This article focuses on improvisation through question and answer. Students will improvise both melodically and rhythmically. The article includes guidelines on how to create questions and answers in music.
Students will listen to and analyze each movement of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. They will identify musical elements that represent each season. They will use oil pastels to create a deciduous tree in all four seasons.
Students will explore ancient Roman history. They will discuss and analyze different stories and images of statues. They will create a statue and write a narrative about the sculpture.
Rhythms should be taught like other sport skills. Avoid striving for perfection so students know it is acceptable to make mistakes. Teach a variety of dances rather than one or two in-depth in case some students find it difficult to master a specific dance. Make dances easy for students to learn by implementing the techniques found in this resource.
This resource includes choreography for 6 folk dances.
Students will create a mind map based on the word "creativity." They will add to the mind map throughout the year as they learn about new artists, vocabulary, and elements of art.
This learning activity focuses on the skills of throwing with accuracy and catching with coordination. One group of students is throwing to targets while a different small group of students is protecting the targets from the throws. This activity is short in duration and allows for the game to transition quickly to new rounds. This gives students the opportunity to be both throwers and catchers.
Teaching parkour is a great way to get students active with their surroundings inside or outside, and to get them excited about taking safe risks and enjoying movement.
This novice mid to novice high Spanish activity requires students to use interpretive listening skills as they listen to an authentic resource. The included video is an interview with a native speaker from Madrid. Students are encouraged to gather basic information such as name, nationality, and greeting styles. After gathering this information students participate in an interpersonal communicative task as they hold a similar conversation with a partner. Finally, they use presentational skills to present to one of their classmates.
When scientists conduct experiments, they collect data through observation and measurement. There are many different ways to measure data, but they all help ensure that scientists can collect accurate information.
The classroom resource provides a karaoke song that will describe how scientists collect data as they experiment. Students can use the information presented in this audio resource as they plan their own investigations. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding.
In this video from PBSLearningMedia, students learn Native Americans used special traps to catch fish during the springtime when certain species of fish would migrate. Learn how these fish traps worked and how Native Americans utilized every part of a fish.
In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to set up and use a function table. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the steps taught during the activity can be printed. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.
The purpose of this activity is to develop rhythmic skills of students with a series of sequences and patterns to music and to incorporate the use of both sides of the brain.
Exercise and physical activity are important to each person's physical and mental health. Join these students as they learn about the importance of physical exercise.
Hear advice on how to use search engines responsibly from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman, in this animated video from RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS. With his uniquely comical style, Ruff helps guide students in responsibly navigating this twenty-first-century skill. This resource is part of the RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS Collection. This video can be played during or to introduce a lesson on basic keyword searches to gather information.
Solve a linear equation that has negative numbers and a variable. This video focuses on using inverse operations to solve for a variable.
This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers and is part of the Math at the Core: Middle School collection.
This is a free resource providing keyboarding, digital literacy, and coding instruction for students. The lessons are automated, or teachers can choose to assign lessons. Teachers can view student progress and can see current words-per-minute counts for students. The resource includes accessible technology and multilingual curriculum.
Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition to combine like terms, simplify expressions, and create equivalent expressions.
This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers and is part of the Math at the Core: Middle School collection.
This scooter board learning activity promotes cooperation, teamwork, and safe movement skills. This is also a great activity to reinforce math skills.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Will Johannsson, a 5th grader from Sewanne, Tennessee, interviewed his godfather, Hans Ohrt, who described what life was like under Hitler's brutal dictatorship. After reading this interview, students will be able to identify the loss of human lives associated with World War II. For many children, living in Nazi Germany during World War II (1939-1945) was difficult. The Nazi party, ruled by Adolf Hitler, rounded up millions of Jews and others and murdered them. The Nazis also wanted children to spy on their families and report back to the government.
Students test their knowledge about the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health with this interactive quiz from Arthur's Family Health. Students get immediate feedback as they answer questions about healthy eating habits and fitness activities on this ten question quiz.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Each year, NIDA-funded researchers at the University of Michigan survey students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades on their behaviors and attitudes about substance use. The survey results are released the same year the data are collected. These are the results.
This lesson supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to increase student interest in and understanding of content area material and to develop critical writing skills. The more familiar format of narrative fiction introduces the topic and generates confidence in exploring the less familiar genre of nonfiction. Students then demonstrate what they have learned about the topic and about genre by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.
Students will analyze Odilon Redon's Pandora. They will create a box using two- and three-dimensional symbols to illustrate an emotion. Students will compare and contrast classmates' boxes.
As a quick update (or introduction) to using loops, this stage will have students using the repeat block to get Scrat to the acorn more efficiently.
In this lesson, students will be learning more about loops and how to implement them in Blockly code. Using loops is an important skill in programming because manually repeating commands is tedious and inefficient. With these Code.org puzzles, students will learn to add instructions to existing loops, gather repeated code into loops, and recognize patterns that need to be repeated.
Students will be able to:
- construct a program using structures that repeat areas of code.
- improve existing code by finding areas of repetition and moving them into looping structures.
Note: You will need to create a free account on code.org before you can view this resource.
Make it Rain! explores student misconceptions about phase changes, weather, and the water cycle, and reveals some of the pitfalls of common representations.
Minerals are either elements or compounds with a crystalline structure that makeup rocks or are dissolved in water. They have many properties, including streak, color, luster, hardness, and structure.
The classroom resource provides a slide show that will describe minerals and their properties. There is also a short test that can be used to assess students' understanding. This resource can be used to provide background information before students perform their own observations and investigations.
In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to choose the correct graph for a particular data set. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. A handout that reviews the strategies taught during the activity can be printed. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics that will help students learn and review the steps taught during the activity.
This assessment will help the teacher assess students' personal and social behavior during a gameplay unit. Make sure to go over the rubric sheet with the students so they understand what you are expecting in terms of their behavior.
Learn to help students develop key skills for successful relationships: communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Educators can help students develop these skills by working together in groups and discussing roles. Parents can support their children by spending time with them and encouraging communication.
How do you know if an online image is real or not? This video from Common Sense Education provides a handout on useful guidance on using a reverse image search on Google. This resource is part of the News and Media Literacy Collection. This video can be played during a lesson on assessing the validity and identifying the purpose of digital content.
The teacher will present an informational text from the website, ReadWorks. Students will interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity can introduce students to fossil fuel alternatives, serve as reinforcement after students have already learned this concept, or be used as an assessment at the conclusion of a lesson. This learning activity could be used to demonstrate how students across the country have started to become environmentally aware and encourage students to start developing these solutions at their school.
In days gone by people would say "We built this civilization on the internet." It would be hard to criticize them for making such a remark, without it we would be largely handicapped by the sheer volume of data we need to wade through and edit. There are currently 4 billion users with the bulk now coming from Asia and growing! Without having the internet it becomes a lot harder to stay informed. We literally have access to the entire archive of the Natural History Museum, British Museum, the finest collection of manuscripts, and just about anything else you can possibly imagine. With these tools, we are able to make better decisions simply because we know more about the world we are presently living in. Barriers between people, culture, language, and concepts are being broken down and a new global civilization is emerging. The hope that people can forever be united and peacefully co-operate can happen.
Then why are more and more countries trying to censor, snoop on and in some cases block, delete and rewrite articles on the internet? It sounds counter-intuitive but many governments have decided that this is the best thing to do. But there is a huge consequence for these actions.
Students will read about internet censorship, review a video about internet censorship, review vocabulary surrounding internet censorship, and explore arguments for and against internet censorship.
Help students learn multiple concepts of football in a modified game setting. Students will be placed in groups of 3. One will be the Quarterback, one will be the Wide Receiver, and the other will be the Defensive Back also known as Corner Back. Each group of three will have a "playbook" of 3-4 plays.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This free video resource from PBS LearningMedia teaches students about the ecological damage and health concerns for the people who were exposed to the BP oil spill and dispersants. In this video segment adapted from Need to Know, meet a fisherman who became a cleanup worker on the 2010 BP oil spill and then developed health problems. Learn about concern over the health and safety of cleanup workers because of the amount of oil and dispersant they were exposed to and the duration of exposure.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Tapping existing texts for models is one of the best strategies for writer's workshop. This lesson examines types of leads in prominent young adult literature and asks students to search for great leads and then try their own hand at writing leads. Students rank several leads from novels as they are read aloud, and then discuss their rankings. Working in small groups, students read alternative leads from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. They then act as a marketing group to select the best lead. Next, students create two new leads for a novel, using different strategies for each. Finally, students apply this process to their own writing, working in pairs to create two alternative leads to something they have written.
