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Students Solutions - Saving Our Surroundings
Pupils explore the environmental impact of humans on the plants and animals in their state. In this environmental impact lesson, students use digital cameras to photograph plants and animals in their state. Pupils investigate the animal...
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Signs Signs - Everywhere Signs
Students examine advertising techniques. In this media literacy lesson, students collaborate to create PowerPoint presentations that feature multimedia formats to share advertising that is present in their community.
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Prometheus Eulogy
Young scholars write a eulogy for the mythological character, Prometheus. In this Greek myth lesson, students read a story about Prometheus and view a PowerPoint. Young scholars discuss the elements of a eulogy and then write one for...
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Ice Core Clues
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on the information they research about the ice cores and what they tell us about Earth's past. In this ice core lesson plan, students research radioactivity, air pollution, sodium, snowfall...
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Ready, Set, Action
Students investigate parts of speech by analyzing action words in sentences. In this verb usage lesson, students read sentences to each other and identify the action words and verbs used. Students participate in a speed challenge in...
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Manifest Destiny
Students identify the implications of Manifest Destiny. In this Westward Expansion lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation on the topic and then respond to questions based on the details of the presentation.
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Jamestown Colonies and the Powhatan Indians
Eighth graders discuss the Jamestown colony and the Powhatan Indians. In this colonial history lesson plan, 8th graders talk about conflicts between the Native Americans and the colonists. They read a biography about Pocahontas to help...
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World Food Day
Students view slides of people without food and discuss how to fight hunger and what it means to be food secure. In this hunger lesson plan, students draw pictures based on the slides they see.
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Solving Systems of Linear Equations Graphically
Students solve systems of equations graphically. In this algebra instructional activity, students find the point of intersection of two lines if they are not parallel. They rewrite the equation in the y=mx + b form and graph using slope...
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Poetry Power
Second graders explore language arts by analyzing poems in their class. In this word play instructional activity, 2nd graders define the terms rhyme, rhythm and alliteration and identify their uses. Students utilize class word lists to...
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Search and Rescue Project
Learners create a search and rescue party. For this geometry lesson, students simulate a rescue operation using math. They calculate the time, rate and solve word problems related to the real world.
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Cows That Type Friendly Letters
Students engage in a lesson that introduces the parts of a letter. The lesson is taught using a powerpoint presentation with the purpose of integrating technology into instruction. Students create a letter and thinking map to challenge...
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Measuring Where We Sit In The Universe
Students investigate scientific measurement. They use a variety of scales to do the job and communicate the results correctly. The teacher uses socratic questioning throughout the lesson checking for comprehension. Students measure some...
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)
Students explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook. In this employment instructional activity, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market. Students decide on a career they would like to explore by...
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Colonial America
Students discover the history of Colonial America by creating a class presentation. In this U.S. History lesson, students utilize the Internet to research one of 20 topics in which they will create a PowerPoint or other type of...
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Everything American
Eighth graders complete an American slideshow. In this American culture lesson, 8th graders take digital photographs of things they believe contribute to American culture. They create a slideshow showing these photographs.
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Density
Students observe a demonstration of regular soda versus diet soda. In this exploring density instructional activity students complete a lab on density and present a PowerPoint presentations of their results.
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Classification of Animals
Students explore animal characteristics by participating in a SMART board activity. In this animal classification lesson, students utilize a sorting chart to divide different animal names by their observable characteristics. Students...
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Influential Groups In Colorado's History
Fourth graders watch a teacher made PowerPoint presentation that introduces the study of Colorado's history. They view images and listen to music that is indicative of the mountain men, miners, pioneers, the Spanish, and Native Americans...
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Technology in the Classroom
Learners in French class practice using the Internet to research information. After researching a region in France, they used the information to create a PowerPoint presentation. They present their slides to the class and discover the...
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Violence
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concepts related to the problem of violence. They view a PowerPoint presentation to create the context for the lesson plan. Students conduct research using a variety of...
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Analyzing Political Cartoons
Seventh graders identify a political cartoon and analyze a pre-Revolutionary War political cartoon. In this political cartoon instructional activity, 7th graders discuss cartoons and the historical beginnings of American politics using a...
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Cultural Celebrations
Learners create a presentation for their assigned country. In this cultural diversity lesson, students use a WebQuest to research a country. In groups, they decide upon a way to present the information they have learned. Learners create...
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Primary and Secondary Documents for Colonial Times
Students investigate the Colonial Era by completing a template on their computers. In this U.S. History lesson, students discuss the differences between primary and secondary sources and identify several different sources as one or the...