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Orange Public Schools

Stagecraft

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...
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Big Brother vs. Little Brother: Updating Orwell's 1984

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Government surveillance is an enduring conflict that has become increasingly complex with our nation's use of technology. Add to the understanding of Orwell’s 1984 by using the resources here that display the contemporary actions of Big...
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Climate Change: What's Hot? What's Happening?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students conduct a web-based project to analyze recent or on-going climate change research in the North. They are exposed to the application of science in current research on climate change.
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Interior Design, Lesson 6

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars summarize information learned from previous lessons, and apply them to their own project: redesigning their own bedrooms. They discuss the uniqueness of the place where one lives and its importance and apply all they...
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It's Okay if You Sit on My Quilt Book

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students create a variety of quil blocks to create a unique pieced quilt top during every class. Based on the book It's Okay if You Sit on My Quilt. Students create a quilt block after each lecture.
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Leyendas and Children's Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students in high school read books to elementary students. They also examine cultural writings and legends from Latin America. They complete projects over the information they have found and give one of them to the elementary student.
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Dimensional Delights Quilting & Scrapbooking

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experience the art of basic quilting. They learn to blend a simple fabric screen base and add embellishments to create a personalized heirloom. Students use collections such as buttons, trims, photos and other craft supplies to...
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Electrical Engineers for a Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars build a robot out of a 3-¿¿ inch floppy disk drive, two floppy disks, and some other miscellaneous supplies. They apply information they gather about electrical circuits from a web-based circuit design program.
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Design A Community Program

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a short story and state the main idea. Using their community as an example, they brainstorm a list of problems they notice. They use the internet to investigate community projects and write a proposal for a project in...
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Carbons to Computers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars collect, organize, and analyze primary and secondary source information that documents a local office. (Students synthesize what they have learned to predict the office's organization and functions in the year 2025.)
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The Effects of Ultra-Violet Light on Yeast

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work in small groups collecting and analyzing data as they learn how to best grow yeast. This lesson allows students to conduct several student-created experiments as they continually generate questions and hypotheses. ...
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Anne Frank Newspaper

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners individually research different aspects of the Holocaust. They create newspaper articles and editorials based on a specific aspect of the Holocaust. Students come together as a whole class and create a newspaper based on their...
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Extra! Extra! (Geometry Extensions)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars respond to questions based on quotes, research, and logic, and challenge problems related to the current objectives.
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Art History and Technique

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars conduct research, using a variety of resources, about their favorite painter and painting. They critique the famous painters work and write a multimedia presentation that showcases his/her work. They paint an original work...
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Identifying Career Interests in the Volunteer and Government Sectors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a list of service opportunities in their community. They identify their interests and research volunteer opportunities that they could do. They also complete a survey based on their experiences.
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 3: Certificate

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this lesson, the pupils will create a certificate of completion with borders, text, check boxes, and vector-based medallion. There is software that is necessary for the lesson to be conducted successfully.
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they place the colors into the correct sequence and create their own color wheel. To end the instructional activity, they share their color wheel with...
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Artist's Work/Artist's Voice: Louis I. Kahn

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the process of construction and architecture. In this construction research lesson, students complete image based discussion activities and three related activities for architecture and design.
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I Have the Solution!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explain how to make solutions with specific concentration. For this chemistry lesson, students differentiate acids and bases. They calculate molarity of solutions.
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Don’t be a Stoic about Stoichiometry

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students review balancing chemical equations. In this chemistry lesson plan, students calculate moles of an unknown substance based on stoichiometric relationships in the balanced equation. They cite applications of stoichiometry in...
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Factoring Out Disease

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and discuss health problems that can occur during adulthood. They research one health problem, list the risk factors of the disease, and create a Powerpoint presentation based on their research.
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Spirit of Islam: Wrapping It Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an action plan for overcoming stereotypes of the Muslim faith based on research they have conducted in previous lessons.
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Frame Animation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the idea that an object might never have a "fixed" existence and may be a thing existing always in flux by creating a frame-based animation of something that transforms from one shape into another. They create...
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Sailing Vessel Installations

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify the parts of sailing vessels. They view pictures of sailing vessels and discuss the purpose of each part. Students build their own installation in class. They share experiences and ideas based on the sailing vessel.

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