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Common Core SL.7.1 cultural activities
Ancient China Confucianism Daoism Legalism Philosophies - Talk Show Activity
In this Ancient China Philosophies Activity, students will work in groups of four to present a talk show focusing on Confucianism, Daoism and Legalism. This talk show activity will allow students to further develop their teamwork and presenting skills along with demonstrating their knowledge of these ancient Chinese philosophies. When planning and performing the talk show, students will take on the role of either the host or as a guest. The host will be responsible for asking the deep and engagi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient China Unit Bundle
How to Make Papel Picado (Day of the Dead, Halloween, Cinco de Mayo)
In Mexico, cut tissue paper or papel picado is a traditional decoration for Cinco de Mayo, the Day of the Dead, national holidays, weddings, funerals, and many other celebrations. These festive, brightly colored sheaths of paper hang from banners strung along balconies, across streets and buildings, homes, and squares.
In this activity, students create papel picado banners using colored tissue paper. This is a good activity for the art room, for holiday units, or to complement Spanish language
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K - 12th
Grandparents/Special Friends Day Survey
This is a fun little activity for your students to do with their grandparents or special friends when they come to visit. Students can ask them what their favorites were for each category when they were their age.
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2nd - 12th
End of The Year Activities - Team Building - Advisory SEL Group Termination
These three terrific interactive activities allow students to decrease anxiety around termination and leave with something tangible as a positive reflection of their experience. As the end-of-the year comes to a close, you want students and participants to have a healthy termination of their class or group. This may be the only positive supportive relationships the student may have, and they should begin to understand that endings can also be a positive experience. Students should reflect on wha
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Peace Machine- Post Bomb/Manhattan Project activity
Teamwork, planning, decoding, research, and communication are skills needed to be successful in this race to create a peace machine. Simulation game takes 1-2 periods. easy to prepare- uses classroom materials, a few timers, cheerios, rope, and lots of excitement!
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5th - 8th
First Day Activity High School Middle School Gallery Walk Group or Virtual
This activity gets your students moving, working together, and thinking. It is a low-prep, high yield activity! Students walk through eight stations completing ideas about what makes them successful students! After the gallery walk they work together in groups to discover, categorize, evaluate, create. What's IncludedTwo google slides presentations One includes the slides you need to print to do a in-person paper-based gallery walk and the instructionsThe other presentation provides the resour
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7th - 12th
COUNTRY PRESENTATION PARTY Around the World Cultural Food Manners LOW PREP
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 73-page/slide Countries Research Project Presentation Party! It includes everything you need to have a Presentation Party Day for students to present their country reports, presentations, or projects. Letter to parents, Rubric, Presentation question cards, Presentation BINGO, Decorative banners (“It’s a Small World” and ”Around the World”), 8 Center signs, PowerPoint and editable agenda slides (“Arou
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3rd - 12th
Fish Cheeks Amy Tan- Ultimate Engagement
So much to do with this gem of a story! Text openers, vocabulary preview, annotating task to promote collaboration, RACE Discussion questions, and end-of-story narrative menu with grading rubric included. I use the discussion questions as a springboard for a Socratic Seminar. This is multiple days worth of work. Designed to engage ALL kids.
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5th - 8th
No Prep Family Heritage Questionnaire | US History
Use this questionnaire to promote not only an understanding of history, but also to encourage positive family discussions! I use this every year at the beginning of my fifth grade history class. It helps to make the history of the United States personal to them! It is quick, easy, and the responses are often extremely deep and meaningful. I usually give them a week to complete the assignment, as students are required to ask an adult in their family at least three of the questions listed.Included
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Not Grade Specific
Loy Krathong Loi Krathong Thailand Fall Festival Cultural Celebration Pack
Looking to bring some culture and diversity to your classroom this fall? During a season when Jack O' Lanterns Line porches and Thanksgiving Turkey stock the shelves, other cultural celebrations can get lost in the mix. Introduce your students to this FUN and UNIQUE Thai Fall celebration- Loy Krathong (also spelled Loi Krathong), the Festival of Floating Lanterns! This celebration pack is aimed for upper elementary/early middle school, but can be adapted for grades K-2! With a complete detailed
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K - 7th
Black History Month Digital Presentation
This presentation is intended to support teachers (both online & in person) in providing a quick mini lesson on Black/African American figures in history.The month of February is Black History Month! This presentation provides pictures, information, and an informational video on 19 Black figures in history ranging from artists, performers, athletes, activists, politicians, scientists, and more.There are also additional resources provided such as read a louds of Black/African American childre
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K - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month Presentations 1 & 2
Eclipse Information Gap Activity for ELL
This information gap activity is designed for ELL to practice reading, speaking, listening and writing English language with a partner. The content focuses on the upcoming solar eclipse.
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5th - 12th
Native American History, Culture and Stories
Introduction to Native American history through projects and storytelling. Students will engage in various projects and visual mediums to better understand Indigenous tribes and people. Curriculum can be used as a whole, or divided into smaller mini-lessons in History, Humanities, ELA, and Science. Students will evaluate maps, complete research, read narrative and informational text and engage in self-directed research projectsTeacher ResourcesAnticipation GuideBuilding Background: Evaluating Ma
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5th - 10th
Unit: Legends & Tall Tales/Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing/ELA7-12|EDITABLE
Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: 15Steps: 16Original Products: 9Links to Resources: 10Rubrics: 2Brainstorm about heroes with MY ORIGINAL HONORS WKSH: Heroes (CCSS.ELA.W.9)Research with LINK R4S: Module 2- Finding Information about a hero (CCSS.ELA.W.7)Read LINK: Tale of Sir Launcelot.pdf (CCSS.ELA.R.10)Practice standardized testing vocabulary with MY ORIGINAL WKSH Vocabulary Usage: Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake (CCSS.ELA.L.4-6)Read LINK: The Sword in the Stone.pdf (CCSS.
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7th - 12th
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CLASS: Mythology and Folklore- ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)
Unit: Norse Stories- Mythology and Folklore- ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)Grade Levels: 7-12Creator: Erica VilliloAnchor Standards: All 32 CCSS Anchor StandardsSteps: 115+Original Products: 75+Links to Resources: 100+Rubrics: 5+11 Unit Bundles Include: Introduction, African, Sports, Pirates, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Arabian, Celtic, Italian, Norse, Greek
Grades:
7th - 12th
"A Long Walk to Water" Final Assessment with outline; PRINTABLE
"A Long Walk to Water" - 17 page pdf file to use while reading and for the final assessment. Updated 2016
Although my seventh graders and I enjoyed reading and participating in the NYS ELA7 Module One; Unit One, I felt the final assessment was a little too broad for a seventh grader to organize and answer in the way the state was asking.
What I did is I took the essential question from the unit, “How do culture, time, and place influence Salva/Nya’s identity?” and created a detailed outline
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7th
The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
Unit: Animal Farm by Orwell - ELA 9 (EDITABLE)
Profile:Unit: Novel- Animal FarmClass: ELA 9-10Bundles: 6Essay Type: 4 Argumentative and 1 Informative/ExplanatoryText Sets: 5Prompt Type: 2 Topic and 3 Standard5 Thematic TopicsReading Skills: 5Links to Resources: 45Keys: 46Assessments: 18Writing Skill: Formal WritingScaffolding Levels: 5Activities: 99Creator: Erica Villilo26 Recommended Exemplar Texts from CCSS, Springboard, CommonLit, and Holt’s Elements of Literature on 18 different CCSS Anchor Standards 5 Writing Prompts: 2 Topic and 3 Stan
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9th - 10th
The Dot- Literature, Art, Culture, and Social Emotional Learning
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds is a book that focuses on Vashti, a doubtful art student who is encouraged by the teacher to at least make a dot. The teacher's encouragement blossoms into Vashti continuing to create art and encouraging others. This unit will be a guide for teachers to use in conjunction with the book to explore creativity in writing, art, cultural exploration, and other social/emotional activities. Extension activities in Math, STEM, Robotics, and collaboration are included.
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4th - 8th
"Still I Rise" Lesson Plan — ELA, Arts, & Social Justice
Lesson plan for grades 6-12 based on the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya AngelouIncludes:English Language Arts, Arts, and Social Justice standards for grades 6-12Lesson objectives and "can do" descriptors Step-by-step walkthrough of how to execute the lessonSample modifications/accommodationsReflection Question suggestions
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6th - 12th
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Explore Australia: Through the Eyes of the Aborigines
This Australia unit is a 15-day exploration integrating History, Geography, Science, Technology, ELA, Art,Math, and Citizenship/SEL lessons. The unit follows the theme of community spirit through developing awareness and involvement. These lessons extend the students' knowledge of text types such as descriptive texts and oral storytelling. The students analyze these texts and complete activities which develop an understanding of their structure and function. This unit is based around the introdu
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4th - 8th
Esperanza Rising Bundle - WebQuest & Leveled Discussion Questions + Bonus!
Looking for a complete resource to teach the Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan from start to finish? Welcome to my bundle for novel study!In this bundled resource, you get a pre-reading WebQuest for background and setting as well as chapter-by-chapter, and differentiated Discussion Questions for comprehension and analysis. The Esperanza Rising WebQuestWith the engaging WebQuest, students can learn about the background of the novel independently by researching the geography, history, culture, a
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6th - 9th
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Black History Month Presentations 1 & 2
This presentation is intended to support teachers (both online & in person) in providing a quick mini lesson on Black/African American figures in history.The month of February is Black History Month! This presentation provides pictures, information, and an informational video on 19 Black figures in history ranging from artists, performers, athletes, activists, politicians, scientists, and moreThere are also additional resources provided such as read a louds of Black/African American children
Grades:
K - 8th
Quiz: What’s Your Introvert Strength?
What’s Your Introvert Strength? QuizDo you want to help your students discover their unique introvert strengths? This quiz is a fun and engaging way to do that!This quiz consists of 5 multiple-choice questions that ask students about their preferences, personality, and values. Based on their answers, they will find out which of the 6 introvert strengths they have: consideration, creativity, depth, patience, selflessness, or trustworthiness.Each introvert strength comes with a brief description t
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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