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Alex: Translating in Your Own Words: Pride and Prejudice
Students will work in groups to select a "scene" from Pride and Prejudice and translate the scene into contemporary English.
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Alex: Digital Senior Memory Book
Students will design a digital story that will consist of their memories and thoughts from their whole life. After the students finish the digital book, the book will be combined into a digital presentation to be shared at a senior...
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Alex: Barf Biology
As part of the study of the biosphere, the learners will create pyramids using owl pellets. In groups, students will dissect owl pellets to aquire information about owl consumption. Groups will then create an ecological pyramid, a number...
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Alex: A Comparison of Puritan Authors
Learners in teacher-selected groups of two will create a presentation on Puritan authors using Google Docs. Student groups will compare authors Anne Bradstreet and Jonathon Edwards. Students will support their comparisons through...
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Alex: Harlem Renaissance Authors
As part of a study of the Harlem Renaissance, young scholars will do research on a Harlem Renaissance author. Individually, students will use websites to gain information about the author and the author's impact in literature and...
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Alex: Happy Constitution Day
Students work in groups to create presentations answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions concerning the U.S. Constitution. Presentations will be used to create digital Constitution Day Program.
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Alex: Which Way Do I Go, George, Which Way Do I Go?
This lesson will explore the process of graphing inequalities on a number line. It will also explore writing an inequality when given a graph. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Commercial Elections
This is a hands-on, technology-based U.S. Government lesson in which students will view a series of political television advertisements from the 1950s-2000. Students vote on which presidential candidate has the best commercial after each...
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Alex: The Legend of the Mummy's Curse Fact or Fiction?
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson used to introduce the scientific method to students. Students will make a prediction on whether they think the curse is true or false. Students will listen to a podcast describing a...
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Alex: Calculating Elapsed Time With Time Rulers
Students will explore their prior knowledge of time, discuss fractional parts of an hour, and use a specialized time ruler to calculate elapsed time for real life situations.
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Alex: What's the Difference? Subtracting Integers
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage students to subtract positive and negative integers. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding...
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Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
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Alex: Learning From Limbo
Using a limbo set, students will participate in learning about perimeter and area of a rectangle. Students will explore how the area and perimeter changes as the limbo pole is lowered. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama...
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Alex: Patterns, Patterns, Everywhere
An interactive lesson on teaching about patterns and finding patterns in the environment.
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Alex: Surface Area of Pyramids and Cones
For this inquiry-based lesson, students will discover the formulas for the surface area of pyramids and cones. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: How Many Times Did You Add That?
After watching the video clip of the Hershey's plant, students will use grid paper to investigate multiplication as repeated addition. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: All Squared Up!
In this AMSTI 5 E lesson plan students will be engaged in an investigation to discover the patterns in squared numbers then be able to apply the concepts needed to evaluate the expression. This lesson plan was created by exemplary...
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Alex: Show Me the Money
In this lesson, learners identify coins, describe their attributes, learn their value, and count like coins. Students view an interactive web lesson that provides practice. Concepts are taught using songs, poems and games. This lesson...
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Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas
Students will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....
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Alex: Rockin' Around the Clock
This lesson will introduce students to the clock and telling time to the hour. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Misleading Graphs Are Da'pits!
In this interactive lesson, students will discover how creating an incorrect graph will display misleading information. Through viewing and discussing a variety of graphs, the students will identify 5 components that graphs must contain...
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Alex: Polynomials Divided by Monomials
Investigation of division of polynomials by mononials. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Alex: Using Sign Language to Write Four Digit Numbers
In my experience, children love to learn and experiment with sign language. In this lesson, children will learn numbers 1-100 in sign language and will use that knowledge to sign four digit numbers to be written in words. This lesson...
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Alex: Weight vs. Capacity
This lesson will introduce young scholars to measuring weight, mass, volume, and capacity using metric and cutomary units. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.