Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Community Projects and School Projects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers have the opportunity to guide students of ways to develop or expand community and school projects through a series of informative and explorative lessons.
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: School Attendance Campaign

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Mrs. O leads students through a lesson encouraging critical thinking and research to increase attendance in schools in an effort to decrease the rate of students dropping out.
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Native American Project Based Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In a scenario that has the school receiving a technology grant, the school must create a presentation, using online resources, that feature something that has been an issue for Native Americans.
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Other

Trench Brothers Project: Designing a Soldier's Survival Kit [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity was created by the Trench Brothers project in England which uses drama, music, and art to share stories of World War I's ethnic minority soldiers with British schools. In this lesson, students are asked to research what...
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Develop a Personal, Family or School Creed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Many schools recite The American Creed, The Pledge of Allegiance, every morning when the bell rings. This lesson has students understanding what a creed is and encouraging them to develop one. It could be personal, family, or school.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Put Some Blue in Your Green School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This learning project is designed to help schools become efficient water users and to raise awareness about the need to conserve water. Students will analyze the water use (indoor/outdoor) at their school and work with community partners...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rainwater Harvesting Service Learning Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will gain an understanding of a rainwater harvesting system, learn about rainfall patterns and water use for various purposes, then design and build a rainwater collection system for their school.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Service Learning Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will design and implement a service project to be done as a class in a familiar community (neighborhood or school).
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Arthropod Diversity and Evolution an After School Program

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides information required for a hands-on program that enables students to work alongside active museum curators, postdoctoral researchers, and collection managers. The programs will teach students to identify, classify,...
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Select and Insect Mascot for School or Community

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Based on a scenario given, students will work to nominate an insect mascot for the school or the community for an upcoming event. Students will conduct research through resources provided or their own, create a presentation, and vote for...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a School Survival Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman...
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: 100th Day of School

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
tudents will bee able to celebrate the 100th day of school by bringing in a project representing it. They will also fill out a chart that has 100 blank squares for them to fill in.
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Other

School Journalism: Basic Interviewing and Reporting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need a way to start off your journalism class for the year? This class period unit for High School Journalism can start you off on the right foot.
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Other

Northern Valley High School: A Project on Youth Gangs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore the dangers gangs pose to themselves and their school communities in this WebQuest. Students will research youth gangs and create media campaigns for middle school students to persuade them to stay out of gangs.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Collaborative Project on the Civil War

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson plan two or more schools will work together using distance learning to investigate and share their community's involvement in the Civil War.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Qualitative Analysis Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars, working in groups, will identify four unknown substances using analysis procedures practiced in the lab throughout the school year. They will collect data, research the unknown substances, and report findings in a...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Biodynamic Farming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this module students learn about biodynamic farming through hands-on activities that culminate in having multiple schools collaborate to design subsystems that are combined to make a working aquaponic system. During the SAGE...
Lesson Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Arizona Mesa: Problem Solving Lesson Plans [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Website includes lesson plans for high school problem-solving projects. Lesson plans are very detailed and include introduction to activity, timeline, and closure activity. Also included are student handouts. This website also contains a...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson Plan: Arabic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online lesson plan introduces information about the Arabic poetic art form known as the ghazal. It includes Educational Objectives, classroom activities and projects, examples, and a list of the relevant national educational standards.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Fix the Hip Challenge

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson introduces the Bone Module Grand Challenge question. Students are asked to write their initial responses to the question alone. They will then brainstorm ideas with one other student. Finally, the ideas are shared with the...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: A Creator's Rights and Responsibilities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It's common for kids to use images they find online, for school projects or just for fun. But kids don't often understand which images are OK to use and which ones aren't. Help your students learn about the rights and responsibilities...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm...
Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Web Site Evaluation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will evaluate the school's web site determining whether standards exist and if they have been met.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Are You Wearing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will use a digital camera to take pictures that will be used to create a multimedia project that illustrates the appropriate and inappropriate dress code for a high school.

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