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Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?
The students will be afforded opportunities to actively explore ordering numbers (from least to greatest and greatest to least). The students will engage in a whole group and cooperative learning group setting to explore ordering whole...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Mean, Median, and Mode Chain Gang
Cooperative learning groups and chain links are used to find the mean, median, and mode. A Science NetLinks activity is linked for further real-life application in the world of baseball (optional). This lesson plan was created as a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connecting With Coordinates
This lesson will allow students to practice plotting points on a grid. Students will have an opportunity to play a coordinate game. This lesson is hands-on and allows for cooperative learning. This lesson plan was created as a result of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get It Straight Mr. Decimal!
Students will review addition and subtraction of decimals with a hands-on, cooperative small group experience. They will be placed in small groups and solve problems on individual whiteboards. This lesson plan was created as a result of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Light Travels
In this lesson, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
PBS
Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile
A geometry instructional activity that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages learners in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive instructional activity that considers students with diverse learning...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: As Large as Life a Poster of a Human Body System
This is a student led exploration of the systems of the human body through art and self-expression. Groups will cooperatively develop a poster, the size of a fifth-grade student, and will accurately depict the assigned system of the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Freezing Things: States of Matter
The class will go back over the Power Point presentation on chemical and physical properties. The teacher will then conduct numerous liquid nitrogen demos. This lesson is used early in the Chemistry course. The learners love it. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Systems of Our Human Body: A Study Through Power Point
This is a student-led exploration of the systems of the human body, through technology. Students will work cooperatively to develop a PowerPoint presentation that will thoroughly explain each system. Systems included are: circulatory...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Matter: A Sinker or Floater?
Students will explore matter that sinks or floats when submerged in water and that matter is categorized as either a sinker or a floater. Students will work actively in small, cooperative learning groups as well as gather in a whole...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In this WebQuest, sudents will be working in cooperative learning groups to research bacteria, viruses, and the immune system via the Internet. Students will be taking notes and answering questions to show the teacher for approval....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Types of Chemical Reactions and Predicting Products
The guided inquiry activity enables students to identify the five basic types of reactions - synthesis or composition, decomposition, combustion, single replacement and double replacement. Students will also begin to predict the products...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: S'mores Limiting & Excess Reactants
Students will use manipulatives that represent the ingredients for S'mores (graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate bar) to determine the limiting and excess reactants (reagents) for making S'mores. The students will extend this to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Fast Can You Go?
Students will experience force and speed by constructing model cars in cooperative groups. The students will explore ways to move their cars at different speeds. Each group will do a PhotoStory describing their cars.This lesson plan was...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Percents
This lesson explores the making of comparisons by using percents. In this lesson you will compare your class's favorite foods using percents. Students will use cooperative groups to answer follow up questions about the lesson.This lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Those Cells Look Good Enough to Eat.
This is a student led activity utilizing visualization and association to memorize the parts of animal and plant cells. Learners will work cooperatively to develop drawings to connect the parts of cells to one of their favorite things:...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Scream for Ice Cream!
In this activity, students will figure out how many different combinations of ice cream flavors and cones they can make. Students will work cooperatively to make the different combinations. They will use various materials to actually...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Are You the Girl From "The Wonder Years"?
After a childhood spent acting a pretty iconic role, Danica McKellar learned that she was capable of being more than just Winnie Cooper. [3:30]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Budgeting for the Oregon Trail
As a part of the online collaborative unit, Westward Ho!, students will work in cooperative groups of 4-5 students to decide what items they need to take on the Oregon Trail, determine the cost of the items, and complete a ledger to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Difference? Subtracting Integers
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage middle schoolers to subtract positive and negative integers. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Positively f.u.n. !
This lesson will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and set the purpose...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas
Students will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
As a hands-on lesson, the students will recognize the correct usage of the order of operations. In groups, the students will work cooperatively to discover the importance of following step-by-step instructions and apply that knowledge in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pump Up the Volume
In this lesson, students will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in a...