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Alex: Understanding Comics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud as the primary resource, this unit focuses on comics as a tool for communication. Students participate in activities which include journal and essay writing, a...
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Alex: Far Out Food and Work in Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Blast off! Take students on a journey aboard the space shuttle to learn about living and working in space. Meet astronauts who think healthy living is a must. See if students have what it takes to be a space cadet.
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Alex: Why Roots, Stems, and Leaves Are Important

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This instructional activity emphasizes the importance of roots, stems, and leaves to plants. Learners will explore Internet sites and do a hands-on experiment to learn facts about these parts of plants.
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Alex: Mystery Writing With Alfred Hitchcock

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson students will explore the life of Alfred Hitchcock by navigating the Internet. Students will learn about the mysteries involved in his films and become mystery writers themselves.
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Alex: The American Spy in Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a fun and innovative lesson plan that will allow students to travel through history in a most unique fashion. Through Internet research and video conferencing students will get a real blast from the past. Students will hold on to...
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Alex: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson introduces students to Rosa Parks and the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After considering the impact of Ms. Parks' heroism, students will explore its relevance to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement....
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Alex: Stop the Bullying

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this instructional activity, students start to recognize the different types of bullying, causes, and ways of dealing with it. Through literature and the Internet, students learn how to handle bullying. Students will develop...
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Alex: What Is the Slope?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this lesson plan is to help students apply the mathematical definition of slope to a concrete example. The students will learn to make the appropriate measurements and apply the formula to calculate the slope of the stairs...
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Alex: Exploring Plant Leaves

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, first-grade students become plant explorers. They explore the Internet and take a nature walk to learn the similarities and differences in plants and leaves.
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Alex: Lost in Space a Solar System Study

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this technology based lesson, students navigate the Internet to learn interesting information about the solar system. They use the information to complete a worksheet and to create a puzzle or challenge for their classmates.
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Alex: What Are Fossils?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will view fossils and learn about the way they are found and how they show evidence of prehistoric life. Students will then search for "fossils" and conduct an interview about how fossils are found. Students will...
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Alex: Phonemic Awareness With Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson allows students to use the Internet to manipulate words by changing initial sounds. Students will use computer skills while learning how to change words by changing the initial sound.
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Alex: Dig It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children will enjoy learning about dinosaurs through the use of technology, research, hands-on activities, discussions, and written and oral presentations. This unit will help students to collaborate as a group and manage their own time.
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Alex: Phases of the Moon

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will familiarize students with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.
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Alex: Seeds and Germination

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will be introduced to the students as a part of a unit of study about plants. The students will learn to accurately diagram the parts of a seed and will predict what conditions are needed for germination.
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Alex: Quotations and Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to learn the proper way to use quotations and commas. They will view information on the Internet and participate in online activities to help them master this concept.
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Alex: Hush Down Under

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson students will listen to a read-aloud of Possum Magic, by Mem Fox. Students will then help the teacher search the Internet for Australian connections (animals and habitats). The students will write in their journals...
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Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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Alex: Classifying Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson helps students distinguish between strictly complex numbers, strictly real numbers and strictly imaginary numbers while learning that real numbers and imaginary numbers are subsets of the set of complex numbers.
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Alex: My Book About Animals

For Teachers K - 1st
This instructional activity will allow students an opportunity to create a book about the different characteristics of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects. This instructional activity can be used as a wrap-up project for a unit...
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Alex: Phonics Lesson: The Ir, Er, and Ur Girls

For Teachers K - 1st
This phonics lesson plan will introduce the ir, er, and ur girls, but will focus on the /er/ sound. Students will learn that when found together the letters e and r make the /er/ sound instead of two separate sounds. Students will have...
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Alex: Area and Perimeter of Various Polygons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students will be engaged in an interactive online practice session using area and perimeter. Students will have to use critical thinking skills in order to unlock gates and learn more about the cups in the challenge.
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Alex: Cats, Dogs,and Dragons. Oh My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson on Heredity and Traits. Students learn about the basics of Heredity through a virtual tour and then work to create their own dragon based on the inheritance of traits.(Adapted from ASIM).
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Alex: Ipa Is Cool![ai Pi E ?Z Kul]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that introduces students to the International Phonetic Alphabet. Students learn the symbols for vowels used in Italian and apply them to an Italian song. The lesson culminates with students creating a podcast.