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Alex: New Town Health Club
Over the course of the year, the students in Human Anatomy and Physiology will design a health club. As part of this year-long project, the students will develop a brochure or print advertisement for the health club. This project will...
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Alex: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
This instructional activity focuses on solids, liquids, and gases. It has several review activities and an exciting lab experiment involving ice cream to complete the instructional activity.
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Alex: A Penny for Your Thoughts
This is an outline for a week-long lesson usually taught in the month of February around President's Day. It is an interdisciplinary study combining coin identification with a literature-based study of the Presidents represented on the...
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Alex: Leo Lionni's a Color of His Own
Learners will summarize a Leo Lionni story through drawing and writing. Students will also mix the three primary colors to make secondary colors.
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Alex: Career Capers
This activity will focus on career/job information. This interdisciplinary activity integrates reading, writing, interview and research skills. Students will research careers through print and on-line sources, conduct interviews, and...
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Alex: Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
This lesson is part of a week-long unit. It focuses on the pre-reading phase of guided reading. It aims to activate prior knowledge, preview vocabulary, and set a purpose for reading. This book deals with a very sensitive issue that most...
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Alex: Identifying Sequence of Events Using Dr. Seuss
After listening to a reading of Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck, students use graphic organizers and comic strips to practice sequencing. In a fun activity, small groups follow directions to make oobleck.
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Alex: Three Digit Subtraction
This lesson uses technology and literature to teach subtraction of three-digit numbers, including subtraction across zeros.
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Alex: "Reach for the Stars, Not Drugs"
This lesson involves decorating a classroom door for red ribbon week with different kinds of candy. The door is a symbol for students to resist temptation and has several extension activities that help students discuss temptation,...
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Alex: Creating State Brochures
Learners will work in pairs to research online and/or in print a chosen state and create a travel brochure incorporating the information gathered.
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Alex: Wow! What a Trip!
Students are sent back in time to Europe during the Middle Ages. They will stay for five days. They are taking a camera and a journal with them. They will present their journals and their pictures to the class when they return.
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Alex: News Flash: The End of the Cold War
This lesson is an inquiry into events that occurred during the Cold War era. It is a technology-based project on one event that occurred during the Cold War(1945-1991). The Cold War describes the tense and hostile relationship between...
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Alex: Where Am I?
During this lesson students explore the 50 states through the Internet. Students discover important facts and information by navigating the World Wide Web.
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Alex: Working With Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on enhancing students' vocabulary usage and spelling which, in turn, benefits reading. This lesson also includes keyboarding practice and computer usage.
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Alex: Fairy Tales as a Genre of Literature
This lesson will provide students with an understanding of the literary elements of fairy tales. Students will compose original fairy tales using graphic web organizers and presentation software.
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Alex: The Equator and the Poles
This instructional activity provides hands-on activities that will teach students about the poles and the equator. Students will be labeling a globe, recreating a globe within the classroom, and researching information on the Internet.
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Alex: The 7 Essentials of Tone Production
Lesson introducing the seven essentials of tone production. Students practice proper breath support by blowing up balloons using a section of their instruments.
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Alex: Where Am I in Cyberspace?
This activity allows students to utilize critical thinking skills and Internet research to develop a technology timeline. The timeline will assist students in developing a word processed sample list of items for a time capsule, which can...
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Alex: Larger Than Life
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
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Alex: Is My Water Safe?
After a discussion of what makes water safe or unsafe, students will visit a local tributary, test the water, and complete tasks concerning the water. This lesson is designed for a 6th, 7th, and 8th grade gifted education enrichment...
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Alex: Library of Congress Classification System
Students will be introduced to the Library of Congress Classification System by viewing two online tutorials. The students will make flash cards in order to study the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification System. The...
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Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
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Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
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Alex: What's in Your Secret Garden?
After reading F.H. Burnett's The Secret Garden, students create their own secret gardens and design a slideshow presentation of their gardens to share with the class.