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Feature Story/Interview Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young journalists get a chance to practice their story writing skills by listening to an interview. Using the provided script, a class member interviews a treasure hunter (the instructor) while classmates take notes and then compose a...
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Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
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Family Interviews: The Grandparent/Elder Project

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore key concepts/facts in 20th Century history, develop interview questions, and produce master list of questions that can be used in project. Students then interview grandparent, great-grandparent, or other elder about...
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Interviewing for beginners: Getting over the scary part

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Are you beginning a unit on interviews/ conducting interviews? This lesson doesn't contain many details, but you might want to check it out if you're hoping to lead your class in interviewing outside sources. 
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World War II Veteran Interview Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils learn interview skills by formulating questions and videotaping an interview with a veteran.
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Entry-Level Job Interviewing

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discover specific information to remember when preparing for an interview and create a presentation based on the information
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Olympic Athletes and Moments in Time

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the history of the Olympics and their athletes. In this interviewing skills instructional activity, students role play the parts of reporters and athletes as they conduct interviews based on research of the Olympic games...
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First Day Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils participate in a first day icebreaker activity. In this icebreaker lesson, students are paired up and film their partner doing something unique. Pupils continue to film eachother while conducting a short interview.
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A Day in the Life of a Veteran: Oral History

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders conduct an interview with a veteran of a recent war to provide an account of military conflicts. In this oral history lesson, 7th graders research a recent war and write interview questions for their research. Students...
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Interviewing a Fairy Tale Character

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students demonstrate question and answer/interviewing skills. They brainstorm questions they would like to ask each other and then interview their partner who will be a fairy tale character. Interviews will be filmed with a video camera.
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Job Info Interview

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct an interview with an adult family member. They organize the information and write a paper about the interview. They type it in a word document and practice using spellcheck.
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Immigration Debate

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The 2010 immigration bill passed in Arizona provides class members with an opportunity to examine various perspectives of the immigration debate by watching news videos, reading interview, editorials, and viewing images. Discussion...
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Artistic Interpretation of a Classic: The Author's Role

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Reading the original Hans Christian Andersen tale of “The Little Mermaid” and viewing the Great Performances: The Little Mermaid from the San Francisco Ballet video offers class members an opportunity to consider how artistic decisions...
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The Earth Scientist Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pairs of learners choose an earth scientist from an extensive list. They collect information by researching online or in books about the childhood, education, and major contributions made by their chosen scientist. When they present...
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McDonald's and 'Spiked' Coffee

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define whistle blowing and research its consequences, interview both employers and student employees for their opinions on reporting wrongdoing in the workplace, and write article that explores situation locally.
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Driving Safety and Distractions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research process necessary to add local or state law limiting such driving distractions as cell phones or other technological devices, interview city leaders or legislators, research areas that already have such legislation and...
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Exploring "My Market"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A great way to determine if a career is right for you is to try it out. Learners explore the marketing career cluster by interviewing a person working in the marketing field and by developing a marketing-related service learning project....
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End of the Year Geometry Projects

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Geometry students will be ecstatic about these engaging and enlightening end-of-the-year projects! Types of project ideas include interviewing a geometer, an ABCs of geometry poster, an engineering lab report, and origami work. 
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A Tale of Two Schools

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create different photographs using photographic techniques of camera angles, lighting, and composition. They write non-fiction stories about people they interview and create two school newsletters that portray a fictional...
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Exploring Career Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a self-analysis exercise and choose a career to research based on the results. Students research their career using various resources including interview and internet research. They use the information gathered to...
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Machine Technology

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students work in pairs to manufacture a product for a potential customer. They interview potential customers and collect data. Students develop a customer interview profile. They manufacture drill drift part to customer's specifications...
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The Great Depression: An Oral History

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the hardships experienced during the Great Depression through an oral history interview with person who lived through the event. Students transcribe their interviews and discover the contributions oral history can make...
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Listening for Leschi: Voices from the Past

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students interview a family other than their own to learn about oral history. In this oral history lesson plan, students also create a newspaper article about Leschi and pretend they interviewed him back in the past.
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Chemical Element Interview

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview the chemical elements. They research information about their element, such as: stable isotopes, valence electrons, number of subatomic particles. They create a yearbook page for their element, and a format to present it.