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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Research Project: American Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to help students of all backgrounds learn to work together in groups to complete a research paper assignment. This is a collaborative based lesson plan that challenges students to work together to complete the...
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EL Education

El Education: Operation Kidfit Recommendation Report

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students design a health and human body exhibit for a local museum by researching topics such as infectious diseases across history, anatomy, physiology, health, and nutrition. Students visited four museums across the country to...
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Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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Cengage Learning

Investigating Social Change: Midwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evolution of the Midwest region of the United States. Young scholars and teachers will gain a different perspective about the Midwest when they check out this site.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
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Buck Institute

Pbl Works: The Best Unit I've Ever Taught

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article outlining a PBL unit taught in an eighth grade history class. The educator discusses how the unit was developed by accident and how he drew on the students interest to make it successful!
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Now You See It, Now You Don't! Test Your Peripheral Vision

For Students 3rd - 8th
The survival of our ancient ancestors depended on their ability to use peripheral vision to find prey and to avoid predators. Almost everything we do-from riding a bike, to dribbling a basketball, to reading a book-depends on peripheral...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hail to the Chief!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will use prior knowledge of Presidents to complete this project. They will devise a platform based on past presidents' qualities and their impact on the nation to run against classmates in an election. Students will use this...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Tour of Birmingham: Web Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This inquiry-based project will provide opportunities for students to learn about the history of Birmingham. Students will discover the variety tourist attractions in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Other

Sprk: Sphero Chariot Stem Challenge [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The goal of this lesson plan is for young scholars to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson plan will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle...
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EL Education

El Education: And Justice for All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students in 11th grade at Tapestry Charter High School created this project during a trimester-long study of constitutional rights and social justice in American history. The learning expedition centered around the question of whether...