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Alex: It's Greek to Me!
Through this lesson, students will research Greek theatre by looking at ancient Greek fairy tales and children's stories. Students will create their own fairytale using Moviemaker software.
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Alex: A Journey Through the Trees
The teacher will discuss the importance of trees with the students. The teacher will provide photographs of various trees that grow in Russell Cave National Monument and the surrounding North Alabama area. The teacher will discuss...
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Alex: American Revolution Lesson: The Regulars Are Coming!
In this lesson, students will review information about Paul Revere and the American Revolution. Students will also determine facts and opinions about the American Revolution. After viewing primary sources, students will complete a...
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Alex: Book Talks
This lesson is designed to give teachers and students an alternate approach to the traditional book report. "Book Talks" enable students to read a book and create a photostory presentation. Students will give example passages from the...
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Alex: Invasive Plants
Invasive plants are non-native plants that grow in an environment that has no native diseases, parasites, or predators. This allows them to grow rapidly and be destructive to native plants.
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Alex: Persuasive Strategies and Tuck Everlasting
This activity is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.
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Alex: Who Bounces Best?
This is a cooperative learning, kinesthetic and presentation lesson. Learners will use the computer to create graphs/charts to display data collected by counting the number of successful bounces when bouncing a basketball for 30 seconds....
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Alex: Get Yourself in Order!
A lesson that requires students to act out a sequence of events in the form of improvisation. Students learn to improvise and identify the sequence of events in a dramatization.
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Alex: Who Are You Looking At?
In this lesson, students will develop a character by acting out the character for a partner. Students also will learn how to use descriptive language to develop and describe a character.
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Alex: Automotive Brake Service
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of brake drums ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This lesson will teach inspection, measuring and machining techniques and...
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Alex: "Bursting With Math"
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
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Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg
Students will be reading the poem "Grass" and identify the main idea and supporting details with a partner. Students will then write a poem using personification.
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Alex: How Much Does It Cost?
Students will use an online mortgage calculator to determine the cost of financing a house over various lengths of time and at various interest rates. This lesson is excellent to include in a budgeting unit.
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Alex: Who Do You Think You Are?
Students will demonstrate an understanding of character through improvisation. Students will imagine and clearly describe their characters through performance. They will relate a character's actions and emotions and create a setting.
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Alex: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
This instructional activity teaches students to sing along to a cumulative song, maintain a steady beat while singing, and create movements that go with the song's rhythm.
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Alex: Marshmallow and Pretzel Sensory Writing
This language arts lesson plan applies hands-on materials to help students apply the sensory details need for writing. It also incorporates writing skills for comparing and contrasting. In addition, students will utilize Thinkfinity...
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Alex: Inspecting and Machining a Disc Brake Rotor
The proper inspection machining or refinishing of disc brake rotors ensures quality brake repairs with little to no opportunity for returns for customer complaints. This lesson will teach inspection, measuring and machining techniques...
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Alex: Character Web With Dust Tracks on a Road
Students will read "The Inside Search," from Dust Tracks on a Road with a partner creating a character web.
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Alex: High Sounds and Low Sounds
Through this lesson plan young scholars will sing and recognize high and low sounds and sort pictures of objects that make high or low sounds.
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Alex: Introduction to Nail Care Applications
In this instructional activity, students will be able to explore the world of nails. Students will learn the importance of sanitizing their hands and disinfecting tools and surfaces.
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Alex: Save a Buck Challenge
Our pipes leak, air drafts push through our windows and walls, light bulbs create more heat than light, and every appliance we have stays plugged in all day long. Of course its our parents who pay the bills, so it doesn't matter. This is...
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Alex: Elephant or Donkey?
Students will visit the websites for the National Republican and National Democratic Party. Students will choose topics of interest to them and compare the positions of both parties on the topic. Students will complete a graphic...
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Alex: Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
Students engage in a discussion of "Manifest Destiny" using a timeline of events from 1830 - 1860, and a biographical sketch of a real person who lived during that time period. During the discussion, students will use the biography to...
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Alex: A Father's Life at Russell Cave
In this lesson, 4th graders will learn about a father's life at Russell Cave and learn about different writing genres. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.