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President's Day for Special Education/Early Elementary
Students investigate how both Abraham Lincoln and George Washington displayed the trait of honesty. They listen to read alouds of class books and poems that address both the lives of these men and the trait of honesty. They use a graphic...
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Pollution in the Air and the Water Pollution Solution
Students explore air pollution. In this ecology and air pollution lesson, students perform an experiment in which a Vaseline coated lid is placed inside and outside the classroom. Students make predictions and then record what they see...
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Alex: Digital Scrapbook: Symbols in the Scarlet Letter
Students will be given a list of symbols from the novel and then be asked to photograph images they think represent those symbols.
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Alex: Learning to Clean Tables by Using Sign Language
This is a L.I.F.E Skills functional and reading instructional activity using sign language and picture symbols for a severe/profound class with little or no verbal expressive language skills.
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Alex: Word a Day
Word a Day allows students to develop a bank of sight words that are meaningful to them. Each student picks words to add to his/her individual word bank. The teacher can specify particular categories or let the student choose any word....
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Alex: Dead Poets Society: Socratic Seminar Discussion
As a springboard to an eleventh grade poetry unit, students view the movie Dead Poets Society and participate in a Socratic seminar of the themes, symbols, and life questions raised by the film. Student groups research and present one of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
After a study of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, students working in small groups conduct research and create a slideshow presentation that emphasizes key aspects of the play and/or new ideas generated by the play.
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Alex: Capturing a Moment in Time
This lesson allows the students to explore imagery poetry through the use of a digital camera. The students visualize an imagery poem then look at a painting that pays tribute to the poem. Then the students think of a moment in time...