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Projects by Jen: Home Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Jennifer Wagner has gone on a mission to encourage teachers everywhere to incorporate technology into every classroom. Projects by Jen offers a wide range of projects for Pre-K to Grade 6 that involve connecting with other classrooms...
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Other

Literacy Works: Thanks to the Web, We're Alone Together and Loving It

For Students 9th - 10th
While this resource was developed to support adult literacy learners, it can easily be used from junior grades and up. After reading an article about how people today interact on the Internet, students complete a variety of vocabulary...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using Graph Theory to Analyze Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze dramatic works using graph theory. They gather data, record it in Microsoft Excel and use Cytoscape (a free, downloadable application) to generate graphs that visually illustrate the key characters (nodes) and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Start Networking!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To get a better understanding of complex networks, students create their own, real social network example by interacting with their peers in the classroom and documenting the interactions. They represent the interaction data as a graph,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Graph Theory in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use graph theory to create social graphs for their own social networks and apply what learn to create a graph representing the social dynamics found in a dramatic text. Students then derive meaning based on what they know about...
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CNN

Cnn Money: Twitter, Pipe Dream or Next Big Thing?

For Students 9th - 10th
Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 14. Social Networking

For Students 3rd - 8th
A social network is an online community of people who use a website or app to communicate with each other by sharing comments, images, videos, resources, etc. This tutorial consists of four quests and, when you have completed it, you...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Close Encounters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore how "closely connected" a network structure is. Framed in the context of a terrorist cell, students must find which setups would allow organizations to still...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Twitter

For Students 9th - 10th
What is all the fuss about Twitter? Wikipedia provides a detailed overview of the trendy social network.