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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: School Project Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Perfect for enrichment purposes, this site includes a list of 62 ideas for projects. Some suggested projects contain additional links that will aid with the executing of them.
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Wolff: Old School

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Tobias Wolff's Old School, with historical information, author biographies, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, writing exercises, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Basic Steps in the Research Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive list of the important steps in researching and writing a report or project. Includes links to tip sheets for each step.
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San Francisco Unified School District: Colonial Faire Project

For Students 6th - 8th
A large collection of high-quality resources for learning and teaching about the Thirteen English Colonies. The main page outlines examples of student project possibilities. There are individual pages for primary resources, people from...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Windmill of Your Mind: Distributed Energy Goes to School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research the feasibility of installing a wind-turbine distributed energy (DE) system for their school. They write a proposal (actually, the executive summary of a proposal) to the school principal based on their findings and...
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The Eleanor Rigby Project

For Students 6th - 8th
This is an online collaborative project for middle school students from around the globe. The focus of the project is learning about those who find themselves living on the street. The Eleanor Rigby Project will help students examine not...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Programming Case Study: Encouraging Cross Disciplinary Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To give fellow teachers an idea for how they can teach the Khan Academy curriculum in a classroom setting, check out this case study. Here's one case study of how teacher Ellen Reller uses our curriculum in her classroom in Lowell High...
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Brookfield High School: Lesnansky's Control Center: Would You Rather? (Part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will create a customized Google Form that will showcase the four dilemmas defined by the game cards from Would You Rather...? and then share the form with others to collect data for analysis. Lots of Would You...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Song Parodies About School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After celebrating (and singing) some of the delightful songs from Alan Katz's "Take Me out of the Bathtub" and listening to songs by Weird Al Yankovic, like "Eat It," students will discuss the concept of parody. To practice writing a...
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Rice University

Galileo Project: Galileo Galilei

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University contains information about Galileo's lifespan, father, nationality, education, religion, scientific disciplines, means of patronage, patronage, technological involvement, and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Write About Something Real at School

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
In this Writers Workshop lesson, students look around themselves and think about their daily lives at school to find relevant writing topics.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Project Steps

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and print out steps that will help you with your science fair project, from topic forming and researching to analyzing and drawing conclusions..
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Topic Ideas for Middle School Science Fair Projects

For Students 6th - 8th
A long list of ideas for science fair projects for middle school students.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Ideas for High School Science Fair Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
A long list of ideas for science fair projects for high school students.
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EL Education

El Education: Discovery Charter School Map

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Second grade students at Discovery Charter School created this map as the final product for an expedition titled "Discovering Discovery." This expedition was an opportunity for students to explore maps and map-making through the lens of...
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Global School Net: How to Design a Successful Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Before you begin a keypal exchange, read this article about project design.These guidelines, along with the template for writing you own "Call for Collaboration," will help guide you through a successful online learning experience with...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Additional Programming Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Khan Academy has ten projects in Intro to JavaScript: Drawing & Animation curriculum, where each project is an opportunity for students to be more creative and free-form with their newfound programming knowledge.
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EL Education

El Education: Adolescent Anatomy and Disease [Student Project]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
10th grade students at Dayton Regional STEM School in Beavercreek, Ohio, created this book, Adolescent Anatomy and Disease. This project is the culmination of several months of student work and represents a collaboration between the life...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Practice Investigation Virtual Labs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Two virtual labs offer practice for creating your own or science project: "How Does Your Garden Grow" and "Critters!" Learn how investigations are conducted from the first step to the finished product.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Can Gaming Help You Score Better in School?

For Students 6th - 8th
There are a variety of educational computer games on the market in the areas of math, history, science, and language, as well as many simpler versions free on the Internet. This exercise asks that you make up a test based on the subject...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Inventions Using Simple Machines Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will have completed a unit on the six simple machines (lever, inclined plane, pulley, wedge, screw, and wheel and axle) before beginning this project. Students will choose to investigate an invention composed of one or more...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Investigating School Safety and Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a 'news report' approach, students investigate the slope of various stairways on the school campus and report on wheelchair accessibility and adherence to the Americans with Disabilities Act. (PowerPoint Included) An extension of...
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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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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Worm Bin Project Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students learn about the worm life cycle and decomposition of life by creating small-scale worm ecosystems. Research groups share scientific data with groups at other schools using web-based communication tools.

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