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Alex: Using Google Docs to Write for Audience
Students write and digitally publish a weekly newsletter using Google Docs. The content will be a synthesis of interesting issues from their class as well as some outside news and issues which directly impact students. The target...
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Alex: Parent Functions and Their Children
In this lesson, students will be able to identify parent functions of linear functions, absolute value functions, and quadratic functions. Students will be presented with functions and asked to graph them by first identifying the basic...
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Alex: Tad the Tadpole
Tad the Tadpole is designed to demonstrate how pollution in various areas affects wildlife in their native habitats. The lesson is designed to stress the importance of conservation for animals and their surrounding environment. Upon...
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Alex: Com'on Down to Eatonville, Florida
You are Mayor Joe Starks from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and you want more people to relocate to Eatonville, Florida. Identify five amenities that may make Eatonville attractive to African-Americans...
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Alex: How to Get the Most Out of Google Search
Technology based lesson for a High School English class on how to accurately and efficiently research information on the internet using Google Search. Students conduct Web searches on open-ended questions, and draw on their experiences...
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Alex: Taking Apart and Reconstructing Stories
This lesson is designed as a project-based unit plan that will take students through the narrative process from deconstruction to construction. After initial discussion, students will use the Interactive Story Map feature at Read Write...
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Alex: Greek Playwright Research Project
Through this activity students research Greek playwrights, analyze their works, and explain how their works relate to the 21st century.
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Alex: Picture This!
This lesson plan involves capturing pictures and identifying monocots and dicots. Students will take pictures of plants and tell whether and why they are monocots or dicots. They will site characteristics of monocots and dicots to...
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Alex: Creating a Book Review Using Google Books
Technology-based lesson for a High School English class, incorporating Google Books and Google Docs. Learners will choose a book to review, read the book, research other reviews of the same book, and then use Google Docs to create their...
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Alex: Cats, Dogs,and Dragons. Oh My!
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson on Heredity and Traits. Students learn about the basics of Heredity through a virtual tour and then work to create their own dragon based on the inheritance of traits.(Adapted from ASIM).
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Alex: Ipa Is Cool![ai Pi E ?Z Kul]
A lesson that introduces learners to the International Phonetic Alphabet. Students learn the symbols for vowels used in Italian and apply them to an Italian song. The lesson culminates with learners creating a podcast.
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Alex: Extra! Extra! Supreme Court Case Makes Headlines!
This is a project to conclude the study of the Judicial Branch of our government. The students, working in pairs, will be assigned a landmark Supreme Court case to research in a computer lab setting. They will then construct a one-page...
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Alex: Our World Is Like a Rainbow
Americans continue to adapt to different ethnic and cultural groups who move into their communities. It is vital that children become aware of and appreciate cultural diversities in people. People move to different areas for reasons such...
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Alex: Personal Economics
Students will be able to explain the various services available to protect consumer rights. They will develop a PowerPoint presentation in their student achievement teams which contains the required information along with a question...
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Alex: Do You Have a Babushka?
This lesson will familiarize students with the author Patricia Polacco. Students will use appropriate resources to gather information about Polacco, categorize the information, and record it in a graphic organizer (concept map).