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- 4th - Higher Ed
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Students work cooperatively to create an image, a tree in this case, to assist them in defining human rights and human needs. Students write on the tree those human rights they believe all people need to survive in dignity and justice. Students present their tree and explain reasoning for the items included. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students investigate the lives of the plain indians and link them to the existence of buffalo. They decide if the research shows a link between the disappearance of the buffalo to the decline of the plains indian tribes. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students in a teacher education program enhance their awareness of patterns. They discover how to support their students in developing this skill in mathematical terms. They role play the role of a K-2 student and collect images from nature using a digital camera. They practice developing questions to lead student thinking. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students make inquiry in this model lesson, geographic, historic, economic, social, and political factors are introduced to help explain how certain places came to be populated and developed into what they are today, and to predict what they might become in the future. Using Internet information, satellite technology, CD-ROM databases, and other geographic software, teacher candidates explore concepts of urban place location. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students explore one's goals and dreams using a combination of research and imagination. They produce a web site that portrays a vision of one's future. They plan, conduct and write up an informal journalistic interview. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students investigate the concept of developing the social skill of caring for others and self. The lesson includes a silent time of reflection on how one can care. Then students read a story that illustrates the concept of caring and then follows with key terms or questions. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the phoneme and letter in psuedowords they read. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the letter 'a' as it makes the short /a/ sound. Through instruction and modeling, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters and read stories and pick out words with the short /a/ sound in them. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students distinguish between letters that stand for phonemes that deal with the short /o/ sound. They study how spellings map out the phonemes in oral language in order to be able to read and write words. Each student practices the tongue twister "Oliver had an operation in October, and Oscar gave him an octopus" and read the book, "In the Big Top," by Shelia Cushman. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students recognize the phoneme /k/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /k/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /k/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /k/ in various words and phrases. Full Review »

