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Middle School Computer Projects

Timeline of Your Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils can use PowerPoint as a tool to create clear timelines that show their lives in relationship to historical events. Take a trip to the computer lab and share this page with your class. Class members can watch each video and follow...
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Film English

365 Grateful

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Encourage gratitude with a short film. Pupils first explore what grateful means and come up with five things they are grateful for. After a discussion, they watch the short film twice and discuss the content after each viewing, focusing...
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National Academy of Sciences

Global Warming: Facts and Our Future

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
According to the United Nations, climate change affects every country on the planet. This research project encourages scholars to explore the factors that affect climate change from different perspectives: climate scientist, policy...
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PBL Pathways

Gas Prices

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
How can math help your vehicle run better? Complete an interesting project-based learning task with your classes to determine the cheapest approach to mixing the ideal octane level of gasoline. Scholars create and solve a system of...
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Curated OER

Historical Interview Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interview a subject about important historical events in his or her lifetime and create an iMovie of the experience. Era-related data is imported into the project from a variety of sources and presented to the rest of the class.
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The New York Times

Reader Idea | Thinking Like a Historian About Current World Events

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Check out this fantastic research project where learners work to see the modern world through the eyes of a historian and analyze a contemporary event of their choice. An in-depth reflection on the project is given by the project...
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PBL Pathways

Medical Insurance 3

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Create a technical report explaining the components of a medical plan through a function. The project-based learning activity gives a medical insurance scenario that young mathematicians model using piecewise functions. Their analyses...
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PBL Pathways

Medical Insurance

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Design a plan for finding the best health insurance for your money. Learners compare two health plans by writing and graphing piecewise functions representing the plan rules. Using Excel software, they create a technical report...
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Curated OER

Welcome To Middle School Video

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create questions to pose to adults working in Middle School. In groups, students create a video interviewing the Middle School staff. They edit the video and format present it as an introduction to Middle School for perspective...
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National Dance Week Foundation

Modern Dance Project

For Teachers 5th - 8th
As part of a celebration of National Dance week, class members engage in a series of exercises that introduce them to the movements of modern dance.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Color Your Community

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders work together to come up with a topic for a service learning project that engages all members of the school community. Groups then develop a dialogue and visit other classrooms to encourage other students to participate....
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Curated OER

Music Video

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore songs that tell stories over various decades and create a Garage band track for their voice.  In this story song lesson, students create a video for their song group.  Students present a proposal to their teachers for...
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Curated OER

Make a Music Video

For Teachers K - 12th
Students develop ideas for a music video of a familiar children's song. Working together, they write a script, create costumes, props, and scenery and stage shots to be taped.
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Curated OER

Nuclear Scientists Project

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students explore nuclear scientists.  In this nuclear science research lesson, students choose a scientist who has contributed to nuclear theory, research his/her life and accomplishments, and write a paper. Students generate interview...
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Curated OER

Electronic Poetry Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a digital project to go with a poem. In this technology activity, students pick a poem and create images to go with it. They make background music for the narration of their poem and attach it to a PowerPoint presentation. 
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Curated OER

American Revolution Multimedia Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create multimedia projects based on the American Revolution Era. In this American History lesson, students combine photographs, slides, and video to present the time line of the American Revolution to the rest of their class.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Habitat Project Digital Science Journal

For Students 7th - 8th
In this habitat project digital science journal worksheet, students use a digital camera or camcorder to create a science journal about a habitat they have studied.  This page includes links to helpful web resources for planning and...
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Curated OER

Research Project

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students fill out a form which asked the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY about the person they were assigned to research, they gather their information from different web sites on Lightspan and Yahooligans. They create a HyperStudio and...
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Curated OER

Writing an Expository Paragraph Using Time Order - Ndakinna Wilderness Project

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Teach your class how to camouflage themselves - and how to structure an expository paragraph - after learning about the Ndakinna Wilderness Project. They watch a video about observing nature, then discuss how to camouflage themselves....
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Curated OER

Tech Integration Project Lesson Accelerator: Project Overview

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Prepare middle schoolers for life in the tech world with a lesson on entering, storing, sorting, and creating database collections. They use a database tool, such as excel, to record the contents of their CD collections. They then...
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Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

A Genome Is an Entire Set of Genes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Today researchers identify a gene suspected of causing a genetic disease in a matter of days rather than years, thanks to the Human Genome Project. Young scientists learn about the Human Genome Project and the scientists who designed the...
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Curated OER

Little Owl Press Report/Newspaper and Newscast Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover journalistic techniques by having learners prepare and write their own class newspaper. They discuss the five W's of investigative journalism and conduct interviews with school figures. They utilize video technology, podcast...
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Curated OER

Geography Tutor: Maps and Map Projections Questions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this geography skills lesson, high schoolers watch a video titled "The Geography Tutor," and then respond to 14 short answer questions about maps and map projections.
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Curated OER

Integrating the Nintendo Wii in Adaptive Physical Education

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Bring gaming into the classroom as part of a physical education lesson plan. Learners with disabilities participate in various physical activities using the Nintendo Wii. They use the video game system not only to play different sports,...

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