In this activity, students will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.

These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.

In this lesson, students will learn that inference is also present in music. They will examine music from different soundtracks to see how music is used to set the stage for events. They will describe how music gets louder, softer, slower, quicker, smoother, and choppier, and will then discuss what is happening after each occurrence of that particular section of music.

In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead the students to write individual pieces in which they support their opinions using descriptive words.

In this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The Giant, students will imagine and create a world when a giant has come to visit their town! They will serve as the authors and the artists of their own creative stories while employing artistic strategies and techniques from the High Italian Renaissance.

In this lesson, students learn about and create sequences and patterns as they move and dance.

In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.

In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.

In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a natural fit in this learning experience.

In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.

In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals mathematical relationships and proper proportions that students can incorporate into their own self-portraits.

In this lesson, students learn about basic genetics and how genes can affect someone's behavior. They will write their own narrative about a character they create as a class in order to illustrate the effects of inherited traits and learned behaviors.

In this lesson, students examine travel brochures to learn about persuasive writing. They then create a travel brochure themselves, giving three strong reasons that a person should come and visit their location. Once the brochure is created, students will write a persuasive paper connecting all of their thoughts from the brochure into their paper.

Actor Kevin Hardesty performs the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Act III, Scene I of the Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

This video presents viewers with an explanation of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing.

Click on a scene to read that part of the Shakespearean comedy, As You Like It. This full text of As You Like It was taken from The Oxford Shakespeare.

At the end of this tutorial, the learner will be able to ask appropriate and effective questions to better understand a communication or situation. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Asking Clarifying Questions." [7:03] SL.9-10.1c Active Partic, SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part

This screencast focuses on using post-reading questions to evaluate and improve understanding of a text. It offers general question ideas and a specific example of questions for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. [3:37]

This screencast focuses on asking questions as you read, including: the purpose; types of questions; examples of questions for character, setting, and events; and a literary example. [2:44]

Students practice writing complex sentences by combining two sentences using as long as, if, or unless. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt.