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Twirling in the Breeze
Blow classes away with a hands-on lesson investigating wind speed. Learners use common materials to design and construct anemometers. They then test their anemometers and collect data on the wind speed created by a fan.
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The Road to Careers (Part 1)
Fifth graders explore career options and potential jobs. In this career activity, 5th graders study various careers and the training or education needed for those careers. Students study posters and name career paths as well as...
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Where Do I Fit Now? Have I Changed?
Fifth graders explore career opportunities. In this career instructional activity, 5th graders participate in career inventories that enable them to select careers they may enjoy. Students further research the careers that fit their...
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Exploring Careers in Aviation
Students investigate various careers in the field of aviation in this lesson. They watch and discuss a video, develop a list of careers in aviation mentioned in the video, and create a resume and cover letter for an entry level aviation...
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The Entrepreneur of the Year
Students investigate entrepreneurship as it relates to careers. In this career planning lesson, students create goals leading up to their career of choice. They identify the characteristics necessary ti be successful in the business world.
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Career Exploration
Students investigate their personal strengths, skills and aptitudes. They examine and present information about jobs that might meet their qualifications.
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ALL: Health Care Pathways Overview (HST)
Students investigate careers in each of the five pathways of health care to include therapeutic services, support services, diagnostic services, biotechnology research and development, and health informatics.
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The Computer Mystery
Students investigate the history of the computer. They explore who invented the computer, how it was invented, and how it has evolved. Students work together in order to gain the knowledge need to repair computers.
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Investigating Nontraditional Occupations
Students identify career areas that are nontraditional for their gender. They identify women (or men if they are underrepresented) who are leaders and achievers in the particular core content curriculum area.
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Investigating Matter and Energy
Eighth graders research a science related career that they may be interested in. They use their findings to create a pamphlet about the career and present them orally to the class.
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Career Scrapbook
Young scholars investigate a variety of career options. They conduct research into different types of occupations to find descriptive information. Students present a career of choice in the target foreign language. The use of visual...
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The Conservation Clubhouse
High schoolers design a clubhouse. After investigating forms and sources of energy, students investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each. They consider energy use, conservation and the effects of energy shortages. Finally, high...
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Using the Internet to Learn the Internet
Seventh graders investigate the key terms and concepts of the Internet. The explore web pages to define the terms and concepts and word process to design an assessment which becomes a reference sheet.
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Building a House
Students investigate the house building process by naming building materials and sequencing the steps.
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Studying and Working: The Busy Lives of Students With Paid Employment
Students investigate the effect of paid employment on academic performance. They examine how to construct a survey on time use.
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Worry Critter
Third graders investigate what worrying is, its causes, feeling, and how to deal with it.
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Study Habits
Students investigate their own good and poor study habits. They write a plan to improve their weaknesses.
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Getting Started With Java-Background
Learners study the history of computers including hardware and software, binary representation of data and examine the beginnings of programming languages. They investigate the development of software and the fundamentals of...
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How Do You Do Your Homework?
Students answer a homework quiz and create a timetable to make sure their work is handed in on time. They also study tips on how to tackle homework and investigate the meaning of homeworkaholic and effortaphobe.
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Sorting Nets
Students explore sorting networks. In this computer science instructional activity, students problem solve as they investigate a parallel processing sorting network.
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Electronic Mail - The Postman Delivers
Students examine the use of electronic mail. In this electronic mail instructional activity, students determine how to use different e-mail programs and how they access information using this medium. They discuss how e-mail differs from...
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Beginning Understanding of Computers and the Internet
Learners explore the use of a computer and the Internet. In this beginning computers instructional activity students learners show what they know about the computer and Internet and demonstrate their skills. They investigate the computer...
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Advanced 4: Searching for Evidence for Research Tasks
Research was very different in the past. Pupils once had difficulty finding sufficient information, but now they have the opposite problem. Show your class how to pick the best resources out of the millions of sites an online search will...
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Intermediate 4: Searching for Evidence for Research Tasks
Online resources take many forms: blogs, search engines, news websites, documents, wikis. In order to conduct effective research, pupils should become familiar with different formats so that they can more easily choose suitable sites for...