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Professional Development Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Professional Development lesson plan ideas and activities
Students (teachers) attend a professional development sesssion to imporve their teaching through the access and use of periodicals. They browse several issues of the periodicals available in their library and then share how these periodicals have enhanced their teaching.
Students listen to a lecture about Telnet, IP numbers, and MOO's. They log onto SchMooze University and follow screen prompts to enter the classroom. Students complete lessons from this web site.
In this professional development lesson for teachers, staff members access sites (links provided on the lesson) to practice highlighting text. They copy text from the web site and paste it onto a blank Word document. Staff members practice selecting all text, changing to a different font and size.
Students experience the difference between a scientific experiment and a demonstration project in order to successfully guide themselves through the science fair process.
Students explore force and motion through a series of experiments. For this physics lesson, students create and interpret speed graphs. They build an electromagnet and explain the factors affecting its strength.
Famous people who have overcome obstacles are the focus of this language arts and social studies lesson. Pupils are introduced to the concept that they have the ability to overcome obstacles in life. They read selections embedded in the plan about people who have overcome obstacles, then fill out graphic organizers which are also included in the plan. An excellent lesson!
Young scholars examine Aboriginal people of the Americas. In this history lesson, students make connections between their own lives and those of Aboriginal people. Young scholars engage in a 'talking circle' and use storytelling as a mode of cultural transmission just as it was done by Native Americans long ago. This interdisciplinary lesson includes stories, crafts, modifications, and extensions.
Students view video and conduct research on how baseball has reflected the social context of American history. They work in groups to investigate outstanding minority baseball players, including racial minorities and women, and develop dramatic monologues to present their findings to the class.
Third graders use strips of paper to find equivalent fractions. For this equivalent fractions lesson, 3rd graders students fold paper into thirds and shade 2/3 of the paper. Students fold the same paper in six parts and predict how many parts will be shaded. Students repeat again folding the paper into 12 parts. Students record their findings each time. Students use fraction circles to find 1/4. Students complete worksheets.
Students find similarities and differences between a biotrope habitat and an ecosystem. In this hardbottom biotrope lesson, students research and respond to inquiry questions about a biotrope. Students identify three biotropes in the Gulf of Mexico.
