Displaying 261-280 of 3146 resources
A Listening Doll
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students discuss the process of storytelling and listening to stories. They then create a listening dol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0A Character Life Box
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students work in pairs to create a "life box" for a character in the pla...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Those Fundamental Things
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreThis ARTSEDGE lesson focuses on specific formative steps contributed by Rodgers and Hammerstein to the development of American m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Today I Feel . . .
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, Humanities, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students read and discuss books that talk about feelings. They tell a story about a time when they had ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What a Character!
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a sto...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What Makes a Hero?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, the class breaks into groups, each of which writes a working definition of a hero and presents it creat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0When I Was Young
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about how history has been preserved through oral storytelling. Students interview a fam...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Twain: Icon and Iconoclast
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, asks students to examine samples of Twain's work in the context of pre- and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Twain: Steamboat's a-Comin'
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Music, English-Language Arts and 5 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students examine the mystique of rivers as inspiration for creative expr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Twain: An American Humorist
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, examines the diversity and intricacy of Mark Twain's humor, focusing partic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Twain: Tom Sawyer--Mythic Adventurer
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 4 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, focuses on the content and style of development in Twain's "The Adventures ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Elements of Myths
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students read and explore several myths, identifying the elements of thi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Writing Myths
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore the way myths help explain nature and science. Students...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Listen to the Nightingale
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Music, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn music vocabulary and use it to assess David Maddox's musi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Walk in My Shoes
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Dance, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, uses the story "The Brothers of the Knight" to explore materials, shoe desi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Characterization in Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore various methods authors use to create effective characters. Students consider what mak...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Lift Every Voice and Sing
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Music, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores the origins of "The Black National Anthem," which was originally a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Comparing Tales through Performance
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and a contemporary version of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0America, A Home for Every Culture
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, Music, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling and 3 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore how various cultures have contributed to making the Uni...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Dystopian Worlds
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about the concept of "dystopia," a nightmarish society in which conditions are extremely...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0