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Notes & Status
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Drawing Idioms, Parables & Proverbs
Compare Confucius and Benjamin Franklin p 540 World Literature HRW
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I originally tried this in a Lafayette LA Middle school - went well,
lots of student interest and fairly strong link to ELA standards - wonderful connection between ELA and Character, and with
Idioms, lots of humor ('I am in a bit of a pickle')
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Bullying Visual
Arts
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Pinata
by Diago Rivera & Peacable Kingdom by Edward Hicks
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This may well be developed during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by Visual
Arts Teacher Rachel Louch & Counselor Monica Ebersole
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Sounds - Vibrations of instruments & vocal chords
The Senses - Several of Our Superpowers
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This
may well be developed during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by STEM / STEAM
Teacher Amy Pavona
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Steps of Scientific Method / Problem Solving Steps
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This may well be developed
during 2013-14 at Dixie ES by STEM / STEAM
Teacher Amy Pavona and Crystal Peters
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Compare & Contrast Lewis and Clark - The Voyage of Discovery and the Trip to the Moon - Moonshot
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Compare MKL to Alexander The Great
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Link to 'I have a Dream' speech, and 'Letter From Birmingham
Jail'
Add trail of influence from The Bhagavad Gita, Thoreau, Gandhi, MLK, Nelson Mandela......
Alexander The Great - Speech to his troops
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Thinking
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"But in college there is no time to commune with one's
thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves
the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines."
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The Senses - Several of Our Superpowers
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Famous People Unit(s) - Washington, Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi,
Helen Keller, Mandela, Mother Theresa, Christ ........Sun Yat-Sen, Dragonboat guy, Confucius......
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Ecology / Bioneers
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Syllables & 'Its a Wonderful World'
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The Little Prince - Study Guide
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Important things are sometimes not so visible....
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The North Star - Peter Reynolds (FableVision)
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Democracy / Man With a Hoe
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MATH - Probability....Handicapping Horses in a Race
Odds - Meaning and an Odds Chart
See Also - Lottery Payouts....
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Science and Art - Calder / Balance & Fibronacci Sequence.....Audubon
/ Birds....Surate / paint unit & periodic table....
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