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Alex: Music: A Vehicle for Wartime Protest
In this lesson, young scholars will examine music during wartime protests. Students will analyze a wartime protest song and present it to the class. Includes a PowerPoint presentation discussing music as a primary source and links to...
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Alex: A Breath of Fresh Air
In this instructional activity from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), air pollution will be explored. Auntie Litter and the Pollution Patrol learn how smog forms and find out how to keep the air clean and free of...
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Alex: Where Does Our Waste Go?
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), waste disposal will be explored. The Pollution Patrol follows the steps involved in trash disposal, starting with a girl tearing a sheet of paper out of her...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Earth, We're in It Together!
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), Earth Day will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Lana Holmes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Life Is a Breath of Fresh Air
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), air pollution will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Lana Holmes.
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Alex: Envision, Enhance, Enjoy
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), habitats will be explored. Students will also create bird houses. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Lana...
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Alex: Water You Doing to Help?
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), bodies of water in the Gulf Coast will be explored. Students will also simulate an oil spill. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This...
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Alex: Team Up to Clean Up
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), natural and human-made litter will be explored. Students will also participate in a litter removal activity. This lesson plan is one from the "Take Pride...
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Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and uses of recycled materials will be explored. Students will also create a recycling collage. This lesson plan is one from the "Take Pride...
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Alex: Conserve It to Preserve It
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation and describing ways to sustain energy will be explored. Young scholars will also create a web diagram of ways to conserve energy. This lesson is one...
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Alex: Protect Our Planet Piece by Piece
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), endangered species will be explored. This lesson plan is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson plan is provided by Julie Danley, Pam...
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Alex: Take Pride in America Auntie Litter Needs You!
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), Earth Day will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Julie Danley, Pam Walston, and Pat Mitchell.
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Alex: Envision, Enhance, Enjoy
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), Alabama's state parks will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Julie Danley, Pam Walston, and Pat...
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Alex: Water You Doing to Help?
For this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), water pollution will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is provided by Julie Danley, Pam Walston, and Pat...
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Alex: It's Automatic! More or Less With Ten
For this lesson, students will observe patterns with the use of a Hundreds Chart, web-based practice (IXL Hundreds Chart Practice), and by playing a game (10 More or 10 Less). The patterns noticed through the various activities will help...
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Alex: Zero Product Property
The zero product property allows you to solve a quadratic equation by converting it into two linear equations. This is a common strategy of algebra--to break down a problem into simpler parts, each solved by previously learned methods.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this instructional activity from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), renewable resources, such as trees, will be explored. This instructional activity is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Conserve It to Preserve It
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation and describing ways to sustain natural resources will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson is...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Earth: We're in It Together!
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation and describing ways to protect the Earth will be explored. Students will also create a mural of ways to protect our planet. This lesson is one from...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Beep! Beep! Move Over! I Am Going to Be Late!
During this lesson, young scholars will investigate how to "clear up" the "Traffic Jam." They will be using large manipulatives (their bodies), small manipulatives (carpet squares), and technology (the Java applet) to find the...
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Alex: Why Do We Carry the One?
The students will critically think through the traditional algorithm for addition and compare to an alternative strategy.
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Alex: Those Number Aren't Just Moody.
Rational numbers can sometimes cause problems when they're converted to repeating decimals. That, we can handle. But, what about those irrational numbers that can only be "sort of, like approximated"? How can we expect middle schoolers...
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Alex: Mission Addition With Subtraction Action
This lesson uses manipulatives, acting out situations, and verbal explanations along with technology to work on addition and subtraction with kindergarten students. Students will work in groups to practice different methods of adding and...
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Alex: Peep Peep
Students will take a virtual tour of a Peep Candy factory. Students will observe the way Peeps are packed in rectangle shaped arrays, 2 rows of 5.