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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students act as medical researchers and investigate the development of artificial heart, heart assist devices and other advancements in cardiology. They report their findings, both orally and visually, to their 'colleagues' at a conference. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are required to become Internet Research Assistants to a staff member or someone in the community and take that person on as a client. They develop a letter informing potential clients that they are available to do research for them on any topic in which they may need information. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students study past, present and emerging assistive or production technologies and the technology transfers that made these developments possible. Assessment comes from teacher observation and use of grading rubrics for each of the three tasks to determine if indicators were met. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students design and make clocks compiling a materials list, creating adesign portfolio, and recording progress in a daily log. After making a full-size drawing of their clocks and with the assistance of high school technology students, they observe the wood cutting and help with the sanding process. Finally, they assist in the clock assembly and place the numbers on the clock face. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students, after being given a problem/prompt on meal worms, utilize Kid Pix to draw pictures and type sentences about the four different stages of the meal worm. They design and illustrate the life cycle of a meal worm in a variety of formats including a power point slide show with music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students are actively involved in presenting some of the issues in implanting previously frozen embryos through a cooperative learning lesson. This lesson helps students to develop decision-making skills through discussing various types of assisted reproduction are currently available and under what circumstances this process may be used through role-play. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students listen to a teacher read-aloud of the book, "Armadillo Tattletale," and disucss the story along with the pictures. They gain an understanding of technology by developing a picture using a drawing program on the computer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students create an illustration of what they would wear in the snow after listening to the book "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow." They answer discussion questions, view drawings on the teacher's Paint website, and draw a picture using computer drawing software. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students define unknown vocabulary words and decode unknown words in their reading using a Quicktionary Reading Pen and Franklin Spell Checker. They create reading comprehension questions that are incorporated into a classroom Web site game. Full Review »

