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Alex: Jingle Bells Paper Plate Dance
This lesson teaches students a series of dance steps in order to move rhythmically to a song while also manipulating a paper plate.
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Alex: Who Will You Back? (The First American Political Parties)
Students will produce an illustrated documentary on one of the first two American political parties.
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Alex: Plan the Adventure of a Lifetime With Lewis and Clark
This plan is the first lesson in my unit on Lewis and Clark. This is a project-based, hands-on unit in which learners "become" part of the Corps of Discovery - the members traveling in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In this lesson, the...
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Alex: Let's Talk Socratically
For this lesson you will be using the Socratic Seminar Instructional Method. The Socratic Seminar is a great way to get students involved. Socratic seminars are useful in that they teach students to make a point through using the text...
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Alex: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Address
The viewing goals for this lesson were for students to use a visual text, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech (played first without sound), to identify visual cues & understand why he may have chosen to use certain...
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Alex: You Can Do It!
A activity intended to motivate and inspire learners. Students view a brief motivational video linked in the lesson plan and discuss ways learners can overcome obstacles in order to reach their goals. [3:44]
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Alex: Native Cultures vs. Explorers in World Court
This lesson represents the end result of a project-based, hands-on unit in which children represent a culture they've researched in a World Court Hearing against the explorers they encountered.
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Alex: Days of Our Medieval Lives
This project is designed for a class on block scheduling with class times ranging from 60-96 minutes. Middle schoolers will be assigned a character in feudal society. Through this character, students will immerse themselves in medieval...
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Alex: Newton's Three Laws
This technology-based lesson will review Newton's three laws of motion. After reviewing the laws, the students will be divided into three groups. Each group will be assigned one of Newton's laws and asked to create a presentation...
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Alex: It's in the Hopper!
A Congressional simulation in which middle schoolers research a topic of interest, write a bill, and submit the bill for consideration by a Congressional committee of their peers. This lesson plan teaches in a real way the legislative...
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Alex: John Marshall: True to His Party?
Students will take part in an inquiry-based lesson in which they will analyze the rulings by John Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. After evaluation, they will justify through blogging whether John Marshall held up the...
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Alex: Constitution Lives
As part of the study of the Constitution, young scholars will do research on and create a Constitutional scrapbook and multimedia presentation on the Bill of Rights. Students will use various media print resources as well as the Internet...
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Alex: Are You Down With Describing Nouns?
This unit is a fun, exciting, and engaging unit that uses many 21st century tools to help students working in collaborative groups understand what an adjective is and how adjective use is vital to making writing interesting. Furthermore,...
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Alex: America's Melting Pot
As part of the study of Civil Liberties, the students will do research on Civil Rights Supreme Court Cases and amendments that changed America. In groups, students will use various websites, books and newspaper articles to acquire...
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Alex: Native Cultures in the Americas
This lesson is part of a project-based, hands-on unit in which children discover the native cultures that existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of explorers. The students will "become" part of their assigned culture through...
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Alex: Hey! I'm Talking to You!!
This lesson teaches communications sklls by focusing on audience, appropriate tone, timing, and word choice.
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Alex: Exploring the Past in 21st Century Ways
Through this project-based lesson, young scholars will do research on and create an oral presentation based on the life of an influential Famous American. Students will utilize various means to glean information, from online databases,...
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Alex: Ancient Greece on Parade
Everyone loves a parade! As an end to a unit on Ancient Greece, middle schoolers will produce an Ancient Greek shoebox float celebrating one of the cultural contributions of the civilization.
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Alex: Circling the Bill of Rights
This is a hands-on, inquiry project to create a 3-D graphic organizer for the research and study of the Bill of Rights. It may be a stand-alone activity or may be included as part of a unit of study on the Constitution. Students will...
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Alex: The Bee's Knees of the 1920s
This is a culminating activity to an American history unit on "The Roaring 20s." Learners will work in groups to research notable individuals from the 1920s and apply that knowledge to create a digital poster using Glogster. This poster...
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Alex: Going to War!
In this 21st Century roleplay lesson plan, students use what they know about causes of the Civil War to have an educated discussion with another class. By utilizing Skype, students and teachers collaborate with one another in an engaging...
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Alex: Report the Trials: Salem Hysteria
Learners will act as a radio/TV reporter informing the public of the hysteria of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Within partners/groups, students will create a podcast/vodcast connecting Puritan life and culture with the events in Salem.
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Alex: "Tools of the Trade"
Students will research tools that were used in Colonial tradeshops to determine how the tools were used during the 18th century. During the lesson, the students will have the opportunity to work together with their peers to conduct their...
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Alex: Pass It Down
This lesson, Pass It Down, integrates science and math into two consecutive hands-on genetics activities that should be embedded within an existing genetics unit suitable for biology students. The results of each activity will be...