World languages
¿Qué te duele? Body Parts and the Doctor’s Office
Students match body-part vocabulary, practice duele and duelen, read a short doctor-and-patient dialogue, and write about what hurts.
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Arts
Camera Vocabulary: Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO
Students learn aperture, shutter speed and ISO in plain language, choose settings for scenes, and calculate how settings change the light.
Arts
Color Theory on Paper: Wheel, Schemes and Mood
Students use a reading, fill-in questions and sorting tables to learn primary, secondary and tertiary colors, complements, analogous colors and warm and cool colors.
Arts
Color Wheel and Mood: Choosing a Palette
Students learn color wheel vocabulary, match palettes to moods and businesses, and draw a six-part color wheel.
Arts
Color Wheel Lab on Paper: Mixing Chart and Labeled Wheel
Students complete a color-mixing chart, practice color vocabulary, and draw and label a 12-part color wheel using words or colored pencils.
English language arts
Context Clue Detectives: The Lighthouse Keeper
Students read an original story, use context clues to work out eight vocabulary words, and use the words in sentences.
Arts
Design Day: Sketch a Set and Costume for The Night Market
Students read an original play premise and design a set, a costume and a mood on paper, explaining their choices as a designer would.
Science
Food Webs and the 10% Rule: Following the Energy
Students read about energy flow, learn the vocabulary of food chains, and use the 10% rule to calculate how much energy reaches each level of an energy pyramid.
English language arts
Greek and Latin Roots: Decode New Words
Students use a reference chart of common Greek and Latin roots to match, complete and invent vocabulary words.
Study skills & advisory
Honey Bees at Work: Read, Check and Write in Chunks
Students learn four key words, read a short article in three chunks with a check after each, fill in a main-idea organizer, and write using sentence frames.
Arts
How to Critique Art: Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Judge
Students match art vocabulary to definitions and write a four-step critique of a painting described in words.
World languages
Le, la, l’, les: French Articles and Gender
Students sort French classroom nouns by gender, choose the correct definite and indefinite articles, and fix wrong articles in error-spotting practice.