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Awesome Authors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to authors and discover they are real people. Using the author's stories, they are incouraged to write their own stories using technology. Using the internet, they research facts, ideas and stories and develop a...
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Nonprofits in our Community and World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the functions of nonprofit organizations. In this service learning instructional activity, students brainstorm questions for use in an interview with a nonprofit representative.
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Oral History

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore cultural diversity, the difficulties of immigration, and lost cultures. They study historical events such as the Holocaust.
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Those Who Fought

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read interviews with World War II veterans, then interview family or community members who fought in the war. They gain an understanding of World War II and practice research skills as they conduct interviews with World War II...
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Discovering Your Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students focus on the origins of the families that make up their community by exploring their family's origins through themselves, parents, and grandparents. Students create a map marked with family origins for the class.
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Picture This in Your Community

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners participate in learning proper interview techniques to interview people in our community. They engage in this project in order to develop interviewing skills, to develop a better understanding of various jobs in our community...
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Our Day Out- Speaking and Listening Exercises

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this speaking and listening worksheet, students interview two teachers with twenty given questions and answer ten questions relating to the interview in a group. Students then take different roles in order to put the teachers on a...
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Project Jukebox

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze an interview with the Climate Change Project Jukebox in order to help them undertand how to use a concept map. In this writing and climate change lesson, pairs of students log onto the Internet site for Climate...
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Photograph Copying for Primary Source Historical Information (When Skiing Came to America)

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the history of their town using old photos and interviews to compile data. They used pictures of a historical town event and interview residents who had participated in that event.
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That's Incredible Show!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars research world records. They portray the people who broke world records. They conduct a mock interview in the classroom.
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An Audio Travel Album

For Teachers K - 8th
Students interview someone who has recently visited a country that students are studying. They use iPod and voice recorder to record the interview and use iPhoto to review and orgainze the interviewee's photos of the trip as well as any...
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Major people and events of WWII

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders research major people from WWII. They interview each person in their group, then create a newspaper which contains articles, advertisements and illustrations from the WWWII period.
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Why Does Service Matter?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students were required to interview local community service volunteers. In groups, they present the information they gathered from the interview and determine if these people have made a difference in the community as a whole. They end...
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Seeking Shakespeare in Local Communities

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore where Shakespeare exists in local community plays. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a documentary to define the existence of Shakespeare in their community drama activities. Students participate in community...
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Timeline of Extreme Weather Events

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students interview community Elders to research extreme weather events in their community. In this weather research instructional activity, students interview community elders about extreme weather events they've experienced. Students...
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Traditional Weather Observations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore traditional methods of weather observation. In this weather lesson, students interview grown-ups regarding wind. Students learn how winds can help forecast weather.
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Patrick Bruel - French Singers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners listen carefully to an interview about a famous singer from France. Using the internet, they research an artist or singer of their choice. They complete a worksheet and share their findings with the class.
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RISE AND REVIEW

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in small groups to brainstorm responses to teacher posed questions as a means of review and present their Interview Projects. They present certain inventions, inventors, and scientific discoveries.
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Jobs on File

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gather information about how people in their community make a living through surveys and interviews, organize the data, and create a Jobs on File notebook for completed surveys.
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Linking Civilizations and Personal Heritage Through Multimedia and Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore images, symbols, and the relationship they establish with their own personal heritage. They discuss Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations. Students interview their family about their own personal heritage. Additional cross...
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Study Skills- Fact and Opinion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars engage in a variety of activities in order to achieve the objectives of a layered curriculum unit. They take notes on the differences between fact and opinion. Students also use a newspaper in order to recognize...
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The Great Migration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the issue of immigration. They interview someone who came here recently from a place where English is not the first language, research their place of origin and answer discussion questions.
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Identifying Sea Ice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study different types of sea ice and interview an Yupik elder or local hunter. In this sea ice lesson, students study the native language for sea ice terms. They interview an elder from Alaska's northern coast about their...
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The Renewed Glory of Old Glory

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate how increased patriotism as a reaction to national crisis can serve as both a uniting and a dividing force.