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Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 4. Suite Tools
In this learning module, students learn how to use Microsoft Word and Google docs, both in the cloud. They will create and format documents and learn how to share them with others so that they can collaborate on projects and assignments....
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Google for Education: Applying Discrete and Continuous Data in a Map
Using various tools, student will be able to analyze and calculate the amount of urban open space available in their city.
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Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Cool Google Tricks
For this lesson, students will read an article that defines ways to improve the Google Search process to get better, more accurate results, and then write a short essay defining what new skills have been learned. The article that it...
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Alex: A Comparison of Puritan Authors
This lesson is meant to directly follow "A Comparison of Puritan Authors and Their Viewpoints on God and the Devil." Students are introduced to the basic concept of Bloom's Taxonomy of Knowledge, and then asked to apply the taxonomy to...
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Alex: A Comparison of Puritan Authors
Students in teacher-selected groups of two will create a presentation on Puritan authors using Google Docs. Student groups will compare authors Anne Bradstreet and Jonathon Edwards. Students will support their comparisons through...
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Google for Education: What Is Data
The purpose of this lesson is to show young scholars what data is and how prevalent it is in their lives They also learn how to use data to make informed decisions. These activities are an excellent way to introduce the year as students...
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Google for Education: Modeling the Genome Using Computational Thinking
Some example problems where students model biological phenomena with computational thinking in order to make predictions and better understand their world.
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Google for Education: Introduction to Python
An introduction to the program, Python. Students learn about the programming language used to create programs that tell computers, step-by-step, how to solve problems.
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Google for Education: Modeling Projectile Motion Using Computational Thinking
For this demonstration, students see how they can model the phenomenon of projectiile motion with computational thinking in order to make predictions and better understand the concepts.
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Google for Education: Model Electron Configuration Using Computational Thinking
With this demonstration, students will learn to use computational thinking to better understand how the atomic number of an element affects how its electrons are configured.
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Google for Education: Correlation vs Causation
In this lesson, learners will test the strength of a correlation and discern whether or not a law or conclusion can be made based on that correlation. Students will see the threshold commonly accepted for correlating data and test their...
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Google for Education: Cell Biology: Filter Design and Construction
Students participate in a simulation which shows the movement of molecules across a cell membrane so that they understand passive and active cell transport. Students also use computational thinking skills by developing systems based on...
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Google for Education: Exploring Your Environment
Students act as data collectors who gather different types of information about various things in the environment. Students then organize the data in a table and reflect on the possible uses of this data.
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Google for Education: Data Aggregation and Decomposition (Excel)
By using Microsoft Excel, students collect, decompose, and re-aggregate class data. Students use computational thinking skills by decomposing long lists of information and writing basic algorithms to help analyze data.
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Google for Education: Cell Biology: Filters
Students learn the characteristics that comprise a filter, and then use their computational thinking skills to design their own filters. The goal is to ultimately learn how these filters are related to many biological processes.
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Google for Education: Sorting Data
In this example students use data collected from their class and learn to sort it before calculating the mean, median, and mode. Additionally, students learn how to use spreadsheet functions to sort based on different criteria, leading...
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Google for Education: Ciphering a Sentence
In this lesson, the young scholars have a goal to map each alphabet letter to a number in the range 1-26. They use some simple rules to create this mapping and then use this mapping to encode a sentence.
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Google for Education: Ratios and Proportions
Students use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and math problems by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
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Google for Education: Slope and Y Intercept
Students calculate the slope and y-intercept of a line passing through a given set of points. Use Python to solve various challenging slope and y-intercept exercises.
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Google for Education: Linear Association
This student activity allows for practice in graphing data in a spreadsheet and relate the "slope" of their graphs to the association between two sets of data.
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Google for Education: Describing an Everyday Object
In this activity, students act like inventors of an object that does not yet exist, and they try to describe what need would be fulfilled by this object, and how specifically it functions.
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Google for Education: Degrees and Radians
Students label key points on the unit circle in both radians and degrees. They count their way around the circle in 30-degree increments, and then again in increments of radians. Finally, students go through a similar process for angles...
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Google for Education: Working With Large Tables of Data
Students work with large tables of GPS data and sort, manipulate, and visualize the data so it can be easily understood.
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Google for Education: Common Fractions and Equivalent Percentages
Example problems where middle schoolers look for patterns in the chart to understand and remember certain common fractions and their equivalent percentages.