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Motion picture analysis worksheet
Worksheet for students to use when analyzing historical motion pictures, such as documentaries, propaganda, and training films. It may be used directly on the computer as a PDF form.
Format: document/worksheet
Slow motion replay
Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Twisters in a jar
The class will discuss the motion, causes and effects of a tornado. The student will also be able to name the safety steps one should take when a tornado occurs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
By Andrea Allen.
Energy: Concepts and careers
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.9
In this lesson for grade 6, students will analyze the law of conservation of energy and will apply energy concepts to skateboarding. Students will also explore careers related to energy.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
The roller skate craze
In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.5
Early motion picture of people roller skating. Includes historical commetnary.
Format: article
Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.10
In this lesson plan, students analyze a video about ROTC to determine why the video was created.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
Picture this!
In this lesson, students will use their imagination and creativity to create an original, five-minute scene from a given picture.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
By Cindy Lohr.
Athletics
In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.9
As the urban middle and working classes grew in the late nineteenth century, so did their desire for leisure activities. The result was a growth in sports and athletics. Includes early motion pictures of school athletics.
Format: article
By David Walbert.
Forces, Motion, and Simple Machines
Investigate forces and motion in technological designs, including friction, forces, inertia, simple machines, and gravity.
Format: bibliography/help
Flipping frogs
Using frog beanbags, students will demonstrate skill components of the underhand toss.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Healthful Living)
By Steve Smalley.
Front view of empty bicycle rickshaw driven in Hanoi and shoppers in motion
Front view of empty bicycle rickshaw driven in Hanoi and shoppers in motion
A man drives his empty bicycle rickshaw or "cyclo" through a commercial street in Hanoi. The slightly blurred image shows nearby shoppers in motion. Cyclos look like large tricycles with a canopy-covered, double passenger seat in front of the handlebars. These...
Format: image/photograph
Color-coded time
This lesson introduces telling time to the minute using the analog and digital clocks. The hands are color-coded to assist with hour and minute hand discrimination. The student will use the time on the digital clock, which can then be transferred to the more difficult analog clock.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Anne Clodfelter.
Hanuman searches for Sita
In The Ramayana, page 3.5
Sequential images of Hanuman looking for Sita in the demon Ravana's palace are seen on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The two adjacent images illustrate how framed space is used to indicate time lapses in Thai temple mural paintings. Hanuman,...
By Lorraine Aragon.
The Rough Riders
Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" drill at Tampa, Florida, during the Spanish-American War, 1898. Advertisements for this 1903 motion picture said "A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by Troop 'I,' the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the...
Format: video/video
A woman milling corn flour
A woman milling corn flour
On the trail between Ghorepaani and Taatopaani, Nepal, a woman sits in front of a water mill. Grain is poured into the top of the mill and ground at the bottom between the stone disks. These mills are run by directing a volume of water on a shaft which propels...
Format: image/photograph
Animal movements
Students will move like the animal they hear described in the music.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Dance Arts Education and Music Education)
By Jo James.
Blast off the wet way
This lesson takes 6–10 days and includes math classes in which students will serve as observers and will calculate the height that the rocket reached and time elapsed. In the science class the students will design, build, launch, and do a detailed analysis of the acceleration, speed, and force produced by water-filled two-liter rockets.
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
By Jack Curtis.
Great City
In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 13
The images represent a Hindu myth of creation called the Churning of the Sea of Milk. On one side of the causeway, fifty-four guardian deities (called devas) pull the head of a mythical serpent or "naga." On the other side, fifty-four images of...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Water mill in Nepal
Water mill in Nepal
On the trail between Ghorepaani and Taatopaani, Nepal, water splashes out from under the grinder of a water mill. The mill house has a bamboo roof and bamboo walls. Water grinders, or Panni Ghatta, are an important innovation in mountain technology...
Format: image/photograph
A water-powered mill
A water-powered mill
On the trail between from Ghorepaani and Taatopaani, Nepal, a water-powered stone grinder -- or mill -- spins above the grain collector. Water mills, called Paani Ghatta in Nepal, are an important innovation in mountain agriculture. Water is channeled...
Format: image/photograph