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Images, Empathy, and the Humanitarian Impulse
Students study humanitarian intervention and its role in society. In this politics lesson students view a video on Darfur and discuss what they learned.
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Using Word Parts to Infer Meaning
Middle schoolers examine the importance of physical activities and use word parts to infer meaning to a story. They discuss agility, baseball, and ballet dancing, read an article, and observe a demonstration on breaking down words and...
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Technology
Students create podcasts. In this technology instructional activity, students familiarize themselves with podcasts and develop their own podcast about a current event.
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Draw the Three Little Pigs Houses
Students conduct Internet research on The Three Little Pigs. They explore various websites, and create a drawing of the house they think is the strongest using Kid Pix software.
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Check It Out
Students discuss the many processes involved with personal banking. They create their own budget based on their career choices. They also practice balancing a checkbook.
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Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Research
Students, in groups, practice organization and editing skills as they research the history of Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). they create a PowerPoint presentation of their research.
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Visual Opacity
Learners discover the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque. They use those descriptions to classify clouds. They create a presentation in which they show the different types of clouds with their descriptions.
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Regular and Irregular Verbs in German
Students review formation of present tense of regular verbs learned in German 1. Students complete a worksheet after viewing a PowerPoint show. They watch a second portion of the PowerPoint show about the peculiarities of irregular verbs.
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World War II: Bombs and Peace
Middle schoolers explore the final events and end of World War II. They examine the community impact of such events as the dropping of the dropping of atomic bombs, and President Roosevelt's death. Students prepare a presentation.
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Québec Sovereignty – Oui ou Non?
Students examine the Quebec question. In this Quebec lesson, students research issues related to Quebec's sovereignty. Student then participate in a videotaped debate on the issue.
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Fantasy Visualization
Students view and discuss a selection of paintings from Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and other Surrealist artists. They play a game in which each person in a group writes a sentence and passes it on to the next person without letting...
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Animals in Research - Right or Wrong?
Young scholars research animal testing in scientific research. They role-play a research scientist, teacher, animal rights activist, or cosmetics manufacturer, and develop an argument for or against animal testing.
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USING THE SOFTWARE PROGRAM "HYPER-STUDIO"
Young scholars demonstrate the steps to follow in using the software to create a presentation. They use context of cultural history of the four periods of Native American lifestyles in Illinois and create a presentation.
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Hachimaki/Shibori
Sixth graders investigate a Japanese dyeing method, Arashi shibori, its history and its process. They are introduced to hachimaki, a Japanese headband, and make their own to wear.
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PowerPoint Comes to "El Mundo Hispanico"
Students learn about important persons throughout the history of the Spanish speaking world. Then in small groups (3-4) will research
information about the individuals that they select; their time period, their
surroundings and their...
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Beatrix Potter: Author Study
Students are introduced to the life and works of Beatrix Potter. Individually, they use the site to read about one character in her books and print out a picture. They create a report and share their information with the class.
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My Spanish Christmas
Tenth graders research Spanish Christmas customs on the interent and role play in their writing their findings in an essay. They teacher provides a list of web addresses for the students to locate information on and from that their...
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Foodborne Illness Educational Materials
Students work in teams to research and create educational material succinctly summarizing known salient fact, including prevention, of a particular foodborne illness. Pupils educational materials are presented in both oral and written...
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Author Study
Students work collaboratively to create PowerPoint presentations on an author of their choice. This lesson is written for a first and third grade joint project with students pairing up across grade levels.
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Foil Tooled Masks
Students are introduced to the process of mask-making. Using different cultures, they examine how masks have changed over time and identify the reason for them. They create their own mask with tooling foil and decorate them using...
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Colonial Research Fun
Students review the characteristics of the thirteen colonies. In groups, they use the internet to research one of the colonies more in depth and answer questions about it. They develop a newspaper or travel brochure to share the...
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USING TORTURE ON SUSPECTED TERRORISTS
Learners examine how most countries prohibit torture. They explore why torture is still considered a possible tool for preventing future losses of innocent life. They discuss some of the facts, the mis-perceptions, the arguments, and the...
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Geometric Lines: Parallel / Transversal / Perpendicular
Middle schoolers in grade 7 and 8 work on outcomes related to spatial sense and geometric concepts, properties, and relationships. The instructional activity integrates technology and helps students be exposed to multimedia.
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Hurricane
Learners use children's literature in order to investigate the concept of hurricanes and how they occur. The metaphor is used to describe a play area that is magical. They use their imaginations and write about their favorite places to...