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Alex: Working With Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on enhancing students' vocabulary usage and spelling which, in turn, benefits reading. This lesson also includes keyboarding practice and computer usage.
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Alex: Gossip to Learn: A Juicy Approach to Research
Though teachers might use this student-centered, technology-based, one or two-day research project to introduce any author, English 12 teachers may wish to use the lesson to jump-start a unit on British literature from the Romantic...
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Alex: Famous Entrepreneur Scavenger Hunt
This instructional activity will help students learn about entrepreneurs in today's society and how they got started in the world of business and became successful at it. This instructional activity reinforces textbook chapters on the...
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Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #7: Spiders
In this lesson students will learn the body parts of a spider and write addition/subtractions sentences using spiders. The class will go on a nature walk to find spiders and spider webs. Finally, the students will complete a science...
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Alex: Nocturnal Animals Lesson #6: Skunks
In this lesson students will learn interesting facts about skunks. They will also design a "nose guard" that people can wear to protect themselves against the smell of a skunk. Then students will have a chance to dramatize a commercial...
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Alex: Big Top Jugglers
Through this lesson students will learn the history of juggling and how to juggle objects.
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Alex: Fairy Tales as a Genre of Literature
This lesson will provide students with an understanding of the literary elements of fairy tales. Students will compose original fairy tales using graphic web organizers and presentation software.
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Alex: Exploring Weather Disasters
During this lesson, students will discover the differences in four types of weather disasters. They will collect information from selected Internet websites and create a multimedia presentation to demonstrate what they have learned.
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Alex: The Equator and the Poles
This lesson plan provides hands-on activities that will teach students about the poles and the equator. Students will be labeling a globe, recreating a globe within the classroom, and researching information on the Internet.
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Alex: The 7 Essentials of Tone Production
Lesson introducing the seven essentials of tone production. Students practice proper breath support by blowing up balloons using a section of their instruments.
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Alex: Where Am I in Cyberspace?
This activity allows students to utilize critical thinking skills and Internet research to develop a technology timeline. The timeline will assist students in developing a word processed sample list of items for a time capsule, which can...
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Alex: Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Over time, volcanoes all over the world have caused the earth to change. Using various activities, research, and dynamic media, students will discover what causes volcanoes to erupt. They will learn different volcanic shapes and how...
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Alex: Larger Than Life
Students will write a tall tale narrative including larger than life characters with unusual skills or abilities using exaggeration, humor, surprise endings, and story elements (setting, characters, conflict, resolution).
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Alex: Is My Water Safe?
After a discussion of what makes water safe or unsafe, students will visit a local tributary, test the water, and complete tasks concerning the water. This lesson is designed for a 6th, 7th, and 8th grade gifted education enrichment...
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Alex: Preparing to Write the Research Paper
This lesson introduces students to research materials in the library and electronic materials available through the Alabama Virtual Library(AVL). The instruction emphasizes "how-to-use" multi-volume encyclopedias, multi-volume reference...
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Alex: Examining the Lives of Black Alabamians
Students compare and contrast their lives and character traits with those of famous black Alabamians. Students use technology to conduct research and write an expository essay.
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Alex: Calling All Books!
High school students learn the basic outline of the Library of Congress Classification system that is used in larger college and public libraries. The class will place a collection of books into the correct classifications. An...
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Alex: Library of Congress Classification System
Students will be introduced to the Library of Congress Classification System by viewing two online tutorials. The students will make flash cards in order to study the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification System. The...
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Alex: Antarctic Adventures!
This month-long ongoing instructional activity will give the students opportunities to learn more about Antarctica. They will investigate and research specific information and use it to create a notebook and an information table.
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Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
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Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
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Alex: What's in Your Secret Garden?
After reading F.H. Burnett's The Secret Garden, learners create their own secret gardens and design a slideshow presentation of their gardens to share with the class.
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Alex: Recognizing Letters of the Alphabet
This lesson plan reviews the alphabet with very young learners and introduces the concept of shelving in the library. The lesson plan incorporates software, reading, and games to address individual learning modes of the students.
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Alex: Fishing for Facts!
This instructional activity will involve a visit to the Library Media Center to research different sea creatures. Using an encyclopedia, students will find two facts about their sea creature. Using the Internet, students will work in...