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Alex: May the Force Be With You!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The goal of this lesson is to provide students with hands on experiences, while learning about magnets. This lesson engages students in experiments which explore magnet use. An emphasis is placed on open-ended questions which encourage...
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Alex: How Wide Is My World?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn how to gather information, design, and create a presentation, publication, and a web page that reflect a desire for the students to make a difference in their world. Essential components of each multimedia will be...
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Alex: If You're Working With My Money

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will handle money by opening a cash fund, arranging the money in a cash drawer, make change, and reconcile the cash drawer at the end of a business day. After learning the procedure for handling and...
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Alex: Correspondence for the Real World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As future employees, students should be aware of the various forms of business correspondence. Students will learn how to use wizards and templates from a word processing software to create business letters. This project allows students...
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Alex: Who Am I? What Have I Done? Where Am I Going?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a project-based lesson plan designed to guide students through the creation of a digital career portfolio. This lesson is only a guide based on the requirements from a Career Tech Student Organization. This is a Commerce and...
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Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Alex: "Weather Phenomenon Web Site"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a complete web site about a natural phenomenon weather occurrence that causes destruction, death, and injury. These students will create these Weather Websites that will have a design focus aimed at elementary aged...
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Alex: A Collage That Illustrates a Special Event

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Creating composite pictures young scholars learn how to use a graphics program such as Photoshop Elements to composite many pictures into an Event Collage. This is a Commerce and Information Technology Lesson Plan.
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Alex: Creating a Business Letter Using Mail Merge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will learn to use the mail merge feature of their word processing software. They will utilize the Internet for research, compose a business letter, and key the letter using mail merge. This is a Commerce and...
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Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
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Alex: Estimation Station

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this activity, students will learn the difference between estimation and guessing. Knowing how to estimate is an essential skill that will help students determine approximate totals as well as check the reasonableness of their...
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Alex: Biographical Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will work with a partner to write an original poem using information learned about a person involved in the American Revolution. The students will then share the poems by creating a multimedia slide show.
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Alex: "Weathering" Heights

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson introduces students to weathering. Students will watch videos and complete drawings and diagrams as they learn about weathering, erosion, and deposition. Students will complete a simple demonstration and relate it to how the...
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Alex: Simple Machines

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will teach students about simple machines. Students will have an opportunity to explore and identify simple machines used in their everyday lives. Students will enjoy learning as they play a game on the Internet about simple...
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Alex: Pattern and Practice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use knowledge and skills in new learning experiences to develop a basic understanding of the process for creating patterns, recognizing pattern sequences, representing patterns in different ways, and connecting numbers with...
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Alex: Let's Get Physical! (Or Chemical Weathering)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson helps students learn the differences between physical and chemical weathering. Students will complete various activities in which they identify and describe the type of weathering that is taking place.This lesson plan was...
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Alex: Washed Away

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students will learn about water erosion. They will view pictures and videos, complete drawings, and work in collaborative groups as they research types of water erosion (rill, gully, sheet, and channel). Students will...
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Alex: Making and Observing Life in a Terrarium

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, the young scholars will learn what a terrarium is, the layers of a terrarium, and the function of these layers. They will see how these components work together to create an ecosystem. This lesson plan was created as a...
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Alex: Probability

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The purpose of this lesson is to begin the process of helping students to learn the basic principles of probability. The students will also collect data, interpret data, and determine the fairness of the game rock, paper, scissors.This...
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Alex: Are Your Numbers Round?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will use a variety of activities and games to learn how to round numbers.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.
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Alex: What Is Cloning?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is an interactive website that answers the question on "What is Cloning?" There are multiple links for interactive learning about cloning. There are also video links about nuclear transfer.This lesson plan was created as a result of...
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Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...
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Alex: Something's Fishy: A Lesson in Biological Sampling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Determining the population in a larger area by tagging. By using proper scientific method and careful sampling procedures, students learn how biologists work in the field to collect data about a population. Students will also calculate...
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Alex: Calendar Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will learn calendar skills by using a calendar log on a daily basis. Children will be responsible for filling in their calendars daily. This activity will also lead to great communication between home and school. This lesson...