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Ballou High School Marching Band Documentary Lesson Plans

Colin Powell, America’s Promise, and its Five Points

Earth Day Poster

Objective: The students will use cognitive skills to create an advertisement for Earth Day, using large letters, few words, and artwork that communicates meaning.

Sunshine State Standards
A. media, techniques and processes
1.3 organization/principles of design
B non-verbal communication of meaning
E Contextual life skills

An Elementary Reading Literacy Development Lesson

Target Group: 10 second-grade students in a class, both English native students (different ethnics and races) and ESL learners (2 persons)

You are the Australian Minister of Fisheries and Wildlife and will be speaking to the members of Parliament concerning an urgent environmental issue. The task before you is to create an oral and visual presentation outlining the short-term AND long-term goals designed to achieve the desired outcome as stated in the handout below.

INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR PRESENTATION:

Great Barrier Reef-Guarding Nemo

Objectives:

gather information on the Great Barrier Reef, and understand the environmental importance of coral reefs and the threats to reefs' conservation
learn about the concept of ecotourism

RAFT

Write A Rap Song

Grade Level: 5, 6, 7, 8

Subject(s):

Arts/Music

Duration: 2-3 class sessions

I Am A Word: Words as Names

Grade Levels: 1-2

Subject: Language arts, parts of speech, nouns

Description: This lesson introduces the idea that some words (nouns--if you are introducing this term) are the names of persons, places or things. Secondarily, it introduces the idea that words are conventions that are applied to things.

Rhyming With Pancakes

Subject: Language Arts/Rhyming

Description: This is a lesson that introduces the concept of rhyming through use of common items typically associated with making and eating pancakes.

Goals: Student will develop an understanding of the concept of rhyme and rhyming and how rhyme is typically used.

Writing with Vivid Verbs

Writing with Vivid Verbs
SUBJECT: Language Arts - Using Very Vivid Verbs

GRADE SOL’s:

Writing with Alliteration

Lesson Plan on Writing with Alliteration
SUBJECT: Language Arts - Alliteration

GRADE SOL’s:

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: This lesson teaches the student how to write with alliteration, repeating the same letter sound at the beginning of two or more words in a sentence. It also is a review of adjectives and adverbs.

OBJECTIVE: The student will:
Be able to understand what alliteration means.