- Rhythm, pattern, color, and texture in art and poetry
- In this lesson, students will discover the meaning of "rhythm," "patterns," "color," and "texture" through the performance and modeled analysis of a class "symphony." Students will also evaluate the impact of each element on the whole work and note personal reactions and connections to this art form. Students will then work in small groups to apply the same elements and personal evaluation and connections to a historical work of visual art. At the end of the lesson, students will reflect on ways these two experiences are similar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Visual Arts Education)
- By Carol Horne.
- Sale! Sale! Sale!
- Consumer math often requires shoppers to analyze and compare the same products at different stores. In addition to price variations, retailers offer incentives or discounts. This lesson requires students to be informed consumers who calculate three purchasing options and conclude which is the best deal. The activity enables students to apply mathematics to a real-life situation.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Leslie Hawes.
- Sales careers: Working with percents
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.3
- In this lesson for grade six, students will understand how to perform operations with percents by using commission rates for various sales careers to calculate salary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Salt trading in Asia
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam. It may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 6–7 English Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Savor the rainbow
- Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Revis.
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