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School Days Calendar
Learners work together to create a school days calendar. They insert pictures and text into their document. They share their calendars and templates with the class.
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Windows, Doors, Roofs, and Housing Styles
Students identify window treatments and factors that lead to their selection. They study different types of windows and doors and a windows and doors project. They use their knowledge of styles to create an exterior drawing of a home.
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Rotary Cutting 101
Students will learn how to safely use a rotary cutter, mat, and ruler. They will also learn the parts of the fabric and understand the difference between a finished block and a cut block.
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Familiarization Fun: Using the Media Center
Students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate the different sections of the media center and determine the purpose for each section. They build a jigsaw puzzle as they find each major section of the library such as the reference or...
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Native American Unit: Internet Center
Students explore the use of classroom management while using centers in cooperative grouping. Prospective teachers observe a video of young students working on iBooks in a classroom setting. Teachers explore strategies to ensure students...
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Introduction to Organizing and Implementing Centers
Students explore the steps a teacher goes through to plan, organize and implement centers in the classroom. They observe a video of classroom management using centers and computer technology. Strategies for managing students who are...
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Native American Unit: Using One Computer to Record Data
Students explore methods to manage a classroom with one computer. Prospective teachers observe a video of students collecting information on Native American tribes. They discuss the use of white boards and electronically recording...
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Number Stories 1: Student-generated Checklist
Students explore creating a self-assessment tool in a model classroom. Through the use of a video, students are observed engaging in peer assessment activities to generate a checklist. Students discuss the use of strategies a teacher can...
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Women in Business
Students work in group to discus similarities and differences of the characters in four films they have viewed. Each group presents their list to the entire class. Students fill in a grid with their ideas and discuss their personal...
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Rotary Cutting
Learners discover how to safely use a rotary cutter, mat, and ruler. They examine the parts of the fabric and assess the difference between a finished block and a cut block. They identify bed covers and pillows and explore the world of...
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Vocational: Candy or Medicine?
Pupils investigate methods of differentiating between candy, such as Tic Tacs, and actual pills. When caring for children, they discover the importance of keeping all medications, especially those which look like candy, in a safe...
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Homework Help In A Hurry
Students discover strategies for getting immediate help with their homework, including online sources in which an adult is available for assistance. They work through a simulated situations in which they visit one of these sites to gain...
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Good E-mail Manners
Students discuss online e-mail safety and etiquette rules and how they should apply the same rules in cyberspace as they use when encountering strangers in the face-to-face world. They participate in mock situations and tell what the...
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Directory
Students make a directory and save a mail message as a file in this new directory. They edit the file using a text editor (Pico) and save it as a new file.
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Letter to My Keypals
Students login to a remote computer and set up a folder to save messages from their teacher. They write an introductory letter about themselves and mail it to keypals.
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Learning, Communication, and 21st Century Skills: Students Speak Up
Students brainstorm to come up with examples of things they do with computers and write them down for the class to observe. They then raise their hands to respond to each survey question, tallying their answers on the board and engage in...
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Online GED Practice
Students who are preparing to take the General Education Equivalency (GED) exam access online websites and take online practice tests. They work independently or with a GED teacher to prepare themselves to take the actual GED test.
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Using Technology To Learn Independently
Students explore learning strategies that may be incorporated into a classroom. In groups, they prepare a role play that demonstrates a specific learning strategy. students discuss necessary materials,l take notes on the learning...
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Learning Online
Students use online tutorials. In this online learning lesson plan, students explore online learning websites and use tutorials to learn about a topic of their choice.
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Funny Money
Students are rewarded for attendance. For this school-wide rewards lesson, students earn "dollars" for attendance and being in class on time. Students use those dollars to bid on everyday items of their choice.
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Adventures in Alice
Learners produce a development project with characters. In this investigative lesson students use a program to understand its basic features and how to create and insert characters.
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Interview Cheat Sheet
In this job skills activity, students prepare for a job interview by listing their skills and accomplishments according to various prompts.
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How to Organize a Lesson Plan
Students fill out a lesson plan, just like their teacher. In this how to activity, students discover the components needed in a lesson plan. Students plan a activity and share it with the class.
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Excel Lesson
Young scholars investigate Microsoft excel. In this technology lesson, students create formulas using excel and apply these formulas to solve relative, absolute and mixed reference cells. They perform immediate and delayed...