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Alex: Video Resume
Students will construct an ongoing list of their accomplishments. Students will videotape each other presenting their achievements.
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Alex: Digital Scrapbook: Symbols in the Scarlet Letter
Young scholars will be given a list of symbols from the novel and then be asked to photograph images they think represent those symbols.
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Alex: And Then There Were None: Casting the Characters
Students will work in pairs to cast their own movie version of the novel. Students must have a knowledge of the characters and setting from the novel. Casting of the characters must correlate with the character traits mentioned in the book.
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Alex: The Devil and Tom Walker Newsletter
Young scholars will create a newsletter with information taken from the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker." Students will work in pairs and decide which parts of the newsletter each will be responsible for completing. The finished...
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Alex: A Creative Twist to the Tragedy of Macbeth
A Creative Twist to The Tragedy of Macbeth is a project that gives young scholars an opportunity to express their understanding of Macbeth through their artistic ability. The activity appeals to the learning style of all students by...
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Alex: Life After High School
Life After High School is a career research assignment that gives students an opportunity to plan their career path after high school. Even if students deviate from their plan, they need to have a tentative idea that allows them to set...
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Alex: Characteristics of Quadrilaterals
Students will begin unit on quadrilaterals with basic overview of characteristics of parallelograms, rectangles, squares, rhombi, and isosceles and non-isosceles trapezoids. After the word wall is made, the teacher can use interactive...
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Alex: Rubber Egg Diffusion
This lab will illustrate diffusion and osmosis through a semi-permeable membrane. A chicken egg will be used as the model cell, because the yolk is actually a single large cell. The surrounding egg white, or albumin, contains water and...
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Alex: Using Scale Factors: Drawing Your Body to Scale
Teachers will use this lesson to review and apply skills involving scale factors. Teachers will use illuminations website to review scale factor. Then students will be given instructions to draw their bodies to scale.
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Alex: Flower Anatomy
Flower Anatomy helps a student to visualize the floral parts. Students can disect the flower after they have viewed and identified all parts. A student can take the dissected parts and create a word wall using colored paper or posterboard.
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Alex: The Effects of the Civil War
Students will work in groups to research the causes of the Civil War, events during the war, and Reconstruction. They will compile their information into a multimedia presentation. They will use research to answer the essential question,...
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Alex: Should Man Explore Space?
This lesson plan will bring learners through a series of activities so that they will be able to make an informed decision as to whether man should explore space.
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Alex: The Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery
In this lesson plan, students will take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery. Great lesson plan for an Anatomy and Physiology class with a focus on the Skeletal System.
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Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry
This language arts lesson grabs learners' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...
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Alex: Movie Madness
This language arts projects motivates students through being a movie-based project. This lesson will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart listing literary...
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Alex: "My Hometown" Creating a Virtual Field Trip
Young scholars will become familiar with the history of their hometown while enhancing language arts and developing computer skills.
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Alex: Andy Warhol: Artist to the Masses
A lesson plan designed to investigate the works of Andy Warhol and discuss the use of repetition in art. Students will use Photoshop to create an artwork that demonstrates the style of Andy Warhol.
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Alex: Civil Rights Movement Photo Story Timeline
In this lesson plan young scholars will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role of...
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Alex: What's in a Cell?
This lesson focuses on the function of organelles through technology integration. The students will identify the various organelles by using an electronic game. Then, they will construct a Prezi (online presentation) and present their...
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Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images
This hands-on instructional activity uses exploration and discovery to help students determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will...
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Alex: Avoiding Scholarship Scams
Every year, thousands of students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. By understanding how scholarship scams work, students can better arm themselves against scholarship scam artists. For this lesson, students will create a...
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Alex: Monopoly Matters
Students will apply learning opportunities from playing the board game Monopoly to personal financial planning. This lesson includes financial planning components.
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Alex: Career Technical Education Research
This lesson is designed to help students document their research for a year long capstone project. (Creating an Engineering Report)The students will be following the requirements for the Siemens Math, Science Technology competition....
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Alex: College Planning for High School Freshmen
This lesson is designed to prepare high school freshmen for goal-setting and financial planning opportunities for college. Students will create a college planning portfolio. This lesson contains a financial aid component.