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Alex: Factoring Fanatic
This activity is designed to give students practice in "finding" the correct factors to use when attempting to factor a trinomial. The students are provided with a Tic-Tac sheet to help them discover the relationship or pattern between...
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Alex: Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
This language arts instructional activity uses technology to assess learners' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence...
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Alex: Welcome to Our Classroom
Students will create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school.
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Alex: Look at Me!
Learners will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
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Alex: The Spanish Speaking World
Students will research a Spanish-speaking Latin American country and make travel plans to the chosen country based on facts gathered through their research.
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Alex: The Craft of Poetry: Structure of the Sonnet
Using a sonnnet grid, students write original Shakespearean sonnets and present them in digital slideshow format.
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Alex: Touring Our School Through Two Languages
This instructional activity will help students combine the tools of technology with language skills to communicate with non-English speaking students in the community.
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Alex: Business Communication
This lesson will help students learn about business communication. Students will learn how to write various types of business letters and other communication.
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Alex: Koko's Kitten by Dr. Francine Patterson
After reading Koko's Kitten, students will use the koko.org website to learn more about Koko the gorilla, send an email message to Koko, see Koko use sign language and learn from Koko how to sign three words.
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Alex: The Voice
A lesson that teaches students the anatomy and physiology of the human voice. Students learn how different sounds are made and analyze their voices as well as the voices of several musicians.
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Alex: Introduction to Ayn Rand Using Online Resources
Students will research Ayn Rand, a contemporary novelist, for biographical information and for her personal philosophy as a prelude to reading her novel, Anthem. Students will partner to gather information via online databases and will...
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Alex: Newscast on the Battles of the Ironclad Ships
This lesson is on the ironclad ships and the battles that took place during the Civil War. Students will use the information from previous lessons to create a simulated newscast that takes place during an actual battle between ironclad...
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Alex: Researching Hurricanes With Technology
This lesson will help students to understand the formation, power, and history of hurricanes. Students will do this using a combination of technological skills. Examples of technology used include: PowerPoint, Word, Netscape Composer,...
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Alex: Fundamentally Fish
The science portion of this lesson provides opportunities for young scholars to recognize that structure and function are directly related to specific animals and to their survival. The body shape and the position and size of the mouth...
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Alex: Burst Into Jolly Multiplication/division Factors
The following lesson will serve as a hands-on math activity reviewing the 2's and 3's multiplication and division factors. Students will examine the relationship between multiplication and division using Starburst and Jolly Rancher candy...
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Alex: Moon Phases
This lesson plan will familiarize middle schoolers with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.
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Alex: Boom Boom Thunder!!
The focus of this lesson is for students to determine why thunder makes the "Boom" sound. Through hands-on activities students will become familiar with the sound thunder makes.
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Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will also...
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Alex: Exploring the World With p.w. Cracker!
This lesson can be completed in a whole group or small group setting. After reading the book "P.W. Cracker Sees the World," the students will complete an inquiry project that connects social studies/geography to what they read in their...
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Alex: Beginning With the End in Mind
For this lesson, students will learn what goals are and why it is important to plan ahead. The students will interact with a story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey and use a blog to communicate their goals and plans with...
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Alex: Spotting Sounds All Around
This is both a hands-on and technology based lesson where young scholars can apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships while incorporating the use of classroom technology. This Language Arts activity will allow for the students...
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Alex: What in the World Is Wrong With Sammy?
This lesson provides students with the technology-based project researching Guinea Pigs. The trade book, Sammy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, will be used to make predictions.The students will use the facts from their research to create a...
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Alex: A Trip Along the Alimentary Canal
Learners will prepare a digital presentation on the digestive organs, accessory structures, processes, digestive chemicals, and nutrients. This is a part of the unit on digestion and metabolism, and is performed at the beginning of the...
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Alex: Connect With Coordinates
Learners will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of a...