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Alex: Montgomery Field Trip Tour Book

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, students explore the functions of our government through the Internet, slideshow presentations, and by visiting Alabama's capital city of Montgomery. Students will use their field trip as a guide to create a tour book...
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Alex: The Big Dropper the Life Cycle of a Raindrop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will research the Internet, Alabama Virtual Library, online and printed encyclopedias, and other reference material to gather information on the water cycle. Students will then use the gathered data to create a slideshow...
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Alex: The Power of the Presentation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students will research an endangered African animal using resources from the Alabama Virtual Library and other Internet sites, and then design and present a persuasive and informative digital slideshow presentation on the animal and how...
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Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Alex: History: It's All Around Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Most students are unaware of the historical significances that can be found in their immediate surroundings. This lesson plan sends students on a quest to seek out areas of historical significance that can be found within their local...
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Alex: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Both Mahatmas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were influenced by Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience." Have students research and read, using the Internet, the first part of Thoreau's essay. Then have students write an...
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Alex: The Impact of Political Debates in the Television Age

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This technology-based lesson encourages active engagement in the state elections process as part of a unit to prepare for debates to be held in the Fall of 2010. The lesson may also be adapted for use as a stand alone lesson. Student...
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Alex: Creating a Prehistoric World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In the lesson plan, students will research, create, and present knowledge gained about Prehistoric and Historic Native Americans in Alabama. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
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Alex: Which Way Do I Go, George, Which Way Do I Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will explore the process of graphing inequalities on a number line. It will also explore writing an inequality when given a graph. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: What's the Difference? Subtracting Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage students to subtract positive and negative integers. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding...
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Alex: Surface Area of Pyramids and Cones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this inquiry-based lesson, students will discover the formulas for the surface area of pyramids and cones. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: How Many Times Did You Add That?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
After watching the video clip of the Hershey's plant, students will use grid paper to investigate multiplication as repeated addition. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: All Squared Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this AMSTI 5 E lesson plan students will be engaged in an investigation to discover the patterns in squared numbers then be able to apply the concepts needed to evaluate the expression. This lesson plan was created by exemplary...
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Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....
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Alex: Rockin' Around the Clock

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson will introduce students to the clock and telling time to the hour. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Misleading Graphs Are Da'pits!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this interactive lesson, students will discover how creating an incorrect graph will display misleading information. Through viewing and discussing a variety of graphs, the students will identify 5 components that graphs must contain...
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Alex: Polynomials Divided by Monomials

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigation of division of polynomials by mononials. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Weight vs. Capacity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan will introduce students to measuring weight, mass, volume, and capacity using metric and cutomary units. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Popcorn Bucket or Box?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this exploration, middle schoolers will apply their knowledge of finding volume and surface area of cylinders and rectangular prisms. Students will make recommendations to the local movie theater after determining which package is...
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Alex: Talking in Circles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will identify parts of the circle including center, radius, diameter, chord, and arc. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Easy Equivalent Measures

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Easy Equivalent Measures is an exciting, engaging lesson that will make this unpopular, hard skill EASY for your students. We will use Input/Output charts to demonstrate our knowledge of equivalent measures. This lesson will support the...
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Alex: Circles All Around Us

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
For this lesson, students will estimate several dimensions of circles in everyday objects. Students will use the metric and customary systems for their estimations. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through...
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Alex: Dartboard Probability

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson learners will find probability of events presented in a geometric context. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: It's in the Bag!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It's in the Bag will allow students to explore basic principles of probability. Students will investigation the likelihood of a certain color cube coming out of a bag. Then proceed to write word problems involving the plausible outcomes....