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Media File Types
Students read about several different media file formats and determine which one is best used in specific situations. They go to different sites and read about the different media formats. Students then answer the questions that are...
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Sweet Car Dreams
Students rebuild two different makes of cars. They calculate the cost of rebuilding the car. They create a spreadsheet to track their progress and costs.
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Vocational: Observation of Children
Students, pursuing childcare careers, discover the purposes and procedures for observing children. After examining various Websites, they construct electronic portfolios which are available for parents to inspect. Finally, students...
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So you want to bake a turkey?
Students are given the directions on how to cook a turkey. They discuss where they should buy a turkey from. Students discuss the difference between fresh and frozen turkeys. They discuss what it means to defrost something.
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Online GED Practice
Students who are preparing to take the General Education Equivalency (GED) exam access online websites and take online practice tests. They work independently or with a GED teacher to prepare themselves to take the actual GED test.
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Tool Time - Quilting
Students explore quilting. They recognize what tools and equipment is necessary for successful quilting. Students demonstrate how to use quilting tools. They recognize terms in quilt making.
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Women in Business
Students work in group to discus similarities and differences of the characters in four films they have viewed. Each group presents their list to the entire class. Students fill in a grid with their ideas and discuss their personal...
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Housing
Students prepare for life on their own after graduation. They explore various types of housing available in the United States. Students study about caring for a home including how to resolve problems and repairs.
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Using Technology To Learn Independently
Students explore learning strategies that may be incorporated into a classroom. In groups, they prepare a role play that demonstrates a specific learning strategy. students discuss necessary materials,l take notes on the learning...
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Functional Skills Worksheet
In this career activity, students take a personal assessment of workplace skills. They apply them to a personal strengths survey to create a holistic picture of talents.
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Pick nick or Box Supper or Place Setting With Meal
Students create a place setting using paper plates and real plastic utensils. They use magazines featuring food as examples for drawing or color media. Items are cut out and place on the plate to draw from imagination. Students create an...
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Cleaning restaurant tables (busing)
Students practice busing a table in a restaurants and clean the tables and chairs with a 90% accuracy for a total of twenty trials. Students use a tray, a clean towel and a spray cleaner to clean the tables and chairs.
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Phases of First-Year Teaching
Students discuss the phenomenon that one fourth of teachers leave the profession within the first three years of teaching. They form small groups to discuss one of five ways for beginning teachers to seek support. Each small group...
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Designing Your Professional Portfolio
Students watch a video about professional portfolios. They brainstorm ways they could use this information to build their own portfolio. Students identify five things they have accomplished in student teaching that could be included in a...
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Target That Window
Students write HTML to make hyperlink open a URL or web page in a second web browser window. They write HTML so that all links in a page load in a specific browswer window.
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Number Stories 1: Student-generated Checklist
Students explore creating a self-assessment tool in a model classroom. Through the use of a video, students are observed engaging in peer assessment activities to generate a checklist. Students discuss the use of strategies a teacher can...
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You Can Blockquote Me on That!
Students insert a block of text that is indented from the body text. They apply style tags within blockquote text.
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META tags
Pupils write HTML to have one web page automatically advance to another page. They add embedded information that help others find their web site using Internet searches.
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Concrete Block Estimation
Students estimate the material needs for a concrete block foundation of a given size, with a given number of openings.
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Native American Unit: Internet Center
Students explore the use of classroom management while using centers in cooperative grouping. Prospective teachers observe a video of young students working on iBooks in a classroom setting. Teachers explore strategies to ensure students...
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Mercer Mayer 2: Peer Experts Teach Kispiration
Students observe a model classroom of cooperative groups in action. After the video, students discuss how to organize the classroom to promote cooperative learning. They examine the difficulties in allowing students to work in small groups.
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Number Stories (Part 4): Presentation
Students observe a model classroom where children are using clip art to add to a number story. After viewing the video, students discuss methods of teaching technology skills. They explore how the room arrangement affects the students...
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Integrating the Internet into Instruction
Students describe personal confidence barriers to technology integration in the classroom
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Who is Gertrude, Really?
Students form opinions about Gertrude by imaginatively creating 5 entries for Gertrude's journal. Each journal entry reveal much about Gertrude's character at pivotal moments in the play.