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- 12th
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Students create effective technical and professional communications products including: reports, instructions, illustrations, summaries, graphics, debate presentations etc. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students start an effective school recycling program. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students develop public speaking skills and write original scripts for informative "infomercials," plays, poetry, etc. They design sets and invitations. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students follow several local teens as they make their way through the final tension-filled rounds of the Youth Speaks spoken word competitions, and get a glimpse of their lives and thoughts in their emotion-packed poetry. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to and evaluate other student speeches. They record their evaluation on a T-chart, and compare/contrast the effective and ineffective speaking behaviors. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students create and deliver an autobiographical, multimedia presentation. They are introduced to the concepts of multimedia communication, public speaking, and are introduce d to the technology that facilitates a public presentation. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students, after watching the teacher demonstrate the activity, practice talking for up to a minute without saying 'uh'. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students read a lighthearted story about the controversial Garden Gnome Liberation Front. They debate the public's right to own garden gnomes. Personal - to lighten up the classroom a bit with a somewhat Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students define the terms "interest groups" and "public policy". In groups, they discuss the ways in which interest groups can have an effect on how a Board member votes. Using examples, they discover the effectiveness of interest groups in changing the County government. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students sharpen their public speaking skills by explaining connections between a famous quotation and their own lives. They lengthen their speaking time, organize ideas in outline form, and complete rubrics for peer feedback and evaluation. Students also write and present speeches, develop public speaking skills, and apply quotations to their personal lives or to the life of someone they know. Full Review »

