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Do you know your body?
Students learn to identify different body parts and how they move. They explore moving and using these parts in general and personal space.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
By Bill Knight.
Welcome back!
In The First Year, page 3.1
Many of my friends are in professions other than teaching, and one January evening I listened as one of those friends described how much he loved the first day back at work after the winter holidays. He detailed that day, depicting a slow morning devoted to...
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Modify a seed
This activity is set up so that students will try to modify their model seed, so that it conforms to an assigned seed dispersal strategy.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
By Bert Wartski.
"Do Spiders Live on the World Wide Web?"
Through use of a fun and informative online story, students will explore the parts of the computer, as well as discover that words have multiple meanings.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
Ultimate frisbee
Ultimate frisbee is a game that can be played on a regular gym floor. Students will use a combination of passing and catching skills. Ultimate frisbee is a good cardiovascular workout. Students will also be able to work on teamwork skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Healthful Living)
By Susie Shelton.
Ravana dies
In The Ramayana, page 6.9
In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, both the women and Ravana are dressed in royal Siamese clothes and crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The long-haired and fair young women who sit on opposite sides of Ravana's body hold up their bent left...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Hanuman charms Ravana's mermaid daughter
In The Ramayana, page 4.12
A red-toned modern Balinese painting depicts Hanuman courting Ravana's mermaid daughter. Swooping above moonlit waves and an open-mouthed fish in the sea, Hanuman carries the beautiful mermaid in his outstretched arms. Hanuman's and the mermaid's faces are...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Goals, goals, goals
Students will be introduced to the benefits of goal-setting and the steps in the goal setting process. A group activity with a ball will give students practice in all steps of the process and an opportunity to see the benefits of setting goals.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
By Pat Nystrom.
The five senses
This lesson will help students describe how objects look, feel, taste, smell, and sound using all senses.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Kathy Gravitt.
The five senses
The children will learn in this study the five senses through observations and experiments.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
By Nancy Ziegler.
Place value power
This lesson plan incorporates 3 modalities, which will hopefully help students use the ones/units period, the thousands period, and the millions period to compare numbers in a variety of forms.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
By Becky Boney.
Using a Venn diagram to compare & contrast two types of bears
Students use their research on black bears and one other bear (panda, polar or grizzly) to complete a Venn Diagram.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Susan Lovett.
Job twister: A lesson in career competency
Twister provides an excellent opportunity to discuss shared responsibilities at home/school as well as to demonstrate working together in a "movement" situation. Young children will enjoy the movement involved while learning directional words, such as right, left, etc. This lesson incorporates literature, technology, and motor skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Social Studies)
By Ann Sumners.
Exploring patterns you can feel and hear
The following lesson will enable students to develop tactile and auditory patterns. As students observe, analyze, and make predictions about patterns they will enhance their problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Carlene M. White.
An introduction to Stanislavski's method
This lesson plan provides basic guidelines of the Stanislavski system. Exercises are offered to help the student to think creatively and apply this plan to develop their own acting techniques. This plan can be introduced in one class period and practiced throughout the term. Follow these exercises with improvisation. It will help students focus and begin to think on their feet. This plan deals with concentration.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Theater Arts Education)
By Jo Ann Taylor.
If he's in danger of failing, at least three people need to know it
In The First Year, page 4.1
Get in touch with parents to prevent students' failure, not just to report on it.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Buddhist vegetarian festival, food preparation
Ani wants me to eat something, but I am hesitant to order when I learn they cannot eat. There is a misunderstanding during this conversation. I am with Hans and Ani, who live in Trang, Thailand and operate a shop selling crafts and souvenirs. They took me...
Format: audio
Two girls performing welcome dance engage each other in mirror image pose
Two girls performing welcome dance engage each other in mirror image pose
Two girls performing a welcome dance engage each other in a mirror image pose. The dancers wear flowered headdresses and green and gold silk costumes. With bent knees and straight backs the dancers lean towards each other and touch arms and shoulders while...
Format: image/photograph
Edenton National Fish Hatchery
Take a tour of the hatchery and find out how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is helping to stock the lakes and rivers of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with fish.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Teaching the body parts in Spanish
The students will be able to recognize and recall the body parts in Spanish.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)
By Ana Beltran.