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Alex: Variables and Algebraic Expressions
This lesson plan has students identify a variable, term, constant, coefficient, and an algebraic expression. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alex: Why Comparative Embryology Matters in the Real World
For this lesson, middle schoolers compare similarities in the embryos of different organisms to look for features that would indicate common ancestry. They will then investigate how understanding this aspect of evolution has real-world...
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Alex: Watch Me Toss, Catch and Travel!
Week-long detailed lesson plan for early elementary physical education learners focusing on walking, marching, traveling, catching, and tossing.
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Alex: Geometry City
This lesson plan reviews transformations in the coordinate plane while mimicking real-world planning skills. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alex: Respect for Self, Property, Others & Environment
Lesson begins with a class discussion of respect and the Golden Rule. As groups, students discuss Golden Rules from around the world and take digital pictures of their peers. Students then create their own golden ruler using the computer.
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Alex: The Diary of Anne Frank: How Would I Survive?
Lesson to be used following the reading of play The Diary of Anne Frank or the book Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. Students explore the Anne Frank Center website. In groups of five, students analyze the residents of the Secret...
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Alex: Pickle Ball
Lesson plan where students first learn about pickle-ball through a provided slideshow presentation. Next, students create a newsletter about the sport. Meanwhile, students will learn how to play pickle-ball and end with a singles and...
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Alex: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
In this lesson, early elementary and special education students learn about generosity by reading the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (not provided through the lesson plan). Graphic organizers are used to aid in reading the book....
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Alex: Symbols of Freedom
Lesson where each student researches an American patriotic symbol, creates a slideshow, and presents it to the class.
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Alex: Photography: Past to Present
In the lesson, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Alex: Virtual Tours of Colleges and Careers
Lesson introducing students to the You University TV website as a way to prepare for college and/or a career. Students are given time to research colleges and careers through the website and add information to a spreadsheet.
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Alex: Easy as Abc!
Lesson where students name grocery store items to correspond to the letters of the alphabet. Students must remember the previous items when it is their turn to pick an item.
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Alex: Forte and Piano
Lesson plan where students learn what forte and piano mean and idenitfy them in music and pictures that represent sounds. Students also will demonstrate forte and piano while singing a song that they learn from a video.
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Alex: Note Names on the Staff
Lesson plan teaching students the notes on the treble staff. Students learn slogans and practice using a flipchart from Promethean Planet.
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Alex: Run Around the World
Lesson where students utilize Google Maps and Google Earth to create a three mile running course from their houses, addressing any safety concerns that arise (large intersections, availability of sidewalks, etc.). Detailed instructions...
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Alex: Party Time!: Planning a Kid's Birthday Party
For this lesson, groups of students will plan a kid's birthday party by creating an online invitation, baking and decorating a cake, and decorating the room.
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Alex: Printing Your Own Money
Lesson outlining a class fundraiser where students design and create their own print to use to make greeting cards.
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Alex: The Idea Challenge
In this lesson, learners will create 10-20 mini works of art based on a given theme that are unique in concept and media. Students brainstorm ideas using an online tool, conceptualize their ideas, and create their pieces. The three best...
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Alex: Field Challenge Strategy Game
Lesson plan describing a strategy game where students use flags in a large field to mimic the growth and spread of trees, grass, and shrubs. Rules for game include how trees, grass, and shrubs interact to compete for sunlight, nutrients,...
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Alex: Suminagashi Self Portrait
For this lesson, students learn about the Japanese technique of suminagashi by viewing a podcast and then using the technique to create a self portrait. Podcast is linked in the lesson plan. [9:49]
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Alex: Vibrations of Sound
Lesson about sound waves of high and low sounds. Students learn through a website, activites with rope, rulers and rubber bands on cups, and with Audacity software. Lesson is written for early elementary music students but could also be...
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Alex: Snapshots: Creating Stage Pictures
In this lesson, student groups create stage pictures to represent a special occasion, an original scene, and scenes from a well-known children's story.
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Alex: Following Stage Directions
In this instructional activity young scholars will learn basic stage directions and stage positions. Using that knowledge they will create improvisational scenes and present them to the class.
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Alex: College Bound: Moving Out!
Lesson plan for students exploring aspects of preparation for college, including writing an application essay, applying for financial aid, understanding a lease, and evaluating credit cards. Website research is combined with various...