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Global Warming: Introduction to Global Warming
Students gather information about global warming and climate changes in preparation for future lessons on the Greenhouse Effect.
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Conducting a Video Teleconference
Students organize a video teleconference over CU-SeeMe to discuss the results of the survey with participants.
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Coalition or Division?
Students research and write essays on contemporary Italian politics and their roots to explain the prime minister's recent resignation in context. They explain why coalition governments are formed.
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Another Way of Life
Pupils read about the 2006 Amish school killings. They explore Amish life, including how loss and tragedy are handled and compare it to how they, themselves, would handle the same situation. They write fictitious dialogues highlighting...
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Investigating Neoclassicism/Romanticism
Students practice accessing and evaluating Internet resources as they perform research and answer, in written form, a series of general and specific questions about Neoclassicism/Romanticism.
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Investigating Neoclassicism/Romanticism
Students use the internet to research neoclassicism and romanticism. Using various websites, answer a series of comprehension questions on the topic. They develop a presentation and share their information they gathered with their...
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Terror Tantrum?
Students explore elements that help shape political and economic relationships between different countries and examine the effects of a recent terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia.
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Visiting Museums
Students visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.
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You Are Here
Students simulate a course with and without a guide as if they were an airplane with and without air traffic control. They read and discuss the article "For Airlines, Hands-On Air Traffic Control". They discuss challenges that air...
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Classroom Heart Rates
Students check and record heart-rates of other classmates. They compare and design questions to explain the differences in their findings. Possible explanations might include: the effects of culture, lifestyles, age and gender on heart...
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Wire Maze
Middle schoolers investigate what causes electrical circuits to work. They construct a wire circuit and pass a paperclip through the maze, trying not to touch the wire, and answer discussion questions.
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Exploring Angle Pair Relationships
Students investigate the relationship between angles of triangles. In this geometry lesson, students identify properties of right and non-right triangles. They differentiate between vertical and supplementary angles.
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Exploring Angle/Pair Relationships
Students find missing angles and sides of triangles. In this geometry lesson plan, students create intersecting lines to measure angles. They use Cabri Software to create virtual angles.
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Introduction to Architectural Philosophies
Learners familiarize themselves with some of the competing philosophies underlying architecture. They explore structures as a form of artistic expression as well as a practical undertaking.
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Collaboration the Internet
Students work collaboratively, via the Internet, with another class/school/country, to share and analyze data. They nteract with another class to construct a reasonable explanation for the evidence they have gathered.
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A New Century of Flight- Part 2
Pupils explore airlines and flight. In this flight lesson, students discuss the size of aircraft and how that impacts travel. Pupils view online travel sites to determine fare pricing and record data in a chart.
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Classroom Comparison of Fat Intake
Students bring in their fat diaries and work in pairs to calculate their average fat intake per day during the week of data collection. The whole class gathers to calculate their total fat intake and average fat intake per student per...
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Counting Fat in Our Diet
Students take home a fat diary and, with the help of their parents, keep track of how much fat they ingest every day. The fat diary should include entries for each day, as well as items eaten, servings, and total fat intake.
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CREATING A CLASSROOM HOLIDAY
Students invents a holiday for their classroom, including name, customs, songs, foods, and other defining characteristics based on the research they have conducted and the discussion in Lesson Three.
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Family Fitness
Students visit sites that contain information about a variety of health and fitness activities. They analyze the activities according to several criteria, and describe how their particular activity choices can contribute to a healthy...
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Climate and Weather
Pupils become familiar with weather terminology and different representations of data as they explore various on-line weather sites. They practice using and interpreting data determining the effects of the time of day, time of year and...
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Collecting and Recording Data# O
Learners observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.
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Discussion of Adaptation
Students discuss ways in which dinosaurs adapted to their environments. They apply the same logic to an analysis of human habitat, survival needs, and survival need fulfillment to explain how people have adapted to their environment.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Immigration Explorations, Part I
Students visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum created by students in his classroom in order to develop criteria for their own research.