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Frankenstein - Frankenfolio
Students engage in a variety of activities in order to appreciate the literature of Frankenstein. They create a portfolio that tracks progress towards mastering skills and stated objectives.
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Social Action Project-Phone Calls
Learners investigate how to make a professional telephone call. In this communications lesson, students choose an organization to volunteer at and place a call to the organization to ask questions. Learners discuss the phone conversation...
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Requesting and Canceling Utilities by Phone
Students define new vocabulary associated with adding and canceling utilities by phone. They listen to a sample phone conversation between a customer and the utilities representative. They role play a telephone conversation with the...
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Who's Listening?
Students identify nonverbal signs of attention, and demonstrate skills for interacting with others.
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Database Detectives Solve a Mystery ~ Part 2
Learners work together to solve a classroom mystery. They collect and organize their information into databases. They educate the school on how databases benefit life in a democracy.
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Communtiy Medical Facilities
Students describe various medical facilities and the services they provide. Working in pairs, students research and list the location and telephone number of community medical facilities and the services they provide. Independently,...
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Preventing Household Hazards
Students identify how household materials can be hazardous to themselves and family members. Precautions for preventing and/or minimizing various hazards are discussed as a class. Working in pairs, students create a directory of...
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Media Campaign
Eleventh graders design and present a media product supporting environmental stewardship. They demonstrate an understanding of the nature and types of waste and of their management in industry and the community. They assess the results...
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Remarkable Trees of Virginia
Students draw a picture of their favorite tree from memory, and then add detail as they learn more about leaf characteristics of Virginia trees. They will use their writing skills to nominate one or more of their favorite trees to the...
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Captain Keller's Business Letter
Students write a business letter similar to one Captain Keller might have written asking the Perkins Institution to recommend a teacher for his daughter in The Miracle Worker.
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Music With a Message
Students write a line by line analysis of a song which they feel expresses a powerful message that can change society for the better. They then present their analysis to the class in an oral report.
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Codebreaker Math
Young scholars solve addition and subtraction problems and decipher and write messages using a code. They read and discuss an informational fact sheet about the Navajo code talkers from World War II, and decode and re-code messages...
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Exploring Greek Spelling Patterns
Students investigate Greek spelling patterns. In this Greek words instructional activity, students complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then a worksheet to learn about Greek spelling patterns.
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World Wide Web Historical Timeline
Students use newspapers and magazines to identify six recent political and social events from around the world. In groups, they use a timeline template to place the events on the timeline in chronological order. They share with the...
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Up From The Roots
Students review prefixes and root words then complete a Root Words worksheet. An answer sheet is provided with the lesson.
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Provide His/Her Gender
Young scholars write, speak and read his/her gender and the stress the importance of communicating this information accurately especially when completing forms or n various kinds of interviews. Included is a Gender Pre-Test, Gender...
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The World's Columbian Exposition
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this technological advancements lesson, students research and share information regarding technologies and inventions featured at the World's...
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Sound
First graders investigate sound and recognize the importance of hearing. They listen to and identify sounds in the environment, classroom, and on a pre-recorded tape. The students classify each type of sound and participate in a Sound...
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S'More Mores
Students consider social practices common to their target language. They work in pairs to research social practices common to the target language society that differ from those in the United States. They prepare a three-minute...
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A Guided Tour
Learners identify differences in information found on the internet and in print books. They practice navigating between different pages and using shortcuts. They evaluate a site and share their findings with the class.
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Collaboration and Communication Tools
Students engage in simple conversations with others using email. They send thank you cards to the school staff using email. They choose a greeting card on a specific website and then compose a thank you message for the card.
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The Role of Philanthropy in an Ever Changing World: Where Did It All Start?
Middle schoolers trace the origin and history of a nonprofit organization to help them explain the importance of philanthropy.
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The Dot and Dashy Language
Students examine and discuss the Morse Code. In small groups they develop messages using Morse code and take turns decipering the messages.
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Owning Your Own Business
Fifth graders consider the type of business they might like to own. They design an advertisement for this business. They prepare questions that they could ask each other, as owners of various businesses. Guest speakers could be utilized.