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Alex: Money Matters: Where Does It Go?
For this project young scholars will utilize math and reasoning skills to develop a personal budget. By weighing their expenses as "wants" vs. "needs," students will develop management skills and learn the importance of getting the most...
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Alex: Personal and Professional Growth
Students will work together to improve their community while learning valuable life and employability skills. They will design and execute their own community service project. When the project is over, students will conduct a meeting and...
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Alex: Are You Picking Up What I'm Putting Down?
How are magnetism and electricity related? Students will explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity, learn how to construct an electromagnet, and discover everyday uses of electromagnets. Students will create a multimedia...
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Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #4: Owls
During this instructional activity, students will visit various Internet sites to learn facts about owls. They will use this information to draw a picture of the owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a poem about owls.
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Alex: Escape to Freedom
Students will read Number the Stars by Lois Lowrey. This novel about World War II, the Holocaust, and heroism, provides the topic for an inquiry-based, interdisciplinary instructional activity. Students will utilize their skills in...
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Alex: You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!
How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the...
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Alex: Dr. Seuss on the Loose
In Dr. Seuss' first published children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Marco, inspired by the passing of a horse and wagon, imagines a series of increasingly incredible sights on his way home from school. This...
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Alex: The Magic of Water
Young scholars will use the Internet to learn about the water cycle by accessing various websites. Students will create a document including pictures relating their knowledge about water and the water cycle.
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Alex: How to Write a Descriptive Essay
The students will learn to write a descriptive essay about a three-day space camp experience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students will then produce a multimedia slideshow about the experience.
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Alex: Vibrations We Can See, Feel and Hear
This four-part lesson allows learners to explore the question of how sounds are made. Using wooden rulers, tongue depressors and tuning forks, students will explore and experience sound. Learners will use what they have learned to create...
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Alex: Imagine Mars
Students will learn about Mars and what adaptations would be needed for people to live on Mars. They will develop a plan for the colonization of Mars. A slideshow presentation and brochure will be created to entice people to join this...
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Alex: Honey Bees
The students will do research to learn the various functions of bees within the hive and understand the process of making honey. Students will use numerous resources to find their information including the Internet, library books,...
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Alex: "Introducing Pi!"
The overriding purpose of the lesson is to actively engage students in learning activities that promote opportunities for students to discover the 'meaning' of pi. Activities will include research, hands-on, software applications,...
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Alex: Respect
Lesson using the books Arthur's Eyes by Marc Brown and The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle along with graphic organizers to start a discussion about respect. Students then create flyers about respect to hang around the school. Lesson...
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Alex: "Dummie's" Guide to Pcr
(This lesson is for a more advanced class such as honors or AP Biology.) The lesson will look at one of the most important tools to the molecular biologist, PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The learners will learn the science behind PCR...
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Alex: Explosive Fun With Volcanoes
For this lesson the students will work in groups to make their own volcanoes and learn the different aspects of a volcano.
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Alex: Let's Be Friends
Through this lesson students learn what frienship is all about by discussing and determining traits of a good friend and how a good friend would deal with specific situations.
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Alex: Pretty Cool Penguins
This lesson plan is part of an interdisciplinary primary life science unit addressing adaptation and habitats by focusing on penguins. This lesson plan is primarily technology based and should take place near the end of the unit, after...
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Alex: Move the Cherokee People
During this lesson, learners will explore facts about the Cherokee people, their history, their culture, and their future. This lesson will help students begin to realize how the actions of our predecessors affected people in the past...
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Alex: Pumpkins
During this instructional activity students will be involved in hands-on discovery activities using pumpkins and pumpkin seeds. They will compare the size and weight of their pumpkins. They will also have an opportunity to taste pumpkin...
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Alex: Subtraction Fun!
The students will be introduced to the concept of subtraction. They will use different manipulatives to practice this concept. The students will also learn to recognize the minus sign.
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Alex: Narrative Paragraphs
Students learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Alex: "Hot Dog" Book Reports
Learners will use a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to learn to identify the characters, setting, main idea and details of a book read. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Alex: Three Awesome Bears
The lesson plan will be implemented during a study of bears. Books, class discussions, and the Internet will be used to learn about bears and their characteristics. Black, brown, and polar bears will be categorized according to their...