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The Important Thing About Technology
Students assess the advantages of modern technology tools by creating a page in a class book utilizing pattern writing as well as the writing process. They organize and develop a composition on a selected topic after going through the...
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The Iditarod Adventure
Students use the internet to follow the Alaskan Iditarod race as well as perform research. This project-based activity will result in students creating many desktop publishing documents.
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Is That Natural?
Learners examine how they use and waste natural resources. They participate in a class discussion about natural resources, in small groups complete a worksheet identifying ways students misuse natural resources, and create an...
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Missing in MiG Alley
High schoolers consider how technology impacted American conflicts. In this technological advances lesson, students read, "The Changing Face of War," and then describe how technology made differences in World War I, World War II, the...
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I Feel Renewed!
Young scholars participate in a simulation of the equal and unequal distribution of the earth's renewable resources. They discuss renewable resources and how food resources can increase and decrease, participate in the simulation, and...
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Money Math: Lessons for Life
Students develop a budget for a college student using all of the influences that the student would have. In this budgeting lesson plan, students use real life examples to create a budget spreadsheet. Students read and study...
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Using Technology to Design Animal Habitats
Learners study the relationship between an animal and where it lives. In this habitats instructional activity students research to obtain data and create a professional report.
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TE Lesson: How Clean is that Water?
Students examine the factors the affect water quality, and allow for animals and plants to live. They look at how engineers apply water quality information when making stream modifications in order to ensure drinking water quality. They...
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A Differentiated Way through Think Dots
Students examine reasons that led people to explore, identify "West" as defined following Revolutionary War, explain importance of finding natural resources, develop time line of dates and events leading up to Lewis and Clark Expedition,...
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Land of Milk and Honey Relocated or Not (Lesson 3)
Fourth graders practice their research skills. In this North Carolina history lesson, 4th graders examine primary resources and draw conclusions regarding the birth of the city of New Bern, North Carolina.
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Design a Recycling Game!
Students discover that recycling is using a product more than once so that natural resources can be saved and so that we won't need so many garbage dumps and landfills. They see that there are different ways to recycle. Students design a...
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Architects and Engineers
Learners examine the roles of architects and engineers. In this engineering instructional activity, students design a parking garage based on a descriptive scenario. Learners compare how architects and engineers work together on...
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Mt. St. Helens - Lesson Plan 2
Students compile information on volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens. In this earth science instructional activity, students use the information they gathered on Mount St. Helens to answer questions and create charts in...
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Creating an Online Disease Pamphlet Using Online and Print Resources
Eight grade health learners choose a disease to research. They compose their information and create a brochure to give to people who are affected by their chose disease. They address the history, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and...
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Make Your Point with Power
Seventh graders create a PowerPoint presentation. In this technology lesson plan, 7th graders use information they're learned in previous lessons to create a PowerPoint presentation.
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State Database Lesson
Fifth graders create a database about the geography of the United States. The access to a computer is essential for this instructional activity. The outcome is that technology is used as a tool to measure student understanding of...
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What's The Solution With Technology
Students investigate the use of technology and how it could be used to solve problems. They conduct research using the resource links included in the lesson. The teacher chooses a problem for students to solve and leads them to the...
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Geography Made Fun with Technology
Students incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. In this technology integration activity, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.
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What are Brazil's Natural Resources?
High schoolers appreciate the gifts of natural resources on our planet and foster ways to protect them. They develop an awareness of the natural resources that are found in Brazil and use the Internet to research Brazil's resources.
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Digital Divide
High schoolers explore thedigital divide. In this technology skills lesson, students discuss the attributes of a divide. High schoolers then research and discuss the digital divide.
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art Newspaper
Students create newspapers. In this technology skills lesson, students create a newspaper layout using a word processor program. The newspaper features stories regarding the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Internet Scavenger Hunt: Lesson 1
Young scholars participate in an Internet scavenger hunt in order to find information in Internet documents. Students work in groups to try to locate answers to specific questions, and must determine how reliable the answers might by...
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Tell Me Doc—Will I Get Cancer?
Can you beat the odds of cancer? In the first installment of a seven-part series, future biomedical engineers consider how to detect and diagnose cancer. An article on biosensors provides useful information toward this goal.
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Let's Learn About Spatial Viz!
Can you see your class working on spatial visualization? The first installment of a five-part module introduces the concept of spatial visualization and provides a 12-question diagnostic assessment to test spatial visualization skills....