The Indian Ocean Trade network has been a conduit for goods and culture for thousands of years. This lesson will teach students key concepts of cultural diffusion, and diasporic communities.
This lesson is to introduce students to the Islamic religion and the spread of Islam. The overarching goal is for students to find the commonality in the monotheisms and gain an appreciation and tolerance for each religion.
In this warmup activity, students work together to trick "Kitty" out of a seat in the circle.
This lesson begins with a lecture/presentation about the Kurds and their history/geography. Students are then asked to divide into pairs, randomly choose a place and time in modern Kurdish history in which their character will live, conduct research on the historical situation, fill out the research question guide and the options pros and cons guide, and write a detailed letter explaining what actions their fictional character plans to take and why.
In this activity, students act out scenarios in which a character must experience anxiety at school. The scenes are performed, then rehearsed again. The second time, the students change the emotion from anxiety to worry. The scenes are performed again, and the students identify moments they noticed emotions shown through bodies, voices, and words.
Practice using volume and density when optimizing space and cost
Students will closely observe objects, encouraging poetic, "outside the box" thinking, encouraging innovation, writing about setting, using descriptive details in writing.
In this activity, the director helps the students create frozen images ("tableaux") inspired by a fairy tale. Once all of the students know the tableaux, the director then controls how the scene of frozen images plays out by calling out buttons that can be found on a remote control such as "reverse" and "fast forward." The students then act accordingly.
Reference sheet on how to talk to someone who may have an eating disorder
Story about coaches and athletes and possible eating disorders