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Alex: Wearing Away the Mountains
The Tennessee River Gorge outside Chattanooga is recognized as a protected biosphere reserve by the United Nations due to its immense proportion of species to acres. Understanding the formation of the gorge helps explain why so many...
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Alex: Topography of Fruit
This is an attempt to help students understand contour lines in map-making through the vector of digital photography. This hands-on activity will create an art piece out of fruit that will be analyzed to create topographic maps.
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Alex: Searching for and Citing Digital Sources
Students will locate, retrieve, store, and correctly cite digital information for research projects.
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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 instructional activity will teach inspection, measuring and...
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Alex: Reading Really Is Fundamental!
Knowing how to read the language is just as important as knowing how to speak it. This activity is geared towards reading comprehension, correct pronunciation of words, and translation of the words that are read. This activity will also...
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Alex: Haircutting
In this lesson, students will learn to incorporate elements and principles of hair design to enhance facial shapes. The students will be able to relate hairstyles and facial structures to provide optimal hair designs for males and females.
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Alex: Me in 3
Through this lesson, students will collect images of three objects that interest them or define who they are. Students will use photo references of these things to create fimo sculptures.
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Alex: Altering Reality
This lesson teaches students how to create a mixed media alteration of a digital photo using a printed picture and tracing paper.
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Alex: My City, My Perspective
A lesson in which students create a drawing of a local architectural structure using grid and perspective lines.
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Alex: A Child's Dream
For this lesson, each student will use gouache and wood to create an original piece of art based on a childhood story book.
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Alex: My Story Quilt
In this lesson, students will write narrative paragraphs about specific events in their lives. Then students will paint images and symbols from their paragraphs onto pieces of fabric, which will be used to make quilts.
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Alex: Screenprint & Poetry
In this lesson plan, students will create a design based on a poem found online and use that design for screenprinting.
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Alex: Analyzing Gubernatorial Debates: The 2010 Election
This technology-based lesson encourages active engagement in the state electoral process. Students collaborate on a wiki designed to aid in analyzing candidates' responses in a gubernatorial debate. Pre-debate and post-debate activties...
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Alex: Fdr's War Message to Congress Fact or Opinion
Eleventh graders will read FDR's War Message to Congress with a partner recording important details as fact or opinion.
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Alex: The Impact of Political Debates in the Television Age
This technology-based lesson encourages active engagement in the state elections process as part of a unit to prepare for debates to be held in the Fall of 2010. The lesson may also be adapted for use as a stand alone lesson. Student...
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Alex: Will You Join a Special Interest Group?
Students will create a brochure aimed at recruiting members of a special interest group. After selecting a group to research from a list that is attached, students will use the Internet to research the group, identify the primary...
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Alex: Hands, Hands, Hands
The teacher will show pictures of six hands to students. (See attachment) After a brainstorming session, students will choose one hand that illustrates a particular story from their life. Then, students will write a two page narrative...
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Alex: Literary Graffiti With Poetry
In this lesson, student groups read and analyze a poem and then use graphic software to draw pictures that illustrate the poem.
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Alex: River's Path
What determines the path of a river? Rivers follow the path of least resistance changing the landscape by carrying sediment and debris along the way.
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Alex: Build a Solar Hot Water Heater
This exercise will allow the students to explore solar energy by building a simple solar hot water heater with clean two liter soda bottles.
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Alex: Automotive Brake Service Constructing a Brake Trainer
A brake trainer can be a valuable assett to teaching learners about automotive brakes. On the vehicle brake systems are embedded and difficult to see in the "big picture" of brake systems.
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Alex: Acting the Contentless Scene
This lesson helps learners explore the foundations of acting which include obstacles, tactics, and objectives.
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Alex: Rags to Riches or Riches to Rags?
For this lesson young scholars will apply the interest formulas to make the best investment decision for our fictional character Algebrea Calculique. The students will be provided with a story explaining the situation that Algebrea faces...
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Alex: Capture the Flag
This lesson requires learners to read maps in order to play the game capture the flag.