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Job Applications
Students fill out job applications for openings as sales clerk and stocker. They role play being the "Boss" to critique job applications.
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Firefighters: Community Helpers
Students, after reading the book, The Fire Station Book, discuss how a firefighter helps people in a community. They also participate in songs and games about firefighting.
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Making a Family Tree
Students, in groups, produce a family tree using computers to facilitate research and presentation. They plan, discuss and evaluate different technologies used in this assignment.
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Study Skills Assignment
Students utilize six different types of study skills as they review material for a final exam. They are graded on the exam and on the study process for the exam.
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Evaluating Web Sites
Students examine how to evaluate a website. They discuss a graphic organizer, conduct Internet research, and apply a checklist of criteria to various websites.
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Using the Internet to Learn the Internet
Seventh graders investigate the key terms and concepts of the Internet. The explore web pages to define the terms and concepts and word process to design an assessment which becomes a reference sheet.
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Art Museum Exhibit Brochure
High schoolers design, set up, and format a brochure for a museum exhibit. They conduct Internet research, locate images, summarize information, and create a trifold brochure.
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Leavening
Students experiment with the various types of leavening agents and complete a muffin lab.
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Consumerism
Young scholars identify image and information ads, define consumer goods and services, explain teen consumer spending impacts.
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Personal Body Types
Students become familiar with four major body types; assess their own bodies, and complete an assignment showing which styles and design details would look best on different body types.
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Coping with Crying: Shaken Baby Syndrome
Students discuss information about reasons babies cry and ways to cope with the crying. It also provided information about Shaken Baby Syndrome.
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COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Students review their understanding of web design principles and HTML and continue working on academic projects.
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Museum of Computer Technology
Students research the five generations of computing devices and computer inventors, and create a virtual museums.
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Keyboarding Lesson - Type Reach
Learners locate and type letters e, h, and o keys and practice a new technique: type reach. They review the home row with all letters learned.
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Building a House
Students investigate the house building process by naming building materials and sequencing the steps.
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Planning a Party
Young scholars, in groups, plan a theme party. They design their own invitations, budget materials needed and demonstrate good use of time, money, and resources.
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Looking at Teachers Among Us: A Workshop in Conceptions of Teaching
Students characterize various traditional conceptions of teaching and apply these to authentic teaching situations. Teaching art, math and grading systems are analyzed in this lesson.
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My Personal Goal
Fifth graders use goal setting in order to use time and energy efficiently.
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COUNTERACTING MEDIA STEREOTYPING
Students explore the effects of gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination.
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Problem Solving Lesson Plan 2
Students study a number of work and family management roles and techniques.
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Evaluating Web Sites
Learners determine how to critically evaluate visual and medias aspects of web sites. They examine the purpose of assigned web sites.
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Study Habits
Young scholars investigate their own good and poor study habits. They write a plan to improve their weaknesses.
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Building a House: Laying a Foundation
Third graders examine how a house is staked when preparing to build while they discover what the foundation is made of. They study how the foundation is poured and that the plumbing is included. They identify the workers and tools used...
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Special Characters
Students examine the use of HTML codes for ISO Latin 1 characters to display accent marks for non-English letters. They examine how to add spaces between words and letters and override the use of < and > in documents.