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Broward Education Foundation: Using Idioms Is a Piece of Cake [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teaching about idioms can be great fun. Why are idioms important? Idioms are important so that young scholars can understand what everyone is saying! Idioms are a part of the figurative language. Using the Literal language (as in saying...
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Broward Education Foundation: I Belong, You Belong, We Belong [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
The students begin with sharing their attributes. The students then work on their family diary, which is a home/school connection. Students will then learn about their city and state. Students will draw a map of their community first and...
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Broward Education Foundation: Generating Fun With Alternative Energy [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students took what they had learned and created a matching game (simple circuit board) for others to test their knowledge about energy. The matching game illuminates a light bulb, when the correct matching pairs are selected.
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Broward Education Foundation: Creative Canjos [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Creative Canjos is an interdisciplinary unit that teaches American History through Folk Art and Folk Music. The students began the project in Art class. They were introduced to American Folk Art through a teacher made iMovie. The iMovie...
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Broward Education Foundation: Bullies Be Gone [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students write narratives, poetry and dialogue about their experiences with bullying. Through observation and reflection, their work becomes a readers' theater production to share with their peers on how to make their school a safe...
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Broward Education Foundation: Budget Technology [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will be divided into pairs and given a $1000 budget (imaginary) to create a project focusing on their area of interest within the school curriculum that will include a culminating audio/visual presentation. They must write an...
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Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
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Broward Education Foundation: Rom N Greece [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The ROM N GREECE project provides challenging, yet enjoyable activities that enable learners to explore Ancient Greece and Rome. The lessons promote reading, critical thinking and writing skills. Students work in (changeable) small...
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Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
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Broward Education Foundation: Pen Pals Around the World [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students improve skills in all subjects and connect with other students while learning about another country. The students began by researching our country. The students chose which topic they wanted to present in our video. During our...
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Broward Education Foundation: Peace Love Recycle Create Relate [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will learn the importance of acts of kindness. They will create a pot painted with acrylic paints, and or paint pens. They will place beautiful decorated tissue flowers in the pot. The music club will present a holiday...
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Padded Frogs for Ranidaphiles (People Who Love Frogs) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students assume a part as a gaming developer and are tasked with designing new frogs for a future update release of the popular game, Pocket Frogs by Nimblebit, LLC. They have to learn the game: manage its math components of coins,...
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Broward Education Foundation: News Is Knowledge! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The project provides teachers with ideas to create literacy centers for use in their own classrooms using student-friendly newspapers from various curricular areas. We will provide plans that can be used to adapt the materials each week....
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Broward Education Foundation: Rocking Chair Blues [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rocking Chair Blues is an innovative student driven activity which demonstrates that we as a society can easily be hypnotized by the overwhelming positives of technological advancements. Students will accomplish specific tasks over a...
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Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....