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Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
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Alex: Genre Who? Identifying Various Fiction Genres
In this lesson students will be introduced to six different fiction genres. They will then practice their knowledge of these genres through a review game.
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Alex: Literary Elements in Literature
This lesson is applicable to any story or novel in literature. The students will be introduced to twelve literary elements through a podcast. They will then be divided into small groups to complete activities involving story and literary...
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Alex: The Pythagorean Theorem in the Real World
The introduction of this lesson has students verifying the famous Pythagorean Theorem with a hands-on proof. Students will then apply the Theorem in one of two ways: by solving for the side lengths of a right triangle and by determining...
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Alex: The Marketing Mix
The purpose of these lessons is to encourage young scholars to apply knowledge of the marketing mix to a variety of real life products and services. The intention is that students should take what they know and use that information in...
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Alex: Explore Career Opportunities in Accounting
Students will work on a team to research a variety of newly related accounting careers, including accounting trends in the global market. Then, they will collaborate as a team to create and perform a PowerPoint presentation on their...
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Alex: It's Time
Students must prepare to be future business professionals. By researching the importance of employee/student time and attendance and creating a brochure, students will gain essential knowledge of practical business practices. The...
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Alex: Pass It On!
Lesson plan where students, seated in a circle, pass a bean bag around while saying a noun that corresponds to their given letter of the alphabet. Students increase speed as they progress. (Note: Book to be read at beginning of lesson is...
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Alex: I Can't Hear You!
A lesson that demonstrates to students that their voices can have different volumes and that different volumes are appropriate for different situations.
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Alex: Automotive Service
The student will have a beginning understanding of the theory of operation of common ABS [Anti Lock Brake System]. They will also be able to identify common components of the ABS system on sight.
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Alex: Automotive Brakes Power Assist Units
This lesson will orient the student to the operation of vacuum operated and hydraulically assisted power booster units. The student will be able to effectively diagnose and repair problems with these systems at the conclusion of the lesson.
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Alex: Disc Brake Diagnosis and Repair
The student will have general knowledge and practices associated with disc brake repair (2 wheel and 4 wheel disc brake systems) at the conclusion of this instructional activity.
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Alex: Diagnosis and Repair of Drum Brake Systems
The student will gain a general understanding of the theory of drum brake operation as well as hands on practice in the repair and maintenance of drum brake systems.
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Alex: The Giver Authority
A unit lesson using the book The Giver by Louis Lowry that will have students be researchers and recorders in the process of finding information on Utopian societies, cults and authority. Students will complete a PowerPoint, Glogster,...
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Alex: "P" Shopping at the Grocery Store
In this activity students will explore marketing tools, terminology, and the specific four P's of marketing strategy. After viewing the introductory materials, background content, and completing two brief in class assignments, students...
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Alex: Trust Me!
Lesson for students to establish trust with one another by passing a beanbag to other students in a circle after first making eye contact. Online metronome is used to set the pace.
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Alex: Periodi Cally Used Elements
This lesson explores the various uses of elements in the periodic table. Students will be assigned an element to research. They will then present its uses and atomic information to the class.
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Alex: Geometrica Fights Back!
This activity is designed to give students practice with the properties of special quadrilaterals (parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, squares, trapezoids, and kites). The students are provided with a "murder mystery" sheet with...
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Alex: Exploring Similar Figures Using Proportions
In this lesson, students will explore the concept of similarity. Students will first simplify ratios, solve proportions using the cross product property, and use properties of proportions to solve real-world problems. Similar polygons...
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Alex: Digital Story Writing: Cultural Myths
You are a folklorist observing the lives and cultures of different people. You want to tell the world about their culture, beliefs, and values. You and a group of other folklorist are going to research the lives of a an ethnic group, and...
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Alex: Living in the Wild
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast how the Prehistoric Americans lived off the land at Russell Cave and how Sam Gribley from "My Side of the Mountain" lived off the land. This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX...
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Alex: Parts of Speech "Blabbers"
Students will create animated images in Blabberize.com to define, explain, and give examples of usage for an assigned part of speech. Teacher will then compile saved video clips into a photostory presentation explaining all eight parts...
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Alex: Using Google Docs to Write for Audience
Students write and digitally publish a weekly newsletter using Google Docs. The content will be a synthesis of interesting issues from their class as well as some outside news and issues which directly impact students. The target...
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Alex: Parent Functions and Their Children
In this lesson, students will be able to identify parent functions of linear functions, absolute value functions, and quadratic functions. Students will be presented with functions and asked to graph them by first identifying the basic...