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Hero Highlights
Young scholars create documentaries. In this Vodcast instructional activity, students in high school interview elementary school young scholars regarding highlights of their lives. High school students create Vodcasts of the interview...
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Making Movies to Demonstrate a Process
Students use Windows Movie Maker to complete a how-to description activity. In this how-to and technology instructional activity, students create a slide show using Windows Movie Maker. Students bring in the materials for the...
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Faces of Emotion
Fifth graders investigate human emotion by analyzing photographs they have taken. In this human face lesson, 5th graders collaborate in pairs to take pictures of another student while they are expressing different emotions....
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Movie Music
Learners discover film making by participating in a music performance. For this performance arts lesson, students perform music and physical acting to convey an already written script for their peers. Learners collaborate...
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Learning About Colonial Times
Students research Colonial America. In this Colonial Times lesson, students view the PBS Colonial House Interactivewebsite and create a timeline of important events during the Colonial period. Students print and share their timelines.
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Cell Community
Seventh graders use technology to review cell structure and function. In this cells less, 7th graders review the parts and functions of a cell, and use photography/video and PowerPoint to enhance their explorations.
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Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. For this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win.
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Keynote Digital Parts of Speech
Students create a parts of speech digital presentation. In this parts of speech activity, students create a slide show with audio, pictures, movies, and text. They combine their slides to project the entire project.
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Charlotte's Web Venn Diagram
Young scholars, together as a class, construct a Venn diagram of characteristics they see in two classmates. Then, they independently create another Venn diagram comparing/contrasting two characters from the story Charlotte's Web. They...
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Symmetry In Nature
Students investigate the symmetry that is found in nature. They view shapes and patterns in nature while looking at images. Students look for tessellations while obtaining photographs with a digital camera. The information is used for...
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson, students recognize beginning sounds. Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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Grade 11 and 12 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)
Students relate emotional health and well-being to personal productivity and to the workplace design, implement, assess, and evaluate a plan to promote personal, school, and community well-being
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Those Golden Jeans
Students review the productives resources used to produce goods and services and explore how decisions are made in a market economy through the interactions of both the buyers and the sellers.
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Watercolor Landscapes
Students explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. They use watercolor paints to create landscape paintings.
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective
Students examine the basics of drawing forms in one-point perspective, and linear perspective. They transform their drawings into city scenes using one-point perspective.
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Reality Check
Students visit MainFunction every Friday for a Reality Check. Students discuss questions or complete an activity about real-world topics.
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Reality Check
Students visit MainFunction every Friday for a Reality Check. Students discuss questions or complete an activity about real-world topics.
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A Number a Day
Pupils explore the calendar including sequence of the days of the week, and the numbers associated with each day. They conduct research about each number and share what they find with the class.
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience
Pupils document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic patterns....
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The New Wind Turbine
Pupils study the basic components of a modern wind machine. In this investigative lesson students investigate and find out if there are any wind machines in their state, how many and how much power they produce.
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Cultural Corner- "Mexico"
Students use print and electronic resources to gather information about Mexico. They present a mini-museum to share with students, parents, and other interested classes around the district. They present their information in a video...
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Presenting Your Case
Students research a famous person of their choice in this lesson. They research the person's life, feelings, and character through a series of written activities. They compile their research into a creative project called a character's...
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V.I.P.
Students complete interviews of their classmates. Throughout the school year each student is interviewed by the teacher and their peers. Answers to interview questions are complied along with a photograph and placed in a PowerPoint...
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Cpsr: Netiquette Training Whose Responsibility?
CPSR offers an article on the need to train new Internet users about netiquette. Includes experiences with E-mail, need for netiquette, and additional resources.