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Students will analyze verse and explore meaning by creating a visual poem.
Students create a class alphabet book or "ABCDarium," a book that uses images of animals or objects to illustrate each letter of the alphabet. The book is in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript and incorporates both art and writing. Students decorate large uppercase letters of the alphabet and draw an original picture to illustrate each letter.
This lesson introduces the concept of Ňglance mediaÓ through an analysis of billboards. Students apply design concepts by creating a slide presentation to accompany an existing historical speech.
Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
Students work together to create classroom rules by brainstorming why they are at school and what they need while they are there.
Students create poetry collections with the theme of ńgetting to know each other.î They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
The students will be able to identify food groups and healthy food options.
Students explore the motivation behind charactersŐ actions in "To Kill A Mockingbird" by creating psychological profiles for characters from the novel.
This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Students use KWL charts to guide their inquiry and publish their results in a collaborative question and answer book.
Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.
I answer a question for Ashlee in Virginia. This video shows users how to create a hypertext PowerPoint presentation. A Hypertext PowerPoint presentation is a great tool to use for students to allow them to progress at their own pace.
This is part of our PowerPoint tutorials. I use PowerPoint 2013.
Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
Students will be able to create a complete resume representing their skills, experience, and educational background that will make them employable in todayŐs workforce. Students will create a resume using a Microsoft Word resume template.
Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.