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Alex: How Long Will It Take?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students will participate in a group activity using a sponge ball and a growing human circle. The students will be added to a circle in groups of two and will pass the sponge ball from hand to hand until it returns to the...
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Alex: Dewey Decimal Goes to Math Class

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Math students take an onsite field trip to the library (media center) to meet the Dewey decimal system. An "Essential Question" will be used to a set the purpose for understanding why we use the dewey decimal system. Students will...
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Alex: Team Up to Clean Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), ways and items to recycle will be explored. Students will also decorate a recycle team badge. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson...
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Alex: Gator Math

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Student will practice comparing three digit numbers. Student will use >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons
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Alex: Place Value Party

For Teachers 2nd
After reviewing place value students will create a "Place Value House" as a resource. Students will answer work problems independently. Students group numbers by hundreds, tens and ones.
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Alex: Recycle to Renew

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and ways to use recycled items will be explored. Students will also recycle a bottle to create a piggy bank. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride...
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Alex: Magic Milk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to engage students in a discussion and demonstration of molecules, surface tension, and bonding. Students will use hands on materials as well as technology. This lesson shows how a solution works to achieve...
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Alex: The Medicine Leaf Man

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars are introduced to Mississippian medicine men through a PowerPoint presentation. Leaf Man by Louis Elhert (not provided) is read and discussed. Students create their own medicine leaf men from leaves of...
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Alex: European History Art Presentations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The learners are assigned an artist from the period of European history that the class is studying at the time of the assignment. The students will research their artist and write a one page paper giving the general background...
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Alex: Human Population Growth Web Quest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a technology-based lesson plan that integrates science and math to investigate the dynamics of population growth.
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Alex: It's in the Bag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This instructional activity is a unique and fun way to review perimeter, angles, and types of adjectives. Learners pick an object from the classroom that will fit in a paper lunch bag. They investigate their object and fill in the...
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Alex: Multimedia Careers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners may be surprised that Computer Careers aren't all found under "Computer" in the Occupation Handbook. Students will conduct guided research of careers related to Multimedia Design and/or Multimedia Publication course objectives....
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Alex: My Adventure With Lewis & Clark

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Over the course of five days, students will create a daily journal in the style of Lewis and Clark. At the end of the week, the students will create a video using their Flip cameras recreating their journals.
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Alex: Sequence Flower Reports

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
This is a hands-on book report project. It will be an extension activity that occurs after the reading of the stories The Secret Gardens and/ or The Gardener. Paper Flowers will be designed and put together by each student. Story events...
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Alex: Support/negate Thesis: Language Skills & Success

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will research the relevance of possessing skills in the English language to career success.
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Alex: Don't Get Lost in Story Writing: Follow the Map!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, teachers will guide the young scholars, as a group, through the process of writing a meaningful story using a story map. First the teacher will review the parts that make up a successful story. Then, the students will be...
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Alex: Plants Are Survivors!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
All plants have basic life requirements. Understanding these requirements as well as plant structure helps explain why plants prefer some locations over others. This project allows students to work in cooperative groups to explore the...
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Alex: Jet, Set, Go! Travel Google Earth in Ben's Dream

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson uses the picture book by Chris Van Allsburg Ben's Dream with Google Earth to highlight ten major landmarks of the world. After reading and discussing Ben's Dream, students "travel" to each location using the free software...
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Alex: Bullies Beware

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity draws awarenes to bullying. It discusses what a bully is, signs of bullying, and surveys students about bullying.
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Alex: Passport to the Great Wars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit plan students will be examining the causes, events, and consequences of the First World War. To launch this project students will create passports that they will use throughout this unit and in the World War II unit. The...
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Alex: Common App: Planning to Apply for College Admission

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan introducing the Common App as a way to apply for colleges.
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Alex: Give That Character a Voice With Voki!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This lesson fuses fictional literature with technology through a project-based experience. Students will use the free online resource Voki to bring a fictional character to "life" and deepen their understanding of character, character...
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Alex: Mock Treaty of Versailles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project is designed to conclude a World War I Unit. In this unit, students will have examined the causes, events, and consequences of World War One. After investigating the causes and events of the war, students will participate as...
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Alex: Spice Up the Nineteenth Century!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will make interactive outlines using the Internet of the reform movements, literature, trails, religion or technology of the early nineteenth century.