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Creating Ideas and Organizing Thinking
Students examine the concept of developing ideas and organizing their thinking. They create concept maps and graphic organizers using Inspiration software, and develop a concept map for their own subject area.
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Guidelines for Writing Lesson Plans
Students develop procedures in planning and organizing a lesson plan. The plans are used to demonstrate a lesson.
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Working With Parents
Student teachers learn the importance of understanding the family dynamics of their students to effectively communicate academic and behavioral concerns.
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Keystroke Shortcuts
Students edit text on the computer using keystroke shortcuts to maximize their time at the computer, and to cut down their word processing time.
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Creative Writing and Analysis
Students read and analyze poems by Li Po and Wang Wei. They answer discussion questions, identify the elements of the poems, examine and discuss Chinese landscape paintings, write an original poem, and write a comparison/contrast essay.
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Reading About Estuaries
High schoolers practice their reading skills by reading information about estuaries. As a class, they discuss what they read and answer discussion questions. As they read, they use the right hand column of their paper to write down any...
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Feng Shui for the Budding Interior Decorator
Students examine the uses and beliefs associated with the Chinese art of Feng Shui. The class reads about the traditional uses of Feng Shui. Individually, each student creates a room makeover using Feng Shui principles.
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Japanese Society
Students conduct research into the life of being a person who is Japanese. The lesson uses essential questions in order to guide the research. Classroom activities are used to encourage discussion.
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Tanabata: The Japanese "Wish Upon a Star"Festival
High schoolers research the legend of Tanabata in order to explain some of the astronomical findings in the night sky. The Japanese tell the story in order to explain the origin of celestial bodies.
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Using News Broadcasts in Japan and the U.S as Cultural Lenses
High schoolers view archives of news broadcasts in order to create a context of cultural understanding. They compare and contrast the news broadcasts in Japan and the United States.
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What Does Korean Literature Reveal About War?
Students are exposed to a wide variety of war related literature in order to comprehend the influence of conflict upon the lives of the Korean people. The information is used to complete a research report.
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North Korea's Nuclear Threat
Students participate in a instructional activity that focuses on the events of how Korea became a nuclear threat in the world. They use essential questions to help guide the research and come to right conclusions from the information.
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Lesson Plan: Korea
Young scholars engage in a lesson that has the primary concern of the controversy that surrounds the Korean Nuclear Program. The viewpoints of various stakeholders from other nations is considered.
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Try Your Hand at Han'geul
High schoolers explore Han'geul, a Korean writing system. Pupils participate in a class discussion involving the history of Han'geul. Using specified websites, classmates create flashcards containing letters of the Han'guel language. ...
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Think Before You Drink!
Students complete an online quiz about their familiarity with water issues. As a class, they watch a demonstration by their teacher and work together in groups to make water change into its various states. To end the lesson, they test...
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V-Numbers
Students explore problem solving strategies. Gin a novel situation, students develop a mathematical theory. Through models and mathematics, students justify their solution. Students definea V-sets and discuss conjectures about each set.
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The European Union
Young scholars analyze the history of the European Union. They define the goals and operations of the EU. Students summarize their findings and present these findings to the class. They write a summary of the history of the EU.
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The Movement of Ideas
Twelfth graders read and analyze the literary elements of Alphonse Daudet's "The Last Lesson" and Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. They compare the two works and write an essay describing the reasons they feel the authors...
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Evaluating the "Save the Indian" Reforms
Students explore the policies of the "Save the Indian" reforms. Working in groups, they review the motives, methods, and effects of the "Save the Indian" campaign of the late 19th century. Through discussion and writing, they form an...
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S Words
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the letter "s" and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Make it Yourself Constellation Finder
Young scholars identify constellations with and without a constellation finder. In this creating constellations lesson students construct a constellation finder to help them to identify the constellations.
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Constellation Projections
Students draw constellations. In this astronomy instructional activity, students create constellations from star groupings projected on a chalk board. Students connect the "stars" to create a pattern on the board. Student can create new...
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ESL: Matching Sentence Parts
In this ESL matching sentence parts worksheet, students match the 1st part of a sentence to the 2nd part. Page has a link to additional activities.
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Bscs: Bscs Science Learning Seminar Series
The BSCS Seminar Series brings distinguished speakers to share ideas and present their latest work to our community conversations. Click the links to find information about speakers and links to their talks.