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8th grade arts & music simulations
Mock Trial Preparation and Script
This product includes graphic organizers to help your students gather ideas and information to present in a formal trial-like manner. You can use any literature story or informational text with this packet. Put a character or a historical figure on trial for crimes they've committed. The possibilities are endless!You will receive:Printable pages that can be used to create a packet specialized for both the Prosecution team and the Defense Team.A script to help move the trial along in a manner tha
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4th - 8th
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Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play
Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s
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5th - 9th
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Film Studies - Camera Angles (Middle School Edition)
Middle School-appropriate version of my popular Film Studies course. Revised and revamped to meet the needs of 6-9 teachers. Film clips chosen with the middle school student in mind. This slideshow reviews the topic of camera angles, with 16 movie clips (accessible via the web) from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump, Shrek, Harry Potter, Zootopia, and more! Also includes a quiz. Password for web access is on the last slide.
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6th - 9th
Frida Kahlo y La Casa Azul Virutal Field Trip SPANISH
Take your students to visit Frida Kahlo y La Casa Azul with this Virtual Field Trip for Spanish Class. Your students will visit Frida's museum in Mexico. You can use the interactive trip for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Spanish students will navigate through the 360 tour of various rooms in the museum. Students will also use the website to learn about Frida's life, paintings, and house. They will take pictures and write
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Hispanic Artist Spanish Lessons Bundle Pack - 5 Units
Ultimate Entrepreneurship & Business Mastery Bundle: Shark Tank to Stock Market
Experience ALL of my Entrepreneurial, Business Creation, Marketing, Design Thinking, Stock Market and Investing Projects currently available in my TpT Store! Each activity is easily sharable or assignable on Google Classroom or your LMS, and many include printable PDF files for your convenience.In this Bundle you will receive EVERYTHING that is currently listed in The Edpreneur Academy TpT Store! That's 25 activities and projects, enough for 1 full school year of business creation and entreprene
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4th - 12th
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Sound Engineering - Design & Build a Musical Instrument
Put the STEAM in STEM with this unit! Sound Engineering is a Project Based Learning unit that teaches students the physics and basic concepts of sound engineering, especially as it relates to music. This lesson can be used in Career and Technology classes, Science classes, or Music classes. I have used it with an 8th grade Engineering class.Students start the unit by reading information about the topic from a handout and answering questions about the reading, as well as defining terms related
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6th - 9th
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Stars of the Harlem Renaissance Art Show
This activity can be used multiple ways with your students! Let your classroom become an art gallery for students to experience a peek into the Harlem Renaissance. This activity includes biographies and art pieces for 6 famous artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance. The PowerPoint is partially editable so you can add or replace slides, edit text, and use the questions provided or choose to ask different questions for students to record and discuss. Use as a gallery walk, lecture pres
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4th - 12th
Cave Paintings and Petroglyphs: Museum Bundle
Set up an enriching classroom museum where your students can explore ancient rock art. Step-by-step directions are included to help you (or volunteers) make plaster artifacts for your students to use. Artifacts include:
*mortar (you'll need to supply a rock for the pestle)
*stone "rock" your students can carve into a bowl
*plaster petroglyphs
*a replica of the "Blombos Stone"
*a replica of a stone carved with cupules
*several stones for your students to carve on
*Museum Display Cards, patterne
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3rd - 8th
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Frida Kahlo The Blue House Virtual Field Trip
This Frida Kahlo The Blue House virtual field trip takes students to Frida's museum in Mexico. This is the ENGLISH version of the field trip. You can use the interactive trip for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Students will navigate through the 360 tour of various rooms in the museum. Students will also use the website to learn about Frida's life, paintings, and house. They will take pictures and write descriptions of thei
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Virtual Field Trip Bundle ENGLISH
High Engagement Murder Mystery Classroom Activity! (Murder at the Dance)
This "whodunit" style classroom murder mystery game will have your students collecting and evaluating information, making inferences, identifying red herrings, practicing speaking and listening skills and so much more! This activity will have your students' full attention as they try to find the "killer" at the homecoming dance. This interactive activity includes all necessary pieces to run your own murder mystery game in the classroom!Setting the Scene: During the homecoming dance, the dead bod
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7th - 12th
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Mantua: A Role Playing Simulation and Game of the Renaissance
Mantua is a role-playing simulation set in fifteenth century Italy at the start of the Renaissance. In it students are divided into teams to play the five major Italian city-states of the time (Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples) and try to earn prestige points by developing the various skills and institutions that largely defined the era: the printing press, banking, art, architecture, diplomacy, and warfare. The game gets its name from a small, but very influential city-sta
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8th - 12th
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Public Speaking and Debate Activities for Middle and High School
Help your students build their confidence while having fun with this collection of public speaking and debate activities. These games and exercises would be great for middle or high school Model United Nations, English, and drama classes, or for use in any context in which students practice speech and argumentation. Instructions for 22 different activities are included, along with hundreds of prompt and topic ideas. Activities included: The Bowl of DestinyFight the FillerSynergistic SpeechesTalk
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Model UN Lesson and Activity Bundle
Music Around the World Activities | World Instruments Global Culture Lesson
Explore the music of 16 countries from around the world! This activity will take your students across the globe to explore world music and unique instruments. Your students will learn about diverse music traditions that are celebrated around the world, and journey to 16 notable countries representing each inhabited continent, as well as important cultural regions like the Caribbean and Middle East. This activity is a perfect way to promote cultural diversity in the classroom! Students will have
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3rd - 8th
Hip Hop Griot; Rapping African Folktales & Oral Traditions
Oral tradition is essential to all societies. This is particularly important in societies where a large number people were not literate. The culture and traditions of most African civilizations was not carried on through a written language. The history and traditions of Africa were continued over the centuries, orally through storytellers and through performance by the entire village or tribe. The class will be divided in to groups of five or six who will write, design, and perform an Afric
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6th - 11th
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Jamestown Colony and the New World Primary Source Play With Worksheet
Jamestown Colony and the New World Primary Source Play With Worksheet
This fantastic, amusing worksheet includes a short scene from a play called "Eastward Hoe" that was performed in England in 1604. In the scene, a captain tells them all sorts of outlandish lies to entice two men to move to Virginia.
This is a great activity to have your students act out in class! My students loved this and even used some hilarious British accents to add to the scene. It is a fantastic way to introduce stude
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7th - 11th
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Translations, Rotations, and Reflections (Transformations in Geometry)
This PowerPoint presentation uses animations to demontrate 3 types of tranformations: translations, rotations, and reflections. Students can actively create their own transformational shape that can then be translated, rotated, or reflected to build a tessellation. Turn Geometry into a fun art project where students can add color to their tessellation to create an image out of te transformed shape.
Common Core, Geometry, transformations, translations, rotations, reflections
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Fall of Rome and Rise of Middle Ages A Play
The purpose of this activity is to help students identify and understand the causes and effects of the Fall of the Roman empire.
Students will participate in a play in which the Roman emperor continually taxes his people into poverty and then enslaves those unable to pay. Students will understand how the Emperor’s financial policies led to the Middle Ages and the conditions of serfdom for many poor people of the empire. Students will also understand the reasons barbarians attacked Rome, leadin
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7th - 9th
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"Find the Witch!" A Salem Witch Trials Role-Playing Activity
Synopsis of activity:This role-playing activity is meant to simulate the uncertainty and fear that gripped the town of Salem, Massachusetts during the infamous Witch Trials. The activity involves holding a “town meeting” for the purpose of identifying who is “the witch.” This activity is fun and brings high energy to the classroom.This activity is a great companion to a history lesson on the Salem Witch Trials or with an ELA unit on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.Materials included:*Instructions f
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8th - 12th
Byzantine Empire Create A Mosaic Project Digital and Printer Friendly
Looking for an engaging and creative way for your students to apply their knowledge of the Byzantine Empire? This lesson is perfect for you! Students will have the opportunity to create their own mosaic and receive quick and easy feedback with the included rubric. You can post the doc to your learning management system or print it out for your students.Before creating their own mosaic, students will learn about the importance of mosaics and browse examples using Google Images and a website about
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6th - 8th
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Safety and Sanitation in the kitchen Escape Room
EDITABLE Escape room geared toward safety and sanitation in the kitchen! This download includes all task cards and student directions as well as a teacher guide. Font is "Chiller" that comes free with Microsoft PowerPoint or can be downloaded online for free. Note: This CANNOT BE USED as a google slide. The format only works in PowerPoint. Do not attempt to use with google slides.
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7th - 12th
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Winter Holidays Christmas Around the World Music Traditions Activity Lesson
Explore winter holiday and Christmas music culture and traditions from around the world! This activity will take your students on an engaging tour of diverse winter holiday and Christmas music customs, and learn about the global instruments used in traditional holiday music!Your students will learn about diverse music holiday traditions that are celebrated around the world, and journey to ten notable countries. This activity is a perfect way to promote cultural diversity around the holidays! St
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3rd - 8th
Graphic Designer - Career Simulation (Career Exploration) | Distance Learning
Learning about Graphic Design gives students an introduction to what graphic designers do on the job. This is perfect for a technology, business or marketing class, or a class that focuses on careers. Students learn about the career from the provided PowerPoint (short teacher presentation) Next, they apply their knowledge in a logo identification game, and finally they design and create a logo of their own. The project was created for grades 7-8 but could easily be adapted for older students
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6th - 9th
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M&M Color Theory- Lighting Activities
Give your students a fun and tasty activity while learning the physics of color theory! Stage Lighting Design affects pigments of color in costume and scenery, and occasionally makeup and props. Let them learn about the affects of lighting color and pigment color using M&Ms (or skittles for some). In addition, I added a second activity to analyze, discuss, and reflect as a lighting designer for Broadway shows choosing colors to use onstage. This assignment has 2 worksheets for the student ac
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6th - 12th
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Shakespeare in Court: Romeo & Juliet Mock Trial Experience
Transform your classroom into a courtroom with this immersive "Romeo and Juliet Mock Trial" resource! Designed for middle and high school students, this comprehensive package offers a unique twist on Shakespeare's timeless tale, providing an interactive way for students to explore legal concepts while delving deeper into the characters and themes of the play.Key Features:Character Pages:Dive into the minds of Romeo, Juliet, and other key characters with detailed character pages that guide studen
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7th - 10th
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