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Computer Multimedia and Animation Technology: Video Capture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore multimedia and animation technology. They create an autobiographical film of themselves and an album cover for their CD case. They watch a video and take notes to discover the five camera placements in their practice...
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Geometry in the Heavens

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders access a star worksheet and determine properties of polygons.  In this investigative lesson students complete a worksheet and discuss myths. 
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Mining the Web

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students complete searches using a directory, search engine, and meta-search engine. In this Internet research lesson, students complete Internet searches using a directory, basic search techniques, advanced search techniques, and a meta...
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Customizing A Microsoft Management Console

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, students practice developing the skills of managing a computer network system and creating some of its configurations.
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Installing and Configuring Remote Access Systems

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, students follow the protocol to set up users that have internet or remote access from another location for the server.
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Professional-like Multimedia Slide Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students chose a topic from the current curriculum to develop a PowerPoint presentation about. They present the PowerPoint in a professional manner which includes the way they are dressed and the way they interact with the audience. Each...
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Creating and Managing Drives or Folders

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, pupils perform a hands on lab using computers to apply the skills of managing drives and files.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Electric Messages: Then And Now

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the history of communication devices that are used today and in the past. They practice using morse code as a look into the past and then cover the modern subjects of...
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Tool Shop

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn how tools help us accomplish things. In this tool discovery instructional activity, students review the function of tools. They then make a class chart and categorize different types of tools found in the classroom....
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Monitoring an Epidemic: Analyzing Through Graphical Displays Factors Relating to the Spread of HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders differentiate pandemic and epidemic. For this health science lesson, 10th graders analyze how HIV and AIDS affect different countries. They construct and interpret different types of graphs.
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Take Only Photos and Leave Only Bubbles: Learn About American History from a Sunken Spanish Galleon

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students simulate the research process of investigating a shipwreck. In small groups, they conduct Internet research, and develop and write a proposal for excavation of the archaeological site.
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Pollution Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the role of chemicals in the pollution and destruction of ecosystems. They research factors that affect ecosystems and the methods being employed to counter them. In addition, they choose one water ecosystem that has...
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Verb Tenses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verb tenses worksheet, students determine tenses and complete sentences. In this fill in the blank worksheet, students write fourteen answers.
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Verb Tenses

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verb tenses worksheet, students read sentences and fill in the blanks with a form or the verb in parentheses. Students write fourteen answers.
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Teen Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore teen entrepreneurs. In this teen entrepreneurship lesson, students examine teen entrepreneurs and answer questions about the real-word situations. Students role play and explore the basic characteristics of an entrepreneur.
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Without Limits

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research about the important contributions of two scientists they chose from the list. In this science lesson plan, 7th graders develop a creative presentation such as skits or news program about their research. They...
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Strong-Arm Tactics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Experience collecting rock samples using a robotic arm with an activity that has pairs work together to operate a robotic arm. One pupil serves as the eyes and the other operates the controller. The objective is to be the fastest pair to...
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Goldie Girl and There, Their, and They're: Homophones and Homographs

For Teachers 8th
Instruct your class on homonyms and homophones. Learners take a pre-test and examine a list of homophones. They also play online word games to practice spelling and usage and write a fairy tale in which they use at least 10 homophones....
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Molecular Evolution of Gene Birth and Death

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
An upper-level biology activity, the comprehensive worksheet found here accompanies a PowerPoint and the video The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes, both of which are linked to through the website. Depending on the...
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Appalachian State University

Science Fiction - Genre

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Unsuspecting George McFlys are presented into the craft workings of the science fiction genre of literature. Speculations are developed through teacher-led dialogs about how science fiction impacts science, technology, and comments on...
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Publishing Stories: Beginning, Middle, End

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
First and second graders explore the importance of having a beginning, middle, and end when writing stories. In this story writing instructional activity, students write short stories using the story diamond as a guide. They invite their...
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Introduction to Victorian Valentines

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the history of Valentine's Day and how paper valentines became a tradition in Victorian times. Using a photo organizer, they select photos using tags. They use a software program to create a special image for their...
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Rube Goldberg and the Meaning of Machines

For Teachers 7th - 9th
A Rube Goldberg machine does not really look like it would make work easier. Introduce your class to Rube Goldberg with a resource that shows how his inventions make simple tasks harder to complete. 
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Calcium Counts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students evaluate the food pyramid. In this dairy nutrition lesson, students identify the position of the milk group on the food pyramid, then determine their daily calcium requirement and how they can meet that requirement.