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Dream Catchers
Fourth graders, after researching legends and the origin of Native American beliefs and thoughts about the use and importance of dream catchers in Native American cultures, create a Native American dream catcher. They use similar...
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All About Me Brochure
Eighth graders complete a prewriting activity to gather information about themselves. They create a brochure using their prewriting activity that will introduce themselves to either a prospective employer or their freshman teachers.
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Expanding Journal Writing Entries For Beginning Writers
First graders through a variety of strategies assess how to write in journals openly and effectively. Those strategies include integration of technology, story telling, group and team work, performance-based assessment/rubrics, visual...
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Way to Go! Create a Road Map Game
Students create a travel game of one of the United States.  They research a state of their choice and create a travel game using a common road map.  They interpret map symbols as they calculate map mileage for their games.  They create...
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Introduction And Brief History of Materials Science
Students develop  an understanding of  the concept of matter. They l participate actively in the bubble raft experiment as described on the   Center for Thermal Spray Research's website.  They  demonstrate dislocations and grain...
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What's Behind that Mask?
Learners use a "spider web" graphic organizer to record information about different types of masks they are familiar with. They write a paragraph about masks. Students read about Native American cultures and compare/contrast the...
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Landfills: A Solid Waste Management Plan
Students are able to list the types of household waste that they produce daily.  They are able to describe some other types of waste that are produced by industry or agriculture to help maintain their lifestyles.  Students are able to...
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Bunny Cakes and Graphing
Third graders graph and analyze data relating to the book "Bunny Cakes" by Rosemary Wells.  They listen to and discuss the book, vote on their favorite cake using Excel computer software, and discuss the results.
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Drama and African American Folktales: Addressing the Social Development Needs of My Students
Fifth graders develop cultural awareness of their heritage, therefore building their self-esteem.  They discover the link between learning and social skills and recognize that learning is an integral part of their lives.  The recognize...
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Garbage Pizza
Students examine amount of garbage disposed of by average household weekly, classify different categories of garbage and describe composition of landfills, investigate what happens to waste after it is collected by garbage trucks, and...
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We the People
Learners examine both the Preamble of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They work in small groups to connect the two documents and analyze how the documents are important to their lives today. They create a poster that visually...
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World Geography: Global Interdependence
High schoolers are able to discuss the theory of climate change.  They identify examples of how climate change impacts the earth's geo-spheres.  Students are able to use the example of climate change to describe the interdependence of...
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Art and Literature: What's the Point?
Eleventh graders analyze the social/political purpose(s) of art and literature. They create written and visual texts that bring attention to a social/political concern. Presentation and discussion of art and literature in connection with...
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Industrialization and Immigration: Past and Present
Eleventh graders identify the positive/negative effects of the Industrial Revolution of the United States. Evaluate the outcome of the Industrial Revolution of the US. Compare the industrializations and immigration of the early 20th...
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Your identity, your heritage
Students list memorable moments fro childhood. They complete the worksheet "Your identity, your heritage." Students look a sites regarding genealogy and discuss information about their families' genealogy or heritage. Students visit the...
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Battery Power
Sixth graders  examine how much energy they use in the form of battery power.  They examine the cost of using regular vs. rechargeable batteries and examine the effect on the environment of the two types of batteries. They discover that...
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Plan Grocery List & Field Trip To Store
Student  write a list of groceries to purchase at the store  given a certain amount of money.   They check to make sure they have not spent more money than what they have.  Then  the students get with a partner and compare their two...
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Wave Superposition: Interactive On-line Mac and PC
Students study definitions of wavelength, wave speed, wave amplitude, and wave period using an interactive JAVA environment. Distance and time are given so speed=wavelength/period can be verified or deduced by students. Waves reflection...
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An Issue of Loyalty: Exploring the Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Students consider the meaning of loyalty. They explore the history of Japanese in the United States. and consider the meaning of citizenship. They  create a presentation for the class. It can be a poster, Power Point or  other...
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Invention Timeline
In this lesson, students Create a timeline of historical events, Identify patterns of change, Interpret data in a timeline.In this lesson, students use Inspiration to view progress over time as they develop
timelines highlighting...
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Building a Volcano
Students research volcanoes and then build one out of salt dough.  Before the final step is completed, they find main ideas about volcanoes, write sequential steps to building, use correct grammar, to gain knowledge about them.  There is...
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Making a Colorado Brochure
Students create brochures reflecting the state of Colorado. In groups, they write about tourist attractions, important people, major cities, and statistical information.  After writing, they create their brochure importing clip art and...
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Health Wheel Self-Care Plan for Diabetics
Students help create a Health Wheel: a personal, inspirationally based, self-care plan for preventing or managing diabetes in daily life. They (student or client) researches the causes of diabetes, and creates a "health wheel" that...
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