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Word Processing - Mail Merge Memo

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students create custom field names and the data source. Next, they create the main document which is a standard memo. The "FROM" entry in the memo heading should show his/her own name. Finally, students merge and print with four pages...
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Nutrition for Kids...and Astronauts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in grades 2 and 5, cooperate to create a PowerPoint presentation about nutrition and food. They have a feast culminating the project and invite parents.
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Personalized Postcards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or family member.
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Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. They study important factors such as supplies, ethics, deadlines and budgets. Also, students explore about the Engineering process, and recognize...
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Love Letters to the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice personal decision making. In this philanthropy lesson, students compare three different projects, identify the opportunity cost of each, and make a personal decision about which project they feel the class would...
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Communicate and collaborate using technology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a collaborative project with another class and view their process of creating the project using technology. Then they use a digital camera and send pictures electronically, saving the pictures to the school's...
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Digital Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners determine how to use a digital camera, edit the photos using PhotoShop Elements, and how to make a PowerPoint presentation. They use the PowerPoint as a digital portfolio which is an archive of their work. Finally, they write a...
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TE Activity: Choosing a Pyramid Site

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners determine how engineers decide on choices for final designs and sites for construction. They look at a surveyor's report while they evaluate sites where a pyramid could be build. They consider the distance the pyramid would be...
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Egyptian Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders take a brief look at what is known about Egyptian Fractions. These are unit fractions - fractions whose numerator is one. We look at how fractions can be represented in terms of Egyptian Fractions. Finally we suggest a web...
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Working for Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project. 
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Weekly Current Events Podcasts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a weekly current event podcast. In this podcast lesson, students find current events for the week and write out a script to explain this event. They add in music and sound effects and record their final product. 
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Newsletter Requirements Sheet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this newsletter activity learning exercise, learners read a book and complete a newsletter activity as a novel analysis project. Students include a newsletter title, advertisements, news story, and obituary.
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Celebrate Writing!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Help your students celebrate their writing through publishing projects.
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Computer Technology - Big Stepper Block Buster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use their document processing, spreadsheet, and/or electronic presentation skills to complete a cross curricular project during the semester (or trimester, etc.,) in which they are enrolled in the Computer Technology course.
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Writing a Grant

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore grant writing. In this grant writing lesson, students brainstorm possible community service projects. Students complete a grant proposal form.
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Learning About Leaves

For Teachers K
Students complete an art project. In this leaves lesson, students make a chart with pictures of different leaves and their names. Students then go outside and collect leaves, trying to find ones from the chart they made. Students use...
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All About Me

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils explore self through the completion of a creative technology project. In this self-discovery lesson, students create a 25 frame movie about themselves.  Pupils incorporate images from the web and audio files. 
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Discovering Your Family

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research their family dynamics and create a project for the lesson. In this family dynamics lesson, students discuss the importance of family and create a family tree. Students prepare essays on four of their family stories and...
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Emotion Similes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students define what a simile is before writing a poem that is based primarily on similes. They brainstorm and write the poem using the give format. They write drafts, revise and present a final poem.
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The Egg "Airbag" Lab

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use what they know about momentum and impulse to construct an effective "air bag" to protect an egg dropped from the top of the football stadium or other tall structure. They complete a final written report of their findings.
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Preserving the Past with Oral History

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students research history by interviewing people in their community. They create a list of questions and record their responses. They end the project with some type of final product which might include a memory book.
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Celebration of Living History

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a living history book about themselves and read it to a senior friend. In this living history lesson plan, students complete a project about the living history of their lives by filling out venn diagrams and sharing it...
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My Way

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students culminate a humanities project by improvising music to accompany a video of a particular era in US history.
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Listen and Do Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners listen to directions and complete an art project. They distinguish among kinds of information and purposes and complete multi-step tasks. The teacher gives directions while the student learns, and subsequently the student has to...

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