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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify nonprofit organizations within their local community. They practice using the yellow pages to locate these organizations. They use an organizer to keep all of the information they gathered organized. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students participate on a field trip in their community to collect data on the types of services and facilities that are available in their community. The data collected will be compiled into a survey format and put into a graph on a spreadsheet. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine how to deal with the amount of trash in their community. They discover alternate ways of managing waste. They develop their own solutions to the problem. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore important places and their own role in their community. They take photos of their own houses, listen to a guest speaker, take field trips to a fire station, public library, and historical landmarks, write a poem, and create a class bulletin board. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students research, write and publish a biography on a community member. They interview the community member, collect and scan photos, produce and edit text and use software to puslish an online book. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students discuss the evolution and impact of new aspects of technology in our society. Using a CD-ROM, they discover that technology affects us all either directly or indirectly. They research a topic dealing with technology of interest to them and shares their findings with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students define the term community. They list many, varied, and unusual jobs (careers) that people might have in our Communities. Students identify the purpose of the work done by their parents-either in the home, or outside of the home. They are aware of and appreciate many different jobs that make a successful community. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students participate in learning proper interview techniques to interview people in our community. They engage in this project in order to develop interviewing skills, to develop a better understanding of various jobs in our community and to develop basic word processing skills. They use a digital camera while participating in this project. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students research careers in technology, apply basic communication, scientific and mathematical principles, develop awareness regarding vocational education programs, post secondary technology careers, engineering programs or service-related fields, and gain basic understanding and appreciation for technology in our society and culture. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students effectively operate a digital camera and conduct basic interviews with Spanish speaking people in Spanish. They conduct in-depth interviews with interviewees in English, if possible, and transcribe all or portions of the interviews in Spanish. Full Review »
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