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Learning Style

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Students answer 20 questions to determine their learning styles. This becomes useful information when differentiating during instruction, whether it be delivering new material or remediating unmastered tasks or skills.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: Jennie Hamner

Who Am I and How Can I Contribute

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Students will learn to speak to a group and listen while others speak. Students will learn about similarities and differences within the classroom and with our families. (Extension will be to make symbolic flag for families which leads into the US Symbols lesson). Students will learn the meaning of strengths and struggles and begin to understand what their own strengths and struggles are. Students will learn how they can help others in the class throughout the year, as well as others in their families. Students will produce a class quilt of pictures of working collaborative to help each other.

Material Type: Lesson, Module

Author: Alisa Cook

Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 3 -- Everybody Works Together

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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students look at works of art that convey the idea of working together and think about how artists use space -- foreground, middle ground, and background -- to communicate this concept. In groups they use their knowledge of space to create a three-dimensional tableau that communicates the concept of working together

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Lesson Plan

9/11 Anniversary Teaching Guide

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Our age-appropriate classroom lessons and activities for grades K-12 aim to deepen your students' understanding of September 11 and develop their critical thinking skills. The guide, written by Morningside Center executive director Tom Roderick, also includes recommended books and other teaching ideas.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Not in Our Town Northern California: When Hate Happens Here

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Not in Our Town Northern California: When Hate Happens Here looks at five communities that are dealing with hate violence. The film’s four segments focus on hate crimes that took place in these five communities between 1999 and 2004. Taken together, the stories reveal that whether the crimes are motivated by racism, anti-Semitism, or gender or sexual orientation, hate is the same. From Sacramento to the center of San Francisco, from the shadow of Mount Shasta to the suburbs of Silicon Valley, community leaders and ordinary citizens have found new and innovative ways to move beyond controversy and differences to create safe communities for all residents. After a transgender teen is killed by local youth in the Silicon Valley suburb of Newark, high school students, residents and civic leaders respond, and in so doing, they struggle with how tod eal with a brutal and preventable crime. The Sacramento community mobilizes after the worst anti-Semitic attacks in the capital’s history. Redding citizens find new strength in diversity after a prominent gay couple is murdered. When a cross is burned on an African American family’s lawn in the Shasta County town of Anderson, the town’s residents join forces to make their values clear. And the San Francisco Public Library turns the mutilation of gay-themed books into an opportunity for creative community action.

Material Type: Lesson Plan