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Facing Life's Challenges
Learners analyze divination and carry out experiments using a probability model. In this probability lesson, students review information about divination and predictions in various cultures. Learners set up experiments to test...
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Math: Will The Airplane Get Off the Ground?
Students use data from real-life models to calculate and compare the force required for an airplane of a given weight to become airborne. They use a graphing calculator to evaluate data and use the World Wide Web to access data.
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Plan a Schedule
In this daily schedule instructional activity, students analyze a chart that shows a schedule for events at a museum. Students plan a visit by making a schedule of events they would like in their own schedule.
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Drawing Patterns For Solids
In this patterns worksheet, 4th graders look at 2 solids, a cone and a cube, and then circle the multiple choice letter of the net for each solid.
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Community Journals
Students visit a multimedia online journal as a model for their research and journal about their own communities. They examine writing for themselves and writing for an audience as they study the community and present it in more than one...
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Pride in a Job Well Done
Learners focus on individuals who discover their own special talents and sense of self-worth through the work they do. Students study accomplishments of famous people who may have had an impact on their lives. Learners make connections,...
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Fifty States
Fifth graders find each state and its capital city on a map before memorizing the information. They work in small groups after watching a modeled lesson by the teachers. They write a statement about their assigned states and capital...
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Developing Effective Instructional Plans and Assessments in Mathematics
Students in a teacher education program develop a technology based lesson plan. After the lesson is created, they develop their own performance assessment. They identify the characteristics of good assessment instruments and model best...
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A Country’s Shape Is More Than Its Borders
In this geography skills worksheet, students read an article and examine graphs about population prior to answering 13 short answer questions and 10 multiple choice questions. Students then respond to the writing prompt about population.
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Creating The Virtual Model
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of earthquake design. The lesson includes the integration of technology and how it can be used to create buildings and structures for withstanding an earthquake. Students also define...
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Model European Council Simulation
Young scholars participate in a simulation on a European Council meeting. Using the internet, they must research given topics to prepare for the simulation and organize it before beginning. They follow specific instructions for the...
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Matching Objects and Patterns
First graders participate in hands-on activities and use objects to create patterns. They observe a PowerPoint lesson describing matching objects and patterns. In groups, 1st graders complete geometry computer activities such as planting...
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Metis
Fifth graders investigate the development of Canada. In this Metis people lesson, 5th graders create a replica of the Red River Cart. Students work in groups or individually to brainstorm materials that they will need to build their...
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Every Building Tells a Story
Students research heritage and culture. They examine architectural images and Charlottetown architecture. They use spatial concepts and models to interpret and make decisions about the organization, distribution, and interaction of...
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What Works and What Doesn't: The Potential and Limitations of Fiscal Policy
Twelfth graders study micro- and macro-economies. They examine theories about fiscal policy and the relationships between consumption and output, tax policy and government spending changes. They also consider how economic perspectives...
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How do Poets Use Language?
Why do writers choose the language they do? Here's a resource that has the poet himself answer that very question. Joseph Coelho explains why he chose the words and images he used in his poem, "If All the World Were Paper."
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"In, On, At" Multi Choice Exercise
In this ESL word use worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students read each sentence and choose the correct end of the sentence that will be a phrase with in, on or at.
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It's Your Choice
Students compare data and determine the appropriate way to organize the data. They use physical graphs, pictographs, and symbolic graphs to display their data. In addition, they complete a Venn diagram.
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Multiple Intelligences and Holistic Models
Tenth graders identify different genres of literature and the characteristics which identify each genre. They identify which genres best suit their interests, read a novel and perform a skit from the novel or present original artwork...
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James McCune Smith: A Model of Resistance
Students discuss examples of resistance. In this anti-slavery activity, students analyze a portrait of James McCune Smith and listen to a lecture about his life and involvement in abolition. Students analyze his actions and write a...
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What if the Senate were Reformed on the Triple E Model
Students investigate what the Canadian Senate does and what reform would do to the power relationship between the Prime Minister and the Senate.
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Making Akan Gold Weights and Understanding their Proverbial Meanings
Students examine a variety of gold weights used by the Asante in West Africa. In groups, they discuss the purpose of the gold weights and practice saying proverbs associated with different pieces of art. To end the lesson, they...
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Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism
Students examine influences contributing to alcohol use and abuse. They asses the genetic and environmental factors involved in alcoholism. They create a histogram for modeling alcohol use and calculate the results into percentages of...
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Triarchic Analysis
Fourth graders read a piece of literature and analyze it from three different perspectives which enable students to best utilize their strengths. They make a presentation to the class once their analysis is complete.