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Alex: Three Meals for Gregory
Lesson begins with a review of the food guide pyramid. The book Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (not provided through instructional activity) is read and discussed in light of healthy eating. In groups, students create...
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Alex: Searching Solid Shapes
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for young scholars to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
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Alex: Polygon Perimeters
Lesson providing practice for finding the perimeters of polygons. Students draw polygons using sidewalk chalk and then measure the perimeters of each shape.
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Alex: Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
In groups of two or three, students decide on what to order at a pizza place given a set budget and a menu.
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Alex: Rhythmic Parachute Play
Lesson plan outlining six activites to use with the parachute.
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Alex: The Giving Tree
Lesson using the book The Giving Tree to learn about friendship and the Treetures website to learn about the importance of trees. In groups of four, students create posters about the connection between trees and people. (Note: Book...
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Alex: Perfect Perception? (Perception and Illusion)
In this lesson, young scholars discuss and explore perception and illusions. Websites are provided showing various optical illusions. Students are asked to journal about illusions, recreate illusions, and create their own flip-book.
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Alex: Teaching Art With Picture Books
Lesson where students learn about Eric Carle, create an online Project Poster about him, and create a collage using his style of illustrations. Students will discuss their art in small groups using vocabulary learned during the lesson.
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Alex: Color This Polynomial Simplified
This lesson plan walks students through the process of simplifying polynomials by combining like terms. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alex: My Peanut Butter Is Better Than Yours!
This lesson plan provides a real-world example of using a scatter plot to compare data. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks learners to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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Alex: Express Yourself
This lesson plan walks students through using variables to translate between algebraic expressions and English phrases and sentences. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems...
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Alex: Forecasting Severe Weather
This lesson increases student knowledge of severe weather and weather forecasting. It emphasizes the importance of student questioning to obtain information. After the introduction to severe weather is made, students will create their...
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Alex: Confucius Changes China
In this lesson students analyze Confucianism and its effect on conflicts in China. Students will evaluate an excerpt from The Analects of Confucius to realize the usefulness of Confucius' teachings and create an original cartoon using...
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Alex: The Real Number System
This activity focuses on a clear understanding of the real number system by using a variety of teaching strategies. A graphic organizer on a slideshow illustrates how the classifications of numbers relate. A kinesthetic activity helps...
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Alex: My Book of Seasons
During this technology based instructional activity, students produce a book of the four seasons that relates to their everyday life. They learn many facts about seasons by navigating the Internet.
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Alex: Producers and Consumers
This instructional activity will teach the difference between producers and consumers. It provides an interactive way for students to get involved and actually become producers and consumers.
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Alex: Grammar and Literature Through Digital Storytelling
In this lesson students create digital stories in cooperative groups using multimedia tools to demonstrate comprehension of the elements of grammar, literature, and technology introduced in the lesson. Students become actively involved...
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Alex: Money Management
This month-long experience educates students in differentiating between needs and wants, how to budget resources, and to gain an understanding of the workings of a capitalist society.
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Alex: Show Me the Money
Just what is a penny worth? Students explore various websites or printed fact sheet investigating the history and changes in density of pre- and post- 1982 pennies. They will also research the current price of copper and zinc and compare...
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Alex: Types of Chemical Reactions and Predicting Products
The guided inquiry activity enables students to identify the five basic types of reactions - synthesis or composition, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. Students will also begin to predict the products...
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Alex: How Are We Living?
In this instructional activity, students collaborate to research economic systems of the United States and two other countries. Students will collect, evaluate, and synthesize information to create a multimedia presentation that compares...
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Alex: Fun With Seasons!
In this lesson students will learn about proper sequencing of events while also learning about our four seasons. We will be reading the book, The Apple Pie Tree and will be discussing each season prior to our reading. The students will...
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Alex: Where Am I?
This lesson teaches one of the geography themes called location. Middle schoolers will learn about absolute location and relative location as they search the globe. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National...