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![]() Instead of concentrating on place names, teach your primary students—or invite someone else at school or from the community to teach primary students—the basic words that they as children would find useful: for example, the words for mommy, daddy, please , and thank you . |
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![]() The process is more important that any products in this lesson, so evaluate your students according to participation in the class lesson, interaction with other students, cooperation, and self-control. |
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![]() A New Writing System Ask students, working in small groups, to create a new way of communicating English words, phrases, and sentences in writing. They may not use the letters of the alphabet. They can create abstract, representational, or stylized characters to stand for whole words; they should produce a dictionary giving the meanings in English of each of their newly created characters. Finally, they must combine some of the characters to form phrases or sentences that students in other groups will have to decipher. A Picture Language Encourage students to do research in the library or on the Internet to identify, learn about, and report on an ancient language that used pictures or characters instead of letters of an alphabet for writing. Students may choose to study cave paintings, Sumerian writing, or Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
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![]() At the Beach Huy Voun Lee, Henry Holt, 1994. In the Snow Huy Voun Lee, Henry Holt, 1995. Pictograph Symbolizes More Than 'Woman' Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 1995. China Catherine Charley, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995. Read about daily life in China and see how everyone participates in exercise and sports. |
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![]() Chinese Logographic Writing Here is a summary of the legends, both ancient and modern, about the shadowy civilization of Atlantis, including Plato's proof and description of a paradise on earth populated by a beautiful, highly intelligent race. It also describes the claims of some modern mystics and explorers who say they have had hints of its existence. Answers to Your Questions About Sports and Nutrition |
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![]() Click on any of the vocabulary words below to hear them pronounced and used in a sentence.
Context: One of these traditions is a form of writing called calligraphy.
Context: If you want to be a champion gymnast, you have to have a flexible body.
Context: Great athletes have strength, endurance, coordination, and lots of skill.
Context: Graceful line and well-proportioned arms and legs.
Context: There is a lot of training and it is very vigorous. |
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![]() This lesson plan may be used to address the academic standards listed below. These standards are drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 2nd Edition and have been provided courtesy of theMid-continent Research for Education and Learningin Aurora, Colorado. Grade level: K-5 Subject area: history Standard: Understands selected attributes and historical developments of societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Benchmarks: Knows significant historical achievements of various cultures of the world (e.g., the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Taj Mahal in India, pyramids in Egypt, temples in ancient Greece, bridges and aqueducts in ancient Rome). Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: geography Standard: Understands the physical and human characteristics of place. Benchmarks: Knows how the characteristics of places are shaped by physical and human processes (e.g., effects of agriculture in changing land use and vegetation; effects of settlement on the building of roads; relationship of population distribution to landforms, climate, vegetation or resources). Grade level: K-2 Subject area: physical education Standard: Uses a variety of basic and advanced movement forms. Benchmarks: Uses simple combinations of fundamental movement skills (e.g., locomotor, non-locomotor, object control, body control, and rhythmical skills). Grade level: 3-5 Subject area: physical education Standard: Uses a variety of basic and advanced movement forms. Benchmarks: Uses mature form in balance activities on a variety of apparatuses (e.g., balance board, large apparatus). Grade level: 3-5 Subject area: physical education Standard: Understands how to monitor and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Benchmarks: Engages in activities that develop and maintain muscular strength (e.g., push-ups, pull-ups, curl-ups, isometric strength activities, jumprope). Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: physical education Standard: Uses movement concepts and principles in the development of motor skills. Benchmarks: Understands principles of training and conditioning for specific physical activities. Grade level: 6-8 Subject area: physical education Standard: Understands the social and personal responsibility associated with participation in physical activity. Benchmarks: Understands proper attitudes toward both winning and losing. |
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![]() Summer Productions, Inc.; Janet Arnowitz, teacher, Lanier Middle School, Fairfax, Virginia. |
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